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MacAdmins Conference 2017 at Penn State

MacAdmins is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages Macs and iOS devices. In 2016 we featured 60 sessions and five workshops with top notch speakers in the macOS and iOS deployment community. MacAdmins offers an incredible level of expertise, value, entertainment, and a great opportunity to network with your fellow admins! Register Here Today!

Jon Goldman

Playbill
Director of Technology
New York City

Jon is a former Broadway Stage Manager and has been back in IT for about 9 years. He has been working with Apple Products since his first Apple ][. He lives in Westchester (North of NYC) with his wife, 2 daughters and big fluffy white dog.

3:30pm EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

7:30am EDT

Breakfast, Workshop Day Welcome Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

A System Administrator's Fundamentals of Wi-Fi, or Arguing With Physics 207Tom Bridge • Chris Dawe

5:15pm EDT

Evening Dinner and Opening Reception Presidents Hall

7:30am EDT

Breakfast, Conference Welcome Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Transferring Data (or How I Spend my Summer Vacation) 208Adam Wickert

10:45am EDT

Past, present and future of Directory Services 207Yoann Gini

12:01pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

Estimating Tasks Using Time, Effort, and Complexity 208Lisa Komidar • Rose Pruyne Storing our digital lives: Mac filesystems from MFS to APFS Deans Hall 1Rich Trouton

3:15pm EDT

Ask us anything! Mac Admin veterans answer your questions Deans Hall 2John Kitzmiller • Nick McSpadden • Greg Neagle • Rich Trouton Managing macOS, without macOS (almost) Deans Hall 1Lucas Hall

5:00pm EDT

MacAdmins Invades Downtown State College Champs Bar and Grill

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Everyone Can Code 206Apple Inc Monitoring your systems using open source tools Deans Hall 1Randy Saeks

10:45am EDT

macOS and Smart Cards 206Richard Purves Filewave 'Deep Dive': Engineering Walk Through on How to Manage all Devices 205Jonathan Kane • Patrick Longo

12:01pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

It's Incredible This Works At All Deans Hall 2Steve Yuroff NoMAD: Leave Directory Services in the Dust 205Joel Rennich

3:15pm EDT

Your Boss May Suck, But It's Probably Your Fault Deans Hall 1Jim Rispin How Docker-Compose Change My Life 207Bryson Tyrrell Continuous Integration: An automation framework for Mac Admins. 208Wesley Whetstone

5:00pm EDT

Stump the Experts and MacAdmins on Ice! Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Apple DEP and your MDM Server: How to manage devices over the air 206Christopher Scalise Mac User and Device Management for the Cloud-Forward Enterprise 205Shane Watson

10:45am EDT

Administering Office 2016 for Mac, Part III: Managing Updates Deans Hall 2William Smith Easy macOS Management with Chef 208Nate Walck

12:01pm EDT

Lunch, Hack-A-Thon Winners, and Conference Wrap-Up Presidents Hall