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New Apple Business, new 26.5 betas, new Creative Studio updates, new desk for me.

https://www.macadmins.news/402/

#Mac #MacAdmins #Apple #AppleBusiness

402: New Digs

Welcome Apple Business

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If you’re an Apple-related IT type person I would LOVE your input in my annual Apple In The Enterprise Report Card survey by Friday:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF8n9IEpzus7jmo9ZEVaH90h52pjLwImlhNnmmkCF5b9n1SQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Six Colors 2026 Apple Enterprise Report Card

We are asking about your perceptions of the last year. Consider the period from last April to now when you consider your responses. Grades will be aggregated. Tell us if you are willing to let us use your quotes or if you'd prefer not to be quoted. (We don't post anonymous comments.) You can also opt out of being mentioned entirely, but we will still count your votes! Also, if you don't know or care about a section, skip it. Votes aren't mandatory and comments are also not mandatory if you don't have anything to say!

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Apple Admins: Reminder that today you'll need to agree to new terms in ABM (once Apple actually posts them)

Managed deployment of Cisco Secure Client on macOS is easy 😊

– What are you talking about?!?

Many of us have for years tried to deploy the “predeploy” pkg prom the downloaded dmg. Either using InstallerChoices to select which components to install, or splitting (repackaging) the meta-package into individual installers to make sure only the needed ones are installed.

But this procedure is NO MORE!

This week on MacAdmins.news: new email service, new address, new updates and "bug fixes," new security challenges, new skills, new tools…

https://www.macadmins.news/401/

#Mac #MacAdmins #Apple

401: Moving Time

New email service, who dis?

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If you’re involved in administering Apple systems in a large organization, I’d love for you to participate in our annual Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise report card!

https://forms.gle/JpT5pRAJpmSfsVr89

Six Colors 2026 Apple Enterprise Report Card

We are asking about your perceptions of the last year. Consider the period from last April to now when you consider your responses. Grades will be aggregated. Tell us if you are willing to let us use your quotes or if you'd prefer not to be quoted. (We don't post anonymous comments.) You can also opt out of being mentioned entirely, but we will still count your votes! Also, if you don't know or care about a section, skip it. Votes aren't mandatory and comments are also not mandatory if you don't have anything to say!

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We’re ready to show you a new feature coming in Mastodon 4.6 - Collections. These are a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts that they’d recommend to others, to help find connections and grow their network more quickly.

Well, a civilization died tonight.

It was ours. Congress didn't step up and stop him. No one in power invoked the 25th Amendment to remove him. We failed, utterly, as a civilization.

Hard to pick an iconic image from the Artemis II moon flyby but I'm going to go with this one https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009287

with the eclipse being a very close second https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301

NASA Image and Video Library

NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.

NASA Image and Video Library

And just like that, we discovered the most expensive Mac ever made

#mac #apple #macos #cray

“Apple Computer and Cray Research – some notes” https://cray-history.net/2021/07/16/apple-computer-and-cray-research-some-notes/