Many new posts, regarding macOS Mojave and iOS 12. Usually I do not upgrade my main devices to beta versions, but this time I am sorely tempted.
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📰News and Opinion
- WWDC 2018: Apple’s counterintuitive business moves – Dan Moren, Macworld
- Every Default macOS Wallpaper – in Glorious 5K Resolution – 512 Pixels
- Is it time to buy an eGPU? – Howard Oakley
- On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware – Quentin Carnicelli, Rogue Amoeba
- On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware – John Gruber, Daring Fireball
🏜 macOS Mojave
- Apple Books: What’s new in iOS 12 – Serentiy Caldwell, iMore
- MDM updates from WWDC 2018 – Nick Thompson, Jamf Blog
🎤Siri Shortcuts
- The incredible importance of Siri Suggestions
- Siri Shortcuts FAQ: Everything you need to know! – Matthew Cassinelli, iMore
- Shortcuts: A New Vision for Siri and iOS Automation – Federico Viticci, MacStories
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Tom Bridge: “Erik is one of the best engineers in our field, and his skills are legion. A degree should not be a gate to an IT career.”
- William Smith: “Please help spread the word! My company is awarding sponsorships to attend #JNUC to 10 individuals from underrepresented groups within the technology sector. If you’d like to apply or know someone who’d benefit from attending”
- Jamf: “For the third year in a row, we’re running the #JNUC Diversity Sponsorship program and will award sponsorships to 10 individuals from underrepresented groups within the tech sector. Apply today for your pass to the largest #Apple IT event on the planet!”
- William Smith: “Microsoft Office 2019 — that’s 2–0–1–9 — for Mac Preview should release tomorrow. Just a continuation of the normal monthly Insider updates with a only a brand name change. First production release (16.17) releases in a few months. #MacAdmins”
- Tim Perfitt: “A customer told me they got up and did a dance after imaging Windows 10 onto iMacs via MDT / SCCM using Winclone 7 Pro. Winclone 7 makes you dance with happiness.”
- Ole Begemann: “Tadaaa! My first self-generated Dynamic Wallpaper for macOS Mojave. Reverse engineering file formats is fun. 🕵️♂️… ”
🐞Bugs and Security
🔨Support and HowTos
- Transitions: Munki in a Cloud – Tom Bridge
- MacDevOps YVR 2018: terraform-munki – Clayton Burlison
- Redirect with nginx before hitting a load balancer – Ross Derewianko
- Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging – There and back again how to not do postinstallation scripts
- Chart: How Long Does Apple Support Older iPhone Models? – Patrick Wagner, Statista
- Can’t install the Mojave beta on an external drive? Try this – Howard Oakley
- How to downgrade your iPhone or iPad from the developer beta of iOS 12 to iOS 11 – Serenity Cladwell, Rene Ritchie, iMore
- Installing and Debugging on Mojave – Michael Tsai
- Meraki, Apple Classroom and ‘Not-shared’ shared iPads – Darren Wallace, moof IT
- Unified but not uniform: how the log has changed – Howard Oakley
- 7 tips and tricks for using the Classic API – Brad Becker, Jamf Blog
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Updated Xcode command line tools installer script now available – Rich Trouton
- Getting Jamf iOS Installed App Count – Nathaniel Strauss
- Preview To The Full – Tony Williams
- Sending Jamf Pro notifications to Slack – Rich Trouton
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
- createUser
- Consolation 3.0b14 now supports Mojave’s Signposts in High Sierra and more
- Jamf Pro 10.5.0
- Office 2019 for Mac Preview is ready for commercial customers
📺To Watch
- MacDevOps:YVR 2018
- Hands-on: 50+ new macOS Mojave changes and features – Jeff Benjamin, 9to5Mac
- xcconfig – Olof Hellman, Seattle Xcoders May 12, 2018
🎧To Listen
📚Support
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