No really big news this week. But many Mac Admins took time to write quite a few interestings articles and how tos. Thank you!
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#! On Scripting OS X
📰News and Opinion
- iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review – Craig Hunter
- Cisco, Apple, Aon, Allianz introduce a first in cyber risk management
- With Apologies to the Bard… – Tom Bridge
- Analyzing OSX/CreativeUpdater – Objective-See
- How Long is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World’s Top Sites – Troy Hunt
- Adobe Flash Player update to patch security vulnerability – David Acland, moof IT
- Zentral Resources
- Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net – Brent Simmons
🔨Support and HowTos
- Enable SMB Sharing For Specified Users In macOS – Charles Edge, Krypted
- How the AD Certificate Profile got into macOS when I was at Apple – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
- Do Sierra or High Sierra report incorrect free disk space? – The Eclectic Light Company
- Scripting in Swift: Checking free disk space – The Eclectic Light Company
- Community Patch Server – Bryson Tyrell
- NoMAD Group Condition for Munki – Mike Solin
- Setting the Screen Saver to a static image – Erik Hemmete
- Deploying Gaussian – Mike Solin
- Disabling auto-updates on Slack for Mac – Rick Heil
- Deploying JMP Pro 12.x and 13.x licenses – Mike Solin
- macOS Beta Images – Clayton Burlison
- Watching folders – 1 for users – The Eclectic Light Company
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
- BBEdit 12.1: 64 bit enabled and a few of other new features
- SplashBuddy 1.2
- Louis D’hauwe on Twitter: “Coming soon to OpenTerm: scripting ”
🎧To Listen
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