Jamf Nation User Conference 2015

2015 has been the year of Creative Cloud Enterprise at Adobe — with enterprise-specific features such as SSO, Managed Services, in transit and at rest encryption, and cloud packaging. In this session, you’ll learn what this means for IT and how it will make your life easier and more difficult at the same time. Karl believes there may be some hostility from IT admins regarding Adobe, and while he cannot promise an actual dunk tank due to transportation and sourcing difficulties, he’ll at least bring stress balls (throwing is optional). Come with questions and comments. Leave with answers for managing Adobe in the enterprise.

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Three days, five schools, and nearly 6,000 iPads. That was the assignment of the Bethel School District’s IT staff. In this session, you’ll find out why they chose iPads, how they deployed them, and the methodology behind their 2015 1:1 rollout.

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If you're new to the Casper Suite, or doing your yearly reevaluation of your toolset, you'll be thinking about computer deployment. With many different deployment tools, options, and workflows it can be hard to decide which one is right for your organization or project. In this session, Adam Codega will use his experiences joining a fast growing startup two years ago to explore the pros and cons of common deployment strategies and answer not just "How?" but "Why?" when choosing a deployment method.

This session will be a journey through Tumblr’s experience of rolling out the Casper Suite at an Internet startup that deeply embraces creativity and individual expression. Andrew will focus on the cultural and technical implications of introducing the Casper Suite to a group of people that have every right to question “corporate” answers to challenging problems. Learn from some of Tumblr’s brightest, and take a peak at what drives their creativity.

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For an education customer, managing your fleet of iPads presents many challenges. As Apple has developed its services that compliment an MDM service, the challenges have only gotten bigger. One of the biggest tasks that IT admins face when working with MDM is the deployment of iPads and applications. With the use of Apple’s Volume Purchase Program (VPP) and Device Enrollment Program (DEP), these tasks can become much easier. During this session, James Ridsdale will demystify DEP and VPP and explain some great workflows and tricks that can help you get the most out of your MDM.

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IT Administrators run into all kinds of unique challenges that sometimes require more than out-of-the-box features can offer and can be solved with some outside-of-the-box thinking. JAMF IT is no exception in this session we'll walk through a selection of solutions and discuss what we were trying to solve, why we took the approach we did, and then dive into a walkthrough of the code to demonstrate how we did it. Many of the solutions we’ll be discussing were recently published to GitHub so you can follow along with us.

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In this session, you’ll hear from HBO, users of both the Casper Suite and Code42 CrashPlan. Jorge Sanchez, client technology system engineer, will walk through how the happy union between CrashPlan and Casper Suite made deploying and administering secure endpoint backup in their enterprise a breeze. Jorge will share lessons learned, best practices, and answer your questions on the technological advantages of integrating Code42 CrashPlan with the Casper Suite.

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Transitioning to computer-based testing can be perceived as a daunting challenge, particularly in schools where the technology is mobile, and students and teachers are more familiar with traditional paper testing. During this session, Jason Agress will share his learning experiences from his school’s journey to technical readiness when preparing to administer Common Core State Standards exams online. You’ll learn the technical details of preparing, deploying, and supporting the technology, as well as how this allows students and teachers to focus on the test itself and not the technology associated with it.

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The Apple environment at the London School of Economics has grown from a handful of non-supported Macs to over 1,000 managed Apple devices in the last 18 months. In this session, find out how the Casper Suite is at the heart of this journey by helping implement a diverse managed environment. You’ll see case studies explaining how the London School of Economics uses the Casper Suite—together with Apple's DEP—to ship iOS devices directly to users and how this method provides a management framework for 'iRoam'; a fully automated MacBook Air "vending machine" for students that is paving the way for fewer static computer labs and more open study areas.

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If your main office went offline, would you lose the ability to manage your Macs or authenticate your users? Well, you don't have to! Eventbrite doubled in size in less than two years to over 500 users and dealt with this issue by taking a different approach to IT strategy. Learn how they inverted the traditional, centralized IT architecture by leveraging the principles behind starfish — fascinating organisms that have no centralized nervous system. By decentralizing their Mac management and authentication infrastructure, they were able to mitigate potential disruption of a primary office outage. Utilizing JAMF Cloud and driving authentication from the cloud, even if Eventbrite headquarters went offline, all Macs would still be managed and all users would still be able to authenticate to critical services. Join this session to see if your IT strategy could benefit from being more "starfishy" and become more resilient, reproducible, and flexible.

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The years following an initial one to one deployment bring a unique set of challenges including shortened timelines and higher expectations for efficiency. Hopkins Public Schools is the fourth year of our one to one device deployment. In the fall of 2015 Hopkins deployed approximately 3200 devices to students by the end of the second day of school. At one point on the first day of school, devices were handed out to students at a rate of about 500 devices per hour. This presentation will discuss the logistics and technical underpinnings necessary to make this deployment a success.

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The beginning of any new journey can yield surprises but an experienced navigator can help chart a safe course. Dave Acland is that experienced navigator as he’s been in the rare position of installing the Casper Suite in many different ways and in organizations of all sizes. In this session, Dave will share his experiences and provide you with tips for setting up the Casper Suite, implementing a rollout, and how to deploy OS images, apps, and settings with the Casper Suite. You’ll learn some of the pitfalls he’s encountered and ways to avoid these obstacles in your environment.

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In this session we will examine how the Casper Suite’s Rest API can benefit an education organization. We will explore real world examples such as importing asset tags to combating VShare. Come listen to ways to make your days easier and find out how you too, can work really hard at being lazy.

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More and more businesses are looking to Apple as viable tool in the workplace (if not, none of us would be here!) but few are willing to make the leap to Mac only endpoints. One of the brave pioneers who converted their entire office from Windows to Mac is the Hermes Middle East office. Gerard Allen, CTO of iConnect and JAMF Software Integrator talks through the buy-in process needed from all the stake holders, through the proof of concept process to implementation and ongoing support when bringing in Apple.

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