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
- iOS 12.1 brings Group FaceTime and new emoji to iPhone and iPad
- All-new MacBook Air takes flight
- New Mac mini packs a huge punch
- New iPad Pro with all-screen design Is most advanced, powerful iPad ever
- Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- Last Week on My Mac: Can you keep a secret? – Howard Oakley
- IBM to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion – Axios
- Jamf adds support for Azure Active Directory on a Mac – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
- 100 Episodes into the MacAdmins Podcast… – Tom Bridge
- The state of Apple in the enterprise in 2018 – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
- A History of Mac mini – Brian Stucki, MacStadium
- Business Licensing for Omni’s iOS Apps – Ken Case, The Omni Group
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
- Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data – Howard Oakley
- Kernel RCE caused by buffer overflow in Apple’s ICMP packet-handling code (CVE–2018–4407) – Kevin Backhouse, LGTM (Video)
- T2, FileVault and brute force attack protection – Rich Trouton
- Summary of the Apple T2 chip – David Acland
Support and HowTos
- Mojave’s many software updates – Howard Oakley
- Putting the Pkg in AutoPkg – Anthony Reimer
- Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using? (version 3) – Howard Oakley
- Apple Development Conferences – Charles Edge
- Outlook for Mac adds administrative controls – Microsoft Tech Community (via William Smith)
- Boot to macOS Recovery in VMware Fusion 11 — François Levaux-Tiffreau
- Deploying a Munki repo in five minutes with Terraform – Graham Gilbert
- How to manage Wi-Fi with Terminal commands on OS X – Jesus Vigo, TechRepublic
Scripting and Automation
- Run Workflow on Volume Mount – Mac OS Automation
- Send an Email from Jamf Pro Self Service – Graham Pugh
Apple Support
- Apple T2 Security Chip
- macOS Mojave 10.14.1 Update
- About the security content of macOS Mojave 10.14.1, Security Update 2018–001 High Sierra, Security Update 2018–005 Sierra
- Download macOS Mojave 10.14.1 Update
- Download Security Update 2018–002 (High Sierra)
- Download Security Update 2018–005 (Sierra)
- About iOS 12.1
- About the security content of iOS 12.1
- Product security certifications, validations, and guidance for T2 Firmware (via Tim Perfitt)
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