The week after WWDC: time for opinion and reaction pieces. And time to dig into the betas and find the first bugs and annoying changes.
But Apple hasn’t forgotten the Catalina/iOS 13 updates either. We got new betas for 10.15.6 and iOS 13.6.
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👩🏽💻WWDC Reactions
- macOS 11 – Scripting OS X
- WWDC20: What’s new in managing Apple devices – Victor Vrantchan, MicroMDM
- Last Week on My Mac: More pieces in Apple’s jigsaw puzzle – Howard Oakley
- macOS Big Sur: 9 Big Surprises for Enterprise Security – Phil Stokes, SentinelOne
- Apple Is Pulling Away From the Competition – Neil Cybart, Above Avalon
- Device Management Updates from WWDC 2020: What Mac Admins Need to Know – Kandji Blog
- New MDM Features Coming in macOS 11 Big Sur & iOS 14 – SimpleMDM (updated)
📰News and Opinion
- Fleetsmith customers unhappy with loss of third-party app support after Apple acquisition – Ron Miller, TechCrunch
- Dev Log: My first status update on v2 – Victor Vrantchan, MicroMDM
- Apple device management firm Jamf files for $100 million IPO – Mike Peterson, Appleinsider
🌅 macOS 11 Big Sur and iOS 14
- macOS Big Sur Beta 1: Standard user cannot add or approve apps for Screen Recording – Apple Developer Forums (via Patrick Fergus)
- Installing the macOS Big Sur beta on a new partition – Marc Aupont, Lickability
- Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 109 with Safari 14 Features – Job Davis, WebKit
- APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS, and more – Howard Oakley
- Big Sur Beta 1 & Jamf Pro = Enrollment Problems + Workaround – Mr Macintosh
- Application Compatibility Table – RoaringApps (Updated for Big Sur)
- Getting Ready for Big Sur – Twocanoes Software
⚙️macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- robb: “Because SF Symbols are characters in the Private Use Area, they render just fine in your Terminal”
- Steve Troughton-Smith: “Now that in-app purchase is available to Family Sharing, there aren’t many reasons at all to use a paid-up-front model (asides enterprise & education distribution). You can also effectively do free trials & paid upgrades w/ IAP. Definitely going to transition all my apps to it”
- Victor (groob): “I see a lot of macadmins asking Apple to allow enabling screen recording via MDM. I get it, it’s a burden for helpdesk to explain approving Zoom to all your users. But when your manager asks you to spy on your WFH co-workers, how will you respond?” (thread, link)
- Rico Becker: “Apple has restricted access to
~/Library/Containers/in Finder on macOS Big Sur. It’s only showing one folder in my case. In Terminal I can see that everything is still there. Any way to reactive the normal behavior?” - Carl Ashley: “Munki life hack: Use admin notes in your pkginfo to store either human or machine readable comments indicating if a package has passed OS compatibility testing coughBig Surcough.”
🐞Bugs and Security
- AirDrop Forensics 2 – Kinga Kieczkowska
- Leveraging CIS benchmarking on the Mac with Jamf Protect – Yannis Lagogiannis, dataJAR
- New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy – Thomas Reed, Malwarebytes Labs
- OSX.EvilQuest Uncovered – Patrick Wardle, Objective-See
🔨Support and HowTos
- What is Mobile Device Management (MDM)? – Yannis Lagogiannis, dataJAR
- Update on ESXi on Apple Mac Mini 2018 & Mac Pro 2019 – William Lam
- macOS 11 and Semantic Versioning – Babo D’s Corner
- What’s in a number: how Big Sur could break code – Howard Oakley
- Recommendations and Practices for Content Caching – HCS Technology Group
- This iPhone is supervised and managed by … Learn more about device supervision…on a personal iPhone? – Babo D’s Corner
🤖Scripting and Automation
- grahampugh/jamf-upload: Scripts for uploading packages to Jamf Cloud
- maxgoedjen/secretive: Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
- create_macos_vm_install_dmg updated for macOS Big Sur installer disk images– Rich Trouton
- Discovering non-native macOS Applications – Bart Reardon
- Python script to list software available in a Munki repo – Alan Siu
- PatchBot – Zero-Touch Packaging and Patch Management – Tony Williams
🎧To Listen
- You Have 60 Seconds to Comply – Mac Admins Podcast
- Leaving A Trail Of COVID Behind Me — Command-Control-Power
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