Category Archives: MacAdmins 2014 Sessions

Teaching 1:1 Responsibility

How do you leverage management tools to implicitly and directly teach responsibility and ethical use to your user base? How do you empower users while maintaining a degree of administrative control and keep your OS and equipment secure? Learn how … Continue reading

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iOS Security Decoded

iOS is one of the largest computing platforms in the world, and that makes it a prime hacking target.  Apple has hardware and software security measures in place to help keep your data safe, but how do they work? In … Continue reading

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Shipping Containers with Docker

Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. Imagine being able to take all the components of your server and just plop them onto another server. With Docker you created the environment that … Continue reading

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Systems Deployment with Blast Image Config

Come and learn about Blast Image Config (BIC), a freeware OS X system image deployment tool developed at Penn State since 2003. Blast Image Config is a complete software solution to quickly restore and configure a Mac back to a … Continue reading

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Mac Administration: The Fundamentals

Surprise! You’ve just been named the new Mac admin! Overwhelmed and confused with all of this administration stuff? If you’re trying to figure out how to JAMF your Munki, or if you think MCX is a rapper, and DeployStudio is … Continue reading

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