Our friends at Apple are hosting the next Melbourne Apple Admins meetup at their office in Freshwater Place, Southbank on Wednesday, March 13th.
Doors will be open from 5:00 pm with presentations starting at 6:00 pm.
With macOS Sonoma having been out for a few months, we’ll dive into the significant updates this year to software updates, MDM features, identity integrations, and security controls for managing Apple devices in your organisation. And get up to speed on “what’s new since we last caught up”.
Please RSVP here as the venue has limited numbers. If you are unable to attend after registration, please let us know!
We can’t wait to see you there!
Thank you to our friends at Block for hosting our last event in November 2023!
Our friends at Block are hosting the next Melbourne Apple Admins meetup on Wednesday, November 15 at their office in the CBD. The event will kick off at 5:30pm sharp, but doors will be open from 5:00pm with food and drinks provided.
Come along and get up to speed on all the exciting news from the conference season, learn about how the Client Platform Engineering team @ Block manage devices, along with the our regular “what’s new since we last caught up” presentation.
Please RSVP here as the venue has limited numbers. If you are unable to attend after registration, please let us know!
Wow, what a WWDC. Some might even call it Visionary 🥽.
There is a lot to celebrate and to process. Fittingly, our friends at Apple are hosting the next Melbourne Apple Admins meetup at their lovely offices in Freshwater Place, Southbank.
Come along and get up to speed on all the exciting news from WWDC along with the usual presentation of “what’s new since we last caught up”. We’ll also have a panel of industry folks to share their thoughts on the gifts we’re given by WWDC 23 in a Q&A format.
Wednesday, June 28 2023
Please RSVP via Eventbrite. This event has limited numbers. If you are unable to attend after registration, please let us know. If the link doesn’t open in iOS, long-press the link and open it in the background.
Last Meetup – REA Group
Thank you to REA Group for hosting the last meetup, what an awesome space to meet in. We had a great turnout and the presentation were both interesting and entertaining. We were especially impressed by how engaged the community was with the number of questions and discussions that came from attendees. This community spirit, participation and inclusion really make these events.
Our friends at REA are going to be our hosts on Wednesday 19th April at their HQ @ 12 Albert St Richmond with food generously provided by Apple, and beverages courtesy of Jamf. Doors open at 6pm and proceedings kick off at 7pm sharp.
As well as discussing all of the exciting news in the Apple ecosystem, and hearing what our hosts at REA have been up to, we are excited to have the following presentations from the community.
Pushing me away: When APNS Renewal Goes Wrong
Alex Stokes will be telling her cautionary tale with a successful outcome about Re-enrolling globally distributed ADE Macs with expired APNs certs, using Kandji, AWS Lambda, Okta and Slack.
swiftEnrolment: Effortless Onboarding for macOS Devices
Join James Smith for an exciting session on how to simplify the macOS onboarding process with the powerful command line tool swiftDialog, using Bash and Python.
Please RSVP via Eventbrite as numbers are limited. (if the link doesn’t open in iOS, long press the link and open in background)
It's certainly been a long time since we last met up, and wow, don't we have a lot to catch up on!
Our friends at Airwallex are hosting the next (and long-awaited) Melbourne Apple Admins meetup on Wednesday June 15, at their lovely offices @ 7/15 William Street Melbourne. Proceedings kick off at 7pm sharp, but doors will be open from 6:30pm with food generously provided by Apple, and beverages courtesy of Jamf.
Come along and discuss all of the exciting news in the Apple ecosystem with the usual presentation of "what's new since we last caught up" in addition to
Okta Verify - The buttercream in your Security Cake, David Baverstock, Airwallex
Jamf will be showing some of their recently released and upcoming features
Apple will be with us to discuss all the news and updates from WWDC as well as the new Apple Professional Training.
Please RSVP via Eventbrite - Access to this event is STRICTLY RSVP ONLY and registration must be received before 8th June
(note - if link doesn't open on iOS, long press the link and open in background))
St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research are hosting the July Melbourne Apple Admins meetup at 9 Princes Street, Fitzroy. Kickoff at 6:30pm with food and beverages generously sponsored by Jamf. Come along and discuss all the exciting news in the Apple ecosystem.
– Damian Cavanagh from Education Advantage – Shortcuts for Home, Work & Users
– Jamf will be showing us some of their recently released and upcoming features
– WWDC panel discussion – what’s new and what does it mean for your environment
Please RSVP via Eventbrite so we can ensure there is enough catering
get in touch via the contact form on the homepage if you have any questions, or find us in #anzmac on the MacAdmins Slack Team
It’s been a long time coming, but we can finally announce that the University of Melbourne are hosting the May meetup for Melbourne Apple Admins at the Yasuko Hiraoka Myer (YSM) Room 158, L1 Sidney Myer Asia Centre, 325/761 Swanston Street Parkville. Proceedings kick off at 6:30pm.
What’s new in the Apple Admin ecosystem
“A Day in the life of ALEC – The Apple Linux Endpoint Computing team from UoM
“A Developer’s Adventure into Mac Sysadmin” – Sunny Yiu, Mental Health First Aid Australia
“Testing in Production, what’s the big deal?” – Peter Wells, Swinburne University
The annual Apple Admins salary survey
Please RSVP via Eventbrite so we can ensure there is enough catering
get in touch via the contact form on the homepage if you have any questions, or find us in #anzmac on the MacAdmins Slack Team
Blackmagic Design are our generous hosts for the October meet up for Melbourne Apple Admins at their Australian offices located at 11 Gateway Court, Port Melbourne. We will kick things off at 6:30pm.
Wrap up of the news and releases relevant to the Apple ecosystem
James Smith from Culture Amp presents – “How to Secure Friends & Bieber People: A Simple Slack App for Increasing Security Awareness”
Marcus Ransom from CompNow previews his JNUC presentation “Device Enrollment: Under the hood”
Blackmagic Design will be showing off their eGPUs and other products
Please RSVP via Eventbrite as places will be limited.
Enter off Cook St – Parking is available in Gateway Court. Public transport options are limited so consider sharing an Uber or taxi with other attendees.
Slack have generously agreed to host us again for the August meet up for Melbourne Apple Admins at the APAC HQ situated at The Maltstore (Level 1, 551 Swanston St Carlton). Proceedings kick off at 6:30pm and RSVPs are essential as spaces will be limited.
Discuss all the news and releases relevant to the Apple ecosystem
Duncan McCracken from Mondada will be presenting Kinobi, an open source external patch definition server for Jamf Pro
Michael Harris from RMIT will be showing us some cool tricks with SSH
Joel Rennich from NoMAD will be talking about NoMAD and NoMAD Login
Please RSVP via Eventbrite so we know how many to cater for.
If you have something you would like to present, or any questions – get in touch via the contact form on the homepage, and don’t forget to follow us on twitter or visit the #anzmac channel on the MacAdmins Slack Team
