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The New Frontier of Apple Deployment and Management

John Kitzmiller “Kitzy”

Senior IT Consultant The Linde Group

@JohnKitzmiller johnkitzmiller.com

www.lindegroup.com

“We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier"

–Unknown

“You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and still be in business tomorrow.”

Imaging Is Dead“But we’ve always done it that way!”

• Time consuming

• Model specific builds (AKA forked)

• High maintenance

• Adds complexity

Agile Deployment“Huh?”

agile |ˈajəl| adjective able to move quickly and easily

Device Enrollment Program (DEP)

Image courtesy of JAMF Software

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/solutions/business/device-enrollment-program/

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/resources/enrolling-mac-in-the-device-enrollment-program-dep-and-the-casper-suite/

Problems with DEP• User can bypass DEP by not connecting to the

internet during Setup Assistant

• Setup Assistant doesn’t wait for enrollment to complete

• Password policies are not enforced during Setup Assistant

• User created at Setup Assistant is an admin

Coming soon to DEP• Setup Assistant requires an internet connection to

continue

• Setup Assistant waits until MDM enrollment is complete

• Password policies enforced during Setup Assistant

• User created at Setup Assistant can be standard user

System Integrity Protection

–Imaging Fans Everywhere

“But if we don’t image, how can we control the user experience?”

• Binding to Active Directory

• Messing with the user experience

• Installing ALL the things!

Resources

https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll/

WWDC 2015 Videos

Keynote

Platforms State of the Union

What’s New in Managing Apple Devices

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/

Community

#slack for MacAdmins MacAdmins.org

Community

IRC##osx-server

https://www.afp548.com/2013/02/06/a-field-guide-to-irc/

Community

#macadmin #psumac

The Harbinger of Change

–Adam Codega

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=13657

“Every time something new comes out we race to say why we can't use it, instead of asking if it can

help us.”

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2015/06/09/ep-123

Adam Codega

Caleb Coy

Arek Dreyer

Elliot Jordan

Emily Kausalik

Miles Leacy

Peter Linde

Emily Nytko

Michael Paul

Joe Schram

Rich Trouton

Vanessa White

Thank You

Let’s chat!

@JohnKitzmiller

@kitzy

Feedback: http://j.mp/psumac2015-160