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Summer and the heat seem to have much of the Northen Hemisphere in a firm grip. But this doesn’t seem to slow down Apple or the Mac Admin community. Security updates and beta releases for both 26.6 and 27.0, as well as Creator Studio app updates from Apple, and lots of tool and app updates from the Mac Admin community.
Conference season is still going on, with MDOYUL earlier, Mac Admins Conference this week and Mac Admins India Connect coming up!

This is the second Summer Camp issue. Next issue is in two weeks, July 24. MacAdmins.news will remain on a two-weekly schedule until September 4.
Jason Hiner, The Deep View:
Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, discussed how Apple's long-term investments in neural processing, unified memory, power-efficient computing, and hardware-software integration have positioned its devices for the AI era.
Guilleaume Gète:
Launching the inaugural Mac Admins User Group Paris meetup during Apple annual developer conference week was quite a challenge… but a good one,
Howard Oakley:
With more heatwaves expected across Europe and North America, this summer is already proving a challenge for those who can’t use their Macs in rooms that have effective air conditioning.
Rob Potvin has beenconstantly blogging about the challenges with macOS 27 VMs.
Pieter Arntz, Malwarebytes:
a researcher has found a vulnerability in Apple’s Hide My Email feature that could allow someone to discover a person’s real email address.
Howard Oakley:
How long has it been since the last security data update to macOS, for XProtect or XProtect Remediator (XPR)?
Dhruv Majumdar, Fleet blog:
EDR Freeze suspends a security tool instead of killing it, so the process looks healthy while it quietly stops working.
Richard Glaser:
Installomator is one of those Mac admin tools that starts simple: run a label, install the app, move on with your day. Then your environment grows.
Jon Brown:
I do not try to build the entire deployment in one sitting. That usually leads to troubleshooting three different problems at the same time. Instead, I build the workflow in layers.
Brandon (BK) Kurtz:
Secretive is an open-source macOS app for protecting and managing SSH keys with the Secure Enclave.
Jon Brown:
Before it reaches production, I want to understand what it’s installing, how Jamf is going to deliver it, what other configuration the application depends on, and how I’ll verify that everything worked after the policy runs.
Howard Oakley:
As far as I’m aware, this is the first time in the last six years that large numbers of Macs will have firmware that is out of sync.
HCS Technology Group:
a step-by-step guide to configuring Okta Platform Single Sign-On (SSO) with simplified setup on macOS using Jamf Pro, including certificate management and device access integration.
Philip Ross:
Since the release of Jamf Setup Manager, it's not been possible to install App Store Applications through VPP whilst running Setup Manager....until now!
Graham Pugh:
For such circumstances, it would be neat if there was some logic to be able to skip a process based on some predicate
Gil Burns:
Third Party Patcher (TPP) is a macOS MDM agnostic, MDM managed, daemon-based patching and software distribution system for IT administrators. It automatically discovers installed third-party applications, checks for available updates, downloads installers in the background, and applies them.
Jamf: (Webinar)
as organizations push for AI-driven productivity gains, teams need to find ways that enable AI tools without compromising security.
Command Control Power:
early impressions of iOS 27 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max and interest in Siri AI on newer iPhone hardware, plus Apple’s macOS 27 compatibility list ending Intel support while continuing support for 2020 M1 Macs, which they estimate could extend security updates to roughly 2029.
Apple @ Work:
Matt Vlasach, SVP of Enterprise Product and Solutions Engineering at Jamf joins the show to talk about their recent survey around AI usage amongst Apple focused enterprise.
Mac Admins Podcast:
Matt Vlasach is back to talk to us about AI Governance and how Jamf is tackling this in an authentically Apple way.
Apple @ Work:
Ray Canzanese from Netskope joins the show to discuss the latest macOS ClickFix campaign, designed to create a permanent backdoor.
Lock and Code:
we speak with Dubal—professor of law at the UC Irvine School of Law—about how algorithmic wage discrimination works, what data it consumes to function, and the threat it poses as it creeps from gig work into many more industries.
Yeo Kheng Meng:
I built SwiftII, a Swift-flavored mini development environment for the original Apple II to a IIe and up.