The conference registration season has begun! Three conferences started their registrations this week. There should be one for you. (The one for me is MacSysAdmin, where I will be presenting among many other great speakers this year.)
We got quite a few security related posts this week. Most important is a note from Twitter that they may have left your password unencrypted on their servers. So go change that right now, if you have not already.
In happier news, the iMac turns 20 this week!
Also in last week’s email I forgot set the subject and the email was sent out with tinyletter’s default subject line. My apologies for the confusion both for you, the readers and any email rules/filters you may have set up.
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#! On Scripting OS X
🎤Conferences
- MacDevOps YVR – June 7–8
- MacAdmins Conference at Penn State – July 10–13
- MacSysAdmin, Göteborg – October 2–5
📰News and Opinion
- 12 thoughts on the new Apple enterprise – Jonny Evans, Computerworld
- Apple posts record Q2 profit: charts, live tweets – Jason Snell
- Ask tech questions in private with Stack Overflow’s new enterprise product for smaller teams – Tom Crazit, GeekWire
- 20 years of iMac: A story of relentless design iteration – Michael Steeber, 9to5Mac
- Improving the Advanced Protection Program for iOS users – Dario Salice, Google Blog
- Keeping your account secure – Parag Agrawal, Twitter Blog
- Two passwords are always better than one – Jessy Irwine, The Outline
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Enno Rey: “New ERNW Whitepaper: ”APFS Internals for Forensic Analysis”
- Edge Case: “AirPods case will happily charge from an iOS device, provided a USB condom is used so the phone doesn’t know what the device is. (Without datablock it errors with “AirPods accessory requires too much power”)…”
- Rich Smith: “New version of EFIgy client available with iMac Pro support”
- Kyle Crawford: “startosinstall hangs if run from 10.9.5 recovery. 10.10.5 and newer work.”
- Jason Broccardo: “Not sure when this changed but iCloud now allows you to have more than 99 email rules… ”
- Scripting OS X: “Apple is now selling more Watches than Macs.… ”
- Aaron Freimark: “Apple stops signing iOS 11.3, so only 11.3.1 is installable… Wait, I thought MDMs can now target specific versions in a 90-day window. How’s that going to work now?”
- Paul Lomax: “The most unbelievable aspect of the Star Trek universe is that every ship they meet has compatible video conferencing facilities…”
🐞Bugs and Security
- Jamf mdm -userLevelMdm breaks DEP enrolment on Macs – Rick Goody
- Apple’s latest updates are out – APFS password leakage bug squashed – Paul Ducklin, Naked Security
- Lojack Becomes a Double-Agent – NetScout
🔨Support and HowTos
- What happens when you run
cpon the command… – Safia Abdalla - How to enroll a Mac VM running macOS High Sierra hosted by Parallels Desktop Pro – Howie Isaacks
- How to upgrade your older Mac Pro CPU – Anthony Casella, iMore
- Mobile Device Management Protocol Reference Changelog – Erik Berglund
- Apple iMac Pro and Secure Storage – Pepijn Bruienne Duo Security
- CrashPlan 6.5 stuck on Connecting… and never times out – Alan Siu
- VMware Fusion Custom Networks (vmnets) Demystified – David Spencer
- Bash sessions in macOS (and why you need to understand its working) – Yogesh Khatri
🤖Scripting and Automation
♻️Updates and Releases
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
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