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MacAdmins Conference 2019 at Penn State

MacAdmins is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages Macs and iOS devices. We are featuring 69 sessions and seven 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

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Conference Registration Registration Desk I

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Best Practices Deploying Apple Devices Deans Hall 1Brett Gross Fundamentals of Wi-Fi: Physics Always Wins 105Tom Bridge • Chris Dawe It’s dangerous to go alone, take this: A Treasure-filled Workshop for New Mac Admins 206Jennifer Unger • Jamie Piperberg • Caroline Bodager • Lisa Davies Learn Incident Response for Mac 207Thomas Reed Packaging Workshop Deans Hall 2Greg Neagle Swift, Xcode, an App and You 208Josh Wisenbaker

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

Don’t even think about doing this work alone! – Finding, Building and Maintaining 205Vi Lynk

4:45pm EDT

Speaker's Meeting Deans Hall 1

5:00pm EDT

Conference Opening and Dinner Presidents Hall

7:00pm EDT

Hardware Hacking for macOS Admins in the Hacker's Cabin Senate SuiteTimothy Perfitt

6:45am EDT

Conference Registration Registration Desk I

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Please pass the Salt... Agents and MDM. 207Wesley Whetstone • Shea Craig Fold, spindle, and mutilate 208Joshua See Best Practices for Mac Management and Deployment 105Brett Gross Starting from Scratch with Munki 206Rick Heil Linters, Hooks, and Pipelines — Automation to Save Your Bacon Deans Hall 1Elliot Jordan Santa in the Summer: Getting Started with Google Santa Deans Hall 2Todd Houle Branding and customizing Munki & Munki Report. 205Jon Brown

10:45am EDT

Utilizing Jamf Pro in a HIPAA Compliant Environment 207Adam Derrick What's New in Apple School Manager 105Brett Gross 5 Years Later: Plexify Your Classrooms! 206Damien Barrett From Imaging to Installation in 1 Semester Deans Hall 2Jimmy Chiaramonte • Dylan McKenna Python 101 Deans Hall 1Joseph Chilcote Breach -> ATT&CK -> Osquery - Learning from breach reports to improve endpoint monitoring 208Guillaume Ross Patch and You: Exploring External Patch Sources with Jamf Pro 205Bryson Tyrrell

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Lunch Presidents Hall

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

Get in tune with Intune 208Bryce Carlson • Shonda Hodge What's New from WWDC 105Brett Gross The Mythical CLI (Command Line Interface), OHH My! 207Todd Echterling Deploying Macs from the Recovery Partition with MDS Deans Hall 2Timothy Perfitt • Kitzy Make your MDM Proactive and solve issues before they are problems Deans Hall 1Jon Goldman Identity management, the step after device management 206Yoann Gini Advanced Jamf Pro Scripting Workflows 205Chad Swarthout

3:15pm EDT

Welcome to Slack aka What does the dolphin mean? 206John Eberle • Louise Radifera • Alexander Smith What's New in Apple Business Manager 105Brett Gross To MDM or Not To MDM - Is that a Question? 207Matthew Schnittker Using DEPNotify to automate your DEP/Non-DEP build workflows Deans Hall 1Hoppy Shaw The Joy of Semicolons Deans Hall 2Jason Broccardo Threat hunting and Malware Analysis on Mac OS X with osquery 208Milan Shah Empowering the Slack-Powered Workplace 205Mike Tong

5:00pm EDT

MacAdmins Heads to the Mountains! Tussey Mountain

8:00pm EDT

Python 3 Convert-a-thon in the Hacker's Cabin Senate SuiteGreg Neagle

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall Conference Registration Registration Desk I

9:00am EDT

Committing to Thoughtful Leadership 206Louise Radifera • Erin Merchant From Flooded Server Room to 100% Cloud: Making your K-12 (or Business) Modern, Distributed, Resilient, Secure, and Scalable 207Pax . • Gahl Zabar Preparing for the Next macOS: Testing In Your Environment, and What's New! Deans Hall 1Robert Hammen Wi-Fi Network Design for Apple Devices 105Brett Gross Getting Started With the Jamf API (Part 1) Deans Hall 2Kitzy A Journey From Bugs To SecureTokens 208Simon Carlson-Thies Fun with User Approved MDM enrollment and Privacy Preferences Policy Controls in Mojave with FileWave! 205Jonathan Kane

10:45am EDT

What's New from WWDC 105Brett Gross The Unusual Suspects: Existing Tools and Harvesting Knowlege 207Andrew Laurence A Year on the Client Platform Engineering Team at Uber 206Danielle Di Bella Getting Started With the Jamf API Deans Hall 2Kitzy Notarization and macOS, what it does, why you need it, and how the OS handles things when you don't have it. Deans Hall 1Tom Bridge Hands On with DNS Security 208Ben Greisler Next Gen Mac Management: Harnessing the power of Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager to deliver state control 205Steve Goodrich

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Presidents Hall

12:30pm EDT

Lunch and Visit our Sponsors Presidents Hall

1:30pm EDT

From Mac Servers to NAS: The Great Migration 207Bryan Heinz Installer Package Scripting: Making your deployments easier, one !# at a time Deans Hall 1Rich Trouton Building and Executing an Amazing Shared iOS Environment 206Adam Derrick Robotic Process Automation: Leveraging Cron, Scripts and Databases for Automating Tasks 208John Duong Impractical Python file and data for today's Mac admins Deans Hall 2Jeremy Reichman Apple Security and Privacy Overview 105Brett Gross Balancing User Security and Privacy with Device Management and how Addigy can help 205John Sutcliffe

3:15pm EDT

Project Management and the Mac Admin Deans Hall 1Chris Golebiowski Empowering Teachers: A Classroom Centric Approach to iPad Management 206Nikki Lewandowski Fast macOS Management with Chef 208Nate Walck Moving to the Future of macOS Deployment (a little late) Deans Hall 2Adam Wickert Everyone Can Code, even MacAdmins! 105Brett Gross Making a Jamf Uploader for Everyone 207Joshua Harvey Complete the Zero-Touch Puzzle: Prestage User Enrollments Using munkipkg, DEPNotify, JumpCloud, and your MDM of Choice 205Scott Reed

5:00pm EDT

MacAdmins Survey Says… Presidents Hall

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Presidents Hall

9:00am EDT

Going full cloud with Azure AD or Google Cloud Identity 207Yoann Gini iPad Evolution at Gateway School District 206Jesse C. Smillie macOS 10.15, the future of Mac administration and more, AMA Deans Hall 1Rich Trouton • Jennifer Unger • Robert Hammen • Allen Golbig • Amanda Wuest • Lisa Davies What's New from WWDC 105Brett Gross Deployment considerations and workflows for Adobe CC2019 in Education Deans Hall 2Darren Wallace Build a Web Application with Swift 208Steve Goodrich

10:45am EDT

The XML-Files: I Want To Believe Deans Hall 1Tobias Morrison Manage Software in Computer Labs on a Budget 208Brian Davis Zero Touch Deployment on a budget 207Dave Weale Slack CPE and Chef Deans Hall 2Lucas Hall • Ryan Moon Best Practices for macOS and iOS Security 206Brett Gross What’s New for macOS Management in Workspace ONE UEM 205

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Lunch Presidents Hall