Lots of interesting posts this week.
But most interesting for MacAdmins fighting with SecureToken, read Rich Trouton’s two posts which might help you get out of situations that were so far considered dead ends.
MacRumors points to the week of June 3 for WWDC this year (no big surprise) and Bloomberg (the other Mac rumors site) points to March 25 for a ‘subscription service’ event. Since MacADUK starts on March 26, this event could lead to some last minute slide shuffling.
If you would rather get the weekly newsletter by email, you can subscribe to the Scripting OS X Weekly Newsletter here!! (Same content, delivered to your Inbox once a week.)
#! On Scripting OS X
📰News and Opinion
- On Covering Webcams – John Gruber, Daring Fireball
- Last Week on My Mac: Mojave’s half-baked Quick Actions – Howard Oakley
- Evolving Swift On Apple Platforms After ABI Stability – Joe Groff, Swift Blog
- Finding my way around iOS roadblocks – Jason Snell
- Apple’s iTunes U and iBooks Author are suffering from software rot – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Kyle Crawford: “Why does Apple need a sysdiagnose for a feature enhancement? Don’t they know the features of their own software? startosinstall should warn if Internet connection is needed before running. How is a having a sysdiagnose going to add any value?”
- Jordan Rose: “Command-line tip:
sftp -ais a mostly drop-in replacement forscpthat allows resuming an interrupted download.” - Mike Boylan: “TIL about the “HP Easy Admin” tool. If you’re a school, large org, or enterprise and are looking for the HP driver package for a printer v the home/single-use Easy Setup app, you can use Easy Admin to go get the pkg-based driver installer to be used at scale.”
- Graham Pugh: “The clear and reliable world of DEP enrollment…” (click to see full tweet)
- Graham Pugh: “Regex of Mojave-compatible Mac model identifiers:
^(iMac1[3-8]|iMacPro|MacBook[8-9]|MacBook10|MacBookAir[5-7]|MacBookPro9|MacBookPro1[0-5]|MacMini[6-7]|MacPro[5-6])”
🐞Bugs and Security
- Still no credit from Apple Product Security – Jeff Johnson
- Hackers keep trying to get malicious Windows file onto MacOS – Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
- Love Notes? Examining the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor – Jeremy Erickson, Mikhail Davidov, Duo Security (via Ed Marczak)
🔨Support and HowTos
- Unable to enable FileVault on macOS Mojave – Rich Trouton
- Re-syncing local account passwords and Secure Token on FileVault-encrypted Macs running macOS Mojave – Rich Trouton
- Manage the Look of Launchpad – Charles Edge
- Configuring Jamf Pro and Intune Integration – J.C. Hornbeck, Shonda Hodge, Microsoft Tech Community (via Peter Klapwijk)
- Mouse doesn’t move at FileVault login screen in VMware Fusion macOS Mojave VMs – Rich Trouton
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Setup Google Cloud Functions – Charles Edge
- Get Your CustomerID From G Suite – Charles Edge
- Quick Actions 5: Third-party solution – Howard Oakley
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
📺To Watch
📚Support
There are no ads on my webpage or this newsletter. If you are enjoying what you are reading here, please spread the word and recommend it to another Mac Admin!
- Weblog
- Weekly Email Newsletter (TinyLetter)
- Apple News
- Micro.blog
- Mastodon.social
If you want to support me and this website even further, then consider buying one (or all) of my books. It’s like a subscription fee, but you also get a useful book or two extra!