LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast

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.

The Rocketman team, along with guest Jamfers, discuss the amazing features, integrations, and changes to both Jamf and macOS. The discussion ranges from requiring filevault, platform SSO, Apple Watch Management, and a demo of Jamf Remote Assist (coming soon!).  

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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.

A lot was announced at JNUC 2023 this year! Join us as we talk through some of the biggest announcements, our speculations on how they will be implemented, along with some must-see presentations. 

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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.

Description: You might be saying to yourself, "Dynamically updating a Static Group is impossibly dumb, because, that's what Smart Groups are for...", but, here is my dilemma: I need to assess an endpoint state for which there are no good client-side attributes to collect.

In this particular case (if you must know, Microsoft modern vs. basic authentication) there is no definitive data on the endpoint that accurately reflects the sheer number of highly-variable user login behaviors in my environment. It's not that it's too hard, it just can't be accurately done (&, yes, I've talked to Microsoft... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...)

The user login data I need (i.e., email addresses that are using basic auth) is available, however, in the Exchange logs. Because our Messaging team can ship me that log data I can use it to create Static Groups. When that data is updated I can dynamically change the membership of my designated Static Group, thus, Dynamic Static Groups™

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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.

TCC was introduced with macOS Mojave and stands for Transparency, Consent, and Control. This allows the user to have control over what applications can access, including Location Services, Bluetooth, and Full Disk Access, to name a few. However, the three we are focusing on for this presentation is camera, microphone, and screen recording, since these three cannot be controlled via an MDM. 

Follow up resources for this session can be found at https://www.rocketman.tech/post/you-down-with-tcc

The full presentation that was delivered at Penn State Mac Admins can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gC1MaFKKAs

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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.

A recap of WWDC and what to expect over the next year with Apple and Jamf.

We scour WWDC sessions so you don’t have to! The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an information technology conference held annually by Apple. In this presentation we go over all of the relevant Apple updates for Jamf Admins as we look to the future of what to expect with iOS, macOS, Apple Business Manager, and everything else Apple is doing. If you’re looking to stay up-to-date with what’s happening with Apple, you won’t want to miss this session!

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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.

An explanation of how On-Prem to Jamf Cloud migrations work.

On-Prem to Jamf Cloud migrations can be a bit of a mystery. Join us as Drew Duggan, the Senior Sales Engineer at Jamf, joins us for a Q&A to demystify the process.

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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.