A strange thing happened last Friday (a few hours after the last news summary). Apple updated the kbase article HT208020 – the infamous one that killed imaging. Then the article was reverted back to the old version after a few hours. Presumably some news for 10.13.4 were released prematurely.
Mark Melaccio grabbed screen shots.
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📰News and Opinion
- What I learned at MacADUK 2018 or: Things People Told Me That I Didn’t Know Before – Andrew Valentine
- Deployment: We Need to Talk – Anthony Reimer (his MacAD.UK talk is worth repeating here, also he has a summary on the strange kbase article update that happened last week)
- MarkMelaccio: “They pulled it like an hour later. Side by side of my cached original page, vs the new verbiage.…”
- Tim Perfitt: “So it looks like this happened on the way to the current macOS imaging state we are in: (thread)”
- Timers, reminders, alarms—oh, my! – Dr. Drang
- You’re Probably Underestimating What You Can Do With Your iPhone Home Screen – Rands in Repose
MacAD.UK Session Links
(I have re-included the links from last week.)
- 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
- Deployment: We Need to Talk – Anthony Reimer
- I have (Device) Trust Issues – Diana Birsan
- Your Code Should Document Itself – Bryson Tyrrell
🐞Bugs and Security
🔨Support and HowTos
- When macOS High Sierra’s Content Caching Isn’t Working – Michael Tsai
- Microsoft Skype (definitely) and Teams (maybe) – Disabling automatic updates – Neil Martin
- Invoking Automator Workflows From The Command Line – Charles Edge
- Using installinstallmacos.py to download macOS High Sierra installers – Rich Trouton
- Sharing your
known_hostsamong your admin peers – Robin Laurén - Generating Pre-Populated Munki Manifests Utilizing the AirWatch API – Jeremy Baker
- Some Nice HP Switch Settings – Robin Laurén
🤖Scripting and Automation
- BBEdit: how to preview Slack messages – Phil Stokes
- Ryan on Twitter: “Trying to fix that thing where autopkg runs encounter a dmg that is attached but not mounted.”
🍏Apple Support
- About iTunes Store availability Windows XP and Vista and 1st Gen Apple TV will soon not be able to connect to the iTunes Store any more.
♻️Updates and Releases
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