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Even though many in the US have a few days off, we still have plenty of news to report. My post on ‘JavaScript for Automation’ from last week is generating a lot of great responses, Apple is suing NSO Group, people are figuring out the cause of some of the memory leaks in Monterey, and we get a refresh on the ‘Awesome MacAdmin Tools List.’
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📰News and Opinion
🐟macOS 12 Monterey and iOS 15
- How to install macOS 12 (Monterey) as a VMware Fusion guest VM – Alan Siu
- More memory leaks in Monterey 12.0.1: how to avoid them – Howard Oakley
- Erase All Contents and Settings: prepare your Mac for disposal and more – Howard Oakley
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- Victor (groob): “macOS 12.1 brings EACS = all I ever wanted. Thanks to the Apple folks who listened to this request. EraseDevice now loops into AutoAdvanceSetup via MDM.”
- Jeremy Reichman: “When the installer says, “about a second remaining” for a minute or more, is it safe to assume it finished “first remaining” already and then went on to longer and more involved “second remaining,” perhaps with an option for more remainings, should additional ones seem necessary?”
🔐Security and Privacy
- Defeating Malicious Launch Persistence – 4n7m4n, Medium
- Beyond the good ol’ LaunchAgents – 22 – LoginHook and LogoutHook – Csaba Fitzl
- About Apple threat notifications and protecting against state-sponsored attacks – Apple Support (via Tim Perfitt)
🔨Support and HowTos
- How and Why to Set up Single Sign-on with SAML – Kandji Blog
- Xcode’s Environmental Pollution – Daniel Jalkut (via Ed Marczak)
- Awesome Mac admins tools 2021 refresh – Emily Kausalik
- How Can I Find Passwords That Have Been Stored in the macOS Keychain? – moof IT (Power User Shortcut)
- If your Xsan volume isn’t mounting automatically – Eric Hemmeter
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Stop putting Jamf Pro API Credentials on Clients – macnotes
- The Curious Case of Apple’s Missing App Integrations for Shortcuts – Federico Viticci, MacStories
- Parse Jamf Pro API JSON data in Shell Scripts – macnotes
- Create and resolve a Finder Alias with JXA – Pico (MacAdmins Slack)
- How to work with JSON API data in macOS shell scripts without external dependencies – Paul Galow
- eth-siplab/SVG2Keynote-gui: SVG2Keynote is a macOS tool to convert Scalable Vector Graphics to Apple Keynote documents
♻️Updates and Releases
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- A Link Of Confusion In The Chain Of Trust — Command-Control-Power
- On Jamf Cloud With Todd Ebersviller – Jamf After Dark
- PC vs Mac at work, emerging trends with MDM, and more – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- The Internet is not safe enough for women, and Sue Krautbauer has some ideas about why – Lock and Code S02E22, Malwarebytes Labs
- dataJAR’s New Product Focus – Mac Admins Podcast
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