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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)