The video for my MacADUK Presentation “Modern Deployment Workflows for Business” is online! You can find the link, the slides and the notes on the permanent presenation page. There is also a link to the entire MacADUK 2019 playlist. There are many great presentations worth watching.
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News and Opinion
- Last Week on My Mac: The hard road to macOS 10.15 – Howard Oakley
- Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation – Apple
- The hard part in becoming a command line wizard – John D Cook
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Tim Perfitt: “Grab any corner of a window of an app in macOS and drag while holding the option key. The window will expand around the center point. Add in shift (so it is now command-shift) and it expands around the center and keeps the aspect ratio.” (Original tweet wrongly states ‘command’ key instead of the correct ‘option’ key.)
- Joe Bourne: “Support for OS X Mojave has come to Azure Pipelines hosted agents and it includes Xcode 10.2! If you’re using the ‘Hosted macOS’ pool, your pipelines will already start running on Mojave. YAML customers can use ‘macos–10.14’ for their pool VM Image (Link)”
- Steve Troughton-Smith: “RIP Dashboard, 2005–2019 You will be missed”
- Rich Trouton: “If you’re a user of First Boot Package Install, there’s a new version available. Same great functionality, but now it’s signed and notarized!”
- Thomas Reed: “Think Macs can’t get infected with malware? Or that they only get infected with adware and junk software? Think again. Here’s a story involving supply chain attacks, millions of dollars stolen… and Mac malware.”
- Tim Perfitt: “Adding Munki server and automatic munki client provisioning into MDS 1.7. Also added MunkiAdmin to the toolbar so you can setup, manage and deploy Macs using MDS + Munki without ever touching the command line.…”
Bugs and Security
- Compatibility warning: macOS Mojave 10.14.4 cannot display some OmniOutliner and OmniPlan documents – The Omni Group
- Digita Security: “Apple has silently pushed an update for XProtect (their internal ”AV“ daemon) Amongst other things, adds a Yara rule for ”matching PE binaries“ (i.e. ”Windows“ binaries)”
Support and HowTos
- Jamf Connect Login and IBM Cloud Identity – Frederick Abeloos
- Adding Notarization to Xcode Builds – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
- Device Snapshots and Crafting A Restore Device User Experience for Macs – krypted.com
- No Audio on Window 10 After Restoring Winclone Image on MacBook Pro (2012) – Twocanoes Software
- Creating a Virtual Machine for Automated Device Enrollment – HCS Technology Group
- Customizing the Jamf Connect Login Package with Composer – Jamf Nation Knowledge Base
- Apple Ramps Up Fight against Malware with Notarization, Stapling, and Hardening – Twocanoes Software
- 10.14.4 Update breaks local account password reset when using FileVault Recovery Key – Mr. Macintosh
- macOS 10.14.5 beta, Notarization and Stapling Review – Tom Bridge
- New build version of macOS Mojave 10.14.4 (18E227) released – Mr. Macintosh
Scripting and Automation
- Using a Swift app to get rid of lots of AppleScript dialogs – Eric Hemmeter
- Managing The Xcode Simulator Programmatically – Charles Edge
- Automating Reposado with Slack Notifications – Kevin M. Cox
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