Oct 2025 – MacAdmins Meeting

09 Oct Oct 2025 – MacAdmins Meeting

October 15th, 2025 – 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, October 15th, 2025, at 11 AM MT, and we will provide live broadcasts and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting.  

Homebrew: How to Unite Devs, IT Admins, and Security – Brandon Valentine, Workbrew

Homebrew is already fueling developer productivity across your organization — but for IT and security teams, it can often feel like an unmanaged black box. What if you could harness that same power, bring visibility and control to the process, and strengthen your entire Mac fleet’s security and compliance posture at the same time?

In this session, we’ll explore how adopting Workbrew transforms Homebrew from a potential liability into a managed, auditable, and secure software delivery platform. You’ll learn how Workbrew integrates with existing IT workflows to track packages, enforce policies, automate updates, and maintain developer flexibility — all without compromising security. Whether you’re managing a few developer laptops or thousands of Macs, this talk will show how embracing Workbrew can turn an open-source dependency into a fleet-wide advantage.

About Brandon Valentine

Brandon Valentine began his career in 2000 as a systems administrator managing large-scale fleets, quickly becoming an active contributor to open source package managers. Over the years, he expanded his expertise to include Ruby development, consulting, and professional sales. A devoted Homebrew contributor and enthusiast, Brandon spent five impactful years at GitHub before joining Workbrew, where he is focused on customer success and reconnecting with his systems administration roots.

Intuneomator – Gil Burns

Intuneomator is an open-source, Swift-based tool that dramatically simplifies macOS application lifecycle management for organizations using Microsoft Intune. At its core, it bridges the popular Installomator framework (with support for 900+ apps, multiple architectures, and DMG/PKG/LOB types) with Intune’s Graph API, enabling administrators to automate discovery, packaging, uploading, deployment, and update workflows. Also, it will cover how Intuneomator manages group assignments (including Azure AD targeting and filters), metadata and script handling, version detection, and scheduled or on-demand execution. You’ll also learn about its secure architecture — combining a SwiftUI GUI, XPC privileged services, certificate or secret-based authentication, and secure keychain usage — as well as integration with Teams for alerts, CVE tracking, status reporting, and how to configure and scale it in production. 

About Gil Burns

Gil Burns is a longtime Mac administrator with over 20 years of experience managing Apple devices in enterprise environments. He began his career as an independent Mac consultant before moving into corporate IT, where he has led teams and managed large Mac fleets across industries, including advertising, finance, and fintech. Gil has worked with nearly every generation of Mac management platforms—from LANDesk and Symantec Altiris to Jamf and, most recently, Microsoft Intune. He is the creator of Intuneomator, a tool designed to streamline and automate macOS application management in Intune.

Open Discussion

Questions, comments, problems, and fixes.

Directions

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