Speakers: Rich Trouton
Level: Presentation
Excerpt: Discussing how to manage admin rights for users in an enterprise environment.
Description: A fundamental and controversial issue for enterprise Mac admins is the management of admin rights for their user community. Some say granting admin is fine, others think it’s a bad idea and yet others have regulatory requirements which govern what can be done.
Like other enterprise environments, SAP has had to deal with the issue of admin rights for their users and developed a tool called Privileges to manage them. Join me for a discussion of the pros and cons of admin rights in general and how SAP arrived at developing and using Privileges for their solution to the issue..
About the speaker
Rich Trouton
Rich Trouton has been doing Macintosh system and server administration for over twenty years and has supported Macs in a number of different environments, including university, government, medical research, advertising and enterprise software development. His current position is at SAP, where he works with the rest of the Apple@SAP team to support SAP’s Apple community.
Rich has also written for Peachpit, Apress and MacTech Magazine on various ways to manage Apple devices. His most recent book with co-author Charles Edge is “Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and AppleTVs”.