LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast

Tom Bridge and Collin Elliot of the Mac Admins Foundations join us to discuss their 2024 initiatives, including Mac Admin Mentorship, Penn State MacAdmins Sponsorships, Mac Admins Open Source, and much, much more.

Sign up for next months LaunchPad: ⁠⁠https://www.rocketman.tech/launchpad⁠⁠

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For more information about Rocketman Tech, or to schedule a meeting with one of our Jamf Experts, visit our website: ⁠⁠https://www.rocketman.tech

This month Rocketman Tech’s Chad Lawson and Chris Schasse will demonstrate their secret strategies for managing Jamf Pro servers by each giving tips and tricks to help you manage Jamf better.

Sign up for next months LaunchPad: ⁠⁠https://www.rocketman.tech/launchpad⁠⁠ --------------------------------------------------- For more information about Rocketman Tech, or to schedule a meeting with one of our Jamf Experts, visit our website: ⁠⁠https://www.rocketman.tech

This month on LaunchPad, Rocketman Tech's Christopher Schasse and Robert Hammen, an Apple Platform Architect in the Aerospace industry give a recap of WWDC specifically for Mac Admins on what to expect over the next year with Apple and Jamf.

We delve deep into the WWDC sessions, saving you the hassle! The annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) hosted by Apple is an essential hub of information technology insights. In this session, we'll thoroughly dissect all the crucial Apple updates for Jamf Admins, casting a light on the future of iOS, macOS, Apple Business Manager, and all things Apple.

Supplemental Resources: https://rkmn.tech/macos15

Sign up for next months LaunchPad: https://www.rocketman.tech/launchpad

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For more information about Rocketman Tech, or to schedule a meeting with one of our Jamf Experts, visit our website: https://www.rocketman.tech

Apple recommends using MDM commands to upgrade and update your fleet. But what can we do when MDM isn't working across all our fleet? Graham R. Pugh, Senior Systems Engineer, MSP Services at Jamf will discuss erase-install, a tool originally developed for erasing and reinstalling macOS that has since become more widely used for performing updates and upgrades without the need for admin rights, while making prerequisite checks and providing user feedback during the update process.

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Welcome to the ”LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast,” sponsored by ⁠⁠Rocketman Tech⁠⁠!

Join us for ~1-hour sessions exploring the latest news, updates, and trends in the Jamf and Apple ecosystem. Each episode features a keynote speaker, discussions on recent LaunchPad events, and interactive Q&A sessions. With a relaxed, conversational atmosphere, our podcast is perfect for staying current and connected. Stay updated, stay engaged, and navigate the Jamf and Apple world with us!

This month we have guest presenter Kevin White discussing S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. (or just `super`). S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. is an open source script that provides administrators with a comprehensive workflow to encourage and enforce macOS software updates or upgrades for both Intel and Apple silicon Mac computers to explore Jamf's New macOS Onboarding experience.

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

For the last four months we’ve been testing the macOS onboarding workflow and have developed tools and workflows to optimize this new Jamf feature. Join us as we go through the power of this new tool along with some of its caveats.

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

This month we are having a special Ask an Expert: LaunchPad Live. We are excited to have an excellent panel available to answer all your burning questions.

Guest Experts include:

The Panelists: - Charles Edge: CTO at ⁠Bootstrappers.mn⁠

Mark Buffington: Senior Consulting Engineer at Jamf

Isaac Ordonez: Director of Technology at Mann Consulting

Phil Stokes: macOS Malware Researcher at SentinelOne

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

The macOS Security Compliance Project made meeting compliance on macOS easy for enterprise organizations implementing security baselines or benchmarks like NIST/CIS. Let's talk about how Jamf's new tool can make it even easier to select the appropriate security controls, edit your organizations customized values, export compliance documentation and generate guidance. We will show how easy it is to upload all configuration profiles, scripts and extension attributes into Jamf Pro with a single-click.

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

Learn how Escrow Buddy can help you ensure your MDM has valid FileVault personal recovery keys for all your organization's Macs.

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Escrow Buddy is a brand-new open-source tool for Mac IT and security administrators who escrow FileVault personal recovery keys to their MDM. For Macs that do not have a valid recovery key in escrow, Escrow Buddy securely and transparently generates a new key during the standard macOS login process and triggers its escrow. In this session, Elliot Jordan will cover the reasons FileVault recovery keys might be missing from your MDM, share context on the pitfalls of existing password-prompt workflows aimed at solving the problem, and explain why Escrow Buddy offers a more evolved and scalable solution for modern Mac admins.

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

Setup Your Mac aims to simplify initial device configuration by leveraging swiftDialog and Jamf Pro Policy Custom Events to allow end-users to self-complete Mac setup post-enrollment.

Apple’s Automated Device Enrollment helps streamline Mobile Device Management (MDM) enrollment and device supervision during activation, enabling IT to manage enterprise devices with “zero touch.”

Setup Your Mac aims to simplify initial device configuration by leveraging swiftDialog and Jamf Pro policy “Custom Events” to allow end-users to self-complete Mac setup post-enrollment. Attendees can prepare now by visiting snelson.us/sym and come ready to learn SYM racing stripes, gotchas and “one more thing.”

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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.