Another slow-ish news week for MacAdmins. At least what we can talk about. 10.15.4 beta 2 (and iOS 13.4. beta 2 and related) dropped this week. As the last few “Spring Updates” this update has new “features” that will affect managed deployments. You should be using your AppleSeed for IT accounts and start testing the impact on your environment.
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MacAdmins on Twitter
- Nathaniel Strauss: “10.15.4 beta 2 includes new kext deprecation notices. Occurs every 30 days even if kexts are MDM approved. File feedback! Apple: We are obsessed with the end user experience Also Apple: Recurring notices about software installed by IT with text you don’t understand. ”
Bugs and Security
- DigiCert’s Position on 1-Year TLS SSL Certificates (via Jason Broccardo)Support and HowTos
- Why privileged commands may never be allowed – Howard Oakley
- MacOS Performance Monitoring: Collection – cmdSecurity
- Backing up a Jamf Pro database hosted in Amazon Web Services’ RDS service to an S3 bucket – Rich Trouton
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