LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast

Jamf’s New macOS Onboarding Experience

For the last four months we’ve been testing the macOS onboarding workflow and have developed tools and workflows to optimize this new Jamf feature. Join us as we go through the power of this new tool along with some of its caveats.
 
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

LaunchPad Live: Ask an Expert

This month we are having a special Ask an Expert: LaunchPad Live. We are excited to have an excellent panel available to answer all your burning questions.
Guest Experts include:
The Panelists: - Charles Edge: CTO at ⁠Bootstrappers.mn⁠
Mark Buffington: Senior Consulting Engineer at Jamf
Isaac Ordonez: Director of Technology at Mann Consulting
Phil Stokes: macOS Malware Researcher at SentinelOne
 
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

The macOS Security Compliance Project

The macOS Security Compliance Project made meeting compliance on macOS easy for enterprise organizations implementing security baselines or benchmarks like NIST/CIS. Let's talk about how Jamf's new tool can make it even easier to select the appropriate security controls, edit your organizations customized values, export compliance documentation and generate guidance. We will show how easy it is to upload all configuration profiles, scripts and extension attributes into Jamf Pro with a single-click.
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

Escrow Buddy: A tool for escrowing missing FileVault recovery keys

Learn how Escrow Buddy can help you ensure your MDM has valid FileVault personal recovery keys for all your organization's Macs.
 
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Escrow Buddy is a brand-new open-source tool for Mac IT and security administrators who escrow FileVault personal recovery keys to their MDM. For Macs that do not have a valid recovery key in escrow, Escrow Buddy securely and transparently generates a new key during the standard macOS login process and triggers its escrow. In this session, Elliot Jordan will cover the reasons FileVault recovery keys might be missing from your MDM, share context on the pitfalls of existing password-prompt workflows aimed at solving the problem, and explain why Escrow Buddy offers a more evolved and scalable solution for modern Mac admins.
 
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

Setup Your Mac with Dan Snelson

Setup Your Mac aims to simplify initial device configuration by leveraging swiftDialog and Jamf Pro Policy Custom Events to allow end-users to self-complete Mac setup post-enrollment.
Apple’s Automated Device Enrollment helps streamline Mobile Device Management (MDM) enrollment and device supervision during activation, enabling IT to manage enterprise devices with “zero touch.”
Setup Your Mac aims to simplify initial device configuration by leveraging swiftDialog and Jamf Pro policy “Custom Events” to allow end-users to self-complete Mac setup post-enrollment. Attendees can prepare now by visiting snelson.us/sym and come ready to learn SYM racing stripes, gotchas and “one more thing.”
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

The Marriage of Jamf 11 and macOS Sonoma

The Rocketman team, along with guest Jamfers, discuss the amazing features, integrations, and changes to both Jamf and macOS. The discussion ranges from requiring filevault, platform SSO, Apple Watch Management, and a demo of Jamf Remote Assist (coming soon!).  
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

JNUC 2023 Updates

A lot was announced at JNUC 2023 this year! Join us as we talk through some of the biggest announcements, our speculations on how they will be implemented, along with some must-see presentations. 
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

Don't Make Yourself a Cog in your Own Machine

Description: You might be saying to yourself, "Dynamically updating a Static Group is impossibly dumb, because, that's what Smart Groups are for...", but, here is my dilemma: I need to assess an endpoint state for which there are no good client-side attributes to collect.
 
In this particular case (if you must know, Microsoft modern vs. basic authentication) there is no definitive data on the endpoint that accurately reflects the sheer number of highly-variable user login behaviors in my environment. It's not that it's too hard, it just can't be accurately done (&, yes, I've talked to Microsoft... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...)
 
The user login data I need (i.e., email addresses that are using basic auth) is available, however, in the Exchange logs. Because our Messaging team can ship me that log data I can use it to create Static Groups. When that data is updated I can dynamically change the membership of my designated Static Group, thus, Dynamic Static Groups™
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

You down with TCC?

TCC was introduced with macOS Mojave and stands for Transparency, Consent, and Control. This allows the user to have control over what applications can access, including Location Services, Bluetooth, and Full Disk Access, to name a few. However, the three we are focusing on for this presentation is camera, microphone, and screen recording, since these three cannot be controlled via an MDM. 
 
Follow up resources for this session can be found at https://www.rocketman.tech/post/you-down-with-tcc
The full presentation that was delivered at Penn State Mac Admins can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gC1MaFKKAs
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.

WWDC 2023 Updates

A recap of WWDC and what to expect over the next year with Apple and Jamf.
 
We scour WWDC sessions so you don’t have to! The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an information technology conference held annually by Apple. In this presentation we go over all of the relevant Apple updates for Jamf Admins as we look to the future of what to expect with iOS, macOS, Apple Business Manager, and everything else Apple is doing. If you’re looking to stay up-to-date with what’s happening with Apple, you won’t want to miss this session!
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Launchpad Podcast is hosted by Rocketman Tech where we discuss recent news, updates and happenings in the Jamf and Apple world. Always relevant and always casual, we'll have a Keynote speaker, discuss current LaunchPad events, and invite group discussion, questions and topic requests throughout the ~1 hour meeting.