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423: Homeward Bound

✇MacAdmins
By: Armin Briegel
423: Homeward Bound

Apple heads homewards with new hardware, fourth betas for 27.2, some nice scripts and automations, as well as lots of updates.

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Homeward Bound

Apple has released a new “HomeView” alongside new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and some smart home accessories.

⚙️ Apple Updates

When to expect updates to macOS 27 Golden Gate

Howard Oakley:

Updates to macOS 27 Golden Gate are going to be a bit more confusing than last year’s cycle for Tahoe.

Weird numbering changes aside, Apple’s release schedule for the minor updates has been quite consistent and predictable since macOS Sierra 10.12. (The pandemic years had a few outliers.)

🔨 Support and Tutorials

Not today, macOS: Demystifying OS update deferrals across Apple platforms

Philip Ross:

An in-depth look at OS update deferrals across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Exploring how deferral windows behave to help you navigate nuances and maintain fleet compliance.

Determining log retention periods for macOS unified logging

Rich Trouton:

Every so often when working with the unified logging system, you need to know how far back the current logging goes.

How local network privacy could affect you

Howard Oakley:

Of all the privacy protections in macOS, those for local networking are among the most recent and the least understood. Introduced in macOS Sequoia, they’re related to protection introduced earlier in iOS and iPadOS version 14, but different, and could trip you up when you’re least expecting yet another privacy prompt.

Try on-device AI with fm

Howard Oakley:

This article shows how you can start exploring Apple’s on-device AFM 3 Core and its Advanced version when available on your Mac

🤖 Scripting and Automation

Automating Mac App Store License Assignments and Reclamation

Marriott Library, Apple Infrastructure:

For IT teams, a paid Mac App Store title is not simply another package to deploy. A limited Apps and Books license pool must be assigned only when a Mac needs it

YAHI: Yet Another Homebrew Installation

Dan K. Snelson:

A recent refactor of SYM-Lite led to a happy accident for fresh installs of Homebrew with Standard macOS users

Privileges MDM Configurator

Build profiles for SAP Privileges app.

♻️ Updates and Releases

📺 Watch

October 2026 – MacAdmins Meeting

Marriott Library, Apple Infrastructure:

  • Jamf The Doctor – Isaac Ordonez, Mann Consulting
  • Jamf Nation User Conference 2026 Recap – William Smith, Jamf
  • XPSSO – Timothy Perfitt, Twocanoes Software

🎧 Listen

AI-Powered PowerShell, and Carrier Trade-In Traps

Command Control Power:

Joe and Jerry discuss using iPhone built-in Background Sounds (rain/white noise) and Joe’s reliable Shortcuts automation

Addigy announces Intelligence Suite, aimed at bringing AI control to Apple devices

Apple @ Work:

Jason Dettbarn from Addigy joins the show to talk about its new Intelligence Suite.

Novel Ransomware, Security in the age of AI

Mac Admins Podcast:

Patrick Wardle’s back to give us an update on Apple Security, some fun new Zero Days, and this year’s OBTS in Hawaii!

🎈 Just For Fun

The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27

Jim Nielsen:

I started by researching the different docks in macOS through the years and compiled them all into a single graphic
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422: Full Access

✇MacAdmins
By: Armin Briegel
422: Full Access

Full Disk Access changes thanks to AI, conference news and videos, KeyChains and updates

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Full Access

Apple has announced that they will update how the Full Disk access privilege works, because “some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk.” This has Mac Admins somewhat concerned. Be sure to file feedback.

Reminder: Mac Admins Slack Migration this week-end

Mac Admins Slack moves to Slack’s Enterprise plan starting Friday 9 October 2026 at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Slack will be fully down for about 18 hours, and direct messages need roughly 10 more hours to catch up.

Save the date: Mac Admins Europe 2027

Mac Admins Europe will return to Leiden in the Netherlands for a one-day Mac Admins conference on April 15, 2027. Save the date!

📰 News and Opinion

AI helps Mac admins ship changes quickly, but rollback often takes days

Allen Houchins, Fleet Blog:

Mac admins now use AI to write scripts, troubleshoot problems, and author configuration profiles, and most of them deploy that output to production. Few of them can undo a bad change quickly.

Year Six: The Mac Admins Slack Needs an Exit Plan

Jack-Daniyel "JD” Strong:

I also have a proposal: a member-staffed working group with a written charter and one deliverable. That deliverable is a platform evaluation and exit plan. It is not a migration.

⚙️ Apple Updates

What changed in macOS Tahoe 26.4? (Take 2)

Howard Oakley:

It’s not very often we have the wisdom of hindsight and can go back to document changes made in macOS over six months ago. This brief article adds information on some of the more consequential changes made in macOS Tahoe 26.4

🔨 Support and Tutorials

What controls access to files?

Howard Oakley:

Read and write access to files in macOS has become complicated by its combination of Unix permissions, security and privacy protections.

Smart Card Mapping in macOS

The Terminal Blogger:

Smart card authentication in macOS is both extremely complicated and extremely simple at the same time.

Explainer: Keychains

Howard Oakley:

Keychains are specialised database files used by every Mac since the introduction of Mac OS X to store and protect passwords, security certificates and other secrets.

Upcoming Full Disk Access Changes

Adam Selby:

Apple announced upcoming Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS that have potential impact for Mac Admins. While currently the details are light, this is a perfect time to file feedback on this topic, to help influence what these changes ultimately become.

See also Michael Tsai’s summary.

Privacy, Full Disk Access and AI agents

Howard Oakley:

You’ll probably have heard that Apple is urgently reviewing privacy protection in macOS, and intends enforcing stricter use of Full Disk Access in Privacy & Security settings. This article explains what’s going on, and why we all need to be concerned.

🤖 Scripting and Automation

Securing Bash Environment Variables in macOS

The Terminal Blogger:

utilizing the security binary to find a password in our login keychain associated with the service name “Test Item” and account “SomeAccount.”

Monocle: Initial Commit

Dan K. Snelson:

Monocle inspects scripts and small repos (local or on GitHub), plus diagnostic and support bundles, and produces four audience-specific summaries (Executive, Security, Manager, Engineer) plus a Monocle Score.

Mac Installer Plug-Ins Bug

anonymoussingh via Michael Tsai (summary):

Starting with macOS 27 beta 6, all of our plugins stopped loading in Installer.app

Jamf Migrator

Jordy Thery:

Jamf Migrator is a macOS app that copies a source tenant to a destination tenant — everything, or any selection down to a single object — shows exactly what it would change before writing anything, and picks up where it left off if a run is interrupted.

You can also use jamf-cli or Jamf Replicator

♻️ Updates and Releases

📺 Watch

MacSysAdmin 2026 Session Videos

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Stitches, Switches, and Sketchy Devices: A Podcast Nose Dive

Command Control Power:

Joe discusses costly RV maintenance and how machines (including hard drives) can fail when left idle, leading into Mac maintenance routines. They debate slang like “cooked,” then talk Apple’s new iPhone lineup, including Jerry’s iPhone 13 Pro Max purchase and their mixed expectations for the first-gen iPhone Duo

Way too many apps are sitting outside SSO protection

Apple @ Work:

Christophe Frenet, Dashlane's CPO, joins the show to talk about the challenges around managing apps that live outside SSO and how Dashlane Vault Enforcement aims to solve that problem.

The 27 Version Report

Mac Admins Podcast:

The new 27 series of Apple’s operating systems are now out! We’re going to spend a bit time talking through what’s new, what’s exciting, and what we all have to look forward to!
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421: Scandinavian Skies

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By: Armin Briegel
421: Scandinavian Skies

This week we got security patches for most of the Apple platforms and Creative Studio app updates, as well as many updates for other Mac Admin tools.

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Scandinavian Skies

I was at MacSysAdmin conference this week, where I had the honor of presenting earlier this week. Because of this, just a brief intro and many greetings from Gothenburg!

📰 News and Opinion

Save the Date: Mac Admins Slack is Moving to Enterprise Grid!

Diego Iaconelli, Mac Admins Foundation:

The Mac Admins Slack is migrating from Business+ to Enterprise Grid. The migration will begin on Saturday 10 October 2026 at 03:30 UTC. […]
Slack estimates 18 hours of hard downtime for the migration

Go outside and smell some roses or touch grass or whatever you would rather be doing on a week-end!

Jamf Levels Up to Visionary Sponsor, Expanding Support for Mac Admins Foundation Conference Grants

Jamf, a founding sponsor of the Mac Admins Foundation (MAF), has expanded its support to the Visionary level, the Foundation’s highest sponsorship tier.

⚙️ Apple Updates

macOS

iOS and iPadOS

Other Platforms

  • visionOS 27.0.1: About, no security notes
  • watchOS 27.0.1 (“All models”): About, no security notes

Creator Studio Apps

Community

Update your iPhone, iPad, or Mac: Flaw could run attackers’ code

Malwarebytes:

fix a flaw that could let an attacker run code when a device processes a malicious file.

Apple Filing Protocol removed from macOS Golden Gate

Rich Trouton:

One of the less documented changes to macOS Golden Gate is the removal of Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) as a supported network protocol.

🔐 Security and Privacy

CloudSyncD: macOS backdoor hidden in a fake Zoom installer

Thijs Xhaflaire, Jamf Threat Labs:

Jamf Threat Labs uncovers CloudSyncD, a fake Zoom installer disguised as a legitimate application that uses a phished login password to launch an embedded backdoor while concealing the credential inside a decoy configuration file.

Copying macOS login keychains to different Macs on macOS Tahoe 26.4 and later

Rich Trouton:

To follow up on this topic, Apple has now provided information on how to backup keychain files as part of its developer tech note TN3137.

How to copy login keychains that can be unlocked

Howard Oakley:

Over the last few weeks, it has become clear that macOS Tahoe 26.4 changed access to login keychains

Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS

File-notification systems tell applications when files change, e.g., opened, closed, written, deleted. With only read permission on a file or directory, an attacker can watch these notifications and reconstruct user behavior.

🔨 Support and Tutorials

Intune pricing: What your bundled MDM is actually costing you

Nathan Sparks, The Iru Blog:

It came bundled with your E3 or E5 agreement. It was a free line item sitting next to the productivity suite your org/company actually signed up for. So you started using it, because that's what "free" does: becomes the default before anyone really evaluates it.

How does APFS handle encryption keys?

Howard Oakley:

APFS volumes can be protected by encryption in several different ways, which can lead to confusion.

🤖 Scripting and Automation

Can we detect the apps that will block an overnight Software Update?

Graham R. Pugh:

macOS update notifications warn that apps may block a scheduled update, but don't identify which ones.

Jamf Pro Script Security Issues (Part 1)

The Terminal Blogger:

Throughout my future blog posts, I am going to explore some different options for scenarios such as this. I don’t know that there is a fully secure method, but there are better and worse ways of dealing with this issue.

♻️ Updates and Releases

Gentilhomme

A native macOS viewer for man pages, rendered as rich, readable, linked documents.

🎧 Listen

Solving the patch management problem for Apple admins

Apple @ Work:

David Aclandjoins the show to introduce Orchard. Orchard continuously enforces macOS updates, application updates, and security settings to keep devices compliant and audit-ready.

Best Of CCP: Backblaze to the Future & Proofpoint Pandemonium

Command Control Power

🎈 Just For Fun

A History of iPhone Invites

Basic Apple Guy:

I wanted to document the history of these events, from the slogans to the invites to what was announced.

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

Lex on Tech:

In 2011, Apple released the Cards app. The app — which required iOS 5 — let you design custom letterpress cards, with your messages and photos printed upon them — which Apple would ship to your recipient on your behalf. I recently learned the origin story of Cards
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420: The Beat Goes On

✇MacAdmins
By: Armin Briegel

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The Beat Goes On

In the week after the big release of the 27 platforms, we got a first minor update for watchOS, a second beta for 27.2 and an Xcode 27.1beta, which means there are two different Xcode 27 betas right now.

Also, Jamf Nation User Conference was this week. Looks like you all had a blast and I would have major FOMO if I weren’t going to MacSysAdmin in Gothenburgnext week!

See you all there!

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📰 News and Opinion

Jamf in the age of agentic IT: An interview with CEO Beth Tschida

Jonny Evans, Computerworld:

How the Apple device management platform is automating support, tackling shadow AI, and helping control runaway inferencing costs.

Locked Down Passkey and Keychain Backups

Michael Tsai:

I remain unhappy with Apple’s passkey backup story. […] I don’t think I had written it all in one place before. The new bad news is that, as of macOS 26.4, these problems now affect regular passwords, not just passkeys.

⚙️ Apple Updates

App Settings declarative management may block unsigned apps on macOS Golden Gate

Rich Trouton:

When creating an App Settings configuration to allow or deny specified apps or binaries, there is something to keep in mind.

What might it mean when developers announce ‘Support for macOS Nueva Nombre’?

Fraser Hess:

The phrase ‘Support for macOS Golden Gate’ might even mean different things for different software products from the same vendor.

Digital Car Keys May Not Transfer When You Upgrade Your iPhone

Adam Engst, TidBITS:

If you use a digital car key on your iPhone, don’t assume it will transfer automatically when you switch to a new iPhone.

🔐 Security and Privacy

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica:

A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the agent raises serious doubts.

PamStealer adapts again: a move to Swift with a server-side decryption chain

Thijs Xhaflaire, Jamf Threat Labs:

Where earlier variants embedded their payload key material directly in the JXA source, it now fetches a purpose-built decryption utility and completes a key exchange with the server before the payload can be unwrapped.

Apple Intelligence Takes Up a Lot of Space on Macs, iPhones, and iPads

Kirkville:

Siri is like someone who crashes your party, lolls on a couch, and won’t leave. On my M4 MacBook Air, where I’m writing this, Apple Intelligence takes up more than 33.85 GB

🔨 Support and Tutorials

Apple Charging Guide Updated

Rands in Repose:

I’ve updated the Apple Charging Guide to account for all of the new hardware announced at the September Apple event.

I wasn’t aware of this guide before but will definitely keep the link around for reference.

Managing a Suite of Mac Admin Tools with Jamf Pro

Fraser Hess, macadmin.fraserhess.com:

my Mac admin tools are properly managed applications.

🤖 Scripting and Automation

Using Siri for programmatic creation of Music app playlists

Elliot Jordan:

I decided to see whether Siri would be newly useful for creating playlists in the Music app. What I discovered surprised me: when pushed beyond the basic smart playlist capabilities, Siri was able to generate a working Python script for playlist generation.

♻️ Updates and Releases

📺 Watch

Jamf Nation User Conference 2026

🎧 Listen

Punk Rock Mac Lab

Mac Admins Podcast:

Richard Glaser has been a Mac Admin for a long, long time, and we’ve got him on this week to talk about what it’s like managing Macs for a whole university library system, the state of lab computing in 2026, and what’s changed in more than 35 years of managing Macs at work!

Phishing simulations for the AI era

Apple @ Work:

Samantha Schwartz and Jack Hirsch from Sublime Security join the show to talk about Tailored Phishing Simulations

Haircuts, Apple Upgrades, and UniFi Networking Lessons

Command Control Power:

Joe and Jerry chat about haircuts, travel plans to Yosemite via Reno and Lake Tahoe amid fires and crowds, and recent wildlife encounters. They discuss upgrading iPhones and frustrations about promised Apple Intelligence features

Doctor Strangeprofile with Bryce Carlson

Mac Admins Podcast:

Today’s guest is here to talk to us about how he learned how to stop worrying and learned to love the legacy profile.

The AI plot to scan and destroy books

Lock and Code, Malwarebytes:

we speak with Maiberg about Amazon’s VGT3 operation and the likely commonplace practice of AI companies purchasing, scanning, and destroying books in an effort to build “frontier” models.

🎈 Just For Fun

Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser

Michael Steil:

Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC.

Announcing FruitMenu Redux 1.0 and Xounds Redux 1.0!

These utilities re-create beloved features that Apple provided in Mac OS 8 through Mac OS 9.2.2

I don’t even really care about the customizable Apple menu, but just seeing the six-colored Apple icon in the menu bar makes me smile.

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419: Golden Gate

✇MacAdmins
By: Armin Briegel
419: Golden Gate

As expected, Apple published all the 27 platform upgrades this week. With the end of this particular beta phase, we also got a bunch of interesting posts from fellow Mac admins. We also got a somewhat oddly numbered 27.2 beta.

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Golden Gate

macOS 27 Golden Gate and all the other 27 platform upgrades were released right on schedule this week. This means that Apple device administrators either got to test whether their deferral settings were working or are watching counters of the 27 deployment ticking upwards.

Since the beta phase never ends, Apple also released the first beta for the 27.2 platform updates and Xcode. The numbering is somewhat confusing, so Apple actually clarified it in their Developer notes. The iPhone Duo will come with iOS 27.1 and developers will get Xcode 27.1 to be able to build and release apps for iPhone Duo. Xcode 27.1 beta “will be available later this month.”

The developer note does not state whether the new Mac mini and Mac Studio which will ship next week will ship with macOS 27.1, or a hardware specific build labeled 27.0 with a different build number. I wouldn’t mind if Apple started distinguishing hardware specific builds with their own version numbers.

Also new in the 27 platforms is volume purchasing for App Store subscriptions. Very untypically for Apple, they manage to call this feature by three different names in as many paragraphs in that note. (“Multiseat purchasing”, “Volume purchasing”, and ‘Group purchases”.) Note that the app developer and your device management service has to implement the support for these and the configuration requires the user account to be managed, which includes most shared device setups and even many current 1:1 deployment workflows. But now is a good time to start talking with your management service provider and the app developers on how to do this and provide (more) feedback to Apple for shared device support.

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📰 News and Opinion

Making Deployment Decisions: Good Luck, Don’t Die

Tom Bridge:

This year, I made a different decision: a short delay of 25 days.

🌉 27 Platform Updates

Apple 27 Platform Updates — September 2026

All the links to all the update support and security articles (and more) on Scripting OS X.

OS 27 Release: Key Takeaways for Educational Institutions

Mat Pullen, Jamf Blog:

OS 27 advances identity, autonomous management and visibility, plus family-focused tools shaping the future of education technology.

Enrolling macOS Golden Gate 27.0.0 virtual machines with MDM servers does not work correctly

Rich Trouton:

As part of testing macOS Golden Gate, it was discovered by myself and others that MDM enrollment does not appear to completely work [on virtual machines]

Intel apps and macOS Golden Gate

Rich Trouton:

As part of Apple’s ongoing transition from Intel processor support, Apple announced a transition timeline for macOS’s Rosetta 2 translation environment in 2026. At that time, Apple said that Rosetta 2 would continue in its current form for both macOS 26 and macOS 27. That means that macOS Golden Gate 27 is the last version of macOS which will offer Intel app support in its current form.

Suppressing the Liquid Glass screen with a configuration profile on macOS Golden Gate

Rich Trouton:

Over the years, Apple has introduced a number of screens which appear the first time you log into a Mac. Among those which appear as of macOS Golden Gate 27.0 is the Liquid Glass screen, which allows you to adjust the Liquid Glass settings.

App Privacy, Declarative Style: Reducing privacy prompt fatigue in macOS 27

Philip Ross:

Say goodbye to endless permission pop-ups with macOS 27 Golden Gate. An example of how using the new App Privacy declaration type can cut down the number of prompts seen by your users.

I find the new consolidated privacy prompt a step in the right direction by Apple and like that Philip documented its configuration. However: Screen Sharing/Recording is the privacy setting that most throws users, because it doesn’t show until you need it (presumably, because you want to share your screen over a conferencing solution) and then you have to restart app in question (I know that for some apps, you can ignore this prompt, but most users don’t know that.) This creates super stressful situations. So, guess which privicay setting cannot be consolidated with this setting? (Please file feedback with Apple.)

Also, why is this restricted to managed devices? I believe a consolidated prompt would be great for all users.

🔐 Security and Privacy

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica:

The reality is that for more casual users, using computers and the Internet has become so difficult—think impossible-to-close interstitials, CAPTCHAs with an endless series of pictures to analyze, and constantly changing interfaces that bury the features they’re looking for—that they have grown desensitized to instructions that seem ridiculous and burdensome.

Beyond Prompt Injection: Hacking Apple's Private Cloud Compute

Sentry:

I found a path traversal in the code that provisions PCC nodes, darwin-init, that lets an attacker write files as root and compromises privacy and security guarantees in PCC.

🤖 Scripting and Automation

Stop Hunting for Bundle IDs & CDHashes: A Utility for Apple's New App Settings Declaration

Ant Darlow:

With OS 27 Apple is moving app restrictions to the new App Settings declaration, but building those configurations means finding Bundle IDs, CDHashes and other signing information first.

Transitioning gradually in Outset from sha256 to script signing

Alan Siu:

Script signing makes it so you don’t have to re-deploy a new version of the MDM profile every single time you change the contents of a script or deploy a new script. You can have the same MDM profile and just sign or re-sign the script.

Jamf's Platform API is now generally available - and what JamfUploader users need to know

Graham R. Pugh:

With the addition of so many different APIs, and the changes to the authentication method, I decided that rather than maintain an independent method of credential storage for Platform API, JamfUploader should instead take advantage of the utility of jamf-cli to handle it.

♻️ Updates and Releases

Introducing macOS LAPS in Iru

Mike Boylan, Iru:

we’re introducing macOS Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) in Iru

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September 2026 – MacAdmins Meeting

Marriott Library - Apple Infrastructure

🎧 Listen

North Korean Remote Job Infiltration, Apple Threat Alerts, and Stopping Gift Card Scams

Command Control Power:

Joe and Sam discuss a Wall Street Journal documentary on North Korean operatives using stolen identities, AI tools, and U.S. accomplices to gain remote jobs at American companies, including schemes where U.S.-based helpers host shipped laptops for overseas workers, raising financial and data-leak risks.

Breaking down the improvements and benefits of Parallels Desktop 27

Apple @ Work:

Dmitry Geynisman from Parallels joins the show to talk about all the new features in Parallels Desktop 27.

Chris Lo on Recruiting and Jobs

Mac Admins Podcast:

Chris Lo was a Mac Admin for a long time before he started a recruiting practice. We’re here to talk with him about the state of the job market, how AI has changed things for better and worse, and how to think about your next move.
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