Archive for category: Conferences

The 2012 MacTech Conference is rapidly approaching.  It will kick off next week on Wednesday, October 17th and run through Friday, October 19th.  If you would like to go, make sure to get your registration done as soon as possible.  You can register for the conference here.  There are a […]

Over time version control has become more popular within the sysadmin realm, with one of the most popular version control systems being git. Graham goes over some of the reasons that it is a good idea to use Git in your everyday work over on his blog.  Once you get […]

All the sessions from this year’s MacSysAdmin conference are now posted on their website for download.  These sessions are a great resource for advancing your Mac Admin skills, so check them out. If you would like to go to next year’s conference, it is planned to take place from September […]

Final Thoughts The lights have been turned off at MacSysAdmin ’12 in Gothemburg.  What has been on the scene in the last 4 days was definitely above expectations; a real show of interesting and brilliant sessions that touched all the aspects surrounding the life of Mac system administrators, from deployment […]

What did you change?!?! Gary Larizza – Puppet Labs Have you ever wondered how many times we make changes to files or scripts in a deployment process? Gary Larizza did and in a volcanic session, explained how this can be kept under control by tracking changes using a powerful open-source […]

Server AD Migration & Integration – Workstation AD Migration & integration  Zack Smith – 318 If you do not have Active Directory within your environment to deal with, you are probably a happy Macintosh system admin. If you do have to face the Microsoft authentication system, then you have to look at […]

Advanced Munki Greg Neagle Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Animation Studios Certainly anyone who is familiar with mass deployment knows who Greg Neagle is (pronounced Neigle as per request) and what he has done in terms of open source.  It is likely that a lot of you around the world […]

Logs, Damn Logs, and Statistics Edward Marczak – Google Is there any way to know what your beloved mac is doing when something is not working? Is there any weapon we can use to fight against people who think that everything works correctly and the problem is yours? The answer […]

Today, the Mac is on the stage. It is the first day of MacSysAdmin 2012. In the last years, the appointment on the Swedish land has become one of the most important meeting for all the System Administrators who, every day, are involved with a considerable number of workstations to […]

Apple didn’t say anything in the keynote, but when the store came back, the Mac Pro has been updated!  Looks like it was just the processor that got a change.  No thunderbolt, but looks like the rumors of the MacPro’s demise are premature. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_pro The new airport express now looks […]