TGIF! How have you survived Mojave week?
This one is a bit shorter, because (a) I already posted a summary with Mojave links earlier this week, and (b) I am getting ready to leave for MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg next week!
Looking forward to meeting everybody else there!
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- Microsoft Office For Mac Changes & Versioning Shenanigans – macmule
- MDM Me Maybe: Device Enrollment Program Security – James Barclay, Duo Security
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Stephen Hackett:
“macOS Mojave has been added to the Aqua Screenshot Library. Both Light and Dark Mode have been catalogued, as has every combo of mode and accent color possible.” - Carl Ashley:
“This is why TCC User Consent is rubbish. Launch VMware Fusion Pro 11, get prompted to allow ”osascript“ access. I have NO idea what Fusion wants to do & I don’t know that it’s actually Fusion wanting to do something. Dug into the app, it’s deleting a Login Item.” - mikeymikey:
“Ooooo…. that’s new Neat… ” (screenshot) - Scripting OS X:
“I really like the new screenshot interface in macOS Mojave. I think it is a great improvement. But decades of habit using ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 are hard to break. Might have to go to the drastic measure of deactivating the old keystrokes.… ”
Bugs and Security
- Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data – Howard Oakley
- Mojave’s security “hardening” User protections could be bypassed – Sentinel One
- Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14: an incomplete summary – Howard Oakley
- Apple has at last pushed an update to XProtect’s security data – Howard Oakley
Support and HowTos
- Managing Google SafeBrowsing in Firefox for Mac – Charles Edge
- Code Signing Scripts for PPPC Whitelisting – Carl Ashley
- Manually Converting Jamf Pro Tables From MyISAM to InnoDB – macmule
- Using Apple’s Built-In Malware Removal Tool (MRT) – Charles Edge
- Quick and Dirty OpenBSM Auditing In macOS – Charles Edge
- 12 Customizations for the Mojave macOS Login Window that you didn’t know about – Tim Perfitt (note: most of these have been working for a long time with older macOS versions)
- TCC: A Quick Primer – Frank Yang, Fleetsmith Blog
- A Service-By-Service Guide For Moving Away From macOS Server – Charles Edge
- It’s time to talk about time (time servers and configuration profiles) – Neil Martin
- Installing MacPorts on MacOS 10.14 Mojave – Chris Knight
- To install macOS Mojave, or not to? | DAM SAN
- How Mojave changes the unified log – Howard Oakley
- A couple one-liners for analyzing Mac app usage – Charles Edge
- What to do when you can’t get an app the right privacy settings in Mojave – Howard Oakley
- TCC Round Up – Carl Ashley
Scripting and Automation
- Automating making bootable macOS installer dmgs – Eric Hemmeter
- Activating Geometer’s Sketchpad in macOS 10.13.6 (and beyond?) – Alan Siu
- MacAdminHelpers/JamfDBConverter (via Graham Pugh)
- How to Dictate iMessages in Multiple Languages from a Widget with Shortcuts – Federico Viticci
- DEP-Notify for Jamf Pro
- Nudge: A tool to help users with pre-existing devices upgrade their OS version.
- Managing Virus Scans With ClamAV – Charles Edge
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
To Listen
- Jamf After Dark: Newsflash: Joel Rennich Tells Us All About Jamf Connect
- Kelly Guimont of App Camp For Girls – Mac Admins Podcast
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