A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

I have introduced the Swift Argument Parser package before. I have been using this package in many of my tools, such as swift-prefs, utiluti, emoji-list and, just recently, translate. Argument Parser is a Swift package library which adds complex argument, option, and flag parsing to command line tools built with Swift. The documentation is generally quite thorough, but a few subjects are a little, well…, under-documented.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

Unusual Friday night release of the Apple platform updates. Might be because Apple was pushing close to the 90-day deferral limit for 26.0, as I speculated in MacAdmins.news yesterday. Either that or Apple developers are just eager to go on their holiday breaks. (Can't blame them...) macOS macOS Tahoe 26.2 (25C56): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security…

The case of the missing 26.2 update

Executive re-shuffling

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

Fifteen years ago today I published the first post on this website. Turned out a bit lucky that the first post still holds up fairly well today, even though there was a somewhat recent update. The second post did not age so well. I started out the weblog because I was reading a lot of other Mac admins' web blogs and thought: "I can do that, too." And it turns out that I could, even though it took quite a few years of infrequent and mostly ignored posts to find my voice, rhythm, and audience.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

This week's issue of the MacAdmins.news summary for Apple admins comes to you from MacSysAdmin in Göteborg Sweden!

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

macOS macOS Tahoe 26.0 (25G354): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, App Store (not yet?), User Guide, IPSW, PKG installer, Compatibility macOS Sequoia 15.7 (24G222): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8 (23J21): What's new, Security, PKG installer iOS and iPadOS iOS 26.0 About, Enterprise, …

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

Previous articles in this series: Installing Packages Inspecting Packages Building Simple Component Packages Books Update 2025 When you place a text file named PolicyBanner in the /Library/Security directory, macOS will display this file before the Login Window. The user will have to accept the banner before they can log in. Apple Support: About Policy Banners in macOS The PolicyBanner file can be plain or rich text (txt, rtf, or rtfd file extensions).

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

It's been a while since I wrote about my books. Life has been tugging me in different directions (in a good way, overall). Things are going well, overall, but there was always this nagging feeling that I really should do something about the books. They were getting a bit… well… old… If you follow this blog, you may have noticed a few posts about packaging recently:

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.