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Installomator v10.5
We have released an update for installomator which brings it to v10.5. You can can see the details in its release notes page.
With an astounding 78 new labels and updates to 42 existing labels, this brings Installomator to 733 labels. The project has also reached 100 contributors who have put in at least one pull request!
Many thanks to everyone who contributed, whether through pull requests, or by filing issues or by joining in the discussion in the #installomator channel on the Mac Admins Slack.
Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-10-06
Just a short news summary this week, as I am busy presenting today at MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg!
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📰News and Opinion
- Interview with HRTech – Tom Bridge
- Apple Memory Holes OCSP Preference – Michael Tsai
- iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Review: Depth and Reach – Sebastiaan de With, Halide
⚙️macOS and iOS Updates
🔨Support and HowTos
- How to ‘clean’ install modern macOS – Howard Oakley
- On the topic of Slack & Slack EMM for BYO mobile devices – Dr. K
- How Apple Admins Name the Devices They Manage – Kandji Blog
🤖Scripting and Automation
- swiftDialog: Get the Exit Code of a Background Process – Trevor Sysock
- Removing Jamf Remote policies using an API script – Elliot Jordan
- Automating Munki with munki-promoter – Jacob Burley
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
- SF Symbols 5
- JamfCheck v1.3
- SimpleMDM account-driven enrollment – SimpleMDM
- uberAgent 7.1
- LowProfile 4.0.1
🎧To Listen
- Just Us on Sonoma and iOS 17 – Mac Admins Podcast
- We’ve got 81 problems, but compliance isn’t one of them – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
🎈Just for Fun
📚Support
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Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-29
Release week part 2! We got macOS Sonoma 14.0 release. If you were running the RC2, that is the same as the release. We also got the first round of iOS 17.1 and macOS Sonoma 14.1 betas! (It’ll be good to have the minor update numbers for iOS and macOS in sync for a change.
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macOS Sonoma
- macOS Sonoma 14.0 (23A344): About, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise
- How to upgrade to macOS Sonoma
- macOS Sonoma is compatible with these computers
- macOS User Guide for macOS Sonoma
- Safari 17.0: WebKit Features, Developer Release Notes, Security
Reviews
- macOS Sonoma: The MacStories Review – John Voorhees, MacStories
- macOS 14 Sonoma: The Ars Technica review – Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica
- Apple has released macOS 14 Sonoma – Howard Oakley
- Sonoma in the Spotlight: What’s New and What’s Missing in macOS 14 – Phil Stokes, SentinelOne
MacAdmins
- Suspicious Package FAQ on strange dialogs in macOS Sonoma
- The Mac Hardware/Software Obsolescence Chart – Anthony Reimer
- Managing the “Click wallpaper to reveal desktop” setting in macOS Sonoma – Rich Trouton
- Xsan Ventura & Sonoma upgrade failures and a workaround using profile “Magic” – Eric Hemmeter
- Suppressing undesired local account password policy notifications on macOS Sonoma – Rich Trouton
- Enabling Touch ID for sudo in macOS Sonoma – Jacob Burley
- Retroactive Automated Device Enrollment in macOS Sonoma – Kevin M. Cox
- Do you use iCloud Drive? Are you intending to upgrade to Sonoma? – Howard Oakley
Security and Privacy
- Beyond the good ol’ LaunchAgents 32: Dock Tile Plugins – Csaba Fitzl
- macOS Service Management: The SMAppService API, Quick Notes – Csaba Fitzl
Support and HowTos
Scripting and Automation
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
- erase-install 31.0
- Jamf Compliance Editor 1.2.1
- What’s new in Microsoft Intune (2309) September edition – Ramya Chitrakar, Microsoft Intune Blog
- LowProfile 4.0
- AutoPkg 3.0 RC2
- super v4.0.0-beta3
- Setup Your Mac (1.13.0-b5) with SYM-Helper
- Latest Version of SoftRAID for Mac Adds Support for macOS Sonoma – OWC Blog
To Watch
To Listen
- What’s new at Apple with Jeremy Butcher – Mac Admins Podcast
- What does a car need to know about your sex life? – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs
- Why Macs are becoming the preferred platform for IT professionals – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- Jamf at Black Hat and Security Trends Report – Jamf After Dark Podcast
Just for Fun
Support
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Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-15
The Apple event this week, brought the expected iPhone 15 and Apple Watch updates. You can read all about them on Apple’s event page and the usual suspects.
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More importantly for Mac and iOS Admins: iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10 will be released September 18. macOS Sonoma 14.0 will be released September 26. This is four weeks earlier than the release of macOS Ventura. There were RC releases for all beta platforms this week.
JNUC is next week, safe travel and a fun conference for everyone who is going!
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Focus
News and Opinion
- Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds – Erin Carson, CNET
- How quickly can Apple release a security update? – Howard Oakley
- Unexpected Moments – Tom Bridge
- Thunderbolt 5 is Officially on the Way. How the Best Port is Getting Even Better – Wayne G, OWC Blog
macOS Sonoma and iOS 17
- New Features available with macOS Sonoma (PDF)
- New Features available with iOS 17 (PDF)
- New Features available with iPadOS 17 (PDF)
macOS and iOS Updates
- Security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.9 (21G726)
- Security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.10 (20G1427)
- Security content of iOS 15.7.9 and iPadOS 15.7.9
- Apple has released security updates to Big Sur and Monterey – Howard Oakley
Social Media
- David Nelson: “When reading what’s changed in the latest iPhone we tend to get comparisons to the immediate previous model. Not so helpful if you’re coming from a device that’s two or more years old. The “Compare iPhone Models” page helps. It includes devices all the way back to the iPhone 6 and the original SE. For example, I can see the weight and dimensions of my 12 Pro compared to a 15 Pro Max.
Security and Privacy
- macOS MetaStealer: New Family of Obfuscated Go Infostealers Spread in Targeted Attacks – Phil Stokes, SentinelOne
- iPhone 15 launch: Wonderlust scammers rear their heads – Christopher Boyd, Malwarebytes Labs
Support and HowTos
- Technical Paper: Device Compliance with Microsoft Intune and Jamf Pro – Jamf
- How to Upgrade macOS Using erase-install and Jamf Pro – HCS Technology Group
- Jamf Pro: Configure SMTP Server Integration with Microsoft 365 Per App Password – HCS Technology Group
- Upgrading your iPhone? Read this first – Pieter Arntz, Malwarebytes Labs
- Why cloning a System volume isn’t a good idea any more – Howard Oakley
- UseAdditionalHttpHeaders preference for MunkiReport 5.8.0 – Alan Siu
Scripting and Automation
- red5coder/jamf-return-to-service: Simple POC to demonstrate the Return to Service added to Jamf Pro 10.50
- Obtaining a Bearer Token Using API Role Authentication with Jamf – Lazy MacAdmin
- Automated Jamf Patch Workflows – Lazy Macadmin
Updates and Releases
- Privileges 1.5.4
- txhaflaire/JamfCheck: A native SwiftUI macOS application that check’s Jamf Pro, Jamf Connect and Jamf Protect on it’s state
- Introducing iMazing 3 (Mac Beta)
To Listen
- GitHub Actions and Automating MDM Infrastructure – Mac Admins Podcast
- Unpacking Black Hat and the Security Findings Report – Jamf After Dark
- The future of mobile payments? – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
Support
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