These are the notes and links for my session at MacADUK 2019.
- Presentation Video:Modern Deployment Workflows for Business
You can find this video and the other recorded presentations in the MacADUK 2019 playlist on YouTube.
Employee Choice Program
macOS “Eulogies”
- Imaging is Dead… Long Live the Installer!
- NetInstall is Dead, too
- And now Server.app, too!
- macOS 10.13.4 Spring Update for Mac Admins
- macOS Installation: Strange New World
T2 System Controller and Security
(User-Approved) MDM
- Prepare for changes to kernel extensions in macOS High Sierra – Apple Support
- macOS Deployment Reference
- Apple Deployment Programs Help
- Education Deployment Guide
- Apple School Manager Help
- Apple Business Manager Help
- Availability of Apple programs and payment methods for education and business – Apple Support
- Get started using Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager with Mobile Device Management – Apple Support
- MDM Protocol Reference (PDF)
- Configuration Profile Reference (PDF)
- Use Device Enrollment – Apple Support
- If your macOS and iOS clients aren’t getting Apple push notifications – Apple Support
- Device eligibility – Apple Deployment Programs Help
- Prepare your institution for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 – Apple Support
- Creating Privacy Preferences Policy Control profiles for macOS – Rich Trouton
Apple beta programs
- Apple Developer
- Apple Developer Enterprise Program
- Apple Beta Software Program
- AppleSeed (Invitation only, ask your Apple SE)
First Boot UI
macOS Installer Application
- Download Older Versions of macOS and Mac OS X – krypted.com
- macadmin-scripts: installinstallmacos.py
- Customized High Sierra Install issues and workarounds – Managing OS X
To create an installer package from the macOS Installer application, you can use the pkgbuild command:
$ pkgbuild --component "/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app" macOSMojaveInstaller-10.14.4.pkg
macOS Installation Tools
- macOS Installer Application support in Munki
- startosinstall Notes for Imagr
- Erase & Install Application
- macOSUpgrade script for Jamf Self Service
- installr script
- bootstrappr script
- MDS – MacDeployStick, Twocanoes Software
macOS Adoption
- Laura Rösler : “We‘ve now more than 18,900 #Macs at @SAP….and crossed the 80% for #Mojave. 2019 will be a year of new sensations”
- Laura Rösler: “We finally reached the 20k #Mac clients at @SAP. Let‘s open a bottle of champagne”
- What’s new in the updates for macOS Mojave 10.14.4 – Apple Support
Future
- The Mac Pro Lives – Daring Fireball
- Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro – TechCrunch
- The Mac Pro is getting a major do-over – Mashable
- Apple to ditch the current Mac Pro design, but replacement won’t arrive until next year – Axios
- Apple Says It Is “Completely Rethinking” The Mac Pro – Buzzfeed
- Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows – TechCrunch
- Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel – Bloomberg
- New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance to 2018 15″ MacBook Pro in Benchmarks – MacRumors