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Christine Sklareski 18.1 5 = MacOS Minimum Version Requirements =
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Christine Sklareski 18.2 8 In our ongoing commitment to strengthening cybersecurity across the district, Technology Services will be enforcing a minimum operating system version for all Mac computers.
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Christine Sklareski 18.2 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. Your computer operating system will update automatically on the date specified or you can initiate yourself beforehand.
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14 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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Christine Sklareski 5.1 35 = Before starting the update =
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38 * **Perform a complete shutdown and restart of your computer.** During our testing, this step has proven to resolve several issues that were encountered.
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Christine Sklareski 16.1 41 The appearance of the update screen may vary depending on your current operating system, one such example is shown in figure 1.
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Christine Sklareski 1.2 59 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 If you are unsure whether the prompt is legitimate, please leave it open and contact the Technology Services Helpline immediately at extension 11199.
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64 Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any concerns regarding this process. If you encounter any issues during the update, please submit a tech request through IncidentIQ.
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Christine Sklareski 11.1 69 [[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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Christine Sklareski 11.1 73 [[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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