Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-11-02

New Mac mini! We finally got a new Mac mini!

Oh, and a new MacBook Air and some iPad Pros, too. iOS 12.1 and macOS Mojave 10.14.1, as well. But seriously, did you see the new Mac mini!?

The new Macs have the T2. Now, the majority of new Mac models and quite likely the majority of Macs units sold have Secure Boot and don’t support traditional deployment workflows any more.

The Mac mini and the new MacBook Air also require Mojave 10.14.1 and will likely have a forked build of Mojave.

If you need to learn about the new installation workflows available with High Sierra and Mojave, you can buy my book: “macOS Installation for Apple Administrators

Talking about Secure Boot and T2: among all the other new around the new Macs, iPads, macOS 10.14.1 and iOS 12.1, Apple also released a whitepaper on the T2 Chip. If you don’t read anything else this week, read this. (or at at least Rich’s or David’s summaries)

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Apple October Event

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News and Opinion

MacAdmins on Twitter

  • Chapin Bryce:up – cli tool that allows you to manipulate and interact with streams to prototype modification cmds (ie grep, cut, awk). It’s easier to watch the gif then for me to describe in 140 chars” (via Erik Gomez:)
  • mikeymikey: “Heads up macadmins – if you have devices in your fleet where people installed 10.14.0 ”not labeled as beta“ build 18A389 aka ”people thought it was GM but it didn’t say GM“, the 10.14.1 update does not upgrade it.”
  • mikeymikey: “Hey #macadmins This was published in June. But you should probably look at it again. Soon.”
  • Bill Amend:
    “20 years ago I did one of my favorite strips ever. #HappyHalloween… ”

Bugs and Security

Support and HowTos

Scripting and Automation

Apple Support

To Listen

Support

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