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A summer progresses, MacAdmins.news looks at the new Apple platform updates, useful tutorials on installer packages and family admins, and many more great links!
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What is a package? If you have been using a Mac, you will have encountered an installation package file or pkg. Package files are used to install software and configuration files on your Mac. Packa…
on Aug 1
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Apple Platform updates for July 2025
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I usually post this collection of links as part of the weekly MacAdmins.news summary, but that is currently on a slower bi-weekly “Summer Camp” schedule. So I am posting this here for a…
on Jul 30
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The third Summer Camp ’25 issue of MacAdmins.news shows that the community is using their summer break to be productive: many updates, and great tutorials!
on Jul 25
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The macOS installation process installs a pkg file with root credentials. Because of this high level of privileges, it is essential for a Mac system administrator or security expert to be able to i…
on Jul 25
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This week’s MacAdmins.news notes some changes to Apple Business and School Manager, lots of updates and some great articles for Apple device management professionals!
on Jul 11
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Updates: Setup Manager and utiluti
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Setup Manager 1.3 We have released Setup Manager 1.3 today. You can see the release notes and download the pkg installer here. Most of the changes to Setup Manager in the update do not change the w…
on Jul 8
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This week’s issue of the MacAdmins.news summary has further insights into dealing with the 26.0 beta cycle of the Apple platforms, great tutorials and links to relevant videos and podcast for…
on Jun 27
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This week’s MacAdmins.news summary has some first solutions, and scripts from the community reacting to WWDC news, along with the usual tutorials, links, and security
on Jun 20
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In this week’s issue of MacAdmins.news, we look, not surprisingly at the news for Apple admins from WWDC. There’s a lot that is relevant to managing your Apple device fleet!
on Jun 13
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‘Twas the Friday before WWDC, and this week’s issue has great posts from and for Mac Admins to read while you wait for the Keynote…
on Jun 6
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All of my other books so far, have this sentence: “You should be comfortable with using Terminal on macOS.” This is the book that helps you get comfortable with Terminal and shell on ma…
on Jun 4
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In this week’s issue of MacAdmins.news, we ask important questions, like “Will there be a MacBook Pro (2025) that requires macOS 26?” But also, there is the usual mix of interesti…
on May 30
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This week’s issue of MacAdmins.news looks at some minor updates in the wake of last week’s dot-five releases. Also, some nice new automations and tutorials for Mac Admins.
on May 23
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[This week’s news summary for MacAdmins]( has, not surprisingly, a lot of links regarding macOS 15.5, iOS 18.5 and all the other Apple platform updates from this week, but there are also the …
on May 16
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This week’s issue of MacAdmins.news contains Apple news (duh), an era-ending deprecation notice and the usual great posts from Mac Admins.
on May 9
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This week’s issue looks at the SixColors Apple in the Enterprise report card, celebrates 10 years of Mac Admins Slack, and has a great list of security, how-to, and automation posts!
on May 2
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This week’s issue of the news summary for Mac Admins celebrates ten years of Apple Watch, looks at the continuing Apple/EU/DMA drama and many nice automations for admins.
on Apr 25
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In this week’s issue of the news summary for Mac Admins, I rationalize procrastinating on responding to the Enterprise survey. But there are also lots of great and useful articles and tools f…
on Apr 18
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The MacAdmins.news issue of this week looks deeper at the changes from last week’s macOS 15.4 updates (new rsync!)
on Apr 11
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This week’s issue of MacAdmins.news obviously pays a lot of attention to macOS 15.4, iOS 18.4 and all the other Apple updates, but also contains many other interesting links to posts from the…
on Apr 4
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New tool updated: utiluti v1.1
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A few weeks back I introduced a new tool: utiluti, which sets default apps for url schemes and file types. Not standing still, I have updated the tool with new verbs to list url schemes and file ty…
on Mar 30
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In this week’s issue of MacAdmins.news we look at conference calendar for MacAdmins and some interesting automations and tutorials!
on Mar 28
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Further chipping away at the backlog of new and updated with merged 200 PRs merged or closed. The new PR templates and automations are proving to be a big help! Many thanks Bart fro working on thes…
on Mar 28
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No “big topic” in this week’s MacAdmins.news summary, but still the usual great assortment of opinions, security news, tutorials and automation posts relevant to system admins in …
on Mar 21
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In this week’s issue of MacAdmins.news we cannot avoid the delay of Siri improvement, but also look at the security updates that dropped this week and a great collection of posts and updates …
on Mar 14
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New tool: utiluti sets default apps
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A while back I wrote a post on the Jamf Tech Thoughts blog about managing the default browser on macOS. In that post I introduced a script using JXA to set the default application for a given url s…
on Mar 14
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This week’s news summary for Mac Admins looks at the new Apple hardware and emojis, and also some useful automations from community authors.
on Mar 7
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In this week’s news summary for Mac Admins, we acknowledge the new betas, notice User Guide updates for Apple Business/School Manager, and have the usual great assortment of helpful posts and…
on Feb 28
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This week’s news summary, we look briefly at the new phone before we look some beefy malware and vulnerabilities, some nice configuration profiles and updates.
on Feb 21
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This week’s issue of MacAdmins.news with info on the latest security updates and more support advice!
on Feb 14
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Chipping away at the backlog of PRs and issue, we have released a new version of Installomator today. Main focus was on releasing a whole bunch of new and updated labels. But the maintainer team ha…
on Jan 24
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Run a script when Setup Manager is finished
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You may have heard, we built an enrollment tool called Setup Manager for Jamf Pro and Jamf School. As with any new tool, there are some things that it doesn’t do yet and there are some confli…
on Jan 6
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This week brought the second update to all of Apple’s platforms. Along with new Apple Intelligence features, admins are looking for the options to manage (i.e. disable) them. Read about this …
on Dec 13
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The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation
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Monterey has deprecated the pre-installed python on macOS. To be precise, built-in python has been deprecated since macOS Catalina, but Monterey will now throw up dialogs warning the user that an a…
on Nov 21
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The latest issue (#336) of the weekly news summary for MacAdmins is available over on MacAdmins.news!
on Nov 8
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The latest issue of my news summary for Mac Admins is available over on MacAdmins.news!
on Oct 25
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The latest news summary for MacAdmins is available over on MacAdmins.news.
on Sep 27
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It is that time again, we have released a new version of Installomator! Many thanks to all the maintainers and contributors! It has been quite a while since we published a release and there was qui…
on Aug 30
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Swift Command Line Tools and Argument Parser — Part 1
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When building tools in Swift, I usually start with a command line tool. This allows me to ignore the complexity of creating a user interface while figuring out the underlying APIs and data models. …
on Aug 16
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MacAdmins.news #325 2024-08-09
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The latest issue is available over on MacAdmins.news!
on Aug 9
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Building a LaunchD Installer pkg for desktoppr (and other tools)
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In my last post introducing desktoppr 0.5, I said that a Mac admin could build a customized pkg with a customized LaunchAgent property list, that would run desktoppr manage at login and every few h…
on Jul 19, 2024
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MacAD.UK 2024: Down the Rabbit Hole
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Set the Computer Name Slides (Keynote) Video recording (YouTube) TaskMaster: WebSite, YouTube Taskmaster’s Best Tasks Ranked from Very Funny to Life-Changing Change your computer’s name or local ho…
on Jul 1, 2024
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“A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” Terry Pratchett — Going Postal As you have probably heard, Charles Edge, prolific writer of books and blog posts, regular conference presenter, a…
on Apr 23, 2024
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Prefs CLI Tools for Mac Admins
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Recently I have been working on some… well… “stuff” that uses custom configuration profiles. Very custom, and since I am testing things, they need to be updated a lot. The issue with de…
on Mar 22, 2024
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zsh scripts and Root Escalations
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There was an update for the Support.app this week which fixed a CVE. There is an argument to be had about whether this CVE deserves its high rating, but it is worth discussing about the underlying …
on Mar 15, 2024