MacAD.UK 2023 – What’s new in macOS Ventura for Mac admins

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At macad.uk 2023 I revisited a talk I gave in November at a dataJAR Tech Series event.

See below for a link to the video, the GitHub repo with all of the links and lastly a link to the macad.uk 2023 playlist on YouTube.

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MacAD.UK Panel 2023

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At this years macad.uk, I was invited to join the MacAdmins.org Podcast on stage for a live podcast.

I accepted, partly due to wanting to keep myself ahead of Joel.. and also as I was 3 ciders in (thanks to VMware for the open bar).

A link to this episode can be found below, and some of the conversation hasn’t aged too well.. with recent announcements made at WWDC.

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dataJAR Tech Series: What’s new with Ventura for Mac admins

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Next week at macad.uk 2023 I’m revisiting a talk which I gave last November at a dataJAR Tech Series event, and I just realised that I hadn’t posted the talk here.

So this post addresses the oversight!

You can find my talk and it’s slides, as well as the other talks from the days dataJAR Tech Series event here.

JNUC2022 : On Bootstrap Tokens, Secure Tokens, and Volume Ownership

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Not only was I on a panel at JNUC 2022, but I also gave a talk in person too titled: JNUC2022 : On Bootstrap Tokens, Secure Tokens, and Volume Ownership.

Despite me giving this talk in person, Jamf have published the prior recorded remote version (with the majority of talks recorded prior due to JNUC2022‘s hybrid nature).

One difference between this and the panel recording is that this one is COVID-19 free!

See below for a link to the video, the GitHub repo with all of the links and lastly a link to the JNUC2022 playlist.

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JNUC 2022: Patch Management Solutions Panel

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For JNUC 2022, I was invited onto a panel to discuss patch management solutions for Jamf Pro once again.

This followed a similar format to the 2021 panel. Not only did this years panel include myself alongside Armin BriegelRyan Ball and Sam Weiss, but we were joined this time by Isaac Ordonez as well.

Sadly, for the recording, I was a little unwell and the following day tested positive for COVID-19. So, if I sound a little off, that’s why.

See below for a link to the panels video, as well as links to the JNUC 2022 YouTube playlist.

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dataJAR’s New Product Focus

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A couple of months ago myself and dataJAR’s Managing Director, Yannis Lagogiannis were guests on the MacAdmins.org Podcast where we discussed dataJAR’s New Product Focus.

The details on this episode can be found below.

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Patch Solutions on the Jamf Marketplace

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On the last day of this years JNUC, it was my honour to be included in a panel titled “Patch Solutions on the Jamf Marketplace” (the content of which is pretty self explanatory) alongside Armin Briegel, Ryan Ball and Sam Weiss.

See below for a link to the panels video, as well as links to the marketplace entries for the items discussed.

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Managing iPads, for the Mac Admin

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During day one of this years JNUC, I gave a talk titled “Managing iPads, for the Mac Admin”.

The premise of this talk was to touch on on things which are both familiar and unknown, when it comes to being a Mac Admin suddenly tasked with managing iPads.

Below you’ll find a link to the talks video and a link to the talks GitHub repo.

But, be warned.. I had 30 minutes to deliver over 100 slides and a little cold too.. so those that find my accent difficult at normal speed, might need to slow this one down or read the subtitles (which don’t appear to have any exciting surprises this time).

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MacDevOpsYVR 2021: Digging for download URLs for AutoPkg recipes

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Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting at my first MacDevOpsYVR.

A link to the video, slide deck, GitHub repo and links to the other videos etc from MacDevOpsYVR can be found below.

Many thanks to the MacDevOpsYVR team for the great event, and yes 125 slides in 15 minutes 🙂

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Mac, Dev and Ops: The calm before the storm

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Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at my first MacDevOpsYVR.

Mat and JD invited myself and fellow London Apple Admin attendee, host, speaker and MacDevOpsYVR 2021 presenter Piero, onto the MacDevOpsYVR Podcast for a chin wag.

The podcast can be found here, if you want to listen to the other folks chatting and me prattling on.

At the time of writing, tickets are still available for MacDevOpsYVR 2021 and can be purchased from here.

The schedule can be found here, and starts today June 9th.

See you there!