While I got to take off a week for vacation, Apple certainly did not… Welcome back!
We got expiring certificates and lots of updates! Also, new AirPods Pro.
I have tried to put some order into all the links I gathered over the last two weeks. If you think I missed anything, please let me know!
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News and Opinion
- Last Week on My Mac: The worst macOS upgrade ever? – Howard Oakley
- MacTech Presentation Learnings – Anthony Reimer
- Why Catalina may have problems with extensions – Howard Oakley
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Adam Codega: “Vendors and others who link to macadmins.org: make sure you’re linking to macadmins.org and not our (now offline) Heroku URL”
- Erik Gomez: “Catalina brings an undocumented change to MDM profiles. You can no longer mark them as ”removable“. The only way to remove MDM profiles now is by unenrolling from MDM or the MDM sending a removal command. This was never mentioned in WWDC, Developer Notes or AppleSeed.”
- Peter Steinberger: “There’s a user default setting: NSApplicationCrashOnExceptions to make macOS apps terminate when an exception is thrown – just as things are on iOS. Microsoft has great documentation on that. Apple, not so much.”
- Mr. Macintosh: “macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 3 is now available. This post was late because I was thinking about stopping my Beta Update posts. Instead, I need to keep showing everyone how embarrassing macOS Patch Notes have become.”
- Patrick Fergus: “Adobe Shared Device License 2.0, released 10/21/19 – Sign-in only shows needed information, e.g. if only Federated IDs allowed, Facebook not shown – Prompt reminds users to save & sign out of CC – CCDA Apps panel optionally visible & users can install & update”
- Preshit Deorukhkar: “Massive update to Adobe Creative Cloud on iOS that brings the entire @AdobeFonts / @Typekit Collection to your iPhone or iPad. Dark Mode too.”
Bugs and Security
Expired Package Certificates
- The Apple Packagepocalypse, 2019 Edition… – Robert Hammen
- If an installer says it can’t be verified or was signed with a certificate that has expired – Apple Support
- Taccy 1.5 now validates signatures of apps and Installer packages – Howard Oakley
- Downloading macOS installers with updated signing certificates on macOS Catalina – Rich Trouton
- Time to Die: When Mac app and package certificates expire – brunerd
- Redownload Archived macOS Installers to Address Expired Certificates – Adam Engst, TidBITS
Support and HowTos
- Suppressing the Screen Time pop-up window with a profile on macOS Catalina – Rich Trouton
- What’s this about 10.15 Supplemental Update 2? – Howard Oakley
- How to Mirror Selected Screens in a Multiple Monitor Setup – Adam Engst
- Suppressing the Touch ID pop-up window with a profile on macOS Catalina – Rich Trouton
- Catalina crashes non-notarized command tools with a quarantine flag – Howard Oakley
- AirDrop and quarantine flags – Howard Oakley
- Adobe Package Downloader – Adobe Help (via Patrik Fergus)
- Suppressing the Screen Time pop-up window with a profile on macOS Catalina – Rich Trouton
- macOS Catalina & osquery – Fritz Ifert-Miller, Kolide
- Can I install items both in /Applications and ~/Documents at the same time? – WhiteBox Packages Q&A 09
- macOS Software Update custom catalog URL deprecation – Ben Toms
- Support articles for Catalina, and macOS download links – Howard Oakley
Scripting and Automation
- From AppleScriptObjectiveC to Swift, Part 1 – John C Welch, Part 2
- Rebuilding your macOS Recovery volume or partition with create_macos_recovery – Rich Trouton
- Quicker Port Scanning – Charles Edge
- Adding a JIRA issue collector to Jamf Self Service for user feedback – Bart Reardon
- Remove the macOS Catalina guilt trip from macOS Mojave – Rob Griffiths (very crude way of solving this… but…)
- Configuring Printers Programmatically for AirPrint – AP Orlebeke
- C-MDM Part 2 – Managing Workspace One profiles with Chef using the new v1910 hubcli agent – Erik Gomez
Apple Support
- Use the systemsetup command-line utility on macOS Catalina 10.15 (via Jason Broccardo)
- How to delete your Siri history
- Migrate your Aperture library to the Photos app or Adobe Lightroom Classic
- Intro to federated authentication with Apple Business Manager
Apple Updates
- About iOS 13.2
- About iOS 12.4.3
- About watchOS 6.1
- What’s New in the macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update (19B88)? – Mr. Macintosh
- macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Release Notes
- What’s new in macOS Catalina 10.15.1
- What has changed in the Catalina 10.15.1 update? – Howard Oakley
- Security Updates Mojave 2019–001 (18G1012) & HS 2019–006 (17G9016) – Mr. Macintosh
- About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.1, Security Update 2019–001, and Security Update 2019–006 – Apple Support
- About the security content of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2
- About the security content of watchOS 6.1
- About the security content of Xcode 11.2
- About the security content of tvOS 13.2
Updates and Releases
- PyObjC 6.0
- Munki 3.6.4
- Munki 3.7 Beta 1
- 0xmachos/mOSL Release 3.0.0 Catalina
- Jamf Pro 10.16.1
- Fleetsmith: Custom Apps: Deploy any package file with kernel, TCC whitelisting
- Ceremony Release (aka SplashBuddy 2)
To Listen
Just for Fun
- Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera – Sebastiaan de With, Halide (off-topic, but I found it a very interesting read)
- iOS 13.2 Emoji Changelog – Emojipedia
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