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Last modified by Christine Sklareski on 2025/04/01 15:21
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edited by Christine Sklareski
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5 -= Minimum MacOS Version Requirements =
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8 8  In our ongoing commitment to strengthening cybersecurity across the district, going forward Technology Services will be enforcing a minimum operating system version for all Mac computers.
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10 -Once the policy is activated, you will receive a notification on your Mac alerting you that a scheduled managed update is available and must be acted on. Please be aware that the update process may take a considerable amount of time, depending on your current operating system version.
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9 +Once the policy is activated, you will receive a notification on your Mac alerting you that a scheduled managed update is available and must be acted on. Please be aware that the update process may take a considerable amount of time, depending on your current operating system version.
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31 -= Before starting the update =
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28 += **Before starting the update** =
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34 34  * **Perform a complete shutdown and restart of your computer.** During our testing, this step has proven to resolve several issues that were encountered.
35 35  * **Connect the computer to power.**
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37 37  The appearance of the update screen may vary depending on your current operating system.
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55 55  If you are prompted for an administrator username and password, as shown in Fig. 2, please use your district username without “@etownschools.org” (e.g., john_doe) and your computer login password.
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65 -[[Figure 1. Apple system Settings Software Update screen showing an operating system update.>>image:SUA.png||alt="Apple System Settings Software Update Available screen" data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="end" height="295" width="357"]]
55 +[[Figure 1. Apple system Settings Software Update screen showing an operating system update.>>image:SUA.png||alt="Apple System Settings Software Update Available screen" data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="end" height="359" width="434"]]
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69 -[[Figure 2. Software update prompting for a password.>>image:U_P_Screen.png||alt="Software Update screen prompting a password" data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="end" height="297" width="358"]]
60 +[[Figure 2. Software update prompting for a password.>>image:U_P_Screen.png||alt="Software Update screen prompting a password" data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="end" height="365" width="440"]]
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