Another week of releases. We got iOS 13.1, iPadOS and tvOS. Also a misnumbered Supplemental Update for macOS Mojave.
There was also the interesting incident of the Google Updater process that deletes the /var symbolic link, which shows how quickly the MacAdmin community can come together and solve an issue. Great work, everyone!
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- Apple ‘raised the bar’ for enterprise IT – Jonny Evans, Computerworld
- Is single-user mode (SUM) dead? – Howard Oakley
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Graham Pugh: “IBM have issued a hotfix for SPSSStatistics 26 silent installer so that it works with recent JDKs (11+). Check your support channels for ”Interim Fix IF007“. IF006 also updates the JRE that gets installed.”
- Tim Perfitt: “In an unexpected turn of events, I am now releasing Imagr builds: https://t.co/o80PeR2GMO”
- CarrickDB: “Every stack overflow answer about bash: Answer 1: Use
${VAR}:$_!%Comment 1: No, it’s_$${}VAR!$$Comment 2: No, it’s[[{$VAR} == !*%&#$*#)#]]comment 3: No, it’s#&$!@[&#”[$^$#]@“?$(#$)&&=‘$_$&*’]($&)@:”” - Harald Monihart: “We have more people running macOS 10.15 seeds @SAP than versions that are older than 12 months. Kudos to @lauraroesler for leading the macOSCatalina readiness and @laxthxdude for a great security and compliancy framework that motivates users to keep their Macs up to date”
- Guilherme Rambo: “Approve sudo with Apple Watch on Catalina with this handy plug-in. https://t.co/KQWIaBB3Vb (via @NSBiscuit) https://github.com/biscuitehh/pam-watchid”
macOS Catalina
- What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – Mr. Macintosh
- About macOS Catalina Bootstrap Token – Eric Holtam
All the Apple updates
- Apple security updates
- About iOS 13.1
- If you installed iOS 13.1 Beta and can’t restore your backup on an iPhone 11 model
- iOS 13 and iPadOS are compatible with these devices – Apple Support
- About iPadOS
- iPad User Guide
- Apple Business Manager release notes
- What’s new in Classroom
- Apple TV User Guide
- What’s new in tvOS 13 for Apple TV
- Connect a wireless game controller to your Apple device
- What’s new in Apple Configurator 2.10
Bugs and Security
- Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing Boot Issues – Mr Macintosh
- Chrome Update Impacts Some macOS Systems – Google Chrome Help
- Google Keystone update breaks Macs’ ability to boot if System Integrity Protection is disabled – Rich Trouton
Support and HowTos
- Imaging is dead (RIP Imagr) – Graham Gilbert
- DEP errors after updated software license agreements – Ben Toms
- MDS 2: ASR Imaging and MDM / DEP Deployment – Twocanoes Software
- What’s that file then? How to identify unknown file types – Howard Oakley
- How to find remaining 32-bit applications on macOS – Shane Brown, Jamf Blog
- Configuring System Integrity Protection in a NetBoot environment – Eric Holtam
- macOS updates 9/26/19 – Mojave 10.14.6 #3 – 10.13 & 10.12 (2019–005) – Mr Macintosh
- Which Recovery Mode? – Howard Oakley
Scripting and Automation
- The Future of mOSL – 0xmachos
- Announcing my Shortcuts Library, featuring 150 Siri Shortcuts to use with iOS 13 – Matthew Cassinelli
- Find all files with a single character name – Charles Edge
- Update a config profile on multiple Jamf Pro servers with the API – Graham Pugh
- Find Running Binaries Masquerading as Files – Charles Edge
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- Swift 5.1
- Xcode 11: Release Notes, Mac App Store Download
- SubEthaEdit 5.1
- mdmdirector: “opinionated orchestrator for MicroMDM”
- Sep 2019 Fleetsmith Product Update
- macshome/tokenusers: TokenUsers is a simple app that shows us all of the APFS Secure Token users on a system.
- JSSImporter 1.0.2
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