More 10.15 and iOS13 rumors (or previews), Microsoft goes Terminal and open source and leaks the Chromium-based Edge browser for Mac, Mac admins continue to explore the effects of the 10.14.5 notarization requirements, and Adobe ‘unauthorizes’ old versions.
In additonal news, I will be giving Scripting Classes at Pro Warehouse in Amsterdam. The first class is a two-day “Introduction to Scripting macOS.” If you are interested, you can get more information and register here!
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- MacDeployment, June 10–11, University of Calgary
- Apple WWDC 2019: iOS 13, macOS 10.15, watchOS 6, tvOS Features – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
- Introducing Windows Terminal – Kayla CinnamonWindows Command Line Tools For Developers
- Portrayal of Apple’s spat with screen-time apps hides the full picture – Peter Wells
- Announcing WSL 2 – Craig Loewen, Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
- Why the Mac won’t end up locked down like iOS – Jason Snell, Macworld
MacAdmins on Twitter
- mikeymikey: “Just sharing this out here – because I didn’t know this detail – and codesign and spctl don’t show this particular reason for Gatekeeper rejection”
- William Smith: “Download Microsoft Edge (Canary) for Mac, Reference the chromium.org key/value pairs here: www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list–3 Use “com.microsoft.Edge.Canary” domain to manage (plist or configuration profile).”
- Patrick Fergus: “I annotated Adobe’s “authorized” applications table with “marketing” versions. Note “if an Adobe product is not listed in the table below, all versions continue to be authorized.””
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Introducing a macOS System Status & Version Info page for MacAdmins – Mr Macintosh
- Apache SAML SSO – the hard way – Richard Purves
- Creating, managing and using Apple File System snapshots for startup drive backups – Rich Trouton
- The Great Adobe Purge of ’19 – Darren Wallace
- Apple releases long-awaited SecureToken documentation – Mr Macintosh
- Tackling sleep and wake problems – Howard Oakley
- The Great Adobe Purge of 2019 – a helping hand with Autopkg – Neil Martin
- 10.14.4 Update breaks “Update Keychain Password” + Workaround – Mr. Macintosh
Scripting and Automation
- hhas/AppleEventDescriptor: Pure Swift reimplementation of Carbon AEDesc
- A third way of putting AppleScript into git – Doeke Zanstra
- SD Notary: Notarizing made easy – Late Night Software
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI 1.5.2
- Introducing StopTheNews
- MDS 1.8
- Microsoft’s Edge browser for Mac leaks, available to download early –Tom Warren, The Verge
- Unwrap – Learn Swift on the Move
- PLIST Editor 1.15
To Listen
Just for Fun
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