LaunchPad Jamf Admin Podcast

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.

On-Prem to Jamf Cloud Migrations

An explanation of how On-Prem to Jamf Cloud migrations work.
On-Prem to Jamf Cloud migrations can be a bit of a mystery. Join us as Drew Duggan, the Senior Sales Engineer at Jamf, joins us for a Q&A to demystify the process.
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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.

How to soar with S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.

How to get started deploying macOS updates with S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. and a Q&A with the creator Kevin White.
In this session, we will be showing a base setup for S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. and then taking a technical deep dive into how it works. We will then be doing an interview with the creator, Kevin White, where we ask some common questions on the way it was set up, the way it can be configured, and any security concerns with setting things up one way over another. We’re also going to discuss whether Rocketman’s setup is the best way, or if there’s a better way Kevin recommends, and open up Q&A for the audience.
 
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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.

Providing Zero Touch Guided Setup for Camera, Microphone, and Screen Sharing

TCC is the macOS system for providing applications access to system services while ensuring transparency, consent, and control. Apple has made sure that admins or attackers cannot automatically provide applications access to user files, external drives, or hardware like camera and microphone, for obvious security reasons.Yet with zero touch provisioning our goal is to provide our teams with the ability to do their jobs right out of the box. So how do we guide people through the process of enabling these services for applications like Zoom or Teams that they need in a remote world? In this presentation we will show our workflow for walking people through these processes during our automated onboarding process and a shell script function for verifying that they have what they need.
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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.
 

Patch Management with App Installers - What we’ve learned

The Rocketman Tech Team has migrated from using installation scripts and AutPkgr to using Jamf’s built in App Installers to deploy software patches for thousands of Macs. Senior Jamf Engineer at Rocketman, Hugo Immediato, will give a full assessment of what worked well, what can be improved, and whether it can work for your environment.
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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.

Why Jamf Admins Should Switch to Zsh

Beginning with Catalina (10.15), Apple changed the default login shell from Bash to Zsh. Many admins, ourselves included, have been slow to move to this new shell. Why should we? It turns out there are few advantages to Zsh over Bash. In this session we’ll show off a few ways we’ve been able to leverage Zsh to write better scripts, and even regain some of what we lost when Python went away.
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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.