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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Apple announced today (November 10, 2020) that macOS 11 Big Sur will be released on Thursday, November 12, 2020.
<b>Please do not upgrade any CALS/CES/AES-owned Macs to Big Sur at this time</b>. Three main issues we are aware of are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">- Sophos will break under Big Sur</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">- Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client will break under Big Sur</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">- Camera/microphone permissions will be locked behind Admin credentials in Big Sur</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Other bugs are sure to be discovered in the coming weeks. Sophos and Cisco are updating their software to work with Big Sur, but we do not have an ETA on those.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script Std";color:#1F497D">Mario A. Marquez<br>
Systems Administrator Principal<br>
University of Arizona<br>
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences<br>
School of Plant Sciences<br>
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.splshelp.arizona.edu/"><span style="color:blue">http://www.splshelp.arizona.edu/</span></a><br>
<a href="mailto:marquezm@email.arizona.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">marquezm@email.arizona.edu</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script Std";color:#1F497D"><br>
<b><i>Office 520-621-1257<br>
Cell 520-429-2902<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
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