A maintenance release to Mac Admins’ new favorite, MDM-agnostic, “set-it-and-forget-it” end-user reminder for Apple’s Declarative Device Management-enforced macOS update deadlines that further simplifies enterprise-wide deployment and adds user warnings for excessive uptime and low disk space
Overview
While Apple’s Declarative Device Management (DDM) provides Mac Admins a powerful way to enforce macOS updates, its built-in notification is often too subtle for most administrators.
DDM OS Reminder evaluates the most recent `EnforcedInstallDate` and `setPastDuePaddedEnforcementDate` entries in `/var/log/install.log`, and then leverages a swiftDialog-enabled script plus a LaunchDaemon to deliver a more prominent end-user dialog that reminds users to update their Mac to comply with DDM-enforced macOS update deadlines.
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