Lots of interesting posts this week. Jamf 10.9, MS Office now supports the Dark Side… er dark mode.
The MacAdmins Podcasts got Doug Brooks and Jeremy Butcher from Apple on the show to talk about Apple, deployment and the T2 chip!
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News and Opinion
- Ericsson/O2 outage root cause announced – Tom Limoncelli
- Jamf CEO: 2019 will see the ‘greatest Windows-to-Mac migration in history’ – Dennis Sellers, Apple World Today
- Apple Enterprise & Mac marketing leads talk T2 chip & Apple’s role in business on ‘Mac Admins Podcast’ – Chance Miller, 9to5Mac
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Charles S Edge: “The github.com/jamfit github.com/jamfprofessionalservices && github.com/jamfsupport accounts have now been consolidated into one @JAMFSoftware Open Source Community at github.com/jamf to make it easier to find projects that do things you might need to do”
- John C. Welch: (Long Thread, worth reading.)
- William Smith:
“Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac v 16.20 drops today with Dark Mode for Mojave users! And if that’s a little too stark when using Outlook (or any other app), here’s how to turn it off. defaults write http://com.microsoft.Outlook NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes” - Patrick Gallagher Jr: “Well hello XProtect, been a while!” (Note: MRT got an update, too.)
- Eric Holtam: “News to me so may be news to others. Firefox 63+ supports mobile config policies. Here begins the move away from the great CCK2. Example settings at https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates”
- Graham Gilbert: “If you are a fellow #macadmin and want to speak at a conference in 2019, let me know and I’ll try to make that happen. Whether it is making the right introduction, looking over your proposal or being someone to practice your slides on, let me know how I can help.”
- lamby: “Symlinks.… ”
Bugs and Security
- Mojave’s Sandbox is Leaky – Objective-See’s Blog
- Word to Your Mac – Objective-See’s Blog
- Where do Apple’s recent security updates leave macOS? – Howard Oakley
Support and HowTos
- Backing up macOS scripts from Jamf Pro – Rich Trouton
- Artisanal Jamf Filevault2 Key Escrow Profiles – Richard Purves
- Mojave 10.14.2 and Secure Tokens, it works! – Frederick Abeloos
- iTunes 12.8 on 10.13.6 not seeing iOS devices – Alan Siu
- Running osquery as sudo/root vs. user – Fritz Ifert-Miller, Kolide
- Customising the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App – Ben Toms
- About the “Increased startup time when upgrading to Jamf Pro 10.9.0” – Mike Paul
Scripting and Automation
- More Slackin’ – Ben Toms
- Animate with Keynote & Swift Playgrounds — Daniel Budd
- Script to manage Secure Tokens on macOS 10.14.2+ – Frederick Abeloos
- Installing Apps on Mobile Devices Using a URL Scheme and Jamf Self Service for iOS – Jamf Nation Knowledge Base
Updates and Releases
- SUS Inspector 0.3.1
- Munki 3.5.1
- SplashBuddy 1.3.2 Pre-Release
- Microsoft Office 2019 16.20
- Jamf Pro 10.9
To Watch
- Tim Perfitt: “Using a Smart Card out of the box with macOS for login authentication”
- Tim Perfitt: “Provisioning Certificates on a Smart Card / Yubikey for macOS authentication”
- Otto the Automator: “My session at the @JAMFSoftware JNUC 2018 showing how to manage iOS devices upon attachment to a Mac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSW_47rXKE ”
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