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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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11 +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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17 17  {{box title="**Contents**"}}
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33 33  = Before starting the update =
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36 36  * **Perform a complete shutdown and restart of your computer.** During our testing, this step has proven to resolve several issues that were encountered.
37 37  * **Connect the computer to power.**
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39 -The appearance of the update screen may vary depending on your current operating system.
38 +The appearance of the update screen may vary depending on your current operating system. See figure 1 for one example.
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52 52  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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62 -[[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"]]
66 +[[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"]]
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66 -[[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"]]
70 +[[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"]]
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