Mac minis are real and being delivered to customers!
Apple sent out some updates for their Apps, Pages can now publish to Apple Books and iMovie on a new iPad pro can power a large external screen.
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- Dan Frakes Goes to Apple as Mac App Store Editor – John Gruber
- Last Week on My Mac: What firmware version is that? – Howard Oakley
- Slides and Script! From Apple Seeds to Apple Pie & Introducing APOLLO: The Apple Pattern of Life Lazy Output’er — Sarah Edwards
- The Mac Desktop Dilemma – Anthony Reimer
- The 2018 Mac Mini – Marco Arment
- No, Apple’s not locking you out of Linux on Mac with the T2 chip – Rene Ritchie, iMore (Note: Linux is missing the drivers to access the internal drive managed by the T2 System Controller, but it works with external drives.)
- Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Hard Drive Failure Rates – Andy Klein, BackBlaze(via Josh Center, TidBits)
- How to Use the Cloud to Make Video Production Workflows More Efficient – Skip Levens, BackBlaze
MacAdmins on Twitter
- James F: “Here’s a script illustrating how to use the #Jamf Pro API I made for my #jnuc2018 interactive lab ”Getting Started with the Jamf Pro API“”
- Erik Gomez: “To help foster community help, effective today, UMAD and nudge have been moved to my personal GitHub and off the pseudo joke org I made when I developed the tools.”
- mikeymikey: “Take the hint…”
- Brian Stucki: “The documents for the new Mac mini were just released. Includes the Essentials, the Quick Start and the Info Guide. Also includes this picture of the Retina display that Apple should definitely make and sell.”
Bugs and Security
- What is Certificate Transparency? (via Jason Broccardo)
- RIP XProtect and MRT? – Howard Oakley
- Summary of the Apple T2 chip – David Acland, moof IT
- Patrick Gallagher Jr: “If you plan to use JAMFSoftware ’s AD CS option, and need that cert to work with other apps, please upvote”
- macOS 10.14.1 Privacy: What’s fixed and what’s not – Jeff Johnson
Support and HowTos
- Apple IDs, MDM Servers and You! – Darren Wallace
- Fall, spring, and testing VMs – Emily Kausalik
- Munki + MicroMDM = MunkiMDM? – Jon Crain
- Preserving xattr with pkgbuild – Carl Ashley
- Using larger Windows 10 ISOs with Boot Camp Assistant – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
- Using Prey with SimpleMDM to Recover a Stolen Laptop – Tom Bridge
- Help users activate Microsoft Office 365 and configure Outlook in one click – Bill Smith, Jamf Blog
Scripting and Automation
Apple Support
- Configuration Profile Reference (Updated Oct 30 and then again Nov 7)
- Publish your book with Pages
Updates and Releases
To Watch
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