On Scripting OS X

• Update 1.4 for ‘Packaging for Apple Adminstrators’

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

Quiet week in the build-up for WWDC, both here on Scripting OS X and other places. Safe traveling and lots of fun to those going to San Jose! More news next week!

WWDC

• The unofficial WWDC app for macOS
• The official WWDC app for iOS
• WWDC – Apple Developer
• What’s New in Device Configuration, Deployment, and Management
• What’s new in Apple File System (Friday, 9:00AM PDT)

News and Opinion

• File radars early and often: The importance of bug reporting
• High Sierra and my open source tools · graham gilbert
• WebKit: Intelligent Tracking Prevention
• What is New in macOS 10.13
• Apple Drops 2TB iCloud Storage Price to $9.99, Eliminates 1TB Option
• Macs Able to Run macOS Sierra Remain Compatible With High Sierra
• List of iOS 11 Compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Models
• WWDC Roundup: All the Little Things
• The Talk Show: Ep. 193, Live From WWDC 2017

Updates and Releases

• Munki 3.0 Official Release
• MunkiAdmin 1.5.0
• Yo 2.0.0: Kurt Russell’s Hair in Big Trouble in Little China
• Anka Public Beta – Build macOS private cloud for development

Support and HowTos

• Bash Completion For Pandoc Is Built In
• Augmenting defaults domain settings within Apps
• Technical Note TN2124: Mac OS X Debugging Magic
• Technical Note TN2239: iOS Debugging Magic
• MDM Configuration Profile variable Reference

To Listen

• Mac Admins Podcast – Episode 39: WWDC Discussion Live Show from MacDevOps YVR

Quiet week in the build-up for WWDC, both here on Scripting OS X and other places. Safe traveling and lots of fun to those going to San Jose! More news next week!

Conferences

• The unofficial WWDC app for macOS
• The official WWDC app for iOS

Updates and Releases

• Release Munki 3.0 Release Candidate 1
• Swift Playgrounds expands coding education to robots

Support and HowTos

• Creating Jamf Pro QuickAdd installer packages which do not install the Jamf Pro management user account
• dock-maintainer: Manages dock for a specified account
• Resolving Modern Mac Alias Files
• Setting your arbitrary computer naming convention during DEP enrollment
• A Little Shell Will Fix It

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

On Scripting OS X

• Relocatable Package Installers and quickpkg Update

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

Updates and Releases

• Screens 4 for macOS (Mac AppStore, also for iOS)
• Munki 3 Beta 10
• Jamf Pro/Casper Suite v9.99.0
• 1Password: Introducing Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

Posts and Opinion

• How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game

Support and HowTos

• Application blacklisting using management profiles
• pref-finder
• PyObjC Type Conversion

To Listen

• Mac Admins Podcast Episode 37: F/OSS MDMs with Victor Vrantchan and Jesse Peterson

On Scripting OS X

• Tab Completion for autopkg

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

Updates and Releases

• macOS Sierra 10.12.5 plus Security updates for El Capitan and Yosemite, iTunes, iCloud for Windows, Safari, iOS 10.3.2 etc…
• New Apple EDU IT page
• Things 3 (Mac, iPhone and iPad)

Posts and Opinion

• The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week’s cyberattack – Microsoft on the Issues
• Windows 10 Creators Update and the Future of Windows
• 8 open source tools for managing macOS
• Announcing JSONFeed

Support and HowTos

• bash completion for autopkg
• Now We Have bash Completion For Munki
• More Tools For Building Tools
• Precache Now Pulls Models From Jamf Pro
• Configuring Proxies and Firewalls for Apple MDM access
• Scripting Instances On Google Cloud From A Mac
• Hello-IT Setup and Deployment

Conferences

• CMD-D|Masters of Automation
• TidBits has kept updating their list of Mac conferences

To Listen

• Mac Admins Podcast: Episode 36: Fleetsmith with Jesse Endahl

On Scripting OS X

• Where PATHs come from
• Typefaces for Coding and Terminal

To support Scripting OS X, consider buying one (or both) of my books. Thank you!

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

Updates and Releases

• FileMaker 16
  • New features
  • FileMaker 16 Makes Apps Faster and More Powerful! – LuminFire
• Windows 10 ’Fall Creators Update"
  • Microsoft reaches beyond Windows with Timeline and Pick Up Where I Left Off
  • Apple is bringing iTunes to the Windows Store
• Visual Studio for Mac
  • Xamarin Live Player (almost) takes the Mac out of iOS development
• Munki 3.0 Beta 7

Posts and Opinion

• Mac Pro: Failure and Future

Support and HowTos

• Is This Bash Command A Builtin?
• The business side of MDM – Do you know your DUNS Number?
• Alyssa Ross on Twitter: “TIL you can hit ⌘I in macOS Terminal and get a handy tree of processes for the current tab. You can even select and kill them from it!”
• Enable Modern Authentication for Office 365
• Create an Offline Installer for Visual Studio for Mac

To Listen

• Mac Admins Podcast Spring Collection! Get your T-Shirt and support the Podcast
• Mac Admins Podcast Episode 35: Into the Past with Chip Pearson

We had vacation last week, so summary is a bit late!

On Scripting OS X

• Configuring bash with aliases and functions
• Listen to me on the MacAdmins Podcast
• MacSysAdmin 2017 Conference Open for Registration

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

News and Opinion

• Take Control Books Acquired by Joe Kissell
• Techno Bits vol. 100: On Complexity
• Damage
• Indie dev in the age of App Store
• The macOS Phishing Easy Button: AppleScript Dangers
• Handbrake Mirror Download Server Compromised
• Handbrake Hacked

Conferences

• MacDeployment
• MacSysAdmin 2017
• Jamf Opens Registration for 2017 Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC)
• also: JNUC 2017 Call for Presenter Proposals and Ideas

Support and HowTos

• Pepijn Bruienne on Twitter: “Attention #Apple #MDM developers or those thinking about developing for it – Apple has made getting an MDM signing cert a lot easier.”
• Using base64 encoding to include binary files inside scripts | Der Flounder
• C64 Bash login in OS X – RetroGamesUltra

To Listen

• Episode 33: Armin Briegel – MacAdmins.org Podcast
• Episode 34: Munki + Centrify with Peter Havens – MacAdmins.org Podcast

It is vacation time here on Scripting OS X. Updates will be sporadic…

On Scripting OS X

• On bash Environment Variables

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• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

Posts and Opinion

• Automated git clones from private repos
• Macintosh Collection Hand-Screenshotted… Plus: HyperCard! – Internet Archive Blogs
• Custom DEP – Part 6: Vendor Announcement and Presentation
• Getting Started with InstallApplication, DEPNotify and SimpleMDM
• Using mdmclient on macOS
• Packaging guidelines for macOS
• Create custom packages in the Enterprise console

Support and HowTos

• Why read/write permissions go awry with macOS File Sharing | Macworld

To Listen

• Daring Fireball: The Talk Show: Apple VP Lisa Jackson
• Introducing Download – Six Colors

MacAdmins Slack passed 10k users! Congratulations to everyone who has made this possible. This is such a wonderful community. (If you are not yet a member, go join now!)

On Scripting OS X

• Some Useful AutoPkg Processors

To support Scripting OS X, consider buying one (or both) of my books. Thank you!

• ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

If you have already bought and read the books, please leave a review on the iBooks Store. Reviews are important to help new potential readers make the purchase decision. Thank you (again)!

Updates and Releases

• Apple Makes iMovie, GarageBand, and iWork Apps for Mac and iOS Free for All Users
• Introducing Anka – Veertu – Build macOS private cloud for development

Posts and Opinion

• Back to My Mac (Pro)
• The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design culture of “No”
• Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive
• Jamf AND not Jamf OR
• Getting Your Devices and Data Over the U.S. Border

Support and HowTos

• Error or crash while creating packages with Creative Cloud Desktop app installed
• Shell Scripts Matter
• One-liner To Grab Which macOS Caching Server You’re Using
• Office 2016 DefaultsToLocalOpenSave setting change as of Office 2016 15.33.x
• Chrome and Firefox Phishing Attack Uses Domains Identical to Known Safe Sites

To Listen

• Introducing AppStories

To Watch

• jamf + AutoPKG + Munki
• Lost in Translation’
• Munki and Patch – A Comparison | macmule

Happy Easter Week-end, everyone!

On Scripting OS X

• Terminal Keys and Commands Reference
• About bash_profile and bashrc on macOS
• New Book: ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators’
• Other Book: ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’

Updates and Releases

• Clips 1.0
• Windows 10 Creators Update: What’s new in Bash/WSL & Windows Console – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
• br1sk: A macOS app for submitting radars
• BETA: Things 3 beta
• BETA: Munki 3.0 Beta 4

Posts and Opinion

• Electron is flash for the desktop
• The Mac Is Turning into Apple’s Achilles’ Heel (Note: I don’t agree with this post, but it is interesting…)
• Theft and Loss Recovery for iOS Users

Other News

• Trial by Fiery
• Use macOS VMs in VMware Fusion in retina mode
• Expanding partition size in an ESXi-hosted macOS VM
• Making sense of NSOSStatusErrorDomain:–67846
• APFS Disk Roles
• GitHub: Private emails, now more private
• Office 2016 admin candy
• Identifying which Active Directory account is logged into Enterprise Connect
• Changes to manually installed certificate profiles in iOS 10.3

To Listen

• MacAdmins.org Podcast: Episode 31: So That’s Why We Have Slack, with Caleb Coy