Today is Koningsdag (King’s Day) here in the Netherlands. So, because of the holiday, just a quick summary! Have a great week-end, everyone!
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📰News and Opinion
- Apple releases iOS 11.3.1 with third-party display repair fix, macOS 10.13.4 security update | 9to5Mac
- VMware AirWatch Munki Implementation Teardown – Aaron David Polley
- MacOS Monitoring the open source way – Michael George, DropBox
- RIP: Apple AirPort
🐞Bugs and Security
🔨Support and HowTos
- Creating APFS Snapshots at the Setup Assistant – James Smith
- What’s that? Using magic on your Mac – Howard Oakley
- The ins and outs of using tmutil to backup, restore, and review Time Machine backups – Charles Edge
- Record your Apple TV via QuickTime X – Dan Moren, Six Colors
- Deploy Winclone Package with TCM – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
- Inspecting and creating Mac installer packages on Linux – Charles Edge
- APFS encryption, ghost guest users, and odd UUIDs – Howard Oakley
- Move From Hosting Files From A macOS Server To A macOS Client – Charles Edge
- Configuration Profile Reference Changelog – Erik Berglund
- Considerations when upgrading CrashPlan with Munki – Alan Siu
- 6 Tasks for Basic macOS system monitoring with osquery (Video) – Doug Wilson
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Nigel Kersten: “At the end of 2018, Macs will have been using x86 chips longer than they were using PowerPC.… ”
- Erik Gomez: “If you manage non-supervised iOS devices, be aware that Apple made a rather huge change on iOS 11.3 – moving forward ALL vpp/Enterprise app updates now require user interaction. Prior to iOS 11.3, the user just had to do a one time (per app) acceptance.…”
- Jason Broccardo: “Have a 10.13 Mac hanging at boot and have “Too many corpses being created” errors in the logs, check out GSX article SN4584 (too bad this isn’t a public @AppleSupport kbase article)”
- Graham R Pugh: “Apple Support status pages now include the status of DEP. I just learned this during exchages in a support ticket.”
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Swift Automator Action Xcode Template – macosxautomation
- Deploying iShowU Instant with AutoPkg, Munki and outset: Part 3 – Andrew Valentine
🍏Apple Support
- macOS Security – Overview for IT
- About the security content of iOS 11.3.1
- About the security content of Security Update 2018–001
- About the security content of Safari 11.1
♻Updates and Releases
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