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A summer progresses, we look at the new Apple platform updates, useful tutorials on installer packages and family admins, and many more great links!
macadmins.news/issues/370
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Installing Packages
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. Package files come in different flavors and formats, but they can be summarized to…
Apple Platform updates for July 2025
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 change and will link in the issue next week. The dot-six updates, as is…
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!
macadmins.news/issues/369
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Inspecting Packages
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 inspect the files and scripts. macOS comes with several tools to work with package…
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!
macadmins.news/issues/368
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Updates: Setup Manager and utiluti
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 workflow directly. The focus for this update was to improve logging…
This week's issue of the MacAdmins.news summary has further looks into dealing with the 26.0 beta cycle of the Apple platforms, great tutorials and links to relevant videos and podcast for Apple administrators.
macadmins.news/issues/367
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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
macadmins.news/issues/366
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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!
macadmins.news/issues/365
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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...
macadmins.news/issues/364
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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 interesting articles for Mac Admins.
macadmins.news/issues/363
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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.
macadmins.news/issues/362
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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 the other Apple platform updates from this week, but there are also a number of links for security, automation and general MacAdmin posts
macadmins.news/issues/361
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This week's issue looks as 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!
macadmins.news/issues/359
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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.
macadmins.news/issues/358
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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 from admins all over!
macadmins.news/issues/357
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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!)
macadmins.news/issues/356
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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 MacAdmins community!
macadmins.news/issues/355
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New tool updated: utiluti v1.1
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 types that a given app can handle, as well as inspect and set default…
This is week's issue of MacAdmins.news we look at conference calendar for MacAdmins and some interesting automations and tutorials!
macadmins.news/issues/354
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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 the Apple world!
macadmins.news/issues/353
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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 assortment of posts and updates from the Mac Admins community.
macadmins.news/issues/352
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New utility from @scriptingosx.com to set default apps from the CLI scriptingosx.com/2025/03/new-...
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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.
macadmins.news/issues/351
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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 articles!
macadmins.news/issues/350
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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.
macadmins.news/issues/349
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This week's issue of MacAdmins.news with info on the latest security updates and more support advice!
macadmins.news/issues/348
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In this week's news summary for Apple admins on MacAdmins.news, I muse about the upcoming Spring Updates and we learn one (more) reason to finally updated from macOS Mojave.
macadmins.news/issues/347
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This week's MacAdmins.news issue is mostly about the updates to all Apple platforms and how to manage them, but we also learn about poor four digit PINs and how to create shell scripts.
macadmins.news/issues/346
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