My new book, “Moving to zsh,” is now available in the Apple Books Store!
If you have been reading this newsletter for a while, you know what this book is about, otherwise you can read all the details in my blog post. This is the first of my books that is not targeted specifically at Mac Admins, but is useful to anyone who use the Terminal on the Mac.
Please, spread the word to friends, co-workers, fellow admins, developers, and power-users who you think would benefit from this book. Thank you all for your support.
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- JNUC 2019: For enterprise pros, it’s like the old days of Apple events – Jonny Evans Computerworld
- 7 reasons IBM says every enterprise should support Macs – Jonny Evans, Apple Must
- Why macOS has to change, and how iOS is showing the way – Howard Oakley
- Apple iOS 14: Features, Changes, Testing After iOS 13 Bugs – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Timo Perfitt: “New MacBook Pro 16” in the house!… ” (Thread)
- Tech Girl: “It’s weird jamf sells jamf protect and treats patch like their child they’re pretending doesn’t exist. How many #macadmin pay for jamf also need jamjar/autopkgr/Munki to properly patch & notify users?”
- Victor (groob): “Is there someone at Apple who understands that security updates are not optional and that an enterprise might want to enforce a deadline? Lack of MDM options to make this possible suggests otherwise.” (Thread)
- Carl Ashley: “Things your postinstall scripts are doing that are 100% bad 100% of the time:
cp /tmp/foo.app /Applications/foo.app;chmod 777 /Applications/Foo.app;chown root:admin /Applications/Foo.app” (Thread)
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Suppressing Microsoft AutoUpdate’s new macOS Upgrade alert – Kevin M. Cox
- Reset the macOS printing system through the command line – Babo D
- Moof advice for upgrading to a new macOS – David Acland, moof IT
- Catalina boot-up issues on some older Macs – David Acland, moof IT
- JNUC 2019 – My First Talk – Mark Lamont
- Jamf Connect and LAPS (& Secure Tokens) – Frederick Abeloos
- Remember Me? Duo & Apple Safari 13.0.3 – Richard Glaser, Marriott Library
Scripting and Automation
- How to use Jamf Helper in Jamf Pro – HCS Technology Group
- Taking charge of those xips — Erica Sadun (note: quickpkg can create a pkg from an Xcode xip)
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- Munki 4.0 Release Candidate 1
- DropDMG 3.5.9
- Identity Manager – Twocanoes Software (Interesting tool, though the name is misleading)
- Jamf Pro 10.17 Release Notes
To Watch
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