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    MacTech BootCamps

    MacTech Conference is over, but if you’d like to get your MacTech on a little more, there are still the Boot Camps at each city. The first day of each of these includes the Microsoft Office accreditation which I was luckily to sit in on at the MacTech Conference in Los Angeles. The second day is the full day MacTech BootCamp. Austin: January 22, 2014 – Sessions Chair: Nathan Toups Seattle: February 12, 2014 – Sessions Chair: Shelley Watson Atlanta: March 12, 2014 – Sessions Chair: LeRoy Dennison Denver: April 30, 2014 – Sessions Chair: Mary Norbury Boston: May 21, 2014 – Sessions Chair: Leon Lincoln, Andy Espo Washington DC: June 25, 2014 – Sessions Chair: Will O’Neal, Paul Suh Chicago: July 23, 2014 – Sessions Chair: Pam Lefkowitz,…

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    2012 Penn State MacAdmins Conference

    Don’t let the theft of the Paternoville sign fool ya’, State College is as safe as ever. That is, until a bunch of Mac guys descend on the Nittany Lion Shrine. Yes, it’s that time of the year again when Mac guys from around the world (and yes, all of the speakers are male) descend upon Pennsylvania State University from throughout the Big 10 and beyond to discuss the Penn State mascot, the Nittany Lion. Actually, it’s a mountain lion, so we can’t discuss it quite yet at that point, but we can talk about a slightly bigger cat: Lion. Lion deployment, scripted tools, Munki, InstaDMG, Puppet, migrations, “postPC,” PSU…

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    MacTech Bootcamps Coming To A City Near You!

    I’ve been watching the MacTech Conference and then Boot Camps for some time. After hearing of the resounding success of the Conference last summer I was then stoked to hear that the January Boot Camp went extremely well. A MacTech Boot Camp is a regional, single-track seminar designed specifically for consultants and techs. MacTech Conference is a multi-day conference for IT professionals with a focus on enterprise and development whereas the Boot Camps are for consultants and techs focused on home users and small to medium sized businesses. Both are going really well. https://krypted.com/ is now a media sponsor of MacTech Boot Camps! This means I get discounts to offer my…