>A Mac Admin quality-of-life update to the new favorite MDM-agnostic, “set-it-and-forget-it” reminder with improved multi-language support, granular control for displaying IT Support information and a new, easy-to-use reminderDialogPreferenceTest.zsh script for validating preference configurations and dialog appearance in real-time

Overview

While Apple’s Declarative Device Management (DDM) provides Mac Admins with a powerful way to enforce macOS updates, its built-in notification is often too subtle for most administrators.

DDM OS Reminder intelligently resolves DDM-enforced macOS update deadlines from recent /var/log/install.log activity, while using a declaration-aware resolver which prioritizes applicable enforced-install signals. End-user reminders are suppressed when declaration state is missing, conflicting, or invalid, only honoring setPastDuePaddedEnforcementDate when it safely matches the resolved declaration, before using a swiftDialog-enabled script and LaunchDaemon to deliver a more prominent end-user reminder dialog.

New Features

• Granular Control for Displaying IT Support Information: New HideSupport* preferences allow Mac Admins to easily choose which IT Support fields are displayed to their end-users.
• Use Resources/reminderDialogPreferenceTest.zsh when you want to easily validate dialog copy, localization, branding, support contact details, button visibility, and infobox rendering from deployed preferences without waiting for an actual DDM deadline.