Author: Mike Solin (Page 10 of 11)

March Meeting Directions

Our March 2016 meeting is happening this Thursday, March 24th at Saint Joseph’s University. We’ll be meeting on the fifth floor of McShain Hall.

If you’re taking public transportation, I recommend taking the SEPTA regional rail – the Paoli-Thorndale line stops at Overbrook Station, which is an 18 minute walk to the meeting location. Click the map for a larger version.

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If you’re driving, you might have success with street parking – there are metered and non-metered spaces. Another option is the SJU parking garage – Hawk’s Landing is a short walk to the meeting location, and is reasonably priced:

30 Minutes: No Charge
Up to 2 Hours: $3.00
Up to 4 Hours: $5.00
Up to 6 Hours:: $7.00
Over 6 to 16 hours: $15.00

Here’s a map from the parking garage to the meeting location (again, click for larger):

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The front of McShain Hall looks like this – if you see this building, you’re in the right place:

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Just mention you’re here for the meeting on the fifth floor, and take the elevator upstairs.

If you have any questions, contact me via the About page, @flammable on MacAdmins Slack, or @flammable on Twitter. Looking forward to seeing you Thursday!

February 2016 Meeting Summary

We held our February 2016 meeting at the Apple Store on Walnut Street.  Our thanks to Joe Hutsko and his team for having us!  JAMF Software generously sponsored the food and refreshments.

Serge presented What’s New:

  • Office 2016 Update
  • Sparkle Vulnerability
  • Adobe CC Desktop update
  • iOS: Error 53 and Unix Epoch
  • MAS Certificate Expiration
  • Apple and the FBI

Our special guest, Andrew Feierabend, then presented The Shell & You, an introduction to the command line.

See you next month at Saint Joseph’s University!  Details to follow.

January 2016 Meeting Summary

We held our first meeting of 2016 at The Hun School at Princeton University.  Many thanks to The Hun School for providing a meeting space and dinner for all of the attendees!

Serge presented on What’s New:

  • El Capitan update
  • iOS, WatchOS, tvOS updates
  • Office 2016 update
  • OpenSSH and GateKeeper vulnerabilities

Afterwards, we held an open group discussion.

December 2015 Meeting Summary

We held our December 2015 meeting at the Apple Store on Walnut Street.  As always, our thanks Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting us!

Serge presented on What’s New:

  • Deploy Studio update
  • El Capitan update
  • iOS, WatchOS, tvOS updates
  • Office 2016 update
  • MacKeeper breach

Jesse Shipley gave an excellent AWK Talk, detailing a lot of cool stuff you can do with the ‘awk’ command.

November 2015 Meeting Summary

We held November 2015’s meeting at Monetate.  Many thanks to Monetate for providing great food, an excellent meeting space, and cool swag for everyone!

Serge presented What’s New:

  • Deploy Studio updates
  • Mac App Store cert issue
  • MacUpdate
  • Office 2016 updates
  • OS X Training changes

Jeremy Reichman presented on Versions.

Reminder: November 2015 meeting tomorrow!

Just a reminder, our November meeting will be tomorrow. Here are the details:

Thursday, November 19, 2015
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Monetate
951 E Hector St, Conshohocken, PA

Join us for November’s meeting at Monetate.

We’ll again cover recent news in our “What’s New” section and this month, our own Jeremy Reichman will be our featured speaker.

Some additional details for those of you coming: For people who drive, when you enter the parking lot, head toward the building then turn right. There is a long row of visitor parking right by the building, there is an obvious sign for Monetate. If anyone is taking the train, we’re about a 3 minute walk from the Spring Mill train station.

RSVPs are not required, but help us get a head count beforehand. RSVP here!

Hope to see you tomorrow!

October 2015 Meeting Summary

On October 22nd, we returned to the Apple Store – big thanks, as always, to Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting us! Serge opened the meeting with the monthly What’s New segment, and spoke about JNUC, iOS 9.1, OS X 10.11 El Capitan’s release, and Apple’s new captcha for their warranty check site.  Afterwards, Mike spoke about Munki, an open source Mac patch management system.

See you at the November’s meeting, next week!

Video:

Slides:

October What’s New

Introduction to Munki

September 2015 Meeting Summary

Our fourth meeting was on Thursday, September 17th.  Interphase Systems graciously hosted us at their offices in Blue Bell, PA.  They also provided soda and excellent pizza!  Serge covered What’s New with the newly released iOS 9, the upcoming OS X 10.11 El Capitan, and more.  Ben Rush spoke about Small Scale Mac Support on a Budget.

We broadcasted the presentations over Google Hangouts.  Hope to see you at the October meeting!

Serge’s presentation:

What’s New – September 2015

Ben’s presentation:

Small Scale Mac Support on a Shoestring Budget

July 2015 Meeting Summary

On Wednesday, July 22nd, we held our second meeting. Many thanks to AWeber, in Chalfont, for graciously hosting us and providing pizza, soda, and swag. Jesse Shipley spoke about launchd, and our special guest Allister Banks spoke about iOS Security (he wrote a book on the subject!). Allister’s slides can be found here, and the video for his talk can be found below.

Ben Rush got a Google Hangout working, so people could livestream the presentations online. Allister brought his own Periscope setup, as well.

If you’d like to present, please get in touch.  See you at the next meeting!

June 2015 Meeting Summary

Our first meetup happened on June 25, 2015!  JAMF Software was kind enough to provide dinner to all attendees.  Rather than post the slides for this meetup, we’ll direct you to the Resources page – that page is the same content, but updated.  Enjoy!

EDIT: As of February 2024, we have redesigned the website and removed the Resources page, as it was outdated. Please visit the Mac Admins Foundation website and join us on the Mac Admins Slack.

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