• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  public speaking

    Use the JAMF Discount for MAC AD UK

    I’m gonna’ be speaking at the inaugural Mac Admin and Developer Conference, from Amsys in London. JAMF Software is sponsoring Mac Admin & Developer Conference in London, on Feb 9th and 10th. And this gives us the chance to help promote a 15% off discount on the normal ticket price of £497 + VAT, promo price: £422 + VAT. JAMF has a landing page on our site to help you use our discount at http://www.jamfsoftware.com/events/mac-admin-developer-conference-uk/. To get the discount, simply email hello@macad.uk and mention JAMF!

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    MacTech 2016 Dates Announced

    MacTech Conference 2015 has come and gone. And as in previous years, the 2016 edition will also be located in Southern California, in November. November 16-18, 2016 to be exact, with Pre-Conference Workshops on November 15th. Aaaaand, they’re giving away a full registration (value: $1599) for MacTech Conference 2016 in a drawing! Simply sign up at http://conference.mactech.com/2016-tellmemore — to enter the raffle. If you sign up now, you can get the absolute lowest price possible — $899 (saving $700) at http://conference.mactech.com/2016/special-early-discount.

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    Coming to the Mac Admin & Developer Conference in the UK

    In case you haven’t heard, there’s a cool new Apple conference for Mac Admins and Developers. It’s in London, and put on by the excellent people at Amsys. The site for the conference, being held in February, is at http://www.macad.uk. And if you go, I’ll see ya’ there, when I do a talk on Mobile Device Management. Hope to see you there!

  • Articles and Books,  public speaking

    My Page for Mac and iOS Conferences

    Conferences for Apple Systems Administrators have been popping up all over the place. There are the ones that have been around forever, like MacIT and then there are new conferences that sprung up in the past year, such as ACES and MacDevOps. Some have reached maturity, such as MacTech and Penn State Mac Admins. Now, we have conferences in North America, Europe and Australia (so only 4 continents to go). So, I made a page listing them. And a Pinterest board. The page is available here. And that Pinterest board: Follow Charles’s board Mac IT Conferences on Pinterest. I also took the liberty of listing a couple of conferences that are platform…

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    Discount: Register for MacIT 2015 by June 1st

    July 14–16, 2015 | Santa Clara, California New enterprise iOS insights. New reasons to attend MacIT. Register now – Save $300 » MacIT is back—and it’s packed with practical, high-value insights for deploying and managing iOS in today’s enterprise. Attend the all-new MacIT July 14-16 in Santa Clara and get the knowledge you need for your iOS-enabled enterprise.  Here’s just a sampling: Deploy with Ease—Learn the secrets for smooth, seamless mass deployment and management of Apple devices. Go Virtual—Get practical guidance on deploying OS X in a virtualized enterprise setting. Secure It—Learn how to achieve OS X security at scale and manage security and privacy risks with iOS apps. Top-Tier…

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    MacIT Schedule Up

    Krypted was read-only for awhile (article coming about that soon) so catching up on some content from the past month (much of this is from an email that went out to MacIT alumni)… The schedule is up, and MacIT is back with more practical insights than ever before. Attend the all-new MacIT July 14-16 in Santa Clara and get the knowledge you need to address the growing demand for iOS / OS X in the enterprise. A sampling of the sessions: Deploy with Ease—Learn the secrets for smooth, seamless mass deployment and management of Apple devices. Go Virtual—Get practical guidance on deploying OS X in a virtualized enterprise setting. Secure It—Learn how to achieve…

  • Articles and Books,  public speaking

    Session On The Changing World Of Publishing At MinneBar

    I’ve long been an attendee and supporter of MinneBar, a Barcamp in Minneapolis. This year, I’ll be doing a presentation on publishing in the tech world. If you live here in town, I’d love to see you there! http://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/187 Also, JAMF Software is a sponsor, so if you’d like to talk JAMF or Bushel, I’m of course always excited to discuss both!

  • Articles and Books,  public speaking

    Dead Tech Books

    As an author of technical books, I’ve been very interested in the comings and goings of technical books for a long time. This new Instagram feed is an expedition into what once was and how quickly the times change. Feed is embedded into a page on krypted to make it easier to see. Curious how many of my books are now “Dead Tech Books”…

  • Articles and Books,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  Network Printing,  public speaking

    MacIT Is Coming Back In July

    MacWorld is kinda’ dead. Long live MacWorld (I cry nightly over this). But MacIT, alive and well and awesome (I hadn’t really spent any time on the floor for a long time anyway)! Here’s the email announcing the MacIT dates, which will be July 14th through 16th in Santa Clara! I’m super-stoked! 🙂 Dear MacIT constituents, Mark your calendars for MacIT 2015! I’m pleased to announce that we have secured dates for the MacIT 2015 Conference. This year’s event will be held July 14-16 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, CA). Our team is hard at work to ensure the first “stand alone” MacIT is…