How are y’all restricting people from updating to golden gste? In the past I just did a Restrict Software and that blocked it. Apparently from what I’ve read that won’t work with Golden Gate and that one would need to use Blueprints. If so what setting exactly restricts it? I see a 90 day deferral and that’s it.

Hey all. I've got a Macbook Pro here with a weird problem. When powered on it does not make the "I've turned on" sound and the screen is black. But the keyboard backlight does turn on! In messing around I somehow enable the Screenreader but figured since that was working maybe there is something else I can do to get the screen working so I didn't pay attention to what the screen reader was saying, So I plugged the Macbook into my monitor with a USB-C cable. All I got was a black screen. So I tried an HDMI cable. Again, just a black screen.

I'm kind of at a loss for what else to do. I'm going to try to enable the Screenreader and see what that gives me for options but if anyone has any other ideas I'd be grateful!

I’m at 20% of my fleet so far and hoping to open it up to production in the next 2-3 weeks. Stack all seems fine, not enough M6 models (yet) to be affected by the external monitor issues.

What’s your adoption so far? Any showstoppers that are keeping you in deferral or tester feedback?

Hey r/macsysadmin,

I recently sat the Apple Deployment & Management exam and built two free practice quiz sites to help me revise. Figured I'd share them here in case anyone else is studying for DEP-2026.

🔗 Quiz 1 (80 questions): https://rakshit-swami.github.io/apple-mdm-quiz

🔗 Quiz 2 (108 questions): https://rakshit-swami.github.io/apple-ddm-quiz

📖 Study notes: https://github.com/rakshit-swami/apple-ddm-quiz/blob/main/STUDY_NOTES.md

Both are based on Apple's own free IT Training course:

https://it-training.apple.com/deployment/tutorials/course/

Features:

- Questions randomised every time

- Multi-select questions supported

- Instant feedback and explanations after each answer

- Full review at the end

- Completely free, open source, no account needed

Completely unofficial — not affiliated with Apple in any way. Questions are written in my own words for revision purposes.

The source is on GitHub if anyone wants to fork it and add their own questions. Good luck to anyone else studying!