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.
Conference Team Presentations
Workshops
- “I’m still standing” (Thanks, Elton) (Slides | Files)
- Build a Command-line App with Swift (Slides)
- Contributing to Our Community (Slides)
- Scripting FUNdamentals for Mac admins (Slides)
- Apple Device Administration Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide (Slides)
- Auto Deploy: Automate Your Jamf Pro Deployments (No Slides)
- Getting Started Deploying Apple Devices (No Slides)
- Ready, Set, Go: From Hello to Mac Deploy – Flow (Slides)
Conference Sessions
- Accessibility is For Everyone – Damien Barrett (Slides | Video)
- Achieving End-to-End Phishing-Resistance with Entra ID Passkeys and Platform SSO – Michael Epping (Slides | Video)
- API and Data Basics – Reid Blondell (Slides | Video)
- Apple Platform Security – Apple Apple (No video or slides available)
- AppleScript In All the Wrong Places – Dave Siederer (Slides | Video)
- AutoAutoPkg – Manage your AutoPkg with GitHub Actions – Adam Anklewicz (Slides | Video)
- Automate all the things – fully automated OS and App patching – Jacob Burley (Slides | Video)
- Basic Git for non-Programmers – Chris Carr (Slides | Video)
- A Brief History of Password Syncing – Greg Neagle (Slides | Video)
- Bring Your Own IdP to ABM – Nicholas Larson (Slides | Video)
- Career Management for Admins: creating your path – John Welch, Nadyne Richmond (Slides | Video)
- Celebrating AutoPkg with a new Runner – Scott Blake (Slides | Video)
- Clavis Arcana Māla: Configuration profile concepts – Joshua See (Slides | Video)
- Create AutoPkg recipes for Mac/Win/Linux from scratch – James Stewart (Slides | Video)
- Customer Service Excellence for Mac Admins: Handling Difficult Customers and Improving IT Support – Jeremey Kenney (Slides | Video)
- The Day After – Post-Installation Visibility Through Scripting – Ross Matsuda (Slides | Video)
- Deep Dive Into Declarative OS Updates and Upgrades – Bryce Carlson (Slides | Video)
- Documentation: A love letter to future you – Jack-Daniyel Strong (Slides | Video)
- Dynamically Scaling macOS: How, When, and Why – Dave Siederer (Slides | Video)
- Effective Troubleshooting and Bug Reporting – Joseph Chilcote (Slides | Video)
- Embark on the Remote Support Adventure – Charles Mangin (Slides | Video)
- From Mac to Windows: Expanding AutoPkg’s Reach – Shoolin Saini, Albert Koch (Slides | Video)
- Homebrew: How to Unite Developers, IT Administrators, and Security Professionals – Brandon Valentine, John Britton (Slides | Video)
- How to use the Apple Business Manager API – Weldon Dodd, Arek Dreyer (No Slides | Video)
- How to Write a Proposal and Conduct a Bake-Off: Open vs. Closed Source Software – Louise Radifera, John Eberle, Alexander Smith (Slides | Video)
- Just Another JAMF Dashboard – Stay Organized & Keep Stakeholders In the Loop – Marc Helou (Slides | Video)
- LAPS That Just Works: Catalyst + Intune – Henry Kon (Slides | Video)
- Leading from Wherever You Are – Meghan Gillet (Slides | Video)
- Let’s Build Something with swiftDialog – Casey Scruggs (Slides | Video)
- Leveling Up – Managing admin rights in the enterprise – Rich Trouton (Slides | Video)
- Leverage the Air in your Mosyle iPad Deployments – Jesse Smillie (Slides | Video)
- Mac malware and the problems of Mac “Vista” – Thomas Reed (Slides | Video)
- macOS 26: What You Need To Know – Robert Hammen (Slides | Video)
- Making Macs Feel Like Macs: User-Centric IT Management – Nakib Mashrur (Slides | Video)
- Managing macOS with Intune and Lessons Learned – Chris Kunze (Slides | Video)
- Master Macs with Intune (a sequel to Managing Macs with Intune) – Andrew Myers, Sam Gibbs (Slides | Video)
- Maximizing macOS: EVEN MORE Insider Tips for Efficient Mac Administration – Dennis Wurster, Nate Felton (Slides | Video)
- MDM and DDM 101 – Rich Trouton (Slides | Video)
- MDM Migration Demystified: Best Practices for MacAdmins – Kevin M. Cox (Slides | Video)
- Navigating LGBT Challenges and Building Support in IT – Louise Radifera, Joshua Smith, Sabrina Coy, Becky Scott, Leon Chung, John Eberle (No Slides or Video available)
- Navigating Mixed-Platform Classrooms in Higher Education: Challenges & Solutions – Ted Akin, Martin Lippai (Slides | Video)
- Networking: The Play! – Ben Greisler, John Soward (Slides | Video)
- One PreStage to Rule Them All: Secure macOS Deployment with Power Automate – Quinn Harouff (Slides | Video)
- The path to Staff Engineer and beyond – staying on the IC train – Graham Gilbert (Slides | Video)
- Preparing for the unexpected in K-12 Education – Randy Saeks (Slides | Video)
- Rocketman Command Center: A Utility for Jamf Pro – Christopher Schasse, Patrick Blackmore (Slides | Video)
- S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. Optimizes the macOS Update Experience – Kevin White (Slides | Video)
- swiftDialog for Overworked Mac Admins – Beth Johnson (Slides | Video)
- The State of Identity on Apple devices – Matt Vlasach (Slides | Video)
- These Things Run On Electricity? It’s Shocking What You Might Not Know! – Charles Mangin (Slides | Video)
- Understanding Compliance Benchmarks – Tyler Aird, Hector Alcala (Slides | Video)
- Virtualization in IT and Education: Best and Latest Practices – Luba Kulakova (Slides | Video)
- Want to advance your IT career but not sure where to start or how to push forward? – Justin Esgar (Slides | Video)
- We’re Wired Differently! How to talk about your neurodiversity with your employer and co workers – Roger Herling (Slides | Video)
- What’s New for IT – Apple Apple (No video or slides available)
- Why I chose to speak – Goetch Stone (No Slides | Video)
- WiFi troubleshooting from your Mac – Jeff Forrest (Slides | Video)
- Working with Platform SSO – Christopher Scalise (No video or slides available)
- Wouldn’t it be great if you could refresh a mobile device… in a single tap or less? – Adam Derrick, Matt Cooper (No Slides | Video)
- You are Here – and How to Get to There! – Mark Laslo (Slides | Video)
- Zen and the Art of MacAdmin Mental Maintenance – Robert Hammen, Damien Barrett (Slides | Video)
Sponsor Sessions
- Adventures in AI, with your friends at Kandji – Weldon Dodd (No Slides | Video)
- Compliant Mac Workloads in the Cloud: AWS & Jamf Show You How – Dave Siederer, Adam Derrick (Slides | Video)
- Console – An AI Coworker for Your Helpdesk (ft. Scale AI and Bloomerang) – Andrei Serban (No video or slides available)
- Erase and Restore Macs at Scale – Timothy Perfitt (No Slides | Video)
- Fleet Device Management GitOps Workshop – Brock Walters, Harrison Ravazzolo (Slides | Video)
- Risotto Sponsor Session – Aron Solberg (No video or slides available)
- Securing the Keys to the Kingdom: End-to-End Privileged Access Management for MacAdmins – Joel Rennich (No Slides | Video)
- SwiftUI Under Control: Making macOS Apps MDM-Aware – Ryan Ball, Chad Swarthout (No Slides | Video)
- Workbrew: How to Say Yes To Homebrew – John Britton, Brandon Valentine (Slides | Video)
- Writing the Future: After 10 Years of Mac Admins, What’s Next? – Tom Bridge, Chris Dawe, John Mahlman IV, Becky Scott, Rebecca Latimer (No Slides | Video)
For content from previous conferences, visit our Resources Archive.