WWDC week! A peak at all the wonderful new stuff coming to us in iOS 12, watchOS 5, tvOS 12 and macOS Mojave 10.14.
Also macOS 10.13.5 dropped last Friday, a few hours after I posted the last newsletter. (Already seems so long ago.)
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📰News and Opinion
💻WWDC and macOS Mojave
- macOS – Mojave Preview – Apple
- APFS will finally be supported on Fusion Drives – in macOS 10.14 Mojave – Howard Oakley
- macOS Mojave: The MacStories Overview – John Vorhees, MacStories
- macOS 10.14 Mojave Removes Software Update Mechanism From the Mac App Store and Returns it to System Preferences – Tim Hardwick, Mac Rumors
- Apple opens Health Records API to developers – Dave Mark, The Loop
- iOS 12 and watchOS 5: A Roundup of All the Little Things – Ryan Christoffel, MacStories
- With Mojave, Apple makes changes inside and outside Mac App Store – Jason Snell, Six Colors
- Ersatz Free Trials – Daniel Jalkut
- Removed in macOS 10.14 Mojave – Michael Tsai
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Erik Gomez: “@macjustice brings the potential good news that Apple has (once again) fixed the mdm enrollment bug (the nag) with 10.13.5.”
- Anthony Reimer: “I’ve been a busy #MacAdmin this week. I wrote an AutoPkg recipe that lets you track when a particular Apple Support Article is updated.”
- Eric Holtam: “Note that today’s security update for 10.13 requires 10.13.4. So if you’re going from 10.13.3 to 10.13.5 it won’t pick up the security update until you’re running 10.13.5.”
- Pepijn Bruienne: “Today’s macOS 10.13.5 update includes an EFI update (CVE–2018–4251) which you want to apply soon. Make sure it’s done with softwareupdate and not a PKG install as previously noted! ”
- Clayton Burlison: “Alright I’m actually pretty excited about this new Notarization in macOS. Plus we got CLI tools.”
- William Smith: “Starting with Office 2016 for Mac 16.14 (releasing this month), Microsoft will be releasing font updates separately from app updates! New and updated fonts are still sandboxed and download into Group Containers.”
- Harald Monihart: “#WWDC2018 is still going on and we are already testing our first internal tools that will support #Mojave’s #darkmode and have 10+ people working on day zero support for 10.14 @SAP…” (click through for images)
🐞Bugs and Security
- Apple Will Soon Report on Government App Store Takedown Requests – Josh Centers, TidBITS
- Breaking macOS Mojave
🔨Support and HowTos
- Bypassing the SecureToken dialog for mobile accounts – Neil Martin
- What’s in the High Sierra 10.13.5 update? – Howard Oakley
- How High Sierra checks your EFI firmware – Howard Oakley
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Enabling Java Management Extensions (JMX) for Jamf Pro – Jamf Knowledge Base
- Installing Mudbox 2018 with Munki – Garrett Yamada
- Reinstall a clean macOS with one button – Bill Smith, Jamf
🍏Apple Support
- About the macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 Update
- About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Security Update 2018–003 Sierra, Security Update 2018–003 El Capitan
- About the security content of iOS 11.4
- Identify counterfeit or uncertified Lightning connector accessories
- Apple Business Manager Help
- Profiles and Logs – Bug Reporting – Apple Developer
♻Updates and Releases
- Revise IT (updated for 10.13 tests)
- stethoscope-app 1.1.8 (open source app from netflix that checks certain security settings)
📺To Watch
- Four important WWDC sessions (h/t Robert Hammen)
- MacAdmins Podcast at MacDevOps:YVR 2018
🎧To Listen
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