Summer vacation time is coming to an end and the beta season for macOS Catalina and iOS 13 is heating up! Another Catalina beta dropped this week, and third parties are now starting to announce their own betas and/or preliminary support.
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On Scripting OS X
The “Moving to zsh” class on September 6 is now full. Looking forward to seeing you all there! If you missed to sign up for this class, the next “Scripting macOS” beginners’ class on October 30–31 will be updated for Catalina and contain plenty of zsh, as well.
News and Opinion
- The Sad State of Mac App Distribution – Young Dynasty
- Are we ready for Time Machine 2.0 yet? – Howard Oakley
- Immunization – Brent Simmons
- Apple Card and rejecting arbitration – Dave Mark
- VMware acquires Carbon Black, Pivotal – Jordan Novet, CNBC
macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS System Status & Version Info – Mr. Macintosh (Updated August 19)
- Apple Releases Sixth Beta of macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A536g) Beta 6 – Mr Macintosh
- Catalina, App Notarization, and Sparkle – Craig Hockenberry
- SimpleMDM: “Bootstrap Tokens, new to macOS 10.15 Catalina, are available in SimpleMDM. Begin testing your Automated Enrollment (DEP) flows with SecureToken configuration today.”
- macOS Catalina™ Okta Integration – Zach DeMeyer JumpCloud
- It’s time to test your scripts against Catalina’s path changes – Howard Oakley
- iOS 13 and macOS Catalina: Enterprise Preview – Rene Ritchie, Vector Podcast
MacAdmins on Twitter
- William Smith: “Excited for this release from Microsoft because it’ll be the first app they’ve ever released for Mac that’s fully manageable from day 1. There’s been a lot of outreach the past few years from them to MacAdmins to make something like this possible.”
- Mike Stern: “SF Mono is now available! Also, SF Pro and SF Compact have been updated to reflect some additions and changes to SF Symbols. developer.apple.com/fonts”
Bugs and Security
- WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy – WebKit
- 📝 DefCon Slides: Harnessing Weapons of Mac Destruction – Patrick Wardle (Slides from DefCon talk)
- Multi-Factor Authentication and why it’s absolutely needed in your business! – Andrew Sanchez, moof IT
Support and HowTos
- Documentation Strategies for effective IT admins – Jon Xavier, Fleetsmith
- The Jamf Pro Push Proxy service, service token renewal and Jamf Nation credentials – Rich Trouton
- Google Cloud Support Resources – Dominik Kugelmann
- T2 in new Mac hardware and its impact on virtualizing and running macOS – Role of SMC – Veertu
- Global defaults in macOS Mojave – Howard Oakley
- Working safely and effectively with preferences in Mojave – Howard Oakley
- How to get Catalina Beta 6 running on VMware Fusion 11.1.1 – macsimom (Hopefully, VMware Fusion will support Catalina beta soon. Parallels 15 does already.)
- Monitoring Jamf Infrastructure Managers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux – Rich Trouton
Scripting and Automation
- Automating QGIS Deployment – Rob Smithers, Location Leverage
- Am I Being Punked? – John C. Welch
- How to Set the Default Application Program Using Self Service – HCS Technology Group
Apple Support
- Upgrade your organization to Apple Business Manager (Not new, but the deadline is getting closer.)
- Fonts – Apple Developer (via Mike Stern)
- SF Symbols beta 2 (via Mike Stern
- How to clean your Apple Card (Graham Gilbert’s comment)
Updates and Releases
- Appleloops 3.0.7
- Microsoft Edge Insider
- Highlights from Git 2.23 – Taylor Blau, GitHub Blog
- Netiquette (beta)
- Pre-Release AutoDMG v1.10b587
- Veertu Anka 2.1
- SF Symbols beta 2 (via Mike Stern
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