Category: Weekly News

Mac minis are real and being delivered to customers!

Apple sent out some updates for their Apps, Pages can now publish to Apple Books and iMovie on a new iPad pro can power a large external screen.

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On Scripting OS X

• Mojave Quick Action to Package Apps

News and Opinion

• Dan Frakes Goes to Apple as Mac App Store Editor – John Gruber
• Last Week on My Mac: What firmware version is that? – Howard Oakley
• Slides and Script! From Apple Seeds to Apple Pie & Introducing APOLLO: The Apple Pattern of Life Lazy Output’er — Sarah Edwards
• The Mac Desktop Dilemma – Anthony Reimer
• The 2018 Mac Mini – Marco Arment
• No, Apple’s not locking you out of Linux on Mac with the T2 chip – Rene Ritchie, iMore (Note: Linux is missing the drivers to access the internal drive managed by the T2 System Controller, but it works with external drives.)
• Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Hard Drive Failure Rates – Andy Klein, BackBlaze(via Josh Center, TidBits)
• How to Use the Cloud to Make Video Production Workflows More Efficient – Skip Levens, BackBlaze

MacAdmins on Twitter

• James F: “Here’s a script illustrating how to use the #Jamf Pro API I made for my #jnuc2018 interactive lab ”Getting Started with the Jamf Pro API“”
• Erik Gomez: “To help foster community help, effective today, UMAD and nudge have been moved to my personal GitHub and off the pseudo joke org I made when I developed the tools.”
• mikeymikey: “Take the hint…”
• Brian Stucki: “The documents for the new Mac mini were just released. Includes the Essentials, the Quick Start and the Info Guide. Also includes this picture of the Retina display that Apple should definitely make and sell.”

Bugs and Security

• What is Certificate Transparency? (via Jason Broccardo)
• RIP XProtect and MRT? – Howard Oakley
• Summary of the Apple T2 chip – David Acland, moof IT
• Patrick Gallagher Jr: “If you plan to use JAMFSoftware ’s AD CS option, and need that cert to work with other apps, please upvote”
• macOS 10.14.1 Privacy: What’s fixed and what’s not – Jeff Johnson

Support and HowTos

• Apple IDs, MDM Servers and You! – Darren Wallace
• Fall, spring, and testing VMs – Emily Kausalik
• Munki + MicroMDM = MunkiMDM? – Jon Crain
• Preserving xattr with pkgbuild – Carl Ashley
• Using larger Windows 10 ISOs with Boot Camp Assistant – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
• Using Prey with SimpleMDM to Recover a Stolen Laptop – Tom Bridge
• Help users activate Microsoft Office 365 and configure Outlook in one click – Bill Smith, Jamf Blog

Scripting and Automation

• Jamf The Gathering: A Slack Bot’s Story – Bryson Tyrell

Apple Support

• Configuration Profile Reference (Updated Oct 30 and then again Nov 7)
• Publish your book with Pages

Updates and Releases

• BBEdit 12.5
• DropDMG 3.5.5

To Watch

• Jamf Nation User Conference 2018

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New Mac mini! We finally got a new Mac mini!

Oh, and a new MacBook Air and some iPad Pros, too. iOS 12.1 and macOS Mojave 10.14.1, as well. But seriously, did you see the new Mac mini!?

The new Macs have the T2. Now, the majority of new Mac models and quite likely the majority of Macs units sold have Secure Boot and don’t support traditional deployment workflows any more.

The Mac mini and the new MacBook Air also require Mojave 10.14.1 and will likely have a forked build of Mojave.

If you need to learn about the new installation workflows available with High Sierra and Mojave, you can buy my book: “macOS Installation for Apple Administrators”

Talking about Secure Boot and T2: among all the other new around the new Macs, iPads, macOS 10.14.1 and iOS 12.1, Apple also released a whitepaper on the T2 Chip. If you don’t read anything else this week, read this. (or at at least Rich’s or David’s summaries)

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Apple October Event

• iOS 12.1 brings Group FaceTime and new emoji to iPhone and iPad
• All-new MacBook Air takes flight
• New Mac mini packs a huge punch
• New iPad Pro with all-screen design Is most advanced, powerful iPad ever
• Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

On Scripting OS X

• Include Assets in External macOS Installer Drives

News and Opinion

• Last Week on My Mac: Can you keep a secret? – Howard Oakley
• IBM to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion – Axios
• Jamf adds support for Azure Active Directory on a Mac – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
• 100 Episodes into the MacAdmins Podcast… – Tom Bridge
• The state of Apple in the enterprise in 2018 – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
• A History of Mac mini – Brian Stucki, MacStadium
• Business Licensing for Omni’s iOS Apps – Ken Case, The Omni Group

MacAdmins on Twitter

• Chapin Bryce: “up – cli tool that allows you to manipulate and interact with streams to prototype modification cmds (ie grep, cut, awk). It’s easier to watch the gif then for me to describe in 140 chars” (via Erik Gomez:)
• mikeymikey: “Heads up macadmins – if you have devices in your fleet where people installed 10.14.0 ”not labeled as beta“ build 18A389 aka ”people thought it was GM but it didn’t say GM“, the 10.14.1 update does not upgrade it.”
• mikeymikey: “Hey #macadmins This was published in June. But you should probably look at it again. Soon.”
• Bill Amend:
  “20 years ago I did one of my favorite strips ever. #HappyHalloween… ”

Bugs and Security

• Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data – Howard Oakley
• Kernel RCE caused by buffer overflow in Apple’s ICMP packet-handling code (CVE–2018–4407) – Kevin Backhouse, LGTM (Video)
• T2, FileVault and brute force attack protection – Rich Trouton
• Summary of the Apple T2 chip – David Acland

Support and HowTos

• Mojave’s many software updates – Howard Oakley
• Putting the Pkg in AutoPkg – Anthony Reimer
• Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using? (version 3) – Howard Oakley
• Apple Development Conferences – Charles Edge
• Outlook for Mac adds administrative controls – Microsoft Tech Community (via William Smith)
• Boot to macOS Recovery in VMware Fusion 11 — François Levaux-Tiffreau
• Deploying a Munki repo in five minutes with Terraform – Graham Gilbert
• How to manage Wi-Fi with Terminal commands on OS X – Jesus Vigo, TechRepublic

Scripting and Automation

• Run Workflow on Volume Mount – Mac OS Automation
• Send an Email from Jamf Pro Self Service – Graham Pugh

Apple Support

• Apple T2 Security Chip
• macOS Mojave 10.14.1 Update
• About the security content of macOS Mojave 10.14.1, Security Update 2018–001 High Sierra, Security Update 2018–005 Sierra
• Download macOS Mojave 10.14.1 Update
• Download Security Update 2018–002 (High Sierra)
• Download Security Update 2018–005 (Sierra)
• About iOS 12.1
• About the security content of iOS 12.1
• Product security certifications, validations, and guidance for T2 Firmware (via Tim Perfitt)

To Listen

• Flashcast! – Mac Admins Podcast

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Somewhat delayed summery this week-end again. Quiet week while nearly everybody was at JNUC having fun.

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On Scripting OS X

• Changing a User’s Login Picture

News and Opinion

• New online training available for Jamf Pro subscription customers – Jeremy Dahlen, Jamf Blog
• ScheduleOSUpdate: Hitting a Moving Target – Frank Yang, Fleetsmith Blog

MacAdmins on Twitter

• Julia Evans: “New zine: Oh shit, git! It’s based on ohshitgit.com and it tells you how to get out of git messes. By me and the amazing @ksylor.”

Support and HowTos

• Oracle Java JDK, OpenJDK, Java 11 and macOS – Richt Trouton
• Disable macOS Upgrade Notifications – Graham Pugh
• AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI 1.5.0 – the final major updates – Ben Toms
• The AutoPkg Series – Anthony Reimer
• Blocking minor major macOS upgrades – DAM SAN
• On-Prem Jamf Pro Customers Upgrading to 10.7.x or 10.8.x
• Prepare Windows with Sysprep in a Virtual Machine – Tim Perfitt
• The Ping That Makes a Sound – Mattias Geniar
• Migrate Windows 10 to an External Drive – Tim Perfitt
• No Entry: access controls in Mojave – Howard Oakley

Updates and Releases

• DetectX Swift v1
• Jamf Pro 10.8
• (Also see On-Prem Jamf Pro Customers Upgrading to 10.7.x or 10.8.x )

To Listen

• Episode 100: Live at JNUC with Microsoft and NASA – Mac Admins Podcast

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We have a date for the next Apple Event: Oct 30! And it happens in Brooklyn and has hundreds of Apple logo designs. (Seriously, keep reloading the event page, it’s awesome.)

Will it be iPad Pro? Macs? Both?

Also, Adobe is showing off the new Photoshop for iPad. Some news on the new Adobe CC 2019 affects the Cloud Packaging tool.

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On Scripting OS X

• EraseInstall Application

News and Opinion

• Mojave may make Macs molasses – Howard Oakley

Adobe CC 2019

• How Adobe is bringing “real Photoshop” to the iPad – Dami Lee, The Verge
• Apps not available in Creative Cloud Packager – Adobe Support
• Adobe Creative Cloud 2019, the death of Creative Cloud Packager, Serial Numbers & Device Pool Licensing – Ben Toms
• Update apps to the latest release of Adobe Creative Cloud, Auto-Update – Adobe Support (via Jason Broccardo)

MacAdmins on Twitter

• Steve Yuroff: “Today I find myself wondering why the MDM is not notified when the user approves UAMDM. I have things for the MDM to do once the approval is made… let’s get on it.”
• Adam Langley: “Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla today jointly announced a timeline for the removal of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 from their respective browsers.” (Links in tweet)
• Adam Codega: “@gregneagle built the best way to install/update Mac software @Contains_ENG helps fill Apple’s MDM gaps @rtrouton documents it all and makes some cool utilities @ftiff makes DEP look nice…” (read the thread)
• Brian Stucki:
  “A happy fourth birthday to this little guy today. Old enough to start preschool. But seriously, can’t wait to meet your younger sibling.” (Happy Birthday, Mac mini!)
• William Lam: “FYI – @Apple MacOS Mojave (10.14) is now officially supported on vSphere 6.7u1, 6.7, 6.5u1, 6.5u2 & 6.5”
• Sacrilicious: “In tribute to @Morpheus______ ‘s ‘liberal’ take on pronunciation, I propose we rebrand anything with ctl as a suffix ‘cuddle’, and anything w/suffix ‘util’ as ‘uddle’. e.g. launchctl, ‘launch cuddle’ ‘sysadmin cuddle’ scuddle discuddle fontuddle assetk’shuddle H-duddle”
• Tim Perfitt: “Filed this bug about feedback for bugs. I get the irony.”

Support and HowTos

• Apple stops maintaining its printer compatibility list – Howard Oakley
• Fusion Drives in APFS – Howard Oakley
• Google Packages and Munki – Zack McCauley
• Suppress new OS major version updates with Munki – Rick Heil
• AirPrint or you’re on your own: macOS printing changes – Howard Oakley
• Updating to Mojave? – Victor Vrantchan, MicroMDM
• To bind or not to bind – Yoann Gini

Apple Support

• Printer and scanner drivers for Mac “This list is no longer updated.”

Updates and Releases

• Salute – Twocanoes Software
• prowarehouse-nl/erase-install

To Listen

• Security, Bloomberg, and some MacTech Conference – Mac Admins Podcast

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There seems to be some “conference hangover” this week. Or maybe it was because I was distracted by the Jamf 400 course I attended.

So enjoy the quiet week. If you think I missed anything important, send it to me and I will include it next week!

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News and Opinion

• Busting 7 myths (lies) about Mojave – Howard Oakley
• Wi-Fi Switches from Obscure Protocol Names to Simple Generation Numbers – Glenn Fleischman, TidBITS
• Jamf announces support for new Google Cloud secure LDAP service – Joe Bloom, Jamf

MacSysAdmin

See all the session videos and get the slides on the MacSysAdmin page. (free registration required)

• Mucking about with Mojave – Ben Toms
• Riding Your Next Mac Admin Wave – Tim Sutton
• Getting Started with Amazon Web Services – Rich Trouton
• Imaging is Dead: What Now? – Greg Neagle
• Swift for Apple Admins – Armin Briegel
• Replacing macOS Server – Charles Edge

MacAdmins on Twitter

• Guilherme Rambo:
  “Xcode 10.1 beta 2… ” (Image)

Support and HowTos

• SMS Text Message Login Codes Autofill in iOS 12 and Mojave, But Remain Insecure – Glenn Fleischman, TidBITS
• authorizationdb Defaults in macOS 10.14 – Charles Edge
• How to Use Apple News in Mojave Regardless of Where You Live – Adam Engest, TidBITS
• On DEP, MDM, device identity, and authentication – Jesse Endahl, Fleetsmith
• macOS Mojave & Screen Sharing changes – Ben Toms
• Performing an Erase and Install of Mojave with jamJAR – Daz Wallace
• Building an SAP GUI installer for macOS – Rich Trouton
• Java 8 Update 181 LDAP Changes & Jamf Pro Connectivity – Ben Toms

Scripting and Automation

• Bootstrappr/Installr/Wrappr/Deployr – Jon Crain

Apple Support

• Use the kickstart command-line utility on macOS Mojave 10.14

To Listen

• Mojave, Grace Hopper, iOS 12 and more! – Mac Admins Podcast
• macOS 10.14 And The Privacy Preferences Payload – Jamf After Dark

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This newsletter is a bit late. The excuse for this is that I was attending (and speaking at) MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg all week.

Usually I gather the links to the speakers’ notes and slides. But for MacSysAdmin I don’t need to, because the event team has already gathered all those together with the session videos (!) on their website (free registration required, so worth it). The video team would have the session videos on the site within an hour. This puts them at two or three orders of magnitude faster than other conferences.

You can find the link to my session video, slides and links here. But take time to browse and watch the other sessions. MacSysAdmin has a very impressive list of high quality speakers and it is an honor to be among them.

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On Scripting OS X

• Swift for Apple Admins – Slides and Notes

News and Opinion

• Last Week on My Mac: Successful release – Howard Oakley

MacAdmins on Twitter

• MacDeployment YYC: “Dates for 2019 #MacAdmins & Consultants Conferences announced so far: @macaduk March 26–29 (London) @acesconf June 4–6 (Kansas City) #MacDeploy June 10–11 (Calgary) @MacDevOpsYVR June 12–14 (Vancouver) @psumacconf July 9–12 (State College) #MacSysAdmin Oct. 1–4 (Göteborg)”
• Keir Thomas:
  “Mojave trick. Cmd+plus or cmd+minus (the two keys left of the backspace key) will shrink or enlarge icons on the desktop, or in icon, list and gallery views of Finder.”
• Erik Gomez: “In just three hours, we enrolled more macOS devices than I had at my entire last job. …and they had thousands of macs”
• Chris Espinosa: “On this day 25 years ago, Apple introduced AppleScript, a system and application automation system and language. It’s still shipping in Mojave and is one of the oldest code bases in continual use in macOS. Happy birthday, AppleScript!”

Bugs and Security

• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, Bloomberg
• What Businessweek got wrong about Apple – Apple

Support and HowTos

• MacOS 10.14 Mojave FAQ – BackBlaze help
• macOS 10.14 Mojave doesn’t bring a fresh round of EFI firmware updates – Howard Oakley
• Moving to authchanger with NoMAD Login – Nathaniel Strauss
• Integrating NoMAD and NoLo to Auto Sign In – Nathaniel Strauss
• Hey, So What’s This Mac App Got Access To? – Charles Edge
• MathType formulas shrink after editing and saving them in Microsoft Word – Alan Siu
• Launching apps in Mojave: how it has changed – Howard Oakley
• How To Sign macOS PKGs for Deployment with MDM – SimpleMDM
• Booting the Mac: macOS 10.14 Mojave, and shutdown – Howard Oakley
• Document versions are now preserved by iCloud, unreliably – Howard Oakley

Scripting and Automation

• Mojave Brings In Big Security Changes – Late Night Software
• Small Applescript to Migrate Mac Calendars – Charles Edge
• hdm/mac-ages: MAC address age tracking
• Script Tip: Get the currently logged in user, in Bash – Erik Berglund

Apple Support

• Deprecated: Create a NetBoot, NetInstall, or NetRestore image (via Anthony Reimer)
• macOS Mojave User Guide

Updates and Releases

• NetSUS 5.0
• New version of Taccy extends its coverage of info about apps and privacy – Howard Oakley
• Winclone 7.2.1
• mOSL 2.0 Beta Three: Bash script to audit and fix macOS High Sierra (10.13.x) security settings
• macOS Server 5.7.1
• MacPorts 2.5.4 (Mojave Support)

To Listen

• Decoding IT Jargon with Jack Madden – Mac Admins Podcast

Just for Fun

• Apple brings more than 70 new emoji to iPhone with iOS 12.1
• Today’s Sermon – Neil Martin

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TGIF! How have you survived Mojave week?

This one is a bit shorter, because (a) I already posted a summary with Mojave links earlier this week, and (b) I am getting ready to leave for MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg next week!

Looking forward to meeting everybody else there!

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On Scripting OS X

• Mojave Links
• Mojave Book Updates

News and Opinion

• Microsoft Office For Mac Changes & Versioning Shenanigans – macmule
• MDM Me Maybe: Device Enrollment Program Security – James Barclay, Duo Security

MacAdmins on Twitter

• Stephen Hackett:
  “macOS Mojave has been added to the Aqua Screenshot Library. Both Light and Dark Mode have been catalogued, as has every combo of mode and accent color possible.”
• Carl Ashley:
  “This is why TCC User Consent is rubbish. Launch VMware Fusion Pro 11, get prompted to allow ”osascript“ access. I have NO idea what Fusion wants to do & I don’t know that it’s actually Fusion wanting to do something. Dug into the app, it’s deleting a Login Item.”
• mikeymikey:
  “Ooooo…. that’s new Neat… ” (screenshot)
• Scripting OS X:
  “I really like the new screenshot interface in macOS Mojave. I think it is a great improvement. But decades of habit using ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 are hard to break. Might have to go to the drastic measure of deactivating the old keystrokes.… ”

Bugs and Security

• Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data – Howard Oakley
• Mojave’s security “hardening” User protections could be bypassed – Sentinel One
• Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14: an incomplete summary – Howard Oakley
• Apple has at last pushed an update to XProtect’s security data – Howard Oakley

Support and HowTos

• Managing Google SafeBrowsing in Firefox for Mac – Charles Edge
• Code Signing Scripts for PPPC Whitelisting – Carl Ashley
• Manually Converting Jamf Pro Tables From MyISAM to InnoDB – macmule
• Using Apple’s Built-In Malware Removal Tool (MRT) – Charles Edge
• Quick and Dirty OpenBSM Auditing In macOS – Charles Edge
• 12 Customizations for the Mojave macOS Login Window that you didn’t know about – Tim Perfitt (note: most of these have been working for a long time with older macOS versions)
• TCC: A Quick Primer – Frank Yang, Fleetsmith Blog
• A Service-By-Service Guide For Moving Away From macOS Server – Charles Edge
• It’s time to talk about time (time servers and configuration profiles) – Neil Martin
• Installing MacPorts on MacOS 10.14 Mojave – Chris Knight
• To install macOS Mojave, or not to? | DAM SAN
• How Mojave changes the unified log – Howard Oakley
• A couple one-liners for analyzing Mac app usage – Charles Edge
• What to do when you can’t get an app the right privacy settings in Mojave – Howard Oakley
• TCC Round Up – Carl Ashley

Scripting and Automation

• Automating making bootable macOS installer dmgs – Eric Hemmeter
• Activating Geometer’s Sketchpad in macOS 10.13.6 (and beyond?) – Alan Siu
• MacAdminHelpers/JamfDBConverter (via Graham Pugh)
• How to Dictate iMessages in Multiple Languages from a Widget with Shortcuts – Federico Viticci
• DEP-Notify for Jamf Pro
• Nudge: A tool to help users with pre-existing devices upgrade their OS version.
• Managing Virus Scans With ClamAV – Charles Edge

Apple Support

• Classroom Help
• Fonts included with macOS Mojave

Updates and Releases

• WhiteBox Packages 1.2.4
• Munki 3.4.1
• PyObjC 5.0 is out

To Listen

• Jamf After Dark: Newsflash: Joel Rennich Tells Us All About Jamf Connect
• Kelly Guimont of App Camp For Girls – Mac Admins Podcast

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iOS 12 release week! I already posted a list of relevant links for the iOS updates earlier this week.

Now, all MacAdmins are waiting for Monday, when macOS Mojave will be released. Well, most will alredy have the last version from the beta program installed. But, as with every other major release, it will be ‘interesting’ to see how well the beta testing holds up to ‘real world’ deployment.

Good luck, everybody!

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Headlines

• Jamf Acquires NoMAD, the Leading Solution for Streamlining Mac Authentication and Account Management: Congratulations the NoMAD team!

On Scripting OS X

• iOS 12 Links
• Managing the Desktop Picture on macOS

News and Opinion

• An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop – Steven Levy, Wired
• Because dataJAR, Part Deux – macmule
• Apple introduces new data recovery process for Macs with T2 chip – Jordan Kahn, 9to5Mac

macOS Mojave

• Accessibility, privacy, and fun with Automator – Howard Oakley
• Managing Mojave’s privacy protection: Privacy controls – Howard Oakley

MacAdmins on Twitter

• Arek Dreyer:
  “If you have two different versions of macOS installed on your Mac, guess which version of macOS Recovery you get when you shut down, power on, then press and hold Command-R? The version you set in Startup Disk (regardless of Startup Manager choice).”

Bugs and Security

• Updates to macOS security software data: what has happened? – Howard Oakley
• How XProtect now leaves Safari 12 open to Flash and other exploits – Howard Oakley

Support and HowTos

• Office AutoPkg Recipes – Anthony Reimer
• Updated visual summary of the Mac boot process – Howard Oakley
• How To Use Custom Configuration Profiles With Custom Attributes – SimpleMDM
• Diagnosing a Mac which can’t complete booting – Howard Oakley
• Phantom groups, MySQL queries and Jamf Pro 10.7 – Rich Trouton
• Notes On Google SafeBrowsing And Safari – Charles Edge

Scripting and Automation

• Per Olofsson:
  “TIL: sort –version-sort”
• Uploading large packages (greater than 20GB) to Jamf Cloud – Neil Martin
• New and Updated AppleSupportArticle Recipes – Anthony Reimer
• Force a DEP sync..from your phone! – Zack McCauley

Apple Support

• Mobile device management settings for IT
• Privacy Preferences Policy Control
• Apple File System Reference (via Howard Oakley)

Updates and Releases

• CCC 5.1.5 is ready for macOS Mojave (also, Granting Full Disk Access to CCC)
• Munki v3.4 Release Candidate 1
• Jamf Pro 10.7.1
• Day 1 support for macOS 10.14 Mojave – Fleetsmith

To Listen

• Interview with Dr. Howard Oakley of The Eclectic Light Company — Command-Control-Power
• Rich Trouton and the Tale of TCC – Mac Admins Podcast
• It’s not called Jamf Tomorrow, it’s called Jamf Now – Charles Edge

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