I am still catching up on WWDC videos and processing all the news. But overall it is looking like the system upgrades for this Fall are going to substantial improvements with regards to managing Apple devices.
We also got a new round oof betas for macOS 13.5 and iOS 16.6 this week.
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macOS Sonoma and iOS 17
- Bastion in defence of Sonoma security – Howard Oakley
- Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta – Thomas Steiner
- Beta to the Max! – Ecco_Luke, Jamf Tech Thoughts
- WWDC 2023 Review Part 1 – Mobile Jon
- Virtualising macOS on Apple silicon Macs: Viable beta 8 – Howard Oakley
- WWDC 2023: Changes Coming to Apple Device Enrollment – Kandji Blog
Social Media
- Ricky Mondello on Hachyderm.io: “The feature that allows you to share passkeys and passwords in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma is not at all limited to families. You can set up shared groups with any collection of close contacts. And you can set up as many groups as you’d like.”
Support and HowTos
- 20 popular open-source tools for MacAdmins – Andrea Pepper, SimpleMDM Blog (via MatX)
- Enabling macOS betas with a Munki NoPkg – Kevin M. Cox
Scripting and Automation
- JAWA Adventures Part 2 – The Geeky Gordo
- m3ir/jamf-connect-unmigration: Unmigrate Jamf connect from a Local user
- AWS VPN diagnostics with a Munki NoPkg – Kevin M. Cox
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- kmfddm v0.3.1
- Escrowing new FileVault keys to MDM without password prompts – Elliot Jordan (GitHub Repo)
- Escrow Buddy: An open-source tool from Netflix for remediation of missing FileVault keys in MDM – Netflix Technology Blog
- Jamf Pro 10.47
- App Installers Now Deploy to Self Service – Haddayr Copley-Woods, Jamf Blog
- Mist 0.8.1
To Watch
To Listen
- Mat Pullen and Suraj Mohandas – Jamf After Dark
- My Precious – Command-Control-Power
- TC Niedzialkowski on CISOs and MacAdmins – Mac Admins Podcast
- Declarative MDO with Joel Rennich – MacDevOpsYVR
- Special Edition: WWDC 2023 – Jamf After Dark
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