Hard to believe, but Apple software updates this week (except for new beta releases). Instead we got a new MacBook Pro! (And yes, it has a new keyboard—I really hope we can put this behind us now…)
Also Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis! Hope everyone had a great time and safe travels home!
Progress update: my new book “Moving to zsh.” has been sent to the proof readers!
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Headlines
On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- Farewell AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI – Ben Toms
- Sign up for Fleetsmith with an email address – Fleetsmith Blog
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Timo Perfitt: “In prep for the MDS 2 release, I created some new videos and postings for the new MDM service in MDS.” (Thread)
- Patrick Fergus: “If anyone was using a CLI uninstall of an Adobe product, the path to Setup changed, assumedly with CCDA 5”
- Rosyna Keller: “Some fun new stuff with
altool4.0 (Xcode 11.x) is now available.” (Thread)
Jamfnation User Conference
- Jamf launches Jamf Protect – MacTech.com
- New Jamf product portfolio and customers take center stage during JNUC keynote – Haddayr Copley-Woods, Jamf Blog
- IBM: ‘Mac users are happier and more productive’ – Jonny Evans, Computerworld
- How SAP moved 80,000 mobile devices to Jamf Pro – Daniel Weber, Jamf Blog
- Why MDM is fundamental to support Apple at SAP – Haddayr Copley-Woods, Jamf Blog
- Slides from the “MDM: From “Nice to Have” To Necessity” session at Jamf Nation User Conference 2019 – Rich Trouton
- Jamf and AutoPkg: JNUC 2019 Session Links and commands – Graham Pugh
- How Jamf Pro can be scaled to manage hundreds of instances hosted in a hybrid cloud – Mia Harper, Jamf Blog
- dataJAR/jnuc2019: Repo for links from the JNUC 2019 talk “datajar.mobi: A story of Jamf and…”
- Off-boarding in a Modern Deployment – Session Notes, Mischa van der Bent
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- A Guide to Identity Management with Azure Active Directory & Jamf Pro – HCS Technology Group
- Mojave 2019–001 Security Update Causing Data Loss if Interrupted – Mr. Macintosh
- Adobe News Update 2019.11.12 – Darren Wallace
- The Great British Adobe Test – Darren Wallace
- 2019 16″ MacBook Pro Catalina 10.15.1 Supplemental Update (19B2106) – Mr. Macintosh
Scripting and Automation
- Sal Soghoian Reveals macOS’s Hidden Custom Control Panels – Adam Engst, TidBITS
- AutoPkg Input Variables – Anthony Reimer
- Preemptively granting permission to Camera and Microphone in macOS – Babo D
- Tor and Scripting on macOS – Charles Edge
Updates and Releases
- Objective-See: FileMonitor 1.0.0
- OmniWeb test builds
- SAP/macOS-icon-generator: Icons 1.0.3
- carlashley/appleloops 3.1.2
To Listen
- Episode 143: An Evening with the Mule – Mac Admins Podcast
- Episode 144: Protect All The Things, live at JNUC – Mac Admins Podcast
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