MagentaGate, MacADUK, and macmule.com

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Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the pod  
Not a drive was stirring, not even the JBOD  
Charles in his kerchief, and Marcus in his hat  
Had just settled in for a long Christmas chat. 

James Ridsdale did join them, and Ben Toms too,  
And they talked about Kickstart and Slack and Ubuntu  
“Don’t forget MacADUK!” they shouted, over beer,
We gotcha covered, fellas, no need to fear.

Tom Bridge, Mac Admins Podcast

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More Slackin’

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Earlier this week, I gave at talk at Jamf’s London office for London Apple Admins titled “More Slackin'”. (Thanks for having us Jamf!)

The talk detailed some of how to get more from Slack & how we at dataJAR used Slack to the point where email has become relatively infrequent.

A link to the slides & the links mentioned within can be seen below.

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Do you have what it takes? (Hint: You do)

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My final talk at MacADUK was held at the last session of the schedule, & was alongside Ellie Shiel & Stephen Warneford-Bygrave

Below can be found the video for the talk & a link to the slides.

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Panel – What do people see as the future of macOS and what they’re doing in their environments to account for it?

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The morning of the second day of MacADUK, I was a member of a panel discussing the future of macOS with several fellow admins.

Below is the video of that panel.

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The second class citizen

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Earlier this year I presented on the first day of MacADUK alongside my fellow dataJAR directors.

For some reason, I did not post any of my MacADUK 2018 talks. This is the 1st post to rectify that.

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Mucking about with Mojave

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Last week I had the honour of presenting on the opening day of MacSysAdmin 2018.

It’s an amazing conference, that I would encourage all to attend.

Below are some links to my talk & all talks from MacSysAdmin 2018.

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jamJAR – What, Why, How

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At a recent London Apple Admins meetup @ ITV, I gave a 15-minute (ish) version, of the 30-minute talk of the 60-minute talk on jamJAR.

Below is a link to the video of the talk, the slides in a PDF & the video of all talks from that night.

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You Will Comply

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Me again on yet another MacAdmins.org Podcast.

This time, however, you’ll be pleased to know that I largely took a back seat & left Reza Alavi of ISACC to delve into GDPR with some interjection from myself & the MacAdmins.org Podcast as to how it can affect the Apple Admin.

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Securely Managing Identities Across Mac & G Suite with JumpCloud

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On day 3 of JNUC 2017, I gave my third & final talk of the conference: “Securely Managing Identities Across Mac and G Suite with JumpCloud”

This talk should show just how easy it is to get started with JumpCloud. Along with an overview of how at dataJAR we’re leveraging JumpCloud to integrate G Suite within our Jamf|MSP platform (datajar.mobi), as well as bridging authentication across various other cloud systems & bring 2FA to our Macs.

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Modern Packaging and Distribution Workflows Panel

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On day 2 of JNUC 2017, I was asked to participate in a panel titled “Modern Packaging and Distribution Workflows Panel”.

I was the only “non-vendor” & according to the thumbnail I’m seemingly the only person on the panel gazing over at Charles Edge.

But if your not a fan of  mine (erm welcome to my blog), you’ll be pleased to know I don’t say much.

Below is a link to the video.

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