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Deployment

MacIT 2013 Concludes

MacIT concluded with a half day on Saturday. Even though it was only a half day, there were plenty of sessions to attend. Some standout sessions included an overview of Deployment Methods by Anthony Reimer which dovetailed nicely into the following session by Mike Boylan and Nick McSpadden where they outlined specific Deployment examples.

By Nate Walck 1 min read 2 comments

macOS

MacIT Day Two Round Up

Day Two was full of even more great sessions. The day started out with an overview of the changes in iOS 6. Following this was a general session covering Wireless in 2013 and later. Bill Wiecking went over the upcoming wireless technologies, what their technical specifications were and the challenges that would be associated with them.

By Nate Walck 1 min read

Security

MacIT Day One Wrapup

The first day of MacIT 2013 was packed full of valuable sessions. From Chip Pearson's moving talk regarding the future of the Mac Administrator community to the various sessions covering security topics, iOS and BYOD environments.

By Nate Walck 2 min read

macOS

MacIT 2013 Begins

MacIT 2013 has kicked off in Moscone West. The first session opened with some brief items that everyone should know regarding OS X Mountain Lion as well as an overview of conference sessions that cover some specific Mountain Lion topics.

By Nate Walck 1 min read 2 comments

Servers and Services

Lessons Learned From Our Latest Revision of the OS X Server Essentials Materials

"The only thing constant is change." "Timing is everything." These two sayings would become so very true to me and Arek Dreyer as we were wrapping up the last edits and corrections to the materials for "Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Server Essentials: Using and Supporting OS X Server on Mountain Lion," published by Peachpit Press.

By Ben Greisler 2 min read 1 comment

Event

The 2013 Mac IT Conference: What’s Up?

If you're even peripherally involved in administering Macs in any sort of numbers, you've heard about Macworld/iWorld, nee Macworld Conference and Expo. You probably even know about the Mac IT track, right? Well, no, there isn't one.

By John Welch 7 min read