It wouldn’t be Apple Update week without a supplemental update a week later… We got i[Pad]OS 13.4.1 and a macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental update this week. Time to re-download your installers!
Also in other news, several MacAdmin conferences are reacting to the Coronavirus pandemic. We have cancellations, but also also new approaches to virtual conferences, which is exciting as it opens to audience to a much larger audience.
Stay safe!
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macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
- iPadOS 13.4.1
- iOS 13.4.1
- watchOS 6.2.1
- macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update
- Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update (19E287) Released! – Mr Macintosh
- Apple has released Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update – Howard Oakley
Conference Updates
- Announcing the Futureproof IT Conference – Tom Bridge
- MDOYVR – April’s Monthly Conference News
- 2020 PSU MacAdmins Conference Update
Coronavirus and Remote Work
- Need to Stay in Touch? Try One of These Videoconferencing Apps – HCS Technology Group
- Tips for Setting Up a Comfortable and Effective Home Work Space – HCS Technology Group
- Videoconferencing Options in the Age of Pandemic – Glenn Fleishman, TidBits
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Nathan McNulty: “Re: NYC blocking Zoom” (Thread)
- Mike Lynn: “There’s a lot of stuff in that Platform Security guide. I just learned today we have the 802.11w and WPA3 hardware requirements in there, for instance.”
- Tim Perfitt: “starting a new project tomorrow codenamed SCONE. smart card over network environment. insert a smart card into a reader on one mac and use it to authenticate or sign things on any mac on the network.” (short thread)
- Dana Keeler: “Firefox 75 released yesterday, and with it, you can use client auth certificates from your OS certificate store! Set ”
security.osclientcerts.autoload“ to true inabout:configto try it out! Windows and macOS (Mojave and later)” - Cabel: “Did you know you can share any iCloud Drive file publicly? And if you share an iCloud Drive file with someone else using iCloud Drive, when they hit save, you get their changes automatically? No, you don’t know any of this, because the menu item to do this is ‘Add People’”
Bugs and Security
- How to SSH Properly – Gus Luxton, Gravitational
- Copycat criminals abuse Malwarebytes brand in malvertising campaign – Malwarebytes Labs
Support and HowTos
- FileVault in macOS Catalina: Quiz – Frederick Abeloos
- Learn the basics of managing Macs – Scott Strand, Jamf Blog
- Catalina and Adobe Deployment: 6 Months On – Darren Wallace
- Packages in the Catalina Era – Tom Bridge
- Erasing a FileVault-encrypted T2-equipped Mac – Rich Trouton
- Simplifying Chrome deployments on macOS – Google Cloud Blog (happy to have indirectly contributed)
- Enroll cloud-managed Chrome Browsers – Google Chrome Enterprise Help (via Erik Gomez)
- Where did all that free space go on my APFS disk? – Howard Oakley
Scripting and Automation
- AppleScript action examples – Drafts Community
- Using AppleScript to install macOS software updates via System Preferences – Alan Siu
- Advanced Quoting in Shell Scripts – Scripting OS X
Apple Support
- Spring documentation updates (via Schoun Regan):
- Assemble and adjust your Face Shield (Not a support article I would ever have expected from Apple just a few weeks ago. Background)
To Listen
- Spreading The Love With Watchman Monitoring — Command-Control-Power
- Fleetsmith and askSpoke discuss trending topics in IT
- Futureproof IT – Mac Admins Podcast
Just for Fun
- Dana Sibera: “Flower Power SE/30” (Image)
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