Lots of updates this week: a new app for cloud logins, Munki patch and beta, a tool to ‘Nudge’ users to update or upgrade, an update to Scout, which reads plists, xml and JSON, and Jamf Connect.
Also another minor update for macOS. It is refreshing that Apple now has the third version digit available to distinguish ‘supplemental updates.’ Less refreshing is the fact that even a ‘minor’ update which fixes a single documented issue requires a 2.6GB download and 30 minutes with multiple reboots.
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macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple silicon Macs
macOS and iOS Updates
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Tim Perfitt: “ok, this was unexpected. you can run custom gui apps and command utils on the m1 in 1TR (recovery).” (Thread)
- Greg Neagle: “@tperfitt It should. Bootstrappr works fine on m1 from 1TR/Recovery.”
- Laura Rösler: “After 3 months with macOS Big Sur, almost ¾ of our Mac fleet is on macOS 11.”
Security and Privacy
- Silver Sparrow macOS malware with M1 compatibility – Tony Lambert, Red Canary
- What is the new Silver Sparrow Mac malware? – Yannis Lagogiannis, dataJAR
Support and HowTos
- Integrate Azure AD in Jamf Pro 10.27+ as Cloud Identity Provider – Frederick Abeloos
- Create Email Aliases in Office 365 – Charles Edge
- Mac Admins’ Guide to Content Caching & What’s Changing in macOS Big Sur – Kandji Blog
Scripting and Automation
- Framework/tool to simulate
opin automated testing — Zach Cutlip - The Context And The Logic – Soroush Khanlou
- 24 Quick Xcode Tips – Paul Hudson, Hacking with Swift
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- Credentia – Cloud based identity for macOS done right
- Munki 5.2.2 Official Release (also 5.3 beta 1)
- Nudge 1.0.0
- Scout 3.0.0: what’s new
- Jamf Connect 2.2.2
To Watch
To Listen
- Interview With Ryan Grimes Of My IT Indy – Command-Control-Power
- School Life – Mac Admins Podcast
- It’s Always DNS – MacDevOpsYVR
Just for Fun
- MIT CSAIL: “Today’s the day that “hello world” said “hello world!” The term was coined in a textbook published #otd in 1978: “C Programming Language,” written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.”
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