The newsletter this week is coming at an unusual time of day because I am traveling. If I missed any links because of the travels, please let me know!
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📸Focus
Jason Snell has put out the call for the next incarnation of the “Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card.” If you are interested you can read last year’s report here. The questionnaire is open to all MacAdmins but you need to fill it out before March 22nd deadline.
- Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card Open til March 22nd – Tom Bridge
- Direct Link to Questionnaire
📰News and Opinion
- It’s Time to Make Your Pitch – William Smith, Jamf Tech Thoughts
- Apple opens up sideloading devices to Apple Business Manager outside of Apple Configurator – Bradley Chambers, 9to5Mac
- The key to the Mac’s survival isn’t a new Air–it’s the next iPad Pro – Jason Snell, Macworld
🦣Social Media
- William Smith on Mastodon: “Happy to announce the Jamf Training Catalog introduced in 2018 and only available to customers is NOW available to anyone with a free Jamf Account. No customer requirement going forward.”
- Mike Lynn on Mastodon: “[…] avoid attempting to manage the end user experience as much as possible – or allowing your organization to dictate to you, as the subject matter expert, that settings of this nature MUST be enforced to a specific value. No two people agree on a sane default experience. Managing for security? Yes, great. Managing look and feel? Please do not“
🔐Security and Privacy
🔨Support and HowTos
- Who’s managing my apps? – Howard Oakley
- Enforcing an older force_install_after_date when importing a new Munki item version – Alan Siu
- Granting Volume Owner status on Apple Silicon Macs – Rich Trouton
- Ventura has changed app quarantine with a new xattr – Howard Oakley
- Apple’s File Provider Forces Mac Cloud Storage Changes – Adam Engst, TidBITS
- The Care and Feeding of Your JumpCloud – Pam Lefkowitz
- Big Changes to Our macOS Agent – Emily Hill, Kolide Blog
- What is a NoPkg? – Meredith Kreisa, SimpleMDM
- What is macOS Ventura doing tracking provenance? – Howard Oakley
- Moving Day: How we migrated from one MDM to another – Jacob Burley
- Creating a sysdiagnose file using Activity Monitor – Rich Trouton
- Fixing Shadow IT (Without Being a Jerk) – Pam Lefkowitz
- Getting started with web browser management in Jamf Pro – Stuart Dea, dataJAR
- Using a Mac without a network connection – Howard Oakley
- You Still Use a Printer? – Allen Golbig, Jamf Tech Thoughts
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Automated Device Enrollment and Setup Your Mac version 1.8.1 – Rob J Schroeder
- maxgoedjen/secretive: Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
- CrowdStrike Falcon Diagnose (0.0.3) with swiftDialog – Dan K. Snelson
- PowerShell for Mac Admins – Radical Admin Blog, Jumpcloud Community (Part 2)
- Using PlistBuddy With Shell Scripts – Trevor Sysock
♻️Updates and Releases
- Setup-Your-Mac 1.8.1
- Gain Deeper Insights Into Business Security with the Enhanced 1Password Events API – Skylar Nagao, 1Password
- Archaeology: tool for digging into binary files on macOS
- Baseline v1.1beta2
- Munki v6.3.0.b1
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- Filewave APIs with Josh Levitsky – Mac Admins Podcast
- Let’s Talk Mobile Threat Security Landscape – Jamf After Dark
- “Brad Pitt,” a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs
🎈Just for Fun
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