One of those “in between” weeks, where nothing particular happens, but enough to fill a newsletter. As usual, many thanks to everyone who shares their knowledge in a post.
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News and Opinion
macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
Coronavirus and Remote Work
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Adam Codega: “You can place custom Teams video call backgrounds in
~/Library/Application \Support/Microsoft/Teams/Backgrounds/UploadsI imagine an upload GUI button will be coming soon. If you place it manually, Teams displays a broken thumbnail icon because of.DS_Storein the folder.” - Erik Gomez: “How I explained my job today: Imagine managing 80,000 servers, each one a unique node with a very opinionated System Administrator who indirectly and directly tries to break everything you do.”
- Tim Perfitt: “The new T2 Macs had a bit of twist for Winclone. If you are migrating a Boot Camp partition from a non-T2 mac to a T2 Mac, the restored Boot Camp partition doesn’t have the Apple SSD driver need to boot and it blue screens.”
- Carl Ashley: “Python versions 2.7.18, 3.7.7, and 3.8.2 from python.org are now codesigned bugs.python.org/msg366846”
Bugs and Security
- Jamfing for Joy: Attacking macOS in Enterprise – Calum Hall and Luke Roberts, F-Secure Labs
- Analysis of Apple Unified Logs: Quarantine Edition (Entry 1) – Converting Log Archive Files on 10.15 (Catalina) – mac4n6.com
- Analysis of Apple Unified Logs: Quarantine Edition (Entry 2) – sudo make me a sandwich — mac4n6.com
- Analysis of Apple Unified Logs: Quarantine Edition (Entry 3) – Playing in the Sandbox, Enumerating Files and Directories — mac4n6.com
- You’ve Got (0-click) Mail! – ZecOps Blog
- iOS Mail Exploits Serious but Unlikely to Affect Normal Users – Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
- PSA: New Character Bug in Messages Causing iOS Devices to Crash – Juli Clover, MacRumors
Support and HowTos
- Upgrading from ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7.0 via SSH and esxcli – Rich Trouton
- Enabling Safari to successfully connect after changing a self-signed certificate – Rich Trouton
- Use the Graph API to sync a device with Microsoft Intune – François Levaux-Tiffreau
- Add AppleTV to Apple Business Manager for Automated Device Enrollment in Jamf Pro – HCS Technology Group
- Adobe Video Partners Support Collaboration for Teams Working Remotely – Sue Skidmore, Adobe Blog (via Patrick Fergus)
- Adobe Creative Cloud deployment on VDI – Adobe (via Patrick Fergus)
- Challenges with deploying the Adobe Suite on macOS Catalina – Darren Wallace, dataJAR
Scripting and Automation
- Quick Tip: Convert high-efficiency iPhone images to JPEG – Dan Moren, Six Colors
- .ds recipes are dead; long live .ds recipes – Anthony Reimer
- Use Swift Package Manager and Swift’s ArgumentParser to build a Command Line Tool – Scripting OS X
- Using Postman for Jamf Pro API Testing – Part 1: The Basics – Steve Wood
- Using Postman for Jamf Pro API Testing – Part 2: Creating And Updating Policies – Steve Wood
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
To Listen
- SnowHousing with Tom Larkin – Mac Admins Podcast
- Interview With Chad Keith Of Atlas Solutions — Command-Control-Power
- A Conversation with Tim Sutton – MDOPod
- A Chat with Harry Seeber – MDOPod
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Hi, I have a suggestion: if it’s possible using your blogging method, it would be awesome if the links opened in a new tab using the “target=’_blank'” method (dragging from a 10-year old memory, so let’s just say, something like that!). My way of reading your weekly summaries is to open all the links I’m interested in in new tabs, then work through them all. What do you think?
Surprisingly not trivial to add this to the blog, since I assemble this in an external editor in Markdown and push it to this blog and the email list platform separately. Sorry.
In Safari, I use command-click to open a link in a new tab _behind the current tab_. (You can customize this behavior in Preferences > Tabs.) Other browsers will have similar behavior.
Or subscribe to the email list. Links from the email will automatically open in a new tab/window.
That’s fair enough, and yes, I do also right-click-open-in-new-tab *when I remember*. The email idea is also a good one. I normally start at #blog-feed 🙂
Hi Graham,
Why don’t you open them all with the ⌘+click shortcut? That will force opening them in a new tab.
Hi Kornel, yes, I do that. But sometimes I forget. It’s not a big deal.