Comment by Spivak

Comment by Spivak 10 months ago

This is the part I'm missing too. Major versions are the time to ship braking changes, did none of these companies bother to test their software that mucks deep in the plumbing of the OS?

1over137 10 months ago

It is very typical to file bugs against even the first beta and not see them fixed before GM, or even ever.

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eviks 10 months ago

They did, reported it, nothing changed.

It's an OS bug, you can't make it look good by invoking some generic "time to break" principle

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ywvcbk 10 months ago

Or they fixed a bug/loophole that allowed this software to function?

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- eviks 10 months ago
  
  Or they didn't since this software is supposed to function and has been functioning for all the previous many years/OS versions?
  
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RockRobotRock 10 months ago

Is there even an equivalent to WSUS on macOS that lets admins block an update until it's tested?

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salmo 10 months ago

Yeah. There’s Jamf and similar tools. Companies often block major updates until their 100 agents all officially support it. Oh, and do cool things like not letting you change your background or whatever random settings some admin decides are good.

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- ripa 10 months ago
  
  Yep, a lot of these policies seem to come from some random person scrolling through a list of supported options and arbitrarily making up values that are enforced on people.
  One of our policies enforce that screen savers must start after 20 minutes, and it’s not possible to reduce it (I have my personal on 3 minutes). Or the fact that it will constantly reset the UI notification volume to 100% and speaker output, even though have headphones almost always.
  Infuriating.
  
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wpm 10 months ago

There is a configuration profile payload that can stop updates like major version changes for up to 90 days. You cannot stop them indefinitely from appearing in Software Update.

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colechristensen 10 months ago

Yes, it's called MDM (Mobile Device Management) and lets admins set all kinds of policy on apple devices. There are several vendors out there that implement it.

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