Some great posts from fellow MacAdmins this week. New betas for iOS 14 and iOS 13.7(!) dropped, but none for macOS so far.
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News and Opinion
- The Future of Ops Jobs – Charity Majors, A Cloud Guru (via Mat X)
- Last Week on My Mac: Where privacy protection fails – Howard Oakley
- Will Apple End-of-Life (EOL) Fleetsmith? – Cassa Niedringhaus, Jumpcloud Blog
- Making friends with your security team – Graham Gilbert
macOS 11 Big Sur and iOS 14
MacAdmins on Twitter
- William Smith: “Outlook for Mac 16.38 can let users try New Outlook. MacAdmins can manage this preference: Domain: com.microsoft.Outlook Key: EnableNewOutlook Values (integer): 0 = Switch hidden (default) 1 = Switch displayed, off 2 = Switch displayed, on 3 = Enabled, switch hidden”
- mikeymikey: “If you’re not a full Screen aficionado – you may have seen that hovering over the zoom control gives you options you don’t care for – but did you know those options change to non-full screen windowed choices if you hold down Option?”
- tlark: “The thing that kills me the most about TCC/PPPC is there is no real clear documentation on how to properly implement it. You stream logs, run things and play a game of whack-a-mole. I am all about increased security posture, but come on Apple, help us configure it.”
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- Forced to use Zsh by macOS? Let’s fix our “history” command first – Rand Grey
- From Camera to the Clouds: the very real story of Hedge and Postlab – DAM SAN
- Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main – Shawn Swyx Wang, DEV
- USB 3, USB 4, Thunderbolt, & USB-C — everything you need to know – Malcolm Owen, Appleinsider
- Building and notarizing command tools as Universal binaries – Howard Oakley
- Update on ESXi on Apple Mac Mini 2018 & Mac Pro 2019 – William Lam, Virtually Ghetto
- Migrating macOS Devices from one Jamf Pro instance to another using ReEnroller – Part 1: Setup – Darren Wallace
- How notarization works – Howard Oakley
Scripting and Automation
- Running a Command as another User – Scripting OS X
- Running daily, weekly, and monthly scripts in macOS using periodic – Alan Siu
Updates and Releases
- AutoPkg 2.2
- Apparency: new app from Mothers Ruin that inspects apps. Instant add to my toolbox.
To Listen
- The Thermal Envelope and Device Enrollment – Mac Admins Podcast
- Two Beacons In A Box — Command-Control-Power
- What’s new with device management in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur? – Apple @ Work, 9to5Mac
- Monitoring the safety of parental monitoring apps with Emory Roane – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs
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