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Welcome to MacAdmins.news Summer Camp 2025!
It is late June, which means that (Northern Hemisphere) summer months are imminent. With them, we get hot summer days, school vacations and parents juggling their kids at home, crowded roads, trains and airports. For admins in the education space, this means a busy time of preparing for the next school year.
During this time, the amount of news relevant to Apple Admins and this news summary goes down significantly. It also means this newsletter will go into "Summer Camp" mode. Until the end of August, the news summary will be published every two weeks (or fortnightly, for our UK friends). I did this last year, and the Summer Camp issues maintained a similar amount of articles and readers.
The other Summer Camp issues will be July 10 and 24 and August 7 and 21. Regular weekly issues will resume on September 4, just in time for the last stretch of betas before the release of the 26.0 Apple platforms.
I might use that extra time to catch up with some projects and writing. I might also just enjoy the summer myself. Hope you get to enjoy some well-deserved time off, too.
📰 News and Opinion
MicroMDM v1 project maintenance mode
Development effort has been almost entirely focused on NanoMDM and the “Nano”-suite of projects. This post serves to merely confirm and formalize the current situation: MicroMDM “v1” is indeed in maintenance mode.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
How to Virtualise macOS Tahoe Beta in 2 Easy Steps
Want to play with macOS 26 "Tahoe" without risking your main Mac?
Deploying device restrictions management using Blueprints in Jamf Pro
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
Let’s see how this works using a device restriction configuration, using the example of setting the following Apple Intelligence management functions to false in order to block the corresponding Apple Intelligence functions on macOS
Deploying software update management using Blueprints in Jamf Pro
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
Jamf Pro’s Blueprints leverages this capability to support managing software updates. Let’s see how this works using the following software update configuration as an example
Do you need to clean up the SelfServeManifest for your Munki clients?
Every now and then, on the #munki channel of the MacAdmins Slack, someone will ask about deleting or updating an entry in the SelfServeManifest.
Extracting fonts from configuration profiles on macOS Sequoia
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
You can use the following procedure to export a font which was installed using a configuration profile
🤖 Scripting and Automation
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal
It turns out that the “rules” for how the terminal works (how do you edit a command you type in? how do you quit a program? how do you fix your colours?) are extremely hard to fully understand, because “the terminal” is actually made of many different pieces of software (your terminal emulator, your operating system, your shell, the core utilities like grep, and every other random terminal program you’ve installed) which are written by different people with different ideas about how things should work.
♻️ Updates and Releases
SimpleMDM product announcement: Dynamic groups
we walk you through the new functionality for grouping devices, managing profile and app assignments, and using the simplified interface for managing groups.
🎧 Listen
WWDC Wrap and First Look at Betas
We’re into the beta season! Apple has released a bunch of documentation, as well as a full suite of betas to go with everything we talked about last week on the Flashcast. We’ll be talking PSSO, MDM Migration, and the AxM APIs.
Non-Human Crisis with Kane Narraway
Kane Narraway, Head of Enterprise Security at Canva, about the toughest challenges in modern security. From Zero Trust for non-human identities to secure AI adoption,
2025 MDO conference postmortem
we conduct a postmortem reflection on this year’s Mac DevOps conference, assessing our successes and exploring areas for improvement.
When Updates and Integration Go Awry: A Case Study
the hosts tackle a series of tech frustrations including missed live streams, troublesome iPhone camera features, and challenges with Apple TV and Hulu apps.
How Kagi is building a better search for teams
Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about building a new search experience for home and work, the economic incentives behind search, LLMs, user-focused internet, and more.
🎈Just for Fun
Skyline II Wallpaper Collection
here’s Skyline II, another stunning collection of five wallpapers for your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Enjoy!
macOS Icon History
With this release being one of the most dramatic visual overhauls of macOS's design, I wanted to begin a collection chronicling the evolution of the system icons over the years.