Last news summary before WWDC. Next week should be very interesting…
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WWDC 2020
- Osborning The Mac. Or Not – Jean-Louis Gassée
- Re-engine, Not Re-imagine – Brendan Shanks
- Apple Developer for macOS (Finally!)
- 1-on–1 Developer Labs – Apple Developer
- How to test your app on beta software – Apple Developer
- How to Report Bugs to Apple So They Get Fixed – David Shayer, TidBITS
- Getting ready for WWDC Part II – test early, test often – Harald Monihart (LinkedIn)
- Welcome to WWDC by Sundell & Friends
- macOS 16 — What the Mac Needs Next! – Rene Ritchie
- Paul Hudson: “The new Apple developer forums are live ahead of WWDC! This looks like a massive improvement, and I look forward to using them. Remember, during WWDC lots of Apple engineers will be posting there, so take some time to get familiar with them now: developer.apple.com/forums/”
- Apple Events app for tvOS migrates to TV app, adds support for 4K streams – Filipe Espósito 9to5Mac
macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
News and Opinion
- Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump – Craig Mod
- Last Week on My Mac: Console, the vital tool that Apple abandoned – Howard Oakley
- Apple Rolls Out Two Professional Mac Upgrades Before WWDC – Josh Centers, TidBITS
- Adobe Flash Player End of Life (
:dancing:) - Announcing: Munki powered by SimpleMDM
- HEY Rejected From the App Store – Michael Tsai
Coronavirus and Remote Work
- Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing – Thomas Haas & Fidel Thomet (great visualization)
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Tom Bridge: “So I know it’s Friday afternoon, and Fridays are supposed to be awesome, but today feels like the opposite of that.” (Thread)
- Arek Dreyer: “Really happy to see these entries updated in the Apple Style Guide.” (LinkedIn)
- Patrick Fergus: “Time to fire up your browsers. Adobe just updated basically every CC 2020 application.”
- Erik Gomez: “After some convos at @MacDevOpsYVR spurred by @tvsutton ’s Python talk, I took some time today to try and flesh out github.com/macadmins/python I’ve put up the build tools, the requirement files, 4 frameworks and 4 unsigned packages. Would love feedback.”
- Rogue Amoeba: “We’ve spoken out about problems with Apple’s App Stores before. Public pressure has led to change. Now, the EU has opened antitrust investigations against Apple, while Basecamp is publicly fighting back against shakedown tactics from Apple.” (Thread)
MacAdmins 2020 Campfire Sessions
- William Smith: “Next #psumac Campfire session on June 30, @mrexchange, @Schwieb, @jeffreykalvass and more from Microsoft representing Office, OneDrive, Remote Desktop, Defender ATP and Teams are answering your questions! Register here Ask a question here”
MacDevOps YVR
- MacDevOpsYVR 2020 – YouTube
- MacDevOpsYVR 2020 “Shipping Python to Mac Clients in 2020” Session Links – Tim Sutton
Bugs and Security
- Google Chrome Has MacBook Problems, Apple Silent – Gordon Kelly, Forbes
- usnistgov/macos_security: macOS Security Compliance Project (updated for 10.15)
- macOS security published by NIST – set and define baseline security controls – Zentral Pro Services
Support and HowTos
- Allowing external boot drives for T2-equipped Macs – Rich Trouton
- EFI System Partitions: a hidden problem? – Howard Oakley
- Quick Notes on Munki powered by SimpleMDM (…and how this works along Zentral open-source)
- Munki and Jamf School – Patrick van Nerum
- If your VMWare guest macOS loses network connectivity – Alan Siu
- SSH User Certificates With Azure AD & Smallstep – Garrett Yamada
- Managing Google Chrome Auto Updates – Babo D’s Corner
Scripting and Automation
- Using Munki to enable sudo for Touch ID – Mike Solin
- Managing Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 Bookmarks with handy Jamf Scripts – Neil Martin
- Using AppleScript’s “Display Dialog” with PowerShell – John C. Welch
- BitBar Lets You Put Anything in Your Mac’s Menu Bar – Josh Centers TidBITS
- How to Deploy SplashBuddy as a PreStage Enrollment Package in Jamf Pro – HCS Technology Group
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
To Listen
- Interview With Richard Wingfield Of Envision Design — Command-Control-Power
- Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast
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