August 2026 – MacAdmins Meeting

13 Aug August 2026 – MacAdmins Meeting

August 19th, 2026 – University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting

The University of Utah MacAdmins Meeting is held virtually monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 11 AM Mountain Time. Presentations cover Apple technology and integration in a heterogeneous university enterprise environment. This month’s meeting will be held on Wed, August 19th, 2026, at 11 AM MT virtually using Zoom. Live broadcasts and archives are available to the MacAdmin community 2-3 days post-meeting.

Imprivata Enterprise Access Management: Frictionless Access on Mac – Aaron Freimark & John Bartholomew

Imprivata’s Enterprise Access Management delivers industry-leading, frictionless shared-computer access and single sign-on for healthcare environments. In 2025, Imprivata introduced its first agent for macOS, bringing its proven badge-based workflow to the Mac. Now in its second iteration, the experience has matured significantly: users can tap their badge, unlock a Mac, and be signed into their applications in under four seconds.

The technology is already being deployed at scale, including at Emory Healthcare’s highly publicized “All Mac” hospital outside Atlanta, where Macs are central to the clinical computing experience.

In this session, we’ll take a closer look at how the technology works through a live product demonstration with Utah Health’s John Bartholomew. We’ll also explore how Imprivata’s approach compares with Apple Platform SSO, including where the two technologies complement each other and where they differ. Finally, we’ll look ahead at Imprivata’s macOS product roadmap and what these developments could mean for shared-device workflows, clinical access, and the future of Mac management in healthcare.

About Aaron Freimark

Aaron Freimark has worked at the crossroads of Apple and enterprise for over 30 years. He is currently the SVP of Product Innovation at Imprivata.

Managing macOS Default Applications with utiluti – Ross Matsuda

Deploying an application is only half the battle. If macOS continues opening files and links with the wrong application, users still experience friction—and your deployment may not achieve the behavior you intended.

In this session, we’ll explore Armin Briegel’s utiluti, a flexible command-line tool for inspecting and managing default applications in macOS. We’ll look under the hood at Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs), file extensions, and URL schemes, and learn how to determine what applications are currently handling them across your Mac fleet.

From there, we’ll move beyond one-off changes and explore practical management workflows: using utiluti to assess fleet state, influence user behavior through system defaults, support application migrations, and build conditional scripts and Self Service workflows. We’ll also cover important considerations around user-space execution and macOS user interaction requirements.

Whether you’re standardizing browsers, mail clients, document handlers, or other applications, this session will show how a seemingly simple task—setting a default app—can become a useful tool for automation, visibility, and Mac management at scale.

About Ross Matsuda

Ross Matsuda is an Apple Systems Engineer with Ntiva, where he manages a fleet of thousands of Apple devices across hundreds of organizations in dozens of industries. He also authors a technology blog focusing on the Apple platform, Sudoade. He has worked in the Apple ecosystem professionally since 2008, in roles ranging from customer service, consumer technical support, enterprise support, and systems administration.    

Open Discussion

Questions, comments, problems, and fixes.

Directions

This meeting will not be held in person but virtually via Zoom video communications architecture.