Subj : New macOS Sonoma update is reportedly taking down printers as wel
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Mar 15 2024 14:30:06

New macOS Sonoma update is reportedly taking down printers as well as USB hubs

Date:
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:23:11 +0000

Description:
The latest update for macOS 14 is off to something of a rocky start, for sure.

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 Not content with playing havoc with USB hubs in some scenarios, it appears 
the latest update for macOS Sonoma is also a troublemaker for printers, too. 

Indeed, according to various reports online as flagged up by Apple Insider , 
the macOS Sonoma 14.4 update is breaking printers in some cases. In other 
cases, there appears to be a more limited impact, in that the printer still 
works, but selecting page sizes doesnt. 

It seems Sonoma 14.4 is either stripping out, or messing up, printer drivers 
in Apples operating system, rendering the devices non-functional, at least 
for the time being in many of these reported cases. 

There are users complaining about printer functionality going very wonky on 
Reddit and Apples support forums  however, there does appear to be a 
solution. 

Namely, as stated in the above Apple post, you need to head to System 
Settings, and Privacy & Security and then Full Disk Access to grant full disk 
access to com.microsoft.dlp  and that might sort the issue. 

This isnt guaranteed, mind, but there are a number of users giving the 
thumbs-up and saying this move did get their printer (or printers) working in 
macOS again. Analysis: A cocktail of possible causes? 

Seemingly the issue pertains to Microsoft Defender (which is what the above 
disk access change relates to), and/or JAMF mobile device management 
software, and possibly some other factors. Its difficult to know exactly 
what, but the most prominent commonality seems to be Defender. 

The good news is that this doesnt seem to be affecting too many macOS Sonoma 
14.4 users, as while there are a number of reports, they arent too 
widespread. And they appear to relate to particular configurations, too, 
mainly in office scenarios. 

Given that, hopefully your average user at home isnt seeing this problem  or 
only in rare cases. In short, youre probably pretty unlucky if you hit this 
snag outside of a business network setting  but it seems that there are 
isolated incidents of this occuring with individual Macs . You might also 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/mac-os/new-macos-sonoma-update-is-reported
ly-taking-down-printers-as-well-as-usb-hubs


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