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Focus
Running any blog for twenty years is an amazing achievement, let alone one that has had so much positive impact on the MacAdmins community. DerFlounder was one of the inspirations for me to start my own blog, a mere 12.5 years ago. Congratulations, Rich!
News and Opinion
- Level Up Security Knowledge with Jamf 170 – kschuler, Jamf Tech Thoughts
- Old Macs and Activation Lock – Michael Tsai
- Time: a Social Construct? Part 2 – Pam Lefkowitz, Radical Admin Blog, JumpCloud
Security and Privacy
Support and HowTos
- Are macOS updates getting larger? – Howard Oakley
- Downloading installer packages from Jamf Pro when no other options are available – Rich Trouton
- Detecting LLM-Generated Code – Charles Edge
Scripting and Automation
- PowerShell for the Mac Admin, Part 6: Get in. Get out. Quit messing about – Charles Mangin, Radical Admin Blog, JumpCloud
- App Auto-Patch – Rob J. Schroeder
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- swiftDialog 2.2
- MDS5 (Video)
- Addigy’s New MDM Watchdog Utility: How to Resolve MDM Issues with macOS – Addigy
- Setup Your Mac (1.11.0) (Blog post)
To Watch
- XCredsWithAD – Twocanoes, YouTube
- May 2023, MacAdmins Meeting Archived Presentations and Slides Online – Marriott Library, Apple Infrastructure
To Listen
- Peter Borg – Mac Admins Podcast
- Do that Hudu that you do so well — Command-Control-Power
- Bridging the SaaS app security gap on macOS – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- Identity crisis featuring Alec Muffett – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs
Just for Fun
Support
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