10 Oct October 2024 – MacAdmins Meeting
October 16th, 2024 – University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting
The University of Utah, MacAdmins Meeting is held monthly virtually 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 16th, 2024 at 11 AM MT and we will provide live broadcasts and archives that will be made available 2-3 days after the meeting.
Efficient Apple Deployment Workflows for Technology Lending Libraries and Beyond – Kevin Dunn, Apple
Join us for an in-depth session with Kevin Dunn, a Mac Solutions Architect, as he explores powerful workflows tailored for technology lending libraries and beyond. In today’s fast-paced environments, institutions and organizations often face the challenge of rapidly deploying Apple devices to users with temporary technology needs, such as in lending libraries, conference setups, or educational labs. Kevin will demonstrate streamlined techniques for quickly preparing Apple devices—such as Macs, iPads, and Apple TVs—for users, ensuring a smooth and efficient process for both deployment and reset.
This presentation will focus on practical, time-saving strategies that allow you to wipe, configure, and re-deploy devices in a matter of minutes—making them ready for the next user with minimal downtime. Kevin will walk through real-world examples, showing how these workflows can enhance the management of temporary-use devices and improve the efficiency of more permanent deployments in office environments or educational settings. Additionally, Kevin will highlight key Apple features and management tools that optimize the deployment process, such as automated setup, provisioning, and system resets. You’ll discover how these workflows can ensure consistent device performance while reducing manual effort, freeing up valuable time for your IT team. Whether you’re managing a fleet of Apple devices in a lending library or handling permanent assignments in your organization, these techniques can help streamline your operations and improve device lifecycle management.
About Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn is a Mac Solution Architect on the Apple US Education Mac Success Team. In this role, Kevin’s responsibilities, are to communicate and educate on Apple solutions specifically for Mac, with attention to Identity Management, Security, Compliance, MDM workflows, and overall integration with US Educational Institution’s infrastructure, organizational, and educational mandates.
awk, sed, and grep — Together we can change anything! – William Smith, Jamf
For MacAdmins, the ability to manipulate text efficiently is crucial when managing configurations, parsing logs, or automating repetitive tasks. Enter the candidates of change: awk, sed, and grep. These command-line workhorses transform raw text into useful, actionable data that can drive your workflows. Whether you’re extracting key information from system logs or filtering through command outputs, these tools give you the precision needed for effective Mac system administration.
In this session, William Smith will take you on a deep dive into the powerful combination of awk, sed, and grep. You’ll see practical examples, including extracting battery cycle counts using macOS’s ioreg command and refine that data through smart filtering. He will also walk through how these tools can be used together to create efficient workflows, demonstrating how you can quickly and easily turn cluttered data into just what you need. But it’s not just about efficiency; he will emphasize how modern hardware has evolved, making processor power less of a concern. Instead, the real focus should be on simplicity and minimizing failure points in your scripts. Every extra command introduces complexity and potential troubleshooting challenges. Reducing that complexity is key to writing robust, maintainable scripts.
About William Smith
Bill helps train and support internal Professional Services engineers and partners delivering services on behalf of Jamf. Occasionally, he’ll contribute to the Jamf Blog, present technical webinars for customers, and speak on his experiences helping customers at the Jamf Nation User Conference or other conferences. He’s been a customer, an Integrator, and an employee over the past 20 years.
- Video – To view the archived presentation video, click here.
- Slides – To view the archived presentation slides, click here.
Open Discussion
Questions, comments, problems, and fixes.
Directions
This meeting will not be held in person but virtually via Zoom video communications architecture.
- Require a Password to Join This meeting will require a password to join the meeting. Information will be emailed via a campus internal list, but if you are external and want to attend the meeting, please use the Contact Us form to receive details. Else, the archive of the meeting will be available 2-3 days after the live meeting.
- Waiting Room When joining the meeting you will be placed in the Waiting Room by default and the hosts will give you access to the live meeting.
- Miscellaneous We will also implement other settings and safeguards to secure the meeting.
Archived Presentation(s)
- Archives of the presentations will be available on this web page.
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