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2023 MacAdmins Conference

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)

2022 Campfire Sessions Conference Sessions

2021 Campfire Sessions Conference Sessions

  • Advanced Federation with Apple Business Manager/Apple School Manager – Nicholas McDonald (Video)
  • Alectrona Patch: Bringing your internal tools to the next level – Ryan Ball (Video)
  • Documentation by IT Folks who Can’t Write Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Support Good Too (Zoolander GIF here) – Kelly Guimont (Video)
  • Essential Admin Workflows for Apple Silicon – Arek Dreyer (Video)
  • How do I test all this stuff? – Adam Wickert (Video | Info)
  • How to Make Delicious Chicken Wings with Lambda Functions – Bryson Tyrrell (Video)
  • macOS next: What You Need To Know – Robert Hammen (Video)
  • SAP in the Haus – How SAP transitioned its global workforce to working from home – Rich Trouton (Video | Info)
  • The Three Paragons of IT: How Chidi, Ted and Jules helped me master IT management – Tom Bridge (Video | Info)
  • Unified Logging – Richard Mallion (Video | Info)
  • Updating macOS – a Nudge in the right direction – Neil Martin (Video | Info)
  • What isn’t malware? – Thomas Reed (Video)
  • What’s new in macOSLAPS – Josh Miller (Video | Info)
  • What’s new with Adobe 2021 in Education – Darren Wallace (Video | Info)
  • Zero to Secure: How We Secured our Environment Without (Much) Pain – John Mahlman IV (Video)

2020 Campfire Sessions Conference Sessions

  • An Introduction to regex – William Smith (Video | Info)
  • Deploying Macs with MDS 3 – Timothy Perfitt (Video | Info)
  • Developing Mac apps at Microsoft – Q&A Panel – Erik Schwiebert; Paul Bowden; Gieta Laksmana; Jonathan Leung (Video)
  • Early Efficiencies: prioritizing your time as a new Mac Admin through automation and other best practices – Caroline Bodager; Ross Matsuda (Video)
  • How Did You Do That!? Tips and Tricks to Level Up your iPhone – Kelly Guimont (Video)
  • Introduction to MDM and Configuration Profiles – Rich Trouton (Video | Info)
  • Mac Admins Orientation – Tom Bridge; Jason Miller; Erin Merchant; David Yoon (Video)
  • macOS 11: What’s New, How It Affects You, and What To Do To Prepare – Robert Hammen (Video)
  • macOS Security Compliance Project – Bob Gendler; Allen Golbig; Dan Brodjieski (Video | <href=”https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security”>Info)
  • MDM Migration for MacOS – Adam Anklewicz (Video | Info)
  • Moving to zsh – Armin Briegel (Video)
  • Supplementing Jamf’s Reporting with MunkiReport – John Eberle; Louise Radifera; Alexander Smith (Video)
  • The rise of Mac malware – Thomas Reed (Video)
  • Things I Learned from the AutoPkg Maintainers – Anthony Reimer (Video | Info)
  • What’s new with Adobe 2020 in Education – Darren Wallace (Video | Info)
  • Why Fi 6? EEEEEEEEEEEE! Upcoming Changes in Wireless Networking – Chris Dawe (Video)

For content from previous conferences, visit our Resources Archive.

2019

Conference Team Presentations

  • 2019 MacAdmins Opening Remarks ( Slides )

2019 Workshops

  • Don’t even think about doing this work alone! – Finding, Building and Maintaining Partners in IT – Vi Lynk ( Slides )
  • It’s dangerous to go alone, take this: A Treasure-filled Workshop for New Mac Admins – Lisa Davies & Jamie Piperberg & Caroline Bodager & Jennifer Unger ( Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 )
  • Fundamentals of Wi-Fi: Physics Always Wins – Tom Bridge & Chris Dawe ( Slides )
  • Learn Incident Response for Mac – Thomas Reed ( Slides )
  • Packaging Workshop – Greg Neagle ( Slides )
  • Swift, Xcode, an App and You – Josh Wisenbaker ( Slides )

2019 Conference Sessions

  • 5 Years Later: Plexify Your Classrooms! – Damien Barrett ( Slides | Video )
  • A Journey From Bugs To SecureTokens – Simon Carlson-Thies ( Slides | Video )
  • A Year on the Client Platform Engineering Team at Uber – Danielle Di Bella ( Slides | Video )
  • Branding and customizing Munki Munki Report. – Jon Brown ( Slides | Video )
  • Breach -> ATTCK -> Osquery – Learning from breach reports to improve endpoint monitoring – Guillaume Ross ( Slides | Video )
  • Build a Web Application with Swift – Steve Goodrich ( Slides | Video )
  • Building and Executing an Amazing Shared iOS Environment – Adam Derrick ( Slides | Video )
  • Committing to Thoughtful Leadership – Erin Merchant & Louise Radifera ( Slides | Video )
  • Deploying Macs from the Recovery Partition with MDS – Kitzy & Timothy Perfitt ( Slides | Video )
  • Deployment considerations and workflows for Adobe CC2019 in Education – Darren Wallace ( Slides | Video )
  • Empowering Teachers: A Classroom Centric Approach to iPad Management – Nikki Lewandowski ( Slides | Video )
  • Fast macOS Management with Chef – Nate Walck ( Slides | Video )
  • Fold, spindle, and mutilate – Joshua See ( Slides | Video )
  • From Flooded Server Room to 100% Cloud: Making your K-12 or Business Modern, Distributed, Resilient, Secure, and Scalable – Gahl Zabar & Pax Whitfield ( Slides | Video )
  • From Imaging to Installation in 1 Semester – James Chiaramonte & Dylan McKenna ( Slides | Video )
  • From Mac Servers to NAS: The Great Migration – Bryan Heinz ( Slides | Video )
  • Get in tune with Intune – Shonda Hodge & Bryce Carlson ( Slides | Video )
  • Getting Started With the Jamf API – Kitzy ( Slides | Video1, Video2 )
  • Going full cloud with Azure AD or Google Cloud Identity – Yoann Gini ( Slides | Video )
  • Hands On with DNS Security – Ben Greisler ( Slides | Video )
  • Identity management, the step after device management – Yoann Gini ( Slides | Video )
  • Impractical Python file and data for todays Mac admins – Jeremy Reichman ( Slides | Video )
  • Installer Package Scripting: Making your deployments easier, one ! at a time – Rich Trouton ( Slides | Video )
  • iPad Evolution at Gateway School District – Jesse C. Smillie ( Slides | Video )
  • Linters, Hooks, and Pipelines – Automation to Save Your Bacon – Elliot Jordan ( Slides | Video )
  • macOS 10.15, the future of Mac administration and more, AMA – Allen Golbig & Lisa Davies & Amanda Wuest & Jennifer Unger & Robert Hammen & Rich Trouton ( Slides | Video )
  • Make your MDM Proactive and solve issues before they are problems – Jon Goldman ( Slides | Video )
  • Making a Jamf Uploader for Everyone – Joshua Harvey ( Slides | Video )
  • Manage Software in Computer Labs on a Budget – Brian Davis ( Slides | Video )
  • Moving to the Future of macOS Deployment a little late – Adam Wickert ( Slides | Video )
  • Notarization and macOS, what it does, why you need it, and how the OS handles things when you dont have it. – Tom Bridge ( Slides | Video )
  • Patch and You: Exploring External Patch Sources with Jamf Pro – Bryson Tyrrell ( Slides | Video )
  • Please pass the Salt… Agents and MDM. – Wesley Whetstone & Shea Craig ( Slides | Video )
  • Preparing for the Next macOS: Testing In Your Environment, and Whats New! – Robert Hammen ( Slides | Video )
  • Project Management and the Mac Admin – Chris Golebiowski ( Slides | Video )
  • Python 101 – Joseph Chilcote ( Slides | Video )
  • Robotic Process Automation: Leveraging Cron, Scripts and Databases for Automating Tasks – John Duong ( Slides )
  • Santa in the Summer: Getting Started with Google Santa – Todd Houle ( Slides | Video )
  • Slack CPE and Chef – Ryan Moon & Lucas Hall ( Slides | Video )
  • Starting from Scratch with Munki – Rick Heil ( Slides | Video )
  • The Joy of Semicolons – Jason Broccardo ( Slides | Video )
  • The Mythical CLI Command Line Interface, OHH My! – Todd Echterling ( Slides | Video )
  • The Unusual Suspects: Existing Tools and Harvesting Knowlege – Andrew Laurence ( Slides | Video )
  • The XML-Files: I Want To Believe – Tobias Morrison ( Slides | Video )
  • Threat hunting and Malware Analysis on Mac OS X with osquery – Milan Shah ( Slides | Video )
  • To MDM or Not To MDM – Is that a Question? – Matthew Schnittker ( Slides )
  • Using DEPNotify to automate your DEP/Non-DEP build workflows – Hoppy Shaw ( Slides | Video )
  • Utilizing MDM in a HIPAA Compliant Environment – Issa Awwad & Adam Derrick ( Slides | Video )
  • Welcome to Slack aka What does the dolphin mean? – Alexander Smith & Louise Radifera & John Eberle ( Slides | Video )
  • Zero Touch Deployment on a budget – Dave Weale ( Slides | Video )
  • Empowering the Slack Powered Workplace – Tim Burke, Erin Merchant, Rich Trouton, and Michael Norton ( Slides | Video )

2019 Sponsor Sessions – Slide availability at sponsors discretion.

  • What’s New for macOS in Workspace ONE UEM – John Richard, VMWare ( Slides | Video )
  • Complete the Zero-Touch Puzzle: Prestage User Enrollments – Scott Reed, JumpCloud ( Slides | Video )
  • Balancing User Privacy and Security with with Device Management – Addigy ( Slides | Video )
  • Fun with User Approved MDM Enrollment and Privacy Preferences Policy Controls in Mojave – FileWave ( Slides | Video )
  • Next Gen Mac Management Harnessing the Power of Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager – Ivanti ( Slides | Video )
  • Advanced Jamf Pro Scripting Workflows – Chad Swarthout, Alectrona ( Slides | Video )

2019 Apple Sessions – Sessions were not recorded.

  • Best Practices Deploying Apple Devices
  • Best Practices for Mac Management and Deployment
  • Best Practices for macOS and iOS Security
  • Apple Security and Privacy Overview
  • Everyone Can Code, even MacAdmins!
  • What’s New from WWDC
  • What’s New in Apple Business Manager
  • What’s New in Apple School Manager
  • Wi-Fi Network Design for Apple Devices ( Notes )

2018

Conference Team Presentations

  • 2018 MacAdmins Opening Remarks ( Slides )

2018 Workshops

  • A deep dive into users & groups management API on macOS – Yoann Gini ( Slides )
  • Best Practices Deploying Apple Devices – Apple Inc. ( No Slides )
  • Mac Management – State of the Union: Admin Tested User Approved! – Robert Hammen & Ben Bass ( Slides )
  • Minimum Viable Security: Achieving Security Getting Rid of Auditors with Free Open Tools – Guillaume Ross ( Slides )
  • Time Management for the Mac Admin – William Smith ( Slides )
  • Yes Virginia you DO need soft skills. – Pam Lefkowitz ( Slides )
  • Utilization of Command Line in Mac OS 10.13 – Michael Doenges & Alexander Adams & Avery Chipka ( Slides )

2018 Conference Sessions

  • A data-driven look at the Mac threat landscape – Thomas Reed ( Slides | Video )
  • Ansible upside down – Introducing the ANTS framework – Jan Welker & Michael Husar ( Slides | Video )
  • Automating a Great On-boarding Experience – Tobias Morrison ( Slides | Video )
  • AutoPkg Level-Up – Anthony Reimer ( Slides | Video )
  • Banging Your Head and Crying Under Your Desk? You Are Not Alone – Andrew Claydon ( Slides | Video )
  • Basic Brilliant Scripting for Beginners – Bryce Carlson ( Slides | Video )
  • Bringing Healthcare Out of the Clinic: MDM and HIPAA with Options! – Jeremy Hill & James Rafel ( Slides | Video )
  • Building a Junior Mac Genius Bar – Damien Barrett ( Slides | Video )
  • Building Frankensteins MDMonster – Moving on From a Departing Management Platform – Monica Yang & J David Hester ( Slides | Video )
  • Climbing Out of the Shell: From Sysadmin to Software Engineering – Josh Wisenbaker ( Slides | Video )
  • Concurrency on macOS – Tom Burgin ( Slides | Video )
  • Configuration Management with Salt Stack: Zero to Hero – Wesley Whetstone ( Slides | Video )
  • Dammit Jim Im a Mac Admin Not a Web Developer: WordPress Basics for Mac Admins – Tiffany Bridge ( Slides | Video )
  • Digital Certificates: Trust is important in any relationship. – Jesse Peterson ( Slides | Video )
  • Diving into AWS Lambda: An Intro to Serverless for Admins – Bryson Tyrrell ( Slides | Video )
  • DNS Security; Ten Things You Need to Know – Ben Greisler ( Slides | Video )
  • Don’t even think about doing this work alone! – Finding and Maintaining Partners in IT – Vi Lynk ( Slides | Video )
  • Enrollment Bootstrapping and the Munki Barrel. A University-wide approach. – Timothy Schutt ( Slides | Video )
  • Enterprise Bootcamp Deployment – Timothy Perfitt ( Slides | Video )
  • Escaping the Tech Whisperer Trap – Nikki Lewandowski & Rich Trouton ( Slides | Video )
  • Exploration Monitoring and Security with osquery – Zachary Wasserman ( Slides | Video )
  • From Idea to Script to App: A Beginners Journey in macOS App Development – Adam Wickert ( Slides | Video )
  • Getting MicroMDM working and working with MicroMDM – Jesse Peterson ( Slides | Video )
  • Hands-on with the Jamf Pro API Part I – Joshua Roskos & William Smith ( Slides | Video )
  • Hands-on with the Jamf Pro API Part II – Joshua Roskos & William Smith ( Slides | Video | Resources )
  • Imaging is Dead. What Now? – Greg Neagle ( Slides | Video )
  • Imaging workflows using MDM without JAMF – Stephen Short ( Slides | Video )
  • Improve Your Printer Deployments – Scott Blake ( Slides | Video )
  • Intro to Chef – Joseph Chilcote ( Slides | Video )
  • K-12 Web Filtering the Good the Bad and the Ugly – Jarrod Coombes & Amanda Wuest & Bob Gendler & Damien Barrett ( Slides | Video )
  • Let Me Librarian That For You: Tips Tricks to Improve Your Google-fu – Abbie Weinberg ( Slides | Video )
  • Managing Mac Nerds! Or how to be an effective leader of atypical employees! – Andrew Kocur ( Slides | Video )
  • OMG! Apple Is Gutting Server.app!!!! – Adam Anklewicz ( Slides | Video )
  • Present Future Managers Rejoice! Your Salvation is at Hand – Jim Rispin ( Slides | Video )
  • Providing the best Mac experience possible from the Mac CoE team with ? – Rich Trouton ( Slides | Video )
  • Roam if You Want To: Wi-Fi Client Mobility – Chris Dawe ( Slides | Video )
  • Taming rf Unicorns and Other Fantastic Beasts – Chris Miller ( Slides | Video )
  • Think Different about Windows on your Mac or off – Rob Roy ( Slides | Video )
  • Understanding requesting and using X.509 Certificates on macOS – Timothy Perfitt ( Slides | Video )
  • User Initiated Technology – Why Warby Parker Built a Culture of Self-Service – Jon Mann ( No Slides or Video )
  • Using AD when you cant use AD – Getting Jamf Pro to talk to ADAM or NoMAD – Edward Shorrock ( Slides | Video )
  • Using EasyLogin Alpha an Open Source DaaS made for Mac – Yoann Gini ( Slides | Video )
  • Using osquery via Fleet for client/server visibility – Lucas Hall ( Slides | Video )
  • Wait Are We Doing This Right? Auditing Your Operations – Nathan Felton & Dennis Wurster ( Slides | Video )
  • We Should Write This Down Somewhere — Documentation for Beginners – Dennis Wurster ( Slides | Video )
  • What is Layered Security and how we protect Millersville University from the bad guys. – Todd Echterling ( Slides | Video )
  • Whats new with MunkiReport – John Eberle ( Slides | Video )
  • Whats next? A look into the crystal ball of managing macOS devices – Graham Gilbert ( Slides | Video )
  • Zero-Touch in K12 – Andrew Maya & Philip Ayala ( Slides | Video )

2018 Sponsor Sessions – Slide availability at sponsors discretion.

  • Automating your zero-touch deployment with Jamf Pro – Chad Swarthout ( Slides | Video )
  • Beyond the Admin App: FileWave Extensibility with the RESTful API – Jonathan Kane ( Slides | Video )
  • Elevate Your Apple EcoSystem Via The Cloud – Jason Dettbarn ( Slides | Video )
  • External Threats Impacting EDU Today – Eric Hall ( Slides | Video )
  • Get Your Tools in Front of Thousands with the Jamf Marketplace – Bryson Tyrrell ( Slides | Video )
  • How trustworthy is your Mac infrastructure? Intrusion Detection Investigation and Remediation with osquery – Milan Shah ( Slides | Video )
  • Kolide – How Software Engineers Ruin Macs and Could Ruin You – Jason Meller ( Slides | Video )
  • One-Click Fleet Security with Fleetsmith – Zack Blum & Frank Yang ( Slides | Video )
  • What Every Mac Admin Needs to Know About Modern macOS Management – John Richards ( Slides | Video )

2018 Apple Sessions – Sessions were not recorded.

  • Apple Business Manager – Apple Inc
  • Apple Development Temp Name – Apple Inc.
  • Apple School Manager – Apple Inc.
  • Deploying and Managing Apple in Education – Apple Inc.
  • Deploying and Managing Mac – Apple Inc.
  • Discover Schoolwork and Classroom: Powerful Tools for Teaching – Apple Inc.
  • macOS Security Update – Apple Inc.
  • Wi Fi Design Troubleshooting – Apple Inc.

For content from previous conferences, visit our Resources Archive.

2017

2017 General
Conference Team Presentations

  • 2017 MacAdmins Opening Remarks ( Slides )

2017 Workshops

  • The Art – and Science – of Being Productive – Pam Lefkowitz ( Slides )
  • Build-Your-Own Jamf Pro Integrations – Bryson Tyrrell ( Slides )
  • DNS: Like you have never seen it before – Pam Lefkowitz & Ben Greisler ( No Slides Available )
  • Mac Admins Capture the Flag – Pepijn Bruienne & Yoann Gini ( No Slides Available )
  • Mac Management: State of the Union, and Where Are We Going? – Robert Hammen & Patrick Fergus ( Slides )
  • Sharing What We’ve Learned – Vaughn Miller & Anthony Reimer ( Slides )
  • A System Administrator’s Fundamentals of Wi-Fi, or Arguing With Physics – Tom Bridge & Chris Dawe ( Slides: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 )

2017 Conference Sessions

  • 1-to-1 with basically 1 man – Bob Gendler ( Slides | Video )
  • Administering Office 2016 for Mac, Part III: Outlook and Updates – William Smith ( Slides | Video )
  • Advanced Munki Infrastructure: Moving to Cloud Services – Rick Heil ( Slides | Video )
  • Apple DEP and your MDM Server: How to manage devices over the air – Christopher Scalise ( Slides | Video )
  • Ask us anything! Mac Admin veterans answer your questions – Hosted by John Kitzmiller ( Video )
  • BeyondCorp for Mac Admins – Pepijn Bruienne ( Slides | Video )
  • Bringing bash to Xcode – Leslie Helou ( Slides | Video )
  • Continuous Integration: An automation framework for Mac Admins. – Wesley Whetstone ( Slides | Video )
  • Demystifying MDM: open source endeavors to manage Macs – Victor Vrantchan & Jesse Peterson ( Slides | Video )
  • Digging Through System Data With Swift – Steve Goodrich ( Slides | Video )
  • Diving Off the #jobs-board – Jason Broccardo & Robert Hammen ( Slides | Video )
  • Easy macOS Management with Chef – Nate Walck ( Slides | Video )
  • Estimating Tasks Using Time vs. Effort + Complexity – Rose Pruyne & Lisa Komidar ( Slides | Video )
  • From Level 0 to IT Support Lead – Jason Miller ( Slides | Video )
  • How (Not) To Do Bad Things With AutoPkg – Elliot Jordan ( Slides | Video )
  • How Docker-Compose Change My Life – Bryson Tyrrell ( Slides | Video )
  • How to infect a Mac – Thomas Reed ( Slides | Video )
  • Imaging in 50+ locations – Robby Barnes & Chase Thompson-Baugh ( Slides | Video )
  • Intro to GitLab: DevOps tools on a shell script budget – Mac Justice ( Slides | Video )
  • Intro to the OS X Command Line – James Stewart ( Slides | Video )
  • Introduction to Cyber Defense (Part 1 & 2) – Todd Echterling ( Slides | Videos: Part 1 Part 2 )
  • It’s Incredible This Works At All – Steve Yuroff ( Slides | Video )
  • macOS and Smart Cards – Richard Purves ( Slides | Video )
  • macOSLAPS – Randomized Local Admin Passwords – Joshua Miller ( Slides | Video )
  • Managing macOS, without macOS (almost) – Lucas Hall ( Slides | Video )
  • Monitoring your systems using open source tools – Randy Saeks ( Slides | Video )
  • Munki Mistakes Made Right – Tom Bridge ( Slides | Video )
  • Packet Filtering: Mac OSX Under the Hood with Apple PF – Johnny Himes ( Slides | Video )
  • Past, present and future of Directory Services – Yoann Gini ( Slides | Video )
  • Peeling Back the Bark: Demystifying `log` – Joseph Chilcote ( Slides | Video )
  • Practical Python for Mac Admins – Jeremy Reichman ( Slides | Video )
  • Reporting with MunkiReport – John Eberle & Rick Heil ( Slides | Video )
  • Reverse Engineering the OS: A Practical Guide – Mike Lynn ( Slides | Video )
  • Ruby for MacAdmins – Nic Scott ( Slides | Video )
  • So you have a lab of Macs. Now what? – Bryce Carlson ( Slides | Video )
  • Starting Source Control: Using Git For Literally Everything – Nick McSpadden ( Slides | Video )
  • Staying Relevant As A Manager – Matthew Schnittker ( No Slides Available | No Video )
  • Storing our digital lives: Mac filesystems from MFS to APFS – Rich Trouton ( Slides | Video )
  • Transferring Data (or How I Spent my Summer Vacation) – Adam Wickert ( Slides | Video )
  • Turbocharge your scripting with PyObjC – Greg Neagle ( Slides | Video )
  • Understanding and Implementing Apple School Manager for use with Apple Classroom – Michelle Delaney ( Slides | Video )
  • Wait, Are We Doing This Right? Auditing Your Operations – Brian Meehan & Dennis Wurster ( Slides | Video )
  • YAY-PIs: Working with REST APIs in Python – Shea Craig ( Slides | Video )
  • Your Boss May Suck, But It’s Probably Your Fault – Jim Rispin ( Slides | Video )

2017 Sponsor Sessions & Apple Sessions – Sessions were not recorded. Slide availability at sponsors discretion.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud – You have been doing it wrong – Karl Gibson ( No Slides Available )
  • ARD In the Cloud: Introducing TCM from Twocanoes Software – Timothy Perfitt ( No Slides Available )
  • Deploying Mac and iPad in Education – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Deploying with Apple Configurator 2 – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Everyone Can Code – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Filewave “Deep Dive”: Engineering walk through on how to manage all macOS, Windows, iOS, ChromeOS, and Android Devices – Patrick Longo & Jonathan Kane ( Slides )
  • Getting Started with Apple School Manager – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Imaging with Ivanti – Steve Goodrich ( Slides )
  • It’s Time for your JSS to Grow up and Move Out of the Mac Mini. – Teri Grossheim ( Slides )
  • Mac User and Device Management for the Cloud-Forward Enterprise – Greg Keller ( Slides )
  • New ways Watchman Monitoring can make your life easier. – Jack-Daniyel Strong & Allen Hancock ( No Slides Available )
  • NoMAD: Leave Directory Services in the Dust – Joel Rennich ( No Slides Available )
  • Raising the Bar for Learning with Technology – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Securing & Enabling the Mac-Empowered Enterprise – Eric Hall ( No Slides Available )
  • Turnkey Munki in the Cloud with Centrify Endpoint Services – Peter Havens ( No Slides Available )

2016

2016 General

  • 2016 MacAdmins Conference Welcome ( Slides )

2016 Workshops

  • Deploying iPad and Mac in Education – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Introduction to offensive security – Yoann Gini ( Slides )
  • Mac Deployment Options – Daniel McCullough, Vaughn Miller, Balmes Pavlov ( Slides )
  • Packaging Workshop – Greg Neagle ( Slides )
  • Build your own pocket Netboot Server and Munki/Reposado repo with a Raspberry Pi – Timothy Perfitt ( Slides )
  • Goooooooaaaaaaaaallllllll! – Pam Lefkowitz ( Slides Worksheet )

2016 Conference Sessions

  • Administering Office 2016 for Mac, Part Deux – Paul Bowden, William Smith ( Slides, Video )
  • Apple Deployment Programs – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Apple Development Tools – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • Approaching Escape Velocity with launchd – Joseph Chilcote ( Slides, Video )
  • Autopkg, Munki & You: Automating 3rd party application updates. – Damon Vogel ( Slides, Video )
  • Bash scripting: Do This, Not That. – Ryan Manly ( Slides, Video )
  • Bash, In a NutShell – Chris Lawson, Rusty Myers ( Slides, Video )
  • Beyond the NIC: Networking for the Mac Admin – Phil Steen ( No Slides Available, Video )
  • Blue Team 101: Building Defensible Systems – Daniel Griggs ( Slides, Video )
  • Building Defensible OS X Systems (Advanced) – Daniel Griggs ( Slides, Video )
  • Craft your own GUIs with Python and Tkinter – Bryson Tyrrell ( Slides, Video )
  • Creating Complex Workflows with Scripts and Casper – Jehan Aziz, Ben Bass ( Slides, Video )
  • DeployStudio: More tips, tricks and discussions – Nathan Felton ( Slides, Video )
  • Digging in the Dirt: Debugging for Fun! (There’s no profit in this) – Tom Burgin, Edward Marczak ( Slides, Video )
  • DNS: Inside and Out – Ben Greisler ( Video )
  • From the trenches: Breaches, Stories, Simple Security Solutions. – Jordan Rogers, Guillaume Ross ( Slides, Video )
  • GRAPH ALL THE THINGS: Alerting and Monitoring for Mac Admins – Rick Heil ( Slides, Video )
  • How Packet Firewall (PF) Can Protect Your Enterprise – Jason Miller ( Slides, Video )
  • I Want My Windows Apps: Everyone can benefit from application virtualization – Nicholas Sperduti, Christopher Palian , David Kahn ( No Slides Available, Video )
  • Implementing Configuration Profiles for OS X management – Sergio Aviles, Jeremy Reichman ( Slides, Video )
  • Intro to 3D Printing for Mac Admins – Rob Furr ( Video )
  • Introduction to Packaging – Greg Neagle ( Slides, Video )
  • iOS Management for the Generalist – Eric Karkau ( Slides, Video )
  • Is Dual Booting in the Enterprise Worth It? – Eric Thomas Gadsby ( Slides, Video )
  • Laziness is the Mother of Efficiency, or How We Automated Ourselves Out of Our Jobs and into Careers – J David Hester, Jeremy Baker ( Slides, Video )
  • Leveraging Apple Tools to make your iOS Deployment easier – Randy Saeks ( Slides, Video )
  • Managing Munki: Intelligent Practices for Structuring, Maintaining, and Collaborating – Shea Craig, Elliot Jordan ( Slides, Video )
  • Managing User Settings – Katie English ( Slides, Video )
  • Munki & Docker (And why you’d want to-) – Lucas Hall ( Slides, Video )
  • OS X Logs: Do We Still Have To Care? – Nic Scott ( Slides, Video )
  • Peering into the black hole of bug reports – Karl Kuehn ( Slides, Video )
  • Penn State – College of Education – Case Study – Joshua Miller ( Slides, Video )
  • Practical Deployment Techniques for Small Labs, 2016 Edition – Anthony Reimer ( Slides, Video )
  • Preference Management with Profiles – Greg Neagle ( Slides, Video )
  • Security – Apple Inc ( No Slides Available )
  • So you’re going to move your data center? – Steve Yuroff, Sean Kaiser ( Slides, Video )
  • Statistical Monitoring with Cacti – Tracking Problems Before They Happen – Devon Merner ( Slides, Video )
  • Surviving the Uphill Climb: Four Years Building an IT Infrastructure, Department and Culture – Mallory Tallquist, Chris Dawe, Lucas Hall ( No Slides Available, Video )
  • Swift and HPC – Edward Chrzanowski ( Slides, Video )
  • Systematic Troubleshooting: Nine Indispensable Rules to Find Bugs Fast – Brian Meehan, Dennis Wurster ( Slides, Video )
  • Teaming At Disney Animation – Matthew Schnittker ( No Slides Available )
  • The ABC’s of CCP: Spelling out application management with Adobe’s Creative Cloud Packager – Patrick Fergus ( Slides, Video )
  • The complete recipe for managing your Apple environment v2.0 – Nicholas Sperduti, Christopher Palian , David Kahn ( No Slides Available, Video )
  • Using Git for Automation and Collaboration – Justin Elliott, Matt Hansen ( Slides, Video )
  • Wait, Are We Doing This Right? Auditing Your Operations – Brian Meehan, Dennis Wurster ( Slides, Video )
  • Wi-Fi Network Design Fundamentals for the “You Have How Many Devices?” World ( Slides Video )
  • Wi-Fi Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques – Chris Dawe ( Slides Video )
  • Writing better AutoPkg recipes with the help of Recipe Robot – Shea Craig, Elliot Jordan ( Slides, Video )
  • You Need a (Effective) Service Desk – Adam Codega ( Slides, Video )

2016 Sponsor & Apple Sessions – Sessions were not recorded. Slide availability at sponsors discretion.

  • Centralizing Mac Management under Microsoft SCCM – Danny Knox ( No Slides Available )
  • End to end workflow on Quantum’s newest appliance, Xcellis – Adrian Rivera ( No Slides Available )
  • FileWave “DEEP DIVE”: Engineering walk through on how to manage all OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android Devices. – Benjamin Byers, LeRoy Dennison, Ben Byers ( Slides )
  • Get into the fast lane with Meraki Systems Manager! – Michael Clark ( No Slides Available )
  • Mac management complete with access management and MFA for everything – Peter Havens ( Slides )
  • Manage Your iPads With An iPad – Donald Kelly, D. Todd Weller ( No Slides Available )
  • Comprehensive Full-Stack macOS Management & Automation – Jason Dettbarn ( No Slides Available )
  • Taking even better care of your end users. – Allen Hancock ( Slides )
  • Why Creative Cloud should change the IT admins perception of Adobe ! – Karl Gibson ( No Slides Available )
  • Winclone Pro Boot Camp Package Installer Deep Dive – Russell Scheil ( No Slides Available )

2015 Workshops

  • Fundamentals of Wi-Fi (or, Arguing with Physics) – Tom Bridge, Chris Dawe (Slides)
  • All Things Security – Pam Lefkowitz, Jennifer Unger, Shannon Barragan, Ivy Thomas (Slides: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
  • Introduction to Cocoa Development and Reverse Engineering on OS X – Yoann Gini (Slides)
  • Packaging Workshop – Greg Neagle, Sam Keeley (Slides)

2015 Conference Sessions

  • Conference Welcome – Dave Test (Slides)
  • 2 years after 1400+ computers in 3 weeks. Are we still nuts? – Sean Kaiser & Lucas Hall (Slides, Video)
  • AD integration and Home Folder Syncing – David Acland (Slides, Video)
  • Administering Office 2016 for Mac – William Smith (Slides, Video)
  • Advanced systems monitoring with Nagios, PNP and Nconf – Josh Malone (Slides, Video)
  • Apple Watch – Build Wearable Apps To Boost Student Engagement – Ben Brautigam & Justin Miller (Slides, Video)
  • Automated testing with VMware Fusion – Joseph Chilcote (Slides, Video)
  • Basic App Development with Swift – Daniel Mikusa (Slides, Video)
  • Connect the dots with Docker – Pepijn Bruienne (Slides, Video)
  • DeployStudio: Average Joe to Pro in an Hour – Rusty Myers & Nathan Felton (Slides, Video)
  • DNS, The Inside and Out – Ben Greisler (Slides, Video)
  • Entering the awesome world of SNMP – François Joannette & Manuel Deschambault (Slides, Video)
  • Free your NetBoot server with BSDPy – Pepijn Bruienne (Slides, Video)
  • From New to New – The lifecycle of MacBooks in MGSD – Berry Williams (Slides, Video)
  • Git For System Admins – Justin Elliott (Slides, Video)
  • How to take a need and transform it into a service – Gretchen Kuwahara (Slides, Video)
  • Integrating AutoPkg and the Casper Suite with JSSImporter – Shea Craig (Slides, Video)
  • iOS – Reconnect the cord – William Smith (Slides, Video)
  • iOS Security Choices via an MDM / EMM – Marc Grayson (Slides, Video)
  • It’s Dangerous To Go Alone, Take This! – Tom Bridge (Slides, Video)
  • Let’s make some decisions: Authorization Plugin Programming – Tom Burgin & Jeremy Baker (Slides, Video)
  • Life in a post Xserve world – Lucas Hall & Sean Kaiser (Slides, Video)
  • Load Balancing for Humans 2: Electric Boogaloo – Vanessa White (Slides, Video)
    • Bonus: Better Living though Science Fiction (Slides, Video)
  • Making the Most Out of Apple Configurator in an iPad Lending Environment – Jay Ray (Slides, Video)
  • Open (and/or Free) vs Closed Source – Steel Cage Death Match – Allister Banks & Ben Toms (Slides, Video)
  • The New Frontier of Apple Deployment and Management – John Kitzmiller (Slides, Video)
  • OS X operating system security at scale – Mike Arpaia & Teddy Reed (Slides, Video)
  • Profile Manager, ARD, and Yosemite Server: The complete recipe for managing iOS and OS X. – David Kahn & Christopher Palian (Slides, Video)
  • San Best Practices – Mario Washington (Slides, No Video)
  • Take Vacations using this One Weird Trick – DOCUMENTATION! – Vanessa White & Rich Trouton (Slides, Video)
  • Technical and logistical deep dive into an iPad 1-1 initiative – Andrew Zirkel & Mark Erb (No Slides, No Video)
  • The 12 Unix Commands everyone should know. – Matthew Schnittker (Slides, No Video)
  • The Career Continuum – Pam Lefkowitz (Slides, Video)
  • The Sys Admin’s Guide to Python – Daniel Mikusa (Slides, Video)
  • Tips and Tricks for Modern Device Management – John DeTroye (Slides, Video)
  • To 12,000 macs and beyond… – Mike Dodge (Slides, Video)
  • To ExtremeZ-IP or not to ExtremeZ-IP, that is the question. – Mike Flender (Slides, Video)
  • Using AutoPKG for Windows Software – James Stewart & Matt Hansen (Slides, Video)
  • Using Google’s Open Source Tools to Manage Macs – Edward Marczak & Russell Hancox (Slides, Video)
  • Virtualization and OS X Server – Yoann Gini (Slides, Video)
  • Virtualization and OS X Testing – building your test environment using virtual Macs – Rich Trouton (Slides, Video)
  • What’s new with Munki – Greg Neagle (Slides, Video)
  • Working with System Frameworks in Python and Objective-C – James Barclay (Slides, Video)
  • You Suck At Email – And Other Communication Challenges for the IT Professional – Jim Rispin (Slides, Video)

2015 Sponsor & Apple Sessions – Sessions were not recorded. Slide availability at sponsors discretion.

  • Absolute Manage as a Management and Deployment Tool for Macs
  • Addigy – What’s Up With Your Assets & Is A Band-Aid Simply Enough?
  • Apple Product Update by Code 42 (Slides)
  • A Two-Point Perspective: Embracing EMM within K12 and Higher Education
  • Cradle-to-grave endpoint lifecycle management ­and everything in between (Slides)
  • Customizing and Extending the Capabilities of the Casper Suite
  • From Xsan to StorNext – Managing Production Needs for Mac Users in Television and Post-Production File-Based Workflows
  • lifelong learning with lynda.com
  • Managing Windows in a Mac World (Slides)
  • Modern Device Management with FileWave
  • Parallels Solutions for Business: Keeping IT in Control of Macs in Business (Slides)

2014 Pre-Conference Workshops

  • Git: From Start to Finish – Justin Elliott, Scott Gallagher (Slides)
  • More Shell Scripting Than Necessary – Jay Hoff, Rusty Myers (Slides)

2014 Conference Sessions

  • Conference Welcome – Rusty Myers, Scott Gallagher MacAdmins 2014 Welcome
  • Git For System Admins – Justin Elliott (Slides, Video)
  • Systems Deployment with Blast Image Config – Justin Elliott (Slides, Video)
  • Case Study: Thin-Imaging Macs Using IBM Endpoint Manager – Jim Blau (Slides, Video)
  • BYOD – The end of mobile device management? – J David Hester (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • Digital Media and Xsan, Five Years Later – Asa Kelley (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • Packet Sniffing for Admins – Yoann Gini (Slides, Video)
  • Citizens of the World: Macs in Windows Serve Environments – Luis Giraldo (Slides, Video)
  • Load Balancing for Humans – Vanessa White (Slides, Video)
  • PlexConnect Your Classrooms – Damien Barrett, William Sites (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • The One Button Studio App and Sandboxing – Justin Miller, Sherwin Saul (Slides, Video)
  • Replacing Dual Boots With Virtual Desktops in Managed Macs – Ross Shaffer, Andrew Uchenick (Slides, Video)
  • Migrating from the PC to a Mac: it’s not as scary as users think – Adam Gerstein (Slides, Video)
  • Modular Image Creation – Anthony Reimer (Slides, Video)
  • Over the Hill or Just Over Tech? Staying Viable in your IT Career – Pam Lefkowitz (Slides, Video)
  • Scripting For Better Package Deployment: How to tame 3rd party updates – Tom Burgin (Slides, Video Part 1; Video Part 2)
  • Multi Tenanted Munki with Puppet and Sal – Graham Gilbert (Slides, Video)
  • iOS Security Decoded – Dave Test (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • Mac Administration: The Fundamentals – Brian Meehan, Dennis Wurster (Slides, Video)
  • Surviving as a Solo Sysadmin – Tom Bridge (Slides, Video)
  • Performance Automation with Munki – Matt Hansen, Joshua D. Miller (Slides, Video)
  • SUStenance via Resposado (and Friends) – Allister Banks (Slides, Video)
  • Unix: Working the Command Line in OS X – Russell Poucher (Slides, Video)
  • You Oughta Check Out AutoPkg – Greg Neagle (Slides, Video)
  • DeployStudio: Advanced Workflows and Discussions – Nathan Felton (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • UNC Wide Casper Suite Services – Everette Allen, Kevin Snook (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • Going MAD: From closed-in-box to ready to rock, using Munki, AutoPkg and DeployStudio – Steve Yuroff (Slides, Video)
  • Shell Building Blocks – Peter Bukowinski (Slides, Video)
  • Managing Mavericks’ FileVault 2 with fdesetup – Rich Trouton (Slides, Video)
  • Where MDM on iOS Leaves Off: Its not the be all end all so you have to plan – Marc Grayson (Slides, Video)
  • Automate Yourself Out of a Job – Graham Gilbert (Slides, Video)
  • Hey! Where’s My Mac?!? – Adam Girardi (Slides, Video)
  • Proper Care and Feeding of Your IT Professional – Jim Rispin (Slides, Video)
  • Baremetal VSphere Mac Minis – Vanessa White (Slides, Video)
  • What the heck is wrong with my server?!? – Josh Malone (Slides, Video)
  • Vagrant up! – Scott P. Gallagher (Slides, Video)
  • Building an Effective Software Deployment Process Using IBM Endpoint Manager – Jon Tyndall (Slides, Video Unavailable)
  • Teaching 1:1 Responsibility – Damien Barrett, William Stites (Slides, Video)
  • iBeacon in Education – Tim Perfitt (Slides Unavailable, Video)
  • Manage Third Party Applications with Profiles – William Smith (Slides, Video)
  • iOS Deployment: A State Institution’s Steps to Embracing Mobile Devices and BYOD  using MDM – Benjamin Dadson, Cody Toy (Slides, Video)
  • SNMP Monitoring – The Sequel – Manuel Deschambault (Slides, Video)
  • Extending OS X Management Systems with Scripting – Jeremy Reichman, Rich Trouton (Slides, Video)
  • Mirror – Leveraging AirPlay Across Enterprise Networks – Ben Brautigam, Jason Heffner (Slides, Video)
  • Shipping Containers with Docker – Scott P. Gallagher (Slides, Video)
  • Advancing From The Help Desk to Admin – Brandan Lutz (Slides, Video)
  • Beyond Thunderdome: Managing OS X without OS X – Pepijn Bruienne (Slides, Video)
  • Security: Your Friend SSL – Sam Keeley (Slides and video not available)

2013 Conference Sessions

  • Managing FileVault 2 on Mountain Lion – Rich Trouton (Slides, Video)
  • Backup, Front to Back – Allister Banks (Slides, Video)
  • Systems Deployment with Blast Image Config – Justin Elliott (Slides, Video)
  • Multi-site Munki Deployments with MunkiServer and Puppet – Pepijn Bruienne (Slides, Video)
  • Security: Locking down OS X without locking up users – Samuel Keeley (Slides, Video)
  • MDMs: Strengths, Weaknesses, Obstacles, Solutions – J David Hester & Randy Saeks (Slides, Video)
  • Using MaaS 360 for MDM – Randy Saeks (Video)
  • Giving Your AppleScripts a Face Lift – Ben Waldie (.Zip, Video)
  • JAMF Casper Suite, The 5 Ws – Han Su Kim (Slides, Video)
  • Enough Networking to be Dangerous – Allister Banks (Slides, Video)
  • Computing By The Numbers – Edward Marczak (Slides, Video)
  • Managing And Deploying Dual Boot Systems – Timothy Perfitt (Slides, Video)
  • Certificates and identity on iOS and OS X – Timothy Perfitt (Slides, Video)
  • More Munki Tricks – Nate Walck (Slides, Video)
  • Practical Python for Mac Admins – Nate Walck & Jeremy Reichman (Slides, Video)
  • Practical Packaging – Matt Willmore (Slides, Video)
  • BYOD, or Lobster Shack IT – Michael Brodt (Slides, Video)
  • Thin OS X Deployment with Munki – Matt Willmore & Clarence Helm (Slides, Video)
  • Deploying 1400+ computers in 3 weeks? Are you nuts?!? – Sean Kaiser (Slides, Video)
  • Git For System Admins – Justin Elliott & Scott Gallagher (Slides, Video)
  • Managing Macs with Puppet – Graham Gilbert (Slides, Video)
  • What’s in a name? (Taking a deeper look at DNS) – Mike Boylan (Slides, Video)
  • Mac OS X Network Printing Techniques (Stupid CUPS Tricks) – Eric T Gadsby & Stanley Patterson (Slides, Video)
  • Software Packaging and Deployment with Tivoli Endpoint Manager – John Tyndall (Video)
  • OS X Terminal Services – Richard Glaser (Slides, Video)
  • Using Profile Manager for iPads in Classrooms – Jeffrey Hanrahan (Slides, Video)
  • Learning from each other: how Big IT departments and Small IT departments can benefit from each others’ environments – Tom Bridge & Justin Esgar (Slides, Video)
  • SNMP, IT’s pre-emptive strike – Manuel Deschambault (Slides)
  • Carry on Luggage – Jeremy Reichman (Slides, Video)
  • Migrating from Windows to OS X for Admins – Pam Lefkowitz (Slides, Video)
  • Managing Macs, and iOS from a single console – Bill de Dufour & Patrick Longo
  • IPv6 – The Good, The Bad & Means To Include It For Your Network – Christopher Miller (Slides, Video)
  • Extending Apple’s Native Tools – Taylor Wolfe & Michael Johnson
  • Enterprise Endpoint Backup for Higher Ed – Joe Wall (Slides, Video)
  • Efficient Systems Management – is that possible? – John DeTroye (Slides, Video)
  • Helping the Mac Admin Bring Macs Into the Fold: From Chaos to Control – Bennett Norton (Slides)
  • Shell scripting with Bash – Rusty Myers & Jay Hoff (.Zip, Video)
  • Hands-On With Git – Justin Elliott & Scott Gallagher (Slides, Video)
  • Mac OS X Automation Workshop – Ben Waldie (.Zip, Video 1, Video 2)
  • Intro to Lab Creation & Managed Settings – Nick McSpadden (Slides, Video)
  • DeployStudio: Up and running in 60 minutes – Nathan Felton (Slides, Video)
  • DeployStudio: Advanced workflows and Discussion – Nathan Felton (Slides, Video)
  • Intro to the OS X Command Line – James Stewart (Slides, Video)

2012

The session videos from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference 2012 are available on the Penn State MacAdmins YouTube and iTunes U channels.

2011

2010

    • Mac Deployment Workshop
    • PSU Integration Workshop
      • PSUMAC101-PSU Auth (N&Z)—Intro (Slides)
      • PSUMAC102-PSU Auth (N&Z)—In-Depth (Slides)
      • PSUMAC103—Demo and Hands-On (No Slides)
      • PSUMAC104—Demo and Hands-On (No Slides)