MacAdmins 2020 Presentation

I had a wonderful opportunity to present a campfire session during the remote MacAdmins 2020 conference with Caroline Bodager. We reviewed a lot of recommendations, orientation, and best practices for new and upcoming admins to consider as they approach new environments and technologies.

The goal was to throw a lot of ideas & resources against the wall for newer admins to consider, and maybe take action on a few of them to make their lives a little easier, or help them grow. It was wild preparing for this, knowing the conference wasn't going to be in person - ah, the distant land of mid-2020.

It's amazing how some of these subjects have evolved and changed over the last two years - while other subjects are just as important now as they were back then. I'll never stop preaching the gospel of documentation.

We broke the talk down into the following categories:

• Automating Yourself
  • Organizing tasks
  • Tracking your fiscal year
  • Notebooks
  • In-line documentation
  • Code snippets
• Nomenclature
  • Devices
  • Fleets
• Homogeneity of Settings
  • Simplifying settings
  • User accounts
  • MDM Configurations
  • Advanced tools
• Printer Automation
  • Orientation and Bash
  • JAMF
  • Addigy
• Homogeneity of Software
  • Distribution
  • PPPCs and Kexts

If you're a newer admin, consider giving this a watch - Caroline and I can cover a lot of ground because we both work with different MDM's (she was using JAMF while I was in Addigy) and support different industries (education and small/medium business).