Category: Meetup Summaries (Page 6 of 7)

We held our 1 year anniversary meeting at the Apple Store on Walnut Street.  Many, many thanks to Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting half of our meetings this year, including the very first one.  Our gratitude goes to JAMF Software for sponsoring the many food and refreshments, too.

Serge presented What’s New:

• WWDC announcements
• Office Updates
• Adobe Updates
• TeamViewer update

Afterwards, we hosted an open discussion, then migrated to Philly’s new SkyGarten beer garden to celebrate our first year of bringing the Philly MacAdmin community together!  Thanks for coming to these meetings – we’re all really proud of how this has grown over the past year.  Here’s to many more!

AIM Academy graciously hosted our May 2016 meeting.  Serge presented What’s New:

• Office 2016 update
• OS X, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Xcode updates
• TeamViewer hacks
• Symantec Vulnerability
• MacAdmin Podcast
• Flash Death Watch

Afterwards, we hosted an open discussion.

We held our April 2016 meeting at the Apple Store.  Our continued thanks to Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting us!  Also, thanks to JAMF Software for providing food and refreshments!

Serge presented What’s New:

• Office 2016 update
• Badlock
• JSS update
• JNUC 2016 changes
• Penn State MacAdmins

Allister Banks returned to talk about Python Plus osquery.

See you at our May 2016 meeting, hosted at AIM Academy!

We held our March 2016 meeting at Saint Joseph’s University.  SJU generously provided food and refreshments.

Serge presented What’s New:

• Office 2016 update
• OS X 10.11.4, Safari 9.1
• iOS 9.3, tvOS 9.2, watchOS 2.2
• iPhone SE
• Badlock
• git vulnerability
• JSS update
• APNS issues
• Apple and the FBI
• Penn State MacAdmins

Tyler Morgan then gave a security overview with Encryption Power Crunch.

See you tomorrow at the Apple Store!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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