Expect some extra news next week as Apple has announced a keynote, in a school in Chicago, no less!
MacAD.UK videos are being posted on YouTube, including a presentation by yours truly…
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#! On Scripting OS X
- Update 1.7 for ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’
- MacAD.UK Terminal Witchcraft and Wizardry Session
📰News and Opinion
- Apple to Host March 27 Event in Chicago: ‘Creative New Ideas for Teachers and Students’ – Mac Rumors
- Why Trust Me to Run This Ship? – Brian Cerchio
- Introducing IBM Watson Services for Core ML – Apple Developer
- Apple Redoubling Efforts on E-Books – John Gruber (of some interest to me…)
🐞Bugs and Security
- Uh Oh! Unified Logs in High Sierra (10.13) Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes via Disk Utility.app — mac4n6.com (this was apparently fixewd in 10.13.2, but still of interest)
🔨Support and HowTos
- Is it possible to prevent conversion to APFS when upgrading to High Sierra? – Hugo Costa, Amsys
- Switching between File-based (WIM) and Block-Based imaging in Winclone 6 – Twocanoes Software
- How to create your own HomeKit camera with a Raspberry Pi and HomeBridge – Andrew O’Hara, AppleInsider
- William Smith: “Heads up for #macadmins deploying Office 2016 for Mac: Starting with the April update, OneDrive will be included in the installer.”
- Owners and groups in the Finder and command line – The Eclectic Light Company
- Install and Use Homebrew on macOS – Charles Edge
Charles Edge has continued his posts on how to replace macOS Server:
- Configure Access To File Shares On WD MyCloud
- Replace the macOS Server DHCP Service with bootp
- Move DHCP Services from macOS Server to Synology
Howard Oakley has been doing some interesting posts on the macOS unified log:
- macOS Unified log: 1 why, what and how
- macOS Unified log: 2 content and extraction
- macOS Unified log: 3 finding your way
- Is the unified log private, or a vulnerability?
🤖Scripting and Automation
🍏Apple Support
♻Updates and Releases
- Certificate Request – Twocanoes Software: Get Digital Certificates for macOS from Active Directory Natively
- DropDMG 3.5.3
📺To Watch
- MacADUK 2018 – Video Playlist
- Slides from MacADUK 2018
- Joe Hall: “I talked about Automating Boot Camp and Windows Deployment on Mac at @LDNAppleAdmns in January. Video is available here”
🎧To Listen
📚Support
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