Mac Admin group for the DC, MD, and VA area
Meet at Spinners, 919 North East Street, Frederick at 1:00 pm. We’ll enjoy vintage pinball, video arcade games, air hockey, and foosball (Donations for the upkeep of these machines are welcome). At 3:00 pm, we’ll wander across the street to Oscar’s Roadhouse West, 906 North East Street for a meal and conversation.
Join us for a Happy Hour to talk about all the things we’ve learned from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose! macOS 10.15 Catalina! iPadOS! New DEP Workflows and Options! Single Sign On Improvements! It’s all coming. Come out and socialize with your colleagues, learn all about new technologies, and plan for the future.
Please RSVP below!
Walter’s Bar is located near the Navy Yard Metro on the Half Street side. It’s immediately across from the Center Field entrance to Nationals Park (don’t worry, they’re off next Wednesday!), and you can take all manner of public transport to get there.
Join us at MacDMV on April 13th from 11am to 1pm at Johns Hopkins APL’s Parsons Theatre, followed by lunch at Kloby’s up the road. Dan Griggs from cmdSecurity will be presenting on cmdReporter, their new reporting tool! It’s designed from the ground up to use Apple’s OpenBSM logging and your own Splunk instance to keep a close eye on all the key indicators on your Macs.
MacDMV will meet next Thursday, March 14th, from 6 to 8:30 at Lost Dog Cafe in Merrifield, just steps from the Dunn Loring metro. We’ll be catching up on workflow enhancements, and there’ll be a live demo of the new Mac Deploy Stick (MDS) for everyone to check out. Come, have some pizza and a beverage, and we’ll talk about what everyone’s working on, open hiring spots, and what everyone’s planning for conference season.
Happy New Year, Mac Admins of the greater DC Area!
We’ll be meeting at Moreland’s Tavern in the Brightwood Neighborhood of Washington DC to socialize and see a presentation from Rich Trouton called Installer Package Scripting:
I can use scripts as part of installer packages. Great. Why have a session about this?
There are lots of cool ways to use installer scripts. You can use them to fix problems in other people’s installer scripts, install software which doesn’t use any of Apple’s recommended installation methods, deploy configuration files for other installers, and you can even build an installer package which is only a delivery mechanism for scripts. Let’s look at how to do this!
To set some expectations management for this session, my assumption is that folks here already know the basics of how to write scripts and build an installer package. We’re going to be discussing how to build on that foundation to solve problems.
We’ll also have plenty of time to talk about your current challenges, the state of the art in management solutions and troubleshooting, as well as the future of the platform.
Food and drink will be available from their excellent kitchen & bar.
2:00 – 2:20: Introductions and Hellos, Arrival
2:20 – 3:00: Installer Package Scripting, Rich Trouton
3:00 – 4:00: Open Forum, Social Time
Please RSVP so that we can plan for enough space for attendees!
Happy Spring! It looks like Sunday was our last cold day and Spring is here at long last!
We’re going to have a social happy hour on May 16th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the brand new Tequila & Tacos in the Carlyle district of Alexandria. It’s right next to one of the big garages down by the USPTO, and it’s a short 10 min walk from the King Street Metro. We’ll have some special guests from Watchman Monitoring, Allen Hancock and JD Strong! If you’ve ever wanted a good lightweight, read-only monitoring system that can help you stay ahead of trouble, Watchman’s your gang. Plus, it’s Allen’s Birthday! Come out and have some Mexican food and margaritas.
Tequila & Tacos
540 John Carlyle St
Alexandria, VA 22314
Metro: Blue/Yellow to King Street, 10 minute walk
CyberSecurity, PenTesting and Risk Assessment presented by DefCon speaker and former Fed Matt James.
Upcoming –> Wednesday, March 28th 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
8281 Greensboro Drive, McLean, VA 22012
Ground-level Conference Room
Free surface-level, hassle-free parking, and/or the Greensboro Metro.
FREE SIGN-UP HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mac-dmv-march-madness-meetup-tickets-44351182581
Join your fellow DC-area Apple-facing IT Admins at TEKsystems in Bethesda!
We’ll be talking iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4 betas, Apple Business Manager preliminary information, as well as a brief funeral for macOS Server which is getting a prune back. Our friends at TEKsystems will be providing refreshments, to their great credit. Thanks much, Nandi Howard!
February 28th, 6pm to 7:30pm
TEKsystems
4500 East West Highway Suite 500
Bethesda, MD 20814
Join us at Lost Dog Cafe in Dunn Loring, near the Orange Line, to talk about macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Active Directory integration, and some of the recent challenges the platform is facing. Come have some pizza and socialize with some admins throughout the DC area!
Lost Dog Cafe Dunn Loring
2729 Merrilee Dr, Fairfax, VA 22031
Join us next Saturday at scenic and historic Merriweather Post Pavilion for a meetup to talk about everything discussed at the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC), as well as to hear the latest in everyone’s ongoing experiences with macOS High Sierra and iOS 11! We’ll get a backstage experience at the recently renovated concert facility, including a stage tour!
Afterwards, we’ll adjourn for lunch at a nearby restaurant.
