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📸 Focus
Some more info relevant to visionOS for admins including a privacy document from Apple and some updates on the management capabilities. It looks as if you will need Account Driven User Enrollment or Device Enrollment, which means you will need Managed Apple IDs to enroll visionOS.
I assume Automated Device Enrollment would work, too. However, I do not envy anyone trying to convince a happy new Vision Pro user to Erase and Install their new device just to get it enrolled. That is, if these early purchases where even added to ABM or ASM properly.
Preparing for Apple Vision Pro Management with Jamf Pro
To prepare your environment to manage Apple Vision Pro, consider setting up an account-driven enrollment workflow
Enable Enterprise Access for Vision Pro
This article will detail how you can use Jamf Connect’s Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), deployed via the Jamf Trust app from the App Store, to easily enable fast, seamless, and secure access to business resources without deploying any new hardware infrastructure.
The Best Way to Take Screenshots on Apple Vision Pro
Fortunately, Apple thought of this, and there’s a solution, but it involves using Xcode and another developer tool. Of course, using Xcode to take screenshots is a little like using Logic Pro to record voice memos
đź“° News and Opinion
iOS 17.4 Changes PWAs to Shortcuts in EU
Sites installed to the homescreen failed to launch in their own top-level activities, opening in Safari instead. This demotes Web Apps from first-class citizens in the OS to mere shortcuts.
⚙️ Apple Updates
- visionOS 1.0.3: About
🔨 Support and Tutorials
Navigating the channel width conundrum: An 802.1x headache with PDQ IT
When upgrading the wireless infrastructure at PDQ HQ in Salt Lake City, our IT team faced unforeseen challenges transitioning from 802.11ac/5GHz/80MHz to 802.11ac/5GHz/160MHz.
Share your Mac’s display and control
Macs and Apple devices now support several ways of sharing displays and their control using mouse, trackpad and keyboard. This article tries to deconfuse them and explain their different usage.
Can you avoid a forced upgrade to Sonoma?
In recent versions of macOS, software update processes are weighted heavily in favour of upgrading macOS, and the slightest user error or bug can result in an unintended upgrade.
How to reinstall the current version of macOS or downgrade it
there are times when your best or only option is to reinstall, for instance when your Mac has been unintentionally updated or upgraded. This article examines your options.
Update macOS Sonoma Using Managed Software Updates in Jamf Pro
You can use the managed software updates feature of Jamf Pro to update the macOS of Mac computers belonging to smart or static group membership lists, eliminating the need for inventory searches and reducing the number of screens required for deploying macOS updates.
🤖 Scripting and Automation
Patch-less Autopatching with Jamf
Simply run a patch recipe and your fake patch package will be associated with the patch version.
Duration-triggered Inventory Update with Progress via swiftDialog
Provide users more detailed feedback when updating inventory via Jamf Pro, at durations you specify
♻️ Updates and Releases
Addigy: DDM OS Updates - What’s New?
Addigy’s beta allows administrators to deploy OS updates to macOS, iOS, and iPadOS via Declarative Device Management (DDM).
🎧 Listen
If only you had to worry about malware, with Jason Haddix
If your IT and security teams think malware is bad, wait until they learn about everything else.
Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6E, and how to plan for the future
with David Coleman from Extreme Networks about Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7, and much more.
The Mac at 40 With Chris Hawver, Tim Pearson, Ted Freitas & Steve Sorbo
Celebrate 40 years of the Mac
Blake Brandon from 1Password
Admins face challenges with their own vaults of secrets. How do we secure/share secrets like passwords, but also those that aren’t, like SSH keys, certs, or passkeys? And what about mass deployments and IdP integrations?