Product Information
macOS Ventura was released on October 24, 2022. While Academic Technology's Technology Support Services group will be supporting Ventura as of Monday, December 12th, they will continue testing Ventura with our software listed below to update its compatibility with campus tools.
Recommendation
There is no urgency or current need for you to upgrade to the new macOS. You do NOT need to upgrade.
However if you choose to upgrade, BEFORE you do so, please review the macOS Ventura Compatibility information below. You will see that a number of applications are still not officially supporting Ventura, such as OnGuard (for WiFi use), Mozilla, and SPSS; other applications may need special attention with the upgrade, e.g., Adobe Products; and you may have to reinstall your printers.
As with any major macOS upgrade, we recommend you back up your data prior to upgrading.
The macOS versions currently supported by Academic Technology / Technology Support Services are:
- macOS Big Sur (11.0)
- macOS Monterey (12.0)
- macOS Ventura (13.0)
System Requirements
Apple has announced the following models will support macOS Ventura:
- Macbook (2017)
- MacBook Air (2018 and later)
- MacBook Pro (2017 and later)
- Mac mini (2018 and later)
- iMac (2017 and later)
- iMac Pro (2017)
- Mac Pro (2019 and later)
- Mac Studio (2022)
Software Compatibility
Please note some new Apple computers use a CPU designed by Apple instead of an Intel CPU. These computers require a program called Rosetta in order to run software designed to run on an Intel CPU. Most major software companies are working on software that will run on these Apple CPU's natively so they won't need Rosetta, but this may take several months or longer. Most current software will run fine with Rosetta.
macOS Ventura borrows some style elements from iPadOS which includes System Preferences being changed to "System Settings".
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Active Directory No issues found |
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Adobe products need to be enabled under Apple, System Settings, General, Login Items in order for the products to auto-update correctly. |
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Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe products need to be enabled under Apple, System Settings, General, Login Items in order for the products to auto-update correctly. |
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Adobe Photoshop Adobe products need to be enabled under Apple, System Settings, General, Login Items in order for the products to auto-update correctly. |
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BigFix Client Supported with BigFix Agent 10.0.7 (SCU's current version). |
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Cisco AnyConnect (VPN) Ventura is supported. |
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ExamSoft Supported with Examplify 2.9.2, 2.9.8 and 3.1.2 |
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Google Chrome Supported with version 107 or later |
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MATLAB Supported with MATLAB R2022b |
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Microsoft Office Microsoft Office supports the current version of macOS and the 2 previous versions (Monterey and Big Sur). |
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Mozilla Firefox Tested but Mozilla has not yet announced official support for Ventura |
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OnGuard (ClearPass) - Required to Access SCU Resources such as MySCU Portal, Camino and Gmail. OnGuard Agent is not officially supported with macOS 13 Ventura per the vendor. Testing - the OnGuard Agent has been testing unreliable and may require a restart or uninstall / reinstall. |
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Printer Logic NOTE: In testing the upgrade to Ventura, several test computers "lost" their printers and needed to have them reinstalled. |
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Printing NOTE: In testing the upgrade to Ventura, several test computers "lost" their printers and needed to have them reinstalled. |
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Safeconnect MetaAccess NAC Policy Key is not supported on macOS Ventura per the vendor |
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SmartPrint Issue reported with the "Notify" app in SmartPrint with Ventura. A workaround for the error: The SmartPrint 'Notify' application is reported by macOS as being '...damaged and cannot be opened'. To work around this, do the following: NOTE: In testing the upgrade to Ventura, several test computers "lost" their printers and needed to have them reinstalled. |
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Sophos Home (Personally Owned Computers) Ventura has a known bug that affects security software from multiple companies / vendors. This bug prevents the software from accessing the full storage, which is an important requirement of endpoint protection. This bug is addressed in macOS 13.0.1. Ventura is supported by Sophos 10.4.1 and later. |
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Sophos Central (University Owned Computers) Ventura has a known bug that affects security software from multiple companies / vendors. This bug prevents the software from accessing the full storage, which is an important requirement of endpoint protection. This bug is addressed in macOS 13.0.1 Ventura is supported by Sophos 10.4.1 and later. |
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SPSS Not yet officially supported by IBM |
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Zoom Web Conferencing Supported by Zoom |
Last Updated 12/9/2022