The news this week has certainly been… well… captivating on many levels.
Yesterday, Apple also dropped iOS 14.2 (and siblings) and a “macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update.” (I had hoped we were done with these.) Also, a “release candidate” for macOS Big Sur 11.0.1.
Next week, is the long anticipated third Apple Event this Fall, where everybody is expecting the first Apple Silicon Macs to be introduced and a macOS Big Sur release date to be announced. Whatever your process to prepare for a major macOS release is, I hope you are ready!
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Headlines
News and Opinion
- Is Apple Building Its Own Search Engine? – Josh Centers, Adam Engst, TidBITS
- Data privacy: ‘Accept cookies’ banners are undermining it – Fortune
- Apple to Start Intel Breakup Next Week With New Mac Laptops – Mark Gurman, Debbie Wu, Bloomberg
macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon
- Preparing for a new OS release – Darren Wallace, dataJAR
- The Mac Admins’ Guide to Apple Silicon – Kandji Blog
- Using installinstallmacos.py to get beta installers – Alan Siu
- What’s New in macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Beta 2 Release Candidate? – Mr Macintosh
- Waiting for the macOS Big Sur installer to launch – Balmes Pavlov
macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 14 Updates
- iOS 14.2
- iPadOS 14.2
- watchOS 7.1
- About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update, macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update
- Apple security updates
- Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update (19H15) Released! – Mr Macintosh
- Apple has released Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update – Howard Oakley
- Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 14.2 with New Emoji, Wallpapers, AirPlay 2 Interface, AR Face Detection, and Shazam Toggle for Control Center – Alex Guyot, MacStories
Coronavirus and Remote Work
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Patrick Fergus: “Did you know (an Adobe Admin Console package of) Acrobat won’t install while Safari is running? Has anyone mentioned to the Acrobat team the reason blocking on Safari is because of the Acrobat NPAPI browser plugin Safari hasn’t loaded in a few years?”
- Tim Perfitt: “I have been working with CryptoTokenKit’s persistent tokens on iOS 14.2 and something we have been hoping for for a long time on iOS. An app can vend a identity (private key + certificate) that can be consumed by other apps AND iOS itself.” (Thread)
Bugs and Security
- HP printer issue on Mac: What happened? – Thomas Reed, Malwarebytes Labs
- Developer ID certificate revocation – Jeff Johnson
Support and HowTos
- Uninstalling Adobe Apps Using a Shell Command and Jamf Pro – Anthony Reimer
- Yes, you can have bootable backups on macOS Big Sur – Mike Bombich
- Extension attributes for Jamf Protect – Rich Trouton
- Adobe 2021 Release – Darren Wallace, dataJAR
- Deploying Lightspeed Relay with Jamf Pro – Nathaniel Strauss
Scripting and Automation
- Auditing installed chrome extensions – Ewan Colyer
- bash Builtins – Julia Evans, Wizard Zines
- New Projects: jpt and shui, Now Available – brunerd
- jpt: jamf examples – brunerd
Apple Support
- Get Apple One
- What happens to your iCloud storage plan when you sign up for Apple One
- Availability of Apple Media Services
- If you subscribe to Apple One and use a different Apple ID for iCloud storage
- See or cancel your subscriptions
- About the magnets inside iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and MagSafe accessories
Updates and Releases
To Listen
- Remotely Supporting The Platform – Mac Admins Podcast
- Munki and Autopkg best friends with SimpleMDM – MacDevOpsYVR
- Demand Throttle = Hide The Button — Command-Control-Power
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