Category Archives: MacAdmins 2017 Sessions

Sessions presented at the 2017 MacAdmins Conference

Reverse Engineering the OS: A Practical Guide

Speakers: Mike Lynn Level: Advanced, Lecture Excerpt: Let Mike Lynn (frogor/pudquick/mikeymikey) take you on a tour of figuring out how the OS does something – and then making new tools to take advantage of it. Description: Part of my job … Continue reading

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Practical Python for Mac Admins

Speakers: Jeremy Reichman Level: Fundamental, Hands-on (BYOD for attendees) Excerpt: Whether you are already comfortable with Bash or AppleScript or Automator or just want to learn more about scripting in general there are practical reasons to use Python. Python is … Continue reading

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Introduction to Cyber Defense (Part 1)

Speakers: Todd Echterling Level: Fundamental, Hands-on (BYOD for attendees) Excerpt: Get a hands on lesson using computer attack and defense tools required to identify vulnerabilities, exploit them to see their full effect on a system. Description: This workshop will give … Continue reading

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Understanding and Implementing Apple School Manager for use with Apple Classroom

Speakers: Michelle Delaney Level: Intermediate, Lecture Excerpt: This session will cover a successful conversion from legacy Apple Deployment configurations to a fully functional Apple School Manager implementation. This includes tips and tricks for dealing with Apple conversion pitfalls that are … Continue reading

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Turbocharge your scripting with PyObjC

Speakers: Greg Neagle Level: Advanced, Lecture Excerpt: Give your Python scripts amazing new abilities by utilizing Apple frameworks via the PyObjC bridge. Basic familiarity with Python or a similar high-level scripting language will be assumed. Description: Python is a scripting … Continue reading

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