Episode 119: Roundtable: How Do You Stay In The Know?

Synopsis:

Charles, Tom and Marcus talk about just how you stay on top of everything that’s happening in the Mac Admins World at any given point.

Your Hosts:

Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

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Links & Notes

We’re currently thinking about what you might consider the next season of the podcast. So we’d like to make a call for guests. We’re looking for some individuals that have some solid setups, great experiences to share, tips, or tricks for the following:

Regression testing
Migrating to or from directory services
Great Self Service or Managed Software Center configurations
Providing a great experience for coworkers or students with learning disabilities
Device Trust stories
Integration with service desk solutions (e.g. Jira Service Desk, Freshworks, etc)
Migrating between MDMs
Xprotect scripting
Device refresh techniques
Getting started with autopkg (and daisy chaining the build train)
International VPP and DEP
Inhouse app distribution when working with a third party developer
NoMAD Login Window
Managed App Config
Device Management tools from the OS 9 era

If you’re interested hit one of us up directly in Slack. We’d love to hear some new voices!

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Conference Sites

Event Name	Location	Dates	Cost
ACEs Conference	Kansas City, MO	5-6 June 2019	$699 (Basic Event Ticket)
MacDeployment Conference	Calgary, Canada	10-11 June 2019	TBA
MacDevOps:YVR	Vancouver, Canada	12-14 June, 2019	$275CAD – $495CAD
X World	Sydney, NSW, Australia	26-28 June 2019	$699 AUD Early Bird
MacAdmins Conference	State College, PA	9-12 July 2019	Call For Presenters Open
Jamf Nation User Conference	Minneapolis, MN	12-14 November 2019	$799 Early Bird Rate ($699 for EDU)

Meetups

Event Name	Location	Dates	Cost
University of Utah Apple Admins	University of Utah Marriott Library	17 April 2019, 11:00 a.m. MT	Free
Austin Apple Admins	Cloudflare	17 April 2019, 6:30 p.m. CST	Free
Apple Admins of the Pacific Northwest	Location TBA	18 April 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT	Free