Surprise update week! We got a security update for the Apple platforms and the new betas for macOS 13.3 and iOS 16.4
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The security update is overshadowed by a fraction of managed clients booting to recovery during the update, which can be problem to overcome, when you have managed recovery lock.
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📰News and Opinion
- Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS – Brady Eidson and Jen Simmons, WebKit
- First Look: New Emojis in iOS 16.4 – Keith Broni, Emojipedia
- Finding Your Presentation Inspiration – Bill Smith, Jamf Tech Thoughts
🌼macOS Ventura and iOS 16
⚙️macOS and iOS Updates
- macOS Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68)
- Security content of macOS Ventura 13.2.1
- macOS Big Sur 11.7.4 (20G1120)
- iOS 16.3.1
- iPadOS 16.3.1
- watchOS 9.3.1
- Security content of iOS 16.3.1 and iPadOS 16.3.1
- Security content of Safari 16.3 (fixes one of the CVEs fixed in the Ventura 13.2.1 update for Monterey and Big Sur, also note the footnote in the article about the version numbering)
- Xcode 14.3 Beta Developer Release Notes
- Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD software updates
- HomePod Software Version 16.3.2
- What’s new in Shortcuts
- https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-ventura-13-2-1-update-22d68-whats-new/
- Apple has released an urgent security update to Ventura 13.2.1 – Howard Oakley
- Apple issues firmware update for MagSafe 3 charging cable – Andrew Orr, AppleInsider
- macOS 13.2.x and Recovery, A Sad Tale – Robert Hammen
- Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS – Brady Eidson and Jen Simmons, WebKit
- Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.7.4 With Fix for Safari Favorite Icons – Juli Clover, MacRumors
- Apple patches vulnerabilities in MacOS and iOS – Pieter Arntz, Malwarebytes Labs
🦣Social Media
- Brian Stucki: “Right on schedule, the x.3 update of Xcode requires the most recent macOS. (In this case, Ventura.)”
🔨Support and HowTos
- Permissions, SIP and TCC: who’s controlling access? – Howard Oakley
- Tracking Down a SwiftDialog Edge Case Failure Condition – Trevor Sysock
- Hosted Munki integration guide: Why use Munki with an MDM? – SimpleMDM
- Certificate expiration affecting macOS App Store and VPP apps – Rich Trouton
- How to Use Kolide to Patch Vulnerable Macs – Jason Meller, Kolide
- Should apps and command tools be notarized? – Howard Oakley
- Jamf Enrolment Failures, Unexpected Reboots and the Management Account – Neil Martin
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Set Account Pictures via Jamf Connect – Kyle Ericson
- Base64 Encoding and Decoding – Charles Edge
- Get a list of Google Chrome extensions on a Mac (and more on what’s in the manifest.json) – Charles Edge
♻️Updates and Releases
- Baseline v.0.5.1 Beta (Blog post)
- Automaton 2 – Twocanoes Store (Blog post)
- Parallels Desktop Now an Authorized Solution to Use With Windows 11 on Mac With Apple Silicon
- Options for using Windows 11 with Mac computers with Apple M1 and M2 chips – Microsoft Support
- super v3.0-b7
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- What is AI good at with Josh Saxe – Lock and Code, MalwareBytes Labs
- Interview With Ross Matsuda of Sudoade.com & Sys Admin at Ntiva – Command-Control-Power
- MacADUK 2023 in Brighton – Mac Admins Podcast
🎈Just for Fun
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