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The MacAdmins Conference is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages devices in the Apple ecosystem. Over the last 15 years we featured hundreds of sessions and many workshops with top notch speakers in the MacAdmins community. MacAdmins offers an incredible level of expertise, value, entertainment, and a great opportunity to network with your fellow admins!

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Friday, July 18
 

9:00am EDT

Deep Dive Into Declarative OS Updates and Upgrades
Friday July 18, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 1
Dive deep into the logging, MDM commands, and Declarations for OS Updates on Apple devices. Learn how they are initiated and run via MDM commands, and now Declarations. Know the details of Enforcement Specific and the now Global Settings Declarations. Decipher the new Machine Learning for updates introduced at WWDC 2024. Decode the logging and Declarations device side, and how regardless of MDM vendor they act. Leave knowing you can use OS Updates fully and provide feedback to Apple and MDMs.
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avatar for Bryce Carlson

Bryce Carlson

Senior Product Manager, Addigy
After my family's iMac G4 in 2002 changed the course of my life to focus on Mac management I have worked for K-12 and Higher Education organizations in macOS and iOS deployment, and evolved that into directly working in the MDM sector. First, at Jamf in 2016 and now Addigy since... Read More →
Friday July 18, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
TBA 1 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Device Management   Intermediate

10:45am EDT

Automate all the things - fully automated OS and App patching
Friday July 18, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 2
A presentation on how we automate patch management for both applications and operating systems at Mollie, using open-source tools like AutoPkg, Munki, munki-promoter, and nudge-auto-updater.
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avatar for Jacob Burley

Jacob Burley

Staff Engineer, Mollie
Currently Staff Engineer at Mollie, I started managing Macs (like almost everyone else) at a local university. There, I was introduced to the concept of devops, and developed an interest in automating as much as I could regarding device management.In my free time, I love going for... Read More →
Friday July 18, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
TBA 2 Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803, USA
  Deployment   Security   Device Management   Intermediate
 
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