Charles Edge is dominating the summary today with a list of posts on how best to replace the waning macOS Server services. Thank you!
We also got the WWDC announcement from Apple. (June 4–8 in San Jose, CA) If you applied to the ticket lottery (before March 22, 10am PDT): Good Luck!
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📰News and Opinion
🐞Bugs and Security
- Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect’s security data – Howard Oakley
- GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns – Malwarebytes Labs
🔨Support and HowTos
- macOS Wifi Scanning – Clayton Burlison
- Replace the Web Services in macOS Server with MAMP Pro – Charles Edge
- Cancelling an unwanted FileVault deferred enablement – Rich Trouton
- Replace Time Machine Server on macOS Server with WD’s MyCloud.com – Charles Edge
- Using Managed App Config with Jamf Pro – Charles Edge
- Replace the VPN Server from macOS Server – Charles Edge
- Migrating Data From The Apple Wiki Server – Charles Edge
- Using Terminal At macOS Setup Assistant – Chris Collins
- Basic Synology NAS Setup – Charles Edge
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Tim Perfitt: “You can boot to the recovery partition from the command line (assuming you have SIP disabled or allowed NVRAM changes in SIP)”
- Accessing Finder aliases from the command line: alisma – Howard Oakley
- Google Chrome update notifications with Yo – Graham Gilbert
- macshome: “A super-simple CLI tool that sits in the terminal and prints out DistributedNotificationCenter messages.”
- Using Munki to revert or downgrade software – Greg Neagle
- Possum – A packaging tool for Python AWS Serverless Applications – Bryson Tyrell
- Accessing Finder aliases in your own code: a walk through alisma’s source – Howard Oakley
♻️Updates and Releases
🎧To Listen
📚Support
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