Resources

MacAdmins Conference Resources

Below are links to slides and videos from our most recent conference.  Slides are posted the week after the conference (depending on speaker’s preference).  Videos will be posted a few weeks after the conference concludes. For content from previous conferences, visit our Resources Archive.

Reports

Conference Team Presentations

  • 2023 MacAdmins Opening Remarks (Slides)
  • 2023 MacAdmins Closing Remarks (Slides)

Workshops

  • AutoPkg in Depth: Understanding, Selecting, Creating, and Maintaining Recipes – Elliot Jordan; Anthony Reimer (Slides)
  • De-NISTifying macOS Security Compliance – Allen Golbig; John Mahlman IV; Dan Brodjieski (Slides)
  • Leveraging graphs to understand our Active Directory security – Guillaume Ross (Slides)
  • Manage Risk on macOS with Advanced Auditing Capabilities – Brandon Mesa (Slides)
  • Scripting and Packaging for Mac Admins – Adam Wickert (Slides)
  • Using Cloud Service APIs – Weldon Dodd (Slides)
  • Zero Touch Provisioning: From Start to Finish – Hugo Immediato (Slides)

Conference Sessions

  • A Deep Dive Into System, Network, and App Extensions – Charles Edge (Slides | Video)
  • Aging in Tech, Revisited – Pam Lefkowitz (Slides | Video)
  • AI: The future we were promised? – Sergio J Aviles (Slides | Video)
  • Apple WWDC Update – Apple Education (No resources available)
  • Automate IT with Okta Workflows – Evan Byrnes; Ventura Torres (Slides | Video)
  • Automating App Deployment and Patching with Jamf App Installers – Adam Derrick (Slides | Video)
  • Be Ye Batman not Superman – John Welch (Slides | Video)
  • Behind the MDM Curtains – Joseph Chilcote (Slides | Video)
  • Beta Buddies! Testing with Friends! – Rebecca Latimer; Adam Anklewicz (Slides | Video)
  • Bringing a Mac Admin Mindset to Managing Windows Endpoints – Rebecca Latimer; Adam Anklewicz (Slides | Video)
  • Bringing it Together – Jamf Unification at Texas A&M University – Kyle Gilmore; Oscar Reyes; Andrew Barnett; Stephen Johnson (Slides | Video)
  • BYOD – The Better Way! – Adam Derrick (Slides | Video)
  • Can we keep everyone happy? – Justin Henderson (Slides | Video)
  • Creating Positive Update Experiences Using Nudge and Jamf – Alexander Smith (Slides | Video)
  • Customizable Dialogs for macOS: Using SwiftDialog for Better UX – Jon Crain (Slides | Video)
  • From Edu to Enterprise: What the $%# Have I Done – Ben Greisler; Damien Barrett (Slides | Video)
  • From Engineer to Manager: The Journey From Doing to Delegating – Tobias Morrison (Slides | Video)
  • Github, Docker, and AWS – A Simple CI/CD Walkthrough – Jon Goldman (Slides | Video)
  • How a Feature is Born – William Smith (Slides | Video)
  • Introduction to Declarative MDM – Rich Trouton (Slides | Video)
  • ITS-LOG! A one-click log collector for busy admins! – Brad Chapman (Slides | Video)
  • Mac Admins Open Source Panel – Rich Trouton; Nate Walck; Greg Neagle; Elliot Jordan; Dr. Emily Kausalik (Slides | Video)
  • Mac in a Hurry: Cloud Macs for Development and Beyond – Roger Herling; Dave Siederer (Slides | Video)
  • macOS 14: What You Need to Know – Robert Hammen (Slides | Video)
  • Managing iPads from the Command Line and Scripting it too! – Jesse C. Smillie (Slides | Video)
  • Managing user identity on Macs – Sean Rabbitt (Slides| Video)
  • Microsoft macOS Experience Lifecycle – Bryce Carlson (Slides | Video)
  • Modern macOS Security in Higher Education – Quentin Harouff; John Ross (Slides | Video)
  • PB&J. A love story made in documentation. – Justin Esgar (Slides | Video)
  • PowerShell on macOS – John Welch (Slides | Video)
  • Processing Webhooks with Terraform and AWS – Scott Blake (Slides | Video)
  • Real-time, Continuous Risk-Management for macOS – Joseph Becker; Brandon Mesa (Slides | Video)
  • Roam Revisited! – Chris Dawe (Slides | Video)
  • Scripting the unscriptable – GUI Scripts in macOS – Ross Matsuda (Slides | Video)
  • Security by Design: Ideas to keep in mind. – Ben Bass; Joe Scalone (Slides | Video)
  • Serious Talks about MDM Migrations – Rick Heil (Slides | Video)
  • So You Want To Give A Conference Presentation…. – Jennifer Unger (Slides | Video
  • Software Update: Updating macOS and iOS in the modern era – Tom Bridge (Slides | Video)
  • Squirrel! || How I Learned to Stop Spiraling && Love my Neurodiversity – Jason Stanford (Slides | Video)
  • Streamline Your macOS Administration with Github Actions – Jon Crain (Slides | Video)
  • Tech OnBoarding For Success (and how Not to Do It) – Ben Greisler; Damien Barrett (Slides | Video)
  • The Journey from No Code, to Low-Code, to Code – Dmitri Altum (Slides | Video)
  • The Mac Admins Foundation – Rich Trouton; Chris Dawe; Jennifer Unger; Tom Bridge; Dr. Emily Kausalik (Slides | Video)
  • The Past, Present, and Future of Munki – Greg Neagle (Slides | Video)
  • To 6E: Recent Developments in Apple Wi-Fi Implementations – Chris Dawe (Slides | Video)
  • Tools to Manage Jamf Pro(s) at Scale – Ryan Ball; Sam Gibbs; Andrew Myers (Slides | Video)
  • Use Intune like Nudge for iOS, even if it’s not your MDM – Milly Marsh (Slides | Video)
  • Using AutoPKG for Windows Software 2.0 – James Stewart (Slides | Video)
  • You Down With TCC? – Christopher Schasse (Slides | Video)

Sponsor Sessions

  • A Deep Dive Into Apple OS Updates (now with more DDM!) – Bryce Carlson; Manny Cabrera (Slides | Video)
  • Bravas, MDM & IDP built for the future – Yoann Gini (Slides | Video)
  • Cross-platform open-source monitoring and reporting – Jack-Daniyel (Slides | Video)
  • Desired State Management for macOS – Kat Orta (Slides | Video)
  • FileWave 15 Unleashed: Expanding Your Device Management Toolbox – (Slides | Video)
  • Reimagining macOS Patch Management – Chad Swarthout (Slides | Video)
  • Security for Mac Admins – (Slides | Video)
  • Strategies to improve your WiFi experience on Mac – (Slides | Video)
  • What’s your CrashPlan? Is your work/data protected? – (Slides | Video)

For content from previous conferences, visit our Resources Archive.