These are talks from earlier in my life that I'm still proud of, though they reflect an earlier version of myself that I no longer identify with.
An introduction to working with the Jamf Pro API, covering the fundamentals of API authentication, making basic requests, and understanding API endpoints. This first part laid the groundwork for Mac admins looking to extend and automate their Jamf Pro workflows through programmatic access.
Building on the foundations from Part 1, this session dove deeper into practical API use cases, advanced querying techniques, and real-world automation examples. I demonstrated how to leverage the Jamf Pro API to build custom workflows and integrations for more efficient Mac fleet management.
Out of the box, Casper isn't designed to do desired state management the way other configuration management tools are. Admins who are used to these other tools are often frustrated with the way Casper works. With a little work, it can be possible to achieve an automated desired state management setup. In this talk, I explored some of the ways to achieve desired state management with the Casper Suite.
An open forum panel where Mac and iOS experts answered questions about managing Apple devices. I joined fellow veterans Greg Neagle, Michelle Delaney, Nick McSpadden, and Rich Trouton to share collective knowledge and experience with the Mac admin community.
What do you do when you need the reliability and availability of JAMF Cloud, but your Infosec policies require keeping sensitive data on servers that you control? Build your own cloud! In this talk, I showed how to build a secure, highly available JAMF Software Server in Amazon Web Services.
"Oh no… nonononono!" We've all been there, deploying a workflow to production and suddenly realizing (often too late) that there are unexpected results. In this talk, I shared stories of mistakes I made due to a lack of testing, and provided insight into the testing workflows I used at Fastly.
Drawing from experience working on some of the largest Apple deployments across over 20 countries and 4 continents, this talk explored agile methodologies and deployment strategies using the Casper Suite. I shared insights from real-world implementations and discussed how to apply agile principles to enterprise Mac management.
The world of Apple deployment is changing rapidly: between yearly OS update cycles, ever-changing App Store rules, DEP, VPP, and other TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) it can be a struggle to keep up. In this session I discussed how OS X and iOS deployment was evolving, what you can do to stay current, and why the new MacBook was a harbinger of things to come.