Update week, part 1! iOS 13.5 and siblings have arrived. macOS Catalina 10.15.5 GM was released to seed and beta testers, so probably next week?
I will be talking at the “Virtuele Macbeheerders bijeenkomst” (Virtual MacAdmins Meeting, which you probably could have guessed) about Installomator next week. Warning: other than mine, all sessions will be in Dutch, but they sound very interesting.
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📰News and Opinion
- It’s A Trap! – John C. Welch
- Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 – Tom Warren, The Verge
- Windows Terminal 1.0 – Kayla Cinnamon, Windows Command Line
- Jamf Protect adds malware prevention and unified log forwarding – Matthias Wollnik, Jamf blog
⚙️macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
- iOS 13.5 (and 12.4.7)
- iPadOS 13.5
- watchOS 6.2.5 ( and 5.3.7)
- Xcode 11.5: Mac App Store, Developer
🦠Coronavirus and Remote Work
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Mactroll: “A heavily contrived, but still fun, example of using a Managed Apple ID with a Single Sign on Extension. A story in a few parts, but first the video…” (Video, thread)
- Mactroll: “More SSO Extension fun! This time signing into an O365 application, Powerpoint, and activating the subscription.” (video, thread)
- William Smith: “MacAdmins, support for Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac ends October 13, 2020 (five months). Plan to move to a Microsoft 365 subscription for your organization or upgrade your volume license to Office 2019. Announcement from December 2019”
- Patrick Fergus: “Support for 27 languages in Outlook for iOS being removed at the end of June 2020. Office 365 Message center MC213632.”
- Jeff Johnson: “This is an interesting chart. 10.15 adoption seems to be significantly lower than 10.14 or 10.13.” (Chart, thread)
🐞Bugs and Security
- How Offensive Actors Use AppleScript For Attacking macOS – Phil Stokes, SentinelOne
- The Dacls RAT …now on macOS! – Patrick Wardle, Objective-See’s Blog
- Analysis of Apple Unified Logs: Quarantine Edition (Entry 8) – Man! What a process!? — mac4n6.com
🔨Support and HowTos
- Disable Automatic Software Update Downloads – Charles Edge
- Octory – The mac admins Swiss Army knife, episode IV – Mark Lamont
- Jamf Connect with ADFS Federation and AllowCloudPasswordValidation – Frederick Abeloos
- Inject AppleSSD driver in Winclone 8.2 – Twocanoes Software
- Slides from the “SAP In The Haus” session at Futureproof IT 2020 – Rich Trouton
- Timing in SSH – Dr. Drang
- T2 Macs don’t count as external boot media – Alan Siu
- How come someone notarized my app? – Howard Oakley
🤖Scripting and Automation
🍏Apple Support
- Using Bootstrap Token (updated, via Arek Dryer)
- When a user sets up a Mac on their own (updated, via Arek Dryer)
- When a Mac is provisioned by an organization (updated, via Arek Dryer)
♻️Updates and Releases
- mdoyle1/quicklook: An iOS app for Jamf Pro Cloud Server
- AutoPkg 2.1
- Munki 5.0 Release Candidate 1
- Gate: secure enclave token management (Twitter thread, video)
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- Of Rubber Chickens with Bill Smith – Mac Admins Podcast
- Command Control Power “Almost Live” at ACEs 2020 — Command-Control-Power
🎈Just for Fun
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