MacAdmins Conference 2017 at Penn State

(This workshop will not be recorded.)

Join fellow Mac Admins in a real-life game of Battleship, but played with the systems and services you're intimately familiar with. Outsmart the other team and capture their flag for the prize!

Workshop Details
Lunch and Snack service will be provided during this workshop.

Speakers

Pepijn Bruienne

Consulting Engineer, Apple

Yoann Gini

CEO, Abelionni

Yoann is CEO of Abelionni, a consulting working anywhere on the planet, on anything related to a SMB information system, highly experimented on scenario with intellectual property to defend. You might already have used one of his tools made for system administrators like the Admin... Read More →

Tuesday July 11, 2017 9:00am - 4:30pm EDT
First Floor Refreshments Area

Security Hands-on Intermediate

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Tags Workshop

10:45am EDT

How (Not) To Do Bad Things With AutoPkg

AutoPkg is the time-savingest thing since sliced bread. But if you administer a software distribution system that includes AutoPkg, you owe it to yourself to be suspicious of recipes and processors. During this newly updated talk, I'll go over a few key ways AutoPkg automation can go bad, provide methods for avoiding such problems, and generally provoke a healthy sense of paranoia in all who attend.
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Speakers

Elliot Jordan

Senior Client Systems Engineer, Netflix

Elliot Jordan has secured and automated Mac management at a diverse range of companies up and down the U.S. West Coast. A frequent open source contributor, Elliot is a core maintainer of AutoPkg, co-created Recipe Robot, and helped create and maintain the AutoPkgr app. He works at... Read More →

Wednesday July 12, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 2

Configuration Management Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

YAY-PIs: Working with REST APIs in Python

Most network services have REST APIs that enable the intrepid to craft custom solutions to problems not solvable from that service's console or web app. This talk will begin with making basic requests from the interpreter, using Sal as an example service. Next, we'll make use of existing python API frameworks for Casper, Spotify, and Strava. Finally, we will discuss the design and implementation of wrappers for services which don't already have one established, as well as adding a REST API to your existing services.
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Speakers

Shea Craig

Senior IT Systems Engineer, SAS

High Cleric of Vim, Destroyer of Burritos, Scourge of Coffee Beans.

Wednesday July 12, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
208

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1:30pm EDT

Storing our digital lives: Mac filesystems from MFS to APFS

Examination of past, present and future filesystems used by Macs.
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Speakers

Rich Trouton

IT Technology Senior Consultant, SAP

Rich Trouton has been doing Macintosh system and server administration for over twenty years and has supported Macs in a number of enterprise environments. His current position is at SAP, where he works with the rest of the Apple@SAP team to support SAP's Apple community.

Wednesday July 12, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Deans Hall 1

Core Intermediate

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1:30pm EDT

It's Time for your JSS to Grow up and Move Out of the Mac Mini.

(This session will not be recorded)
Pushing your JSS on your Mac mini to it's limits? Wondering what you can do? Need help with options, and want some real world advice? Then come by and bring your questions!
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Speakers

Teri Grossheim

Independent

Teri is an engineer/technologist, consultant, and former educator. She has held consultative, technical and business development roles for several organizations as well as management roles in IT, higher education, software/mobile app development, and professional services firms. Teri... Read More →

Wednesday July 12, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
205

Sponsor Intermediate

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9:00am EDT

Understanding and Implementing Apple School Manager for use with Apple Classroom

This session will cover a successful conversion from legacy Apple Deployment configurations to a fully functional Apple School Manager implementation. This includes tips and tricks for dealing with Apple conversion pitfalls that are irreversible and lessons learned.
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Speakers

Michelle Delaney

Senior Network Engineer, lexington school district one

Michelle S. Delaney is a Senior Network Engineer at a Lexington County School District One in Lexington South Carolina. She manages an AirWatch environment with over 22,000 iPads and 3,000 macOS devices. Delaney has been supporting Apple devices in K-12 environments for ten years... Read More →

Thursday July 13, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
207

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9:00am EDT

Monitoring your systems using open source tools

There is a big difference between alerting, monitoring and logging and using these tools each serves a different purpose. Learn the differences between these and see how tools like Nagios, Cacti and the ELK stack can help you.
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Speakers

Randy Saeks

Network Manager, Glencoe School District 35

Randy is an Apple Distinguished Educator with over 15-years experience supporting EdTech. He has presented at numerous conferences sharing ways the support of EdTech works in conjunction with instructional practices to achieve a full path to new initiatives.

Thursday July 13, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Deans Hall 1

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9:00am EDT

How to infect a Mac

Learn how malware infects Macs, so you can spot the signs.
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Speakers

Thomas Reed

Director of Mac, Malwarebytes

Thomas is the Director of Core Technology at Malwarebytes. He had a Mac before it was cool to have a Mac, and is a photographer in his spare time.

Thursday July 13, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Deans Hall 2

Security Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

macOSLAPS - Randomized Local Admin Passwords

Are you required to randomize the local admin password like the Windows clients? Look no further than a small python script that was developed to do just that. This session will highlight the use case of LAPS in our current environment and go over the customizations you can make to tailor to your environment.
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Speakers

Joshua D. Miller

Josh, a former Windows System Administrator has fully embraced the world of Mac and the vibrant MacAdmin community. Currently, he works at Penn State for the College of Education where they have a 50/50 split of Macs and PCs. He works exclusively with macOS and iOS devices and designs... Read More →

Thursday July 13, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 1

Configuration Management Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

macOS and Smart Cards

2FA is of increasing concern with modern day IT practices and security. Learn a little about smart cards, where they came from, how to use them with macOS, a little on system integration with your environment and some of the pitfalls. Followed by a Q A session.
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Speakers

Richard Purves

Senior Apple Administrator, Many!

I'm a not quite 6ft tall ape descended British Mac Admin who can't decide which country to live in. Started in the UK, then Saudi Arabia, now Switzerland and aiming for the USA in 2017! I've worked in three IT business units (publishing, education and finance) since 2004 and only... Read More →

Thursday July 13, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
206

Security Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

Filewave 'Deep Dive': Engineering Walk Through on How to Manage all Devices

(This session will not be recorded)
System Engineers (Jon Kane & Patrick Longo) will take you through an IN-DEPTH" overview of how FileWave continues to simplify Multi-Platform Device Management and introduce you to our newest V12 release, further increasing our functionality and adding ChromeOS to the FileWave Family. Since 1992, FileWave has lead the marketplace providing education, enterprise, and government institutions around the world with enterprise level, multi-platform systems, and mobile endpoint management software to assist IT teams throughout the lifecycle process of imaging, deployment, management, tracking and maintenance. FileWaves all-inclusive, highly scalable software solves the many challenges of managing a diverse and growing population of users, devices, and content by ensuring IT teams have a comprehensive solution that supports both client (desktop/laptop) and mobile devices across Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS.
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Speakers

Jonathan Kane

System Engineer, Filewave

Jon is a Systems Engineer for for Filewave. He has been been active in the Apple community for over 20 years. He was a network manager for the Natick Public Schools (MA) for many years, where he used FileWave to manage a large number of endpoints. He has also worked for Apple service... Read More →

Patrick Longo

Systems Engineer, Filewave

Thursday July 13, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
205

Sponsor Intermediate

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1:30pm EDT

It's Incredible This Works At All

Get your geek on with a technical exploration of the core technologies that enable our WiFi networks, including QAM levels, MIMO and CSMA/CA. If that sounds like alphabet soup, Don't Panic: you'll leave knowing what they mean, and how they team up to allow WiFi to do its magic.
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Speakers

Steve Yuroff

Network and System Administrator, Hiebing

Steve works as the lead of a 2 person IT team at a leading midwest marketing and creative agency, where they're responsible for 90 end user machines, servers of many platforms, the network, WiFi, remote workers, security, databases, firewalls, and everything else that might potentially... Read More →

Thursday July 13, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Deans Hall 2

Core Intermediate

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1:30pm EDT

Imaging in 50 locations

Simply Mac needed a better way to image customer computers in their service department and standardize imaging files across 50 different stores using Mac mini servers. Using Imagr, AWS, and Jamf, we built a workflow to deliver a reliable Imagr repo and custom NBI files to take the pain out of managing file versions and deliver new content overnight. Imagr Server, deployed to AWS Lambda and AWS RDS, plays a big role in reporting status across all locations.
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Speakers

Robby Barnes

Senior IT Manager - System and Data Architecture, Simply Mac

I worked for Apple for nearly 5 years, having many really great experiences and falling in love with the products and company. After working for Apple I started at Simply Mac, an Apple reseller, and helped build out many of the programs and initiatives that helped grow the company... Read More →

Chase Thompson-Baugh

Division Senior Technician, GameStop Technology Brands

After getting Apple Certified in OS 10.5 support on my own, I applied to work for an Apple Authorized reseller and service center, Simply Mac, in 2008. I performed many roles there from sales, in-store customer technical support, and business technical support when Simply Mac had... Read More →

Thursday July 13, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Deans Hall 1

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1:30pm EDT

Bringing bash to Xcode

Bring an existing bash script into Xcode to enhance the end user experience. Gain additional control of the GUI and functionality by utilizing features available in Xcode.
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Speakers

Leslie Helou

Senior Professional Services Engineer, JAMF

Leslie Helou currently finds himself working at Jamf as a Professional Services Engineer. For about the past 4 years he has been helping Jamf enhance the end user experience, along with making things easier for the IT staff.

Thursday July 13, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
207

Development Intermediate

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1:30pm EDT

Digging Through System Data With Swift

This session will talk about processing the results of system tools like system_profiler and ps using the Swift programming language. While we will touch briefly on launching the processes, the focus of the session will be on using map, reduce, and filter to dig through the results. We will also look at the real performance impact of using these functions over traditional looping structures.
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Speakers

Steve Goodrich

Software Engineer, Apple Technologies, Ivanti

Steve is an Apple technologies specialist at Ivanti (or as his team like to say iVanti). Steve has been a professional software developer for over 30 years. He has written embedded systems, telecom engineering software, warehouse management systems, and integrated medical practice... Read More →

Thursday July 13, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
206

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3:15pm EDT

How Docker-Compose Change My Life

If you haven't given Docker a look yet, or haven't touched on using Docker-Compose, come to this session and hear about what life was like writing internal apps and services before and after I embraced the trend of containerization. Deploying my code went from a multi-page documented process for installing all the components needed for a host virtual machine to a few lines in a Bash shell.
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Speakers

Bryson Tyrrell

Systems Development Engineer, Amazon

Thursday July 13, 2017 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
207

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3:15pm EDT

Continuous Integration: An automation framework for Mac Admins.

In recent years there has been an increase in automation tools for Mac administrators, such as munki, autopkg, Puppet, Chef, and Salt. In this talk we'll discuss how you can automate these tools with continues integration to save even more time and perform more accurate tests to get the best results in your environment.
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Speakers

Wesley Whetstone

Mac Operations Engineer, Square

Current lead of the Mac Operations team at Square, where we use a variety of open source and in house tools to manage our fleet of thousands of Macs..

Thursday July 13, 2017 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
208

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9:00am EDT

Advanced Munki Infrastructure: Moving to Cloud Services

Want to depend less on your server room? Have a few branch offices to keep in sync? Consider moving your Munki infrastructure to the cloud! We'll talk about Munki's powerful middleware feature, hosting your repo on S3 or a similar cloud files service, leveraging the power of continuous integration, and using caching proxies to reduce cost and bandwidth. Add a sprinkle of AutoPkg, a dash of git, and viola - Cloud Munki!

This intermediate session assumes that attendees have some basic knowledge about how to use Munki, but does not require in-depth knowledge of git or programming.
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Speakers

Rick Heil

Senior IT Manager, Partners

Rick is the IT Director for MERGE, a full-service marketing communications firm with deep domain expertise in health sciences, technology, and financial services. As the leader of a four person IT team, Rick's goal is to automate himself out of a job so he can replace his desk with... Read More →

Friday July 14, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Deans Hall 1

Configuration Management Intermediate

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9:00am EDT

Peeling Back the Bark: Demystifying `log`

How Apple's Unified Logging changes the way we create, discover, gather, and analyze logs in macOS.
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Speakers

Joseph Chilcote

Client Platform Engineer, Meta

I manage Macs at a large software company using open source tooling. @chilcote on slack

Friday July 14, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Deans Hall 2

Core Intermediate

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9:00am EDT

Apple DEP and your MDM Server: How to manage devices over the air

Many Universities and Colleges have really embraced portable tech. When they opt to purchase Apple products, there is a powerful way to manage these devices. Using Apple's DEP and an MDM Server makes sure that IT can keep track of the devices, update software, manage profiles, and most importantly let the end users feel like they're using their own device. This gives the end user a huge sense of ownership, and as a result the end user is more productive, and takes better care of the device.
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Speakers

Christopher Scalise

IT Operations Specialist, Wayne State University

I started my tech career at Apple in 2005 as a Genius. I learned quite a bit at Apple, and I took that knowledge to Wayne State University. I work at the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts where I have a BFA Degree with a Concentration in Photography. I manage all... Read More →

Friday July 14, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
206

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9:00am EDT

Wait, Are We Doing This Right? Auditing Your Operations

Did you ever wonder what's holding your department back from being highly effective? Have you ever felt like there's a list of things your department *should* be doing, but aren't? Even if you have a few ideas for improving your operations, it can be hard to know where to begin! Based on "The Operations Report Card" by Thomas Limoncelli and Peter Grace, we'll show you 32 areas to consider and how you can implement each one.
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Speakers

Brian Meehan

Director of Information Technology, Allendale Columbia School

Rescued from the world of IT consulting in 2011, Brian currently evangelizes technology and education for the staff, faculty, students and parents of this N-12 school in Western NY. And when he's not doing that, he might be playing guitar, cycling or flying kites. But probably not... Read More →

Dennis Wurster

Associate Director of Computing Services, Eastman School of Music

Dennis Wurster prides himself as a user-advocate, and constantly works to untangle complexity and establish efficiency. By day, he is the Associate Director of Computing Services at the Eastman School of Music. By night, he consults with small businesses in his hometown of Rochester... Read More →

Friday July 14, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208

Security Intermediate

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9:00am EDT

Mac User and Device Management for the Cloud-Forward Enterprise

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The modern office looks decidedly different than it did a decade ago. Since 2000, Microsoft has been synonymous with managing the enterprise - from the workstation an employee used, access to applications and networks, to the central identity their Active Directory manages. But todays office structure has evolved past workstations under desks, large monitors and ethernet. Mobility, a wide range of cloud-based apps and services and new, non-Microsoft, operating systems like Mac OS, are changing the way employees are working, and evolving the way IT professionals need to think about managing.
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Speakers

Shane Watson

Marketing, JumpCloud

Friday July 14, 2017 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
205

Sponsor Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

1-to-1 with basically 1 man

From unboxing the laptop to putting it in the hands of a student, faculty or staff member, discover how one person completes this process for hundreds of laptops in just a matter of days. Learn a workflow that makes this a one-touch, automated process that mixes configuration profiles, scripts and policies. Come see why it does not require a large IT department to handle a 1-to-1 Apple program.
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Speakers

Bob Gendler

IT Specialist, NIST

IT Specialist in the Apple world. Jamf guru, wizard of Mac Management, and mastermind of Apple trivia.

Friday July 14, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Deans Hall 1

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10:45am EDT

Intro to GitLab: DevOps tools on a shell script budget

An overview of GitLab, an open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative. GitLab is an attractive option for smaller or non-tech industry organizations without dedicated code development infrastructure. Features include git repository hosting, permissions management, an in-browser editor, git-lfs support, continuous integration and deployment, issue tracking, a container registry, and even a Slack clone. Includes a demo of Imagr and Munki workflows.
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Speakers

Mac Justice

Sr. Support Specialist, Synapse Product Development

Mac does all kinds of IT things at Synapse in Seattle, supporting a bunch of super talented hardware engineers.

Friday July 14, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
207