Summer is progressing. Fall is nigh. Mojave beta 6 dropped. The first Mojave posts are appearing.
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News and Opinion
macOS Mojave
- Apple Books: A Love Letter to Readers – Ryan Christoffel, MacStories
- iOS 12 Relies on Downloaded Lua Code – Michael Tsai
- Running apps with Mojave’s privacy protection – Howard Oakley
- macOS Mojave dynamic wallpaper – Marcin Czachurski, ITNEXT
MacAdmins on Twitter
- mikeymikey: “This thread contains a good reminder of one of the few things I’ll tell you mobileconfig profiles are great at… ”
- Scott Knight: “I created an osquery extension so #MacAdmins could query 32-bit usage across their fleet once 10.14 is released. Hopefully this makes it even easier to identify software that needs to be upgraded prior to 10.15.”
- macshome: “Oh cool! The Apple developer docs now go all the way back to 1985! Presenting Technical Note OS01”
Bugs and Security
- The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext – Latacora
- Knowledge is Power! Using the macOS/iOS knowledgeC.db Database to Determine Precise User and Application Usage – Sarah Edwards
- A Deep Dive into macOS MDM (and How it can be Compromised) – Jesse Endahl, Max Bélanger, Black Hat USA 2018 (Erik Gomez: “This is why InstallEnterpriseApplication was written (and backported)”
- Hacking a Brand New Mac Remotely, Right Out of the Box – Lily Hay Newman, Wired
Support and HowTos
- VPNStatus, a replacement for macOS builtin VPN Status – Timac
- Managing Macs at Scale – Matthew Warren
- How to check that a file really is a faithful copy: Take 2, archives – Howard Oakley
- Exploit Apple Mail’s hidden power-user features on the Mac with these five tips – AppleInsider Forums
- UNIX Aliases and AutoPkg – Anthony Reimer
- How to export an image and a video out of a HEIF Live Photo via macOS – Glenn Fleischmann, MacWorld
- Staying notified about Apple developer software releases – Rich Trouton
- Osquery: Under the Hood – Zach Wasserman, Kolide
Scripting and Automation
- Update to xcodetools.py – Carl Ashley
- installr: A tool designed for use in Recovery boot to do a “fresh” install of macOS and additional packages – Greg Neagle
- Use docklib to manage macOS docks – Alan Siu
Apple Support
- Kbase Article of the Week: Definition: Beta Software, Beta Test – 512 Pixels
- Preferred Device Enrollment Resellers for Canada, Latin America, and the United States (via Erik Gomez)
- Preferred Device Enrollment Resellers for Asia-Pacific
- Preferred Device Enrollment Resellers for Europe and the Middle East
Updates and Releases
To Watch
Support
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