Things are calming down with the upcoming summer. We did get a series of new betas for macOS Ventura and iOS 16 this week.
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In personal news, Covid has finally caught up with me after dodging it for more than two years. My symptoms are mild, thanks to being vaccinated, but I couldn’t attend and present at the Jamf Nation Live event in Munich, something I had been looking forward to very much. Many thanks to Mischa and Rob who jumped in and covered my sessions and all the other Jamf co-workers in Munich. Maybe next year…
If I can’t present in person, I will present remotely. Next week, June 30, I will remotely present on Patch Management at the MacAdminsUA meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine!
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News and Opinion
- For Your Consideration: iPad as Primary Work Device – Caleb Basinger, Kandji Blog
- Apple’s Feedback Mechanism is Broken – Casey Liss
- Mail Merge returns to Pages after nine years – Dan Moren, Six Colors
- MacDevOps YVR 2022 Roundup – MacStadium Blog
- How Mac Admins is boosting Apple training efforts – Billy Hurley, IT Brew
macOS Ventura and iOS 16
- Apple MDM: What’s New with macOS Ventura and iOS 16 Updates? – Tom Bridge, JumpCloud
- macOS Ventura Beta 2 (22A5286j) is Live! What’s New? – Mr. Macintosh
- Verify Apple devices with no installed software – Kenny Johnson, Cloudflare Blog
Social Media
- Thomas Larking (LinkedIn): “This week my team and I released Munki to our entire fleet. We took our time to build it right and I wanted to share some quick thoughts about skill and background diversity on my team…”
- Salajander: “
hdiutil,hidutil, andhiutilare all valid commands on macOS.” - Anthony Reimer: “I’ve updated my Mac Obsolescence Chart with the upcoming MacBook Pro and Air models, plus I’ve marked the models for which Monterey will be their terminal OS.”
Support and HowTos
- What is Apple Business Manager? – SimpleMDM
- Mind Maps and Other Ideation Tools – Pam Lefkowitz, JumpCloud
Scripting and Automation
- Export Objects from Keychain – Charles Edge
- Bearer Token Authorization Recipe – Jamf API Documentation
- New Kandji Connector with Okta Workflows Enables No-Code Automations – Kandji Blog
Apple Support
- Pages 12.1: Mac, iOS, iCloud
- Keynote 12.1: Mac, iOS, iCloud (no update notes for iCloud yet)
- Numbers 12.1: Mac, iOS, iCloud
- Apple Business Essentials release notes
To Watch
- Mac Admins Foundation PSU MacAdmins Campfire Session video now available – MacAdmins.org
- Visual Studio Code for Mac Admins: MDOYVR22 – James Smith
- MDOYVR 22 Talk: The Encyclopedia of macOS Automation – Scripting OS X
- The Mac Admins Foundation – Apple@Work, 9to5Mac
To Listen
- Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Results – Command-Control-Power
- Solve it like an admin. Why it’s important to ask ‘why’? – Reaktor
- Summertime in the world of P-12 – Mac Admins Podcast
- Securing the software supply chain, with Kim Lewandowski – Lock and Code S03E13, Malwarebytes Labs
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