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MacAdmins Conference 2018 at Penn State

MacAdmins is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages Macs and iOS devices. In 2018 we featured 67 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! Visit our website.

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Conference Registration Registration Desk I

6:45am EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Best Practices Deploying Apple Devices 208Brett Gross Time Management for the Mac Admin & Yes, Virginia, you DO need soft skills. 205Pam Lefkowitz • William Smith Mac Management - State of the Union: Admin Tested, User Approved! 207Ben Bass • Robert Hammen Utilization of Command Line in Mac OS 10.13 Deans Hall 1Alexander Adams • Avery Chipka • Michael Doenges A deep dive into users & groups management API on macOS 206Yoann Gini Minimum Viable Security: Achieving Security & Getting Rid of Auditors with Free & Open Tools Deans Hall 2Guillaume Ross

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

4:45pm EDT

Speaker's Meeting Deans Hall 2

5:00pm EDT

Conference Opening and Dinner Presidents Hall

6:45am EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Let Me Librarian That For You: Tips & Tricks to Improve Your Google-fu 208Abbie Weinberg Automating a Great On-boarding Experience Deans Hall 2Tobias Morrison Digital Certificates: Trust is important in any relationship. Deans Hall 1Jesse Peterson Apple School Manager 105Brett Gross Bringing Healthcare Out of the Clinic: MDM and HIPAA with Options! 206Jeremy Hill • James Rafel K-12 Web Filtering, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 207Damien Barrett • Jarrod Coombes • Bob Gendler • Amanda Wuest Automating your zero-touch deployment with Jamf Pro 205Chad Swarthout

10:45am EDT

Using EasyLogin Alpha, an Open Source DaaS made for Mac 206Yoann Gini Using AD when you can't use AD - Getting Jamf Pro to talk to ADAM or NoMAD 207Edward Shorrock OMG! Apple Is Gutting Server.app!!!! 208Adam Anklewicz Wi-Fi Design & Troubleshooting 105Brett Gross Imaging is Dead. What Now? Deans Hall 2Greg Neagle Basic Brilliant Scripting for Beginners Deans Hall 1Bryce Carlson Beyond the Admin App: FileWave Extensibility with the RESTful API 205Jonathan Kane

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

Escaping the "Tech Whisperer" Trap Deans Hall 1Nikki Lewandowski • Rich Trouton Discover Schoolwork and Classroom: Powerful Tools for Teaching 105Brett Gross Intro to Chef Deans Hall 2Joseph Chilcote DNS Security; Ten Things You Need to Know 208Ben Greisler Think Different about Windows on your Mac (or off) 207Rob Roy Dammit Jim, I'm a Mac Admin, Not a Web Developer: Wordpress Basics for Mac Admins 206Tiffany Bridge Get Your Tools in Front of Thousands with the Jamf Marketplace 205Bryson Tyrrell

3:15pm EDT

We Should Write This Down Somewhere -- Documentation for Beginners 207Dennis Wurster Deploying and Managing Mac 105Brett Gross Taming rf Unicorns and Other Fantastic Beasts 206Chris Miller What's next? A look into the crystal ball of managing macOS devices Deans Hall 2Graham Gilbert Climbing Out of the Shell: From Sysadmin to Software Engineering 208Josh Wisenbaker Exploration, Monitoring and Security with osquery Deans Hall 1Zachary Wasserman External Threats Impacting EDU Today 205Eric Hall

5:00pm EDT

Batter up, MacAdmins! Medlar Field at Lubrano Park

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall Conference Registration Registration Desk I

9:00am EDT

Managing Mac Nerds! Or, how to be an effective leader of atypical employees! 207Andrew Kocur Getting MicroMDM working, and working with MicroMDM 206Jesse Peterson AutoPkg Level-Up Deans Hall 2Anthony Reimer From Idea to Script to App: A Beginner's Journey in macOS App Development Deans Hall 1Adam Wickert Hands-on with the Jamf Pro API (Part I) 208Joshua Roskos • William Smith macOS Security Update 105Brett Gross How Software Engineers Ruin Macs and Could Ruin You 205Jason Meller

10:45am EDT

Banging Your Head and Crying Under Your Desk—You Are Not Alone 206Andrew Claydon Configuration Management with Salt Stack: Zero to Hero 207Wesley Whetstone Improve Your Printer Deployments Deans Hall 1Scott Blake Everyone can Code 105Brett Gross Hands-on with the Jamf Pro API (Part II) 208Joshua Roskos • William Smith Understanding, requesting, and using X.509 Certificates on macOS Deans Hall 2Timothy Perfitt Elevate Your Apple EcoSystem Via The Cloud 205Jason Dettbarn

12:01pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

User Initiated Technology - Why Warby Parker Built a Culture of Self-Service Deans Hall 1Jon Mann Deploying and Managing Apple in Education 105Brett Gross Deploying Windows on the Mac 206Timothy Perfitt Enrollment, Bootstrapping, and the Munki Barrel. A University-wide approach. Deans Hall 2Tim Schutt Concurrency on macOS 207Tom Burgin What is Layered Security and how we protect Millersville University from the bad guys. 208Todd Echterling How trustworthy is your Mac infrastructure? Intrusion Detection, Investigation, and Remediation with osquery 205Milan Shah

3:15pm EDT

Building a Junior Mac Genius Bar 207Damien Barrett Roam if You Want To: Wi-Fi Client Mobility Deans Hall 1Chris Dawe Building Frankenstein's MDMonster - Moving on From a Departing Management Platform 206J David Hester • Monica Yang Apple Business Manager 105Brett Gross What's new with MunkiReport Deans Hall 2John Eberle Using osquery via Fleet for client/server visibility 208Lucas Hall One-Click Fleet Security with Fleetsmith 205Zack Blum • Frank Yang

5:00pm EDT

MacAdmins Survey Says… Presidents Hall

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Present & Future Managers Rejoice! Your Salvation is at Hand Deans Hall 2Jim Rispin Imaging workflows using MDM without JAMF Deans Hall 1Stephen Short 0-Touch in K12 206Phil Ayala • Andrew Maya Diving into AWS Lambda: An Intro to Serverless for Admins 207Bryson Tyrrell Wait, Are We Doing This Right? Auditing Your Operations 208Nathan Felton • Dennis Wurster What Every Mac Admin Needs to Know About Modern macOS Management 205John Richards

10:45am EDT

Don't even think about doing this work alone! - Finding and Maintaining Partners in IT 207Vi Lynk Imaging is Dead. What Now? - Encore 208Greg Neagle Providing the best Mac experience possible, from the Mac CoE team with ❤️ Deans Hall 1Rich Trouton Ansible upside down - Introducing the ANTS framework 206Michael Husar • Jan Welker A data-driven look at the Mac threat landscape Deans Hall 2Thomas Reed

12:01pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall