As I am preparing to travel to JNUC next week, I don’t really have much insightful, or even witty intro… We got an iOS update and a new round of betas. Even if I am distracted, we got some wonderful posts by wonderful people sharing their knowledge and insights. Go read those and many thanks to authors for sharing.
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News and Opinion
- Check out our new technical blog, Tech Thoughts! – Jeni Asaba, Jamf Tech Thoughts
- The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About | iFixit News
macOS Ventura and iOS 16
- macOS Ventura Beta 8 (22A5352e) is Live! What’s New? – Mr. Macintosh
- Zeroing Freed Memory – Michael Tsai
- System Settings in Ventura: a turn for the worse? – Howard Oakley
- Apple can patch Ventura on the fly: RSR is coming – Howard Oakley
macOS and iOS Updates
- iOS 16 Updates (16.0.1 and 16.0.2)
- watchOS 9.0.1
Security and Privacy
- Every unsandboxed app has Full Disk Access if Terminal does – Jeff Johnson
- How to check an app’s signature – Howard Oakley (Nice Overview. I really like Apparency for inspecting apps.
- Explaining the Backlash to the SSO Tax – Nick Moore, Kolide
Support and HowTos
- Xcode 14’s New Platforms Packaging Format – Tim Sutton
- How to Configure Jamf Connect with Okta – HCS Technology Group
- A follow-up on making Outlook meetings shorter – Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle
- How to start planning your Mac and Windows patching strategy – Paul Cossey, dataJAR
- The Blessings of Failure – Dan K. Snelson
Scripting and Automation
- How to convert Classic API scripts to use bearer t… – Bill Smith, Jamf Tech Thoughts
- Determining URL scheme handlers in macOS – brunerd (I have a reply to this that I should write up in a blog post, but until I find the time to that, you can read this thread in MacAdmins if you ware interested.)
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
To Listen
- Would You Like Fries With That? – Command-Control-Power
- The State of the Update – Mac Admins Podcast
- Enterprise password management required better technology – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
Support
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