This week I was travelling to London for MacAD.UK. So maybe I missed some interesting links. If I did, please let me know and I will include the link next week.
MacAD.UK was great. I had a great time meeting many people, some I already knew and some I had only met virtually so far. Great presentations, hope to see you all again next year!
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#! On Scripting OS X
📰News and Opinion
- A History of the Xserve: Apple’s One Rack Wonder – Stephen Hackett, MacStories
- Is APFS fully supported yet? – Howard Oakley
- Bretford: “We love new product suggestions! Our engineering team mocked-up a sample of the first prototype. Great mobility, poor gas mileage! 🚎…”
- iDefrag and iPartition Discontinued – Michael Tsai
MacAD.UK Session Links
Let me know if I missed one!
- Curing operating system blindness – Graham Gilbert
- Imaging is Dead: Now What? – Greg Neagle
- Managing FileVault 2 on macOS High Sierra – Rich Trouton
- Building your macOS Baseline Requirements – Henry Stamerjohann
- The Sky is Falling – Ben Goodstein
🐞Bugs and Security
- A
defaultsbug in tweets:- Kyle Crawford: “High Sierra’s defaults read command DELETES your plist if it is invalid.”
- rdar://37729361: defaults read deletes entire file when reading invalid plist
- patrick wardle: “as (now publicly) noted ”H. Sierra’s
defaults readcommand DELETES your plist if invalid“-@kcrawford Here’s the bug/reason why: -[CFPDSource copyPropertyListWithoutDrainingPendingChangesValidatingPlist:] in CoreFoundation calls unlink() if plist validation fails🐛🤣 ” - Clayton Burlison: “Fixed in beta.”
- Jeff Johnson: “This is not a bug, it’s a ”feature“ ”
- Code Signing Validation Bug – Michael Tsai
🔨Support and HowTos
- Fix Jamf Pro 10 Reinstall Button Values – Graham Pugh
- Document Versioning – The Eclectic Light Company
- Pepijn Bruienne: “Interesting Restrictions profile key just popped up in – ”forceAuthenticationBeforeAutoFill“ – ”If set to true, the user will have to authenticate before passwords or credit card information can be autofilled in Safari and Apps“ FaceID only 👍”
- Getting a Machine Kerberos Ticket on macOS without binding – Tim Perfitt
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Deploying Autodesk Maya 2018 with Jamf Pro – David Acland, moof IT
- Omni Group Automation: Run Omni Automation from Other Languages
- Remotely Approving UAMDM – Jeremy Baker
- Ole Begemann: “If you regularly type Markdown code tags on iOS, this text replacement is a big timesaver. Two commas for a backtick.…”
🍏Apple Support
- About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update
- Download macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update (Build 17D102)
- Download macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Supplemental Update for iMac Pro (Build 17D2102)
- About the security content of iOS 11.2.6
- About the security content of watchOS 4.2.3
- About the security content of tvOS 11.2.6
♻️Updates and Releases
🎧To Listen
📚Support
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