MacAdmins 2020 Presentation
MacAdmins 2020 - Early Efficiencies: Prioritizing your time as a new Mac Admin through automation and other best practices.

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).