New iPhone SE release! It looks like a nice upgrade to the iPhone 8 physical design. If you were hoping that ‘SE’ would continue to mean ‘small,’ then you will be disappointed. As John Gruber notes, this is the first time an iPhone model carries the exact same name as a previous model. To distinguish them, I’d suggest calling the new model “iPhone SE/20.”
We also got a new series of beta system releases from Apple.
Please read Babo D’s excellent summary of some of the changes to the softwareupdate management in macOS. This will affect every MacAdmin.
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📈Headlines
📰News and Opinion
- Zoom Installation – Michael Tsai
- Zoom Repairs Flaws and Improves Privacy – Glenn Fleischman TidBITS
- Speaking of ARMs and Legs… – John C. Welch
⚙️macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
- Apple plans on removing enterprise options for macOS software update – Babo D
- Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health – Jason Snell, Six Colors
- About battery health management in Mac notebooks – Apple Support
- 10.15.4 Update = Wake from Sleep Kernel Panic in 16″ MBPro (2019) – Mr Macintosh
- 10.15.4 Supplemental Update Bricking Small Number of T2 Macs – Mr Macintosh
🦠Coronavirus and Remote Work
- Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing – Apple and Google
- Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Can Foil COVID–19 & Big Brother – Nicky Case
- COVID–19, Folding@home, MacAdmins and You – Neil Martin
- Apple makes mobility data available to aid COVID–19 efforts – Apple Newsroom
🐦MacAdmins on Twitter
- William Smith: “MacAdmins, Only six more updates coming for Office 2016 for Mac and then no more! It end-of-lifes in October 2020 with no plans for further support. Put together your plan now to move to Office 2019 ASAP. macadmins.software/calendar/”
🐞Bugs and Security
- Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t — Krebs on Security
- Detecting Insecure Application Updates on macOS – Jaron Bradley, Jamf Blog
- Stable Channel Update for Desktop – Google Chrome Releases
🔨Support and HowTos
- Jamf Pro: No more DEP sync errors – Ben Toms
- The Mac Obsolescence Chart: Now With Specs! – Anthony Reimer
- Code Wranglin’, A Series – Allister Banks
- What to do when a T2 Mac suffers a problem updating its firmware – Howard Oakley
- Office 2016 for Mac Product Lifecycle (via Erik Schwiebert)
- Configuring Chrome Browser Cloud Management In Jamf Pro – HCS Technology Group
- Using MunkiReport with Jamf – Jon Crain, Munki Report Wiki
- Enrolling Your Organization in Apple Business Manager/Apple School Manager – HCS Technology Group
- Guide for Apple IT: Mac Patch Management – Kandji Blog
- Force-stopping the MunkiStatus progress bar at the login window – Alan Siu
- Copy, move and clone files in APFS, a primer – Howard Oakley
🤖Scripting and Automation
- Uploading Logs to Jamf Pro with the API – Steve Wood
- Delete Zoom with a Munki NoPkg – Kevin M. Cox
- Generates a regular expression (regex) that matches the provided version number or higher – William Smith
- Random Desktop Background Color with desktoppr – Scripting OS X
🍏Apple Support
♻️Updates and Releases
- Microsoft Endpoint Manager announces support for Apple Mac Scripting – Microsoft Tech Community
- WhiteBox Packages 1.2.9
- Arq 6: More power, more security, more storage savings – Arq Backup Blog
- Jamf Switcher – 1.1
📺To Watch
🎧To Listen
- The Mean Sister — Command-Control-Power
- What are your options for selling old Apple gear in the enterprise and K–12? – Apple @ Work Podcast
- Hack-A-Thon-Ing with Joel Rennich – MDO Podcast
- A Chat with Alex Narvey – MDO Podcast
- Security Research With Ed Marczak From Duo Security – Mac Admins Podcast
- coronavirus and responding to computer viruses with Akshay Bhargava – Malwarebytes Labs
🎈Just for Fun
- Edouard Klein / falsisign: “For bureaucratic reasons, a colleague of mine had to print, sign, scan and send by email a high number of pages. To save trees, ink, time, and to stick it to the bureaucrats, I wrote this script.”
- How to Connect Your AirPods to Your Mac with a Keyboard Shortcut – Josh Johnson
- AirPods: Automatically and instantly switch between iPhone, Mac & iPad – Mac Kung Fu
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