GREATER NEW YORK AREAMacTech Pro Events are the next incarnation of
MacTech’s successful one-day, single-track, regional hotel-based
seminars with a specific focus on the needs of professional Apple IT
Pros, techs and consultants.
These events are specifically designed for those that support others
using Apple technologies ... including small-to-medium sized business,
organization support staff, and specialized Apple consultants.
With an all new curriculum built from the ground up, the event
benefits both return attendees and those that have never attended a
MacTech event. Best yet, this in person event maximizes attendees
chance to meet with peers, find critical vendor contacts, and foster
the type of collaborative networking that the Apple community is
famous for.
Included: Packed schedule. All sessions. Expert speakers. Lunch and
breaks. Vendor interaction.
Sessions and Topics
Apple's Lockdown: SIP, Read Only System, GateKeeper and ProtectX
Even the most basic security concerns have exploded -- and Apple wants
to have the most secure operating systems on the planet. As an IT
professional or consultant, you deal with Apple’s choices and the
ever more protected nature of that ecosystem every day. Where in days
past, you could deploy a copy of a “perfect” system, now that
“imaging” has all but gone away and Apple has moved toward a more
and more protected space for its users, your job could be to fight
against features and new lockdowns, a never ending battle, or you can
embrace where Apple is going with processes that cooperate with the
new approach. In this session, learn the recent past, the current
climate and features, and then where Apple is likely headed with their
lockdown of macOS, and most importantly, how you as an IT professional
can meet that challenge with your processes and systems. You will
learn how systems including System Integrity Protection, Read Only
Systems, GateKeeper and ProtectX impact your users and the
administration of their systems.
Storage Strategy in 2020: NAS, Cloud, Hybrid, Secure
As an Apple professional, your users’ and clients’ needs are
potentially different from the needs of other OSes. The average macOS
user has bigger file stores, and throughput needs. But, at the same
time, Apple users have to access Windows servers. With all demands
today for access, services, cloud, and even backups and sync, you need
to have a storage strategy. What do you need to consider? What Windows
server solutions can you use to support macOS? What disk formats do
you need to support? And, how does public cloud, private cloud, and
hybrid cloud take part of your strategy? Finally, but far from least
important, what about uptime demands, security, encryption, regulatory
compliance, and more. Come learn about a modern storage strategy using
cloud and NAS and how you can make it work for those you support.
Security Best Practices: VPNs, Human Hardening, Zero Trust, Email and
More
In today’s hyper-connected, digital world, it’s never been more
important to help users and clients protect and secure their data.
While some regions have passed laws that make it easier for consumers
to control at least some of their data — and who gets to use it —
most people live at the whim of the corporations that collect their
data. And everyone lives with the very real threat of wrongdoers.
Every technologist and consultant should know that only some of this
work is technical in nature. Much of it, frankly, is employing common
sense approaches to how and when we use our technology. Small
technical and behavioral changes can result in massive security and
privacy changes… either for better or worse. In this session,
we’ll talk about real world VPN solutions, human hardening, the
importance of Zero Trust Networking, and messaging/email do’s and
don’ts. In the end, you’ll walk away with methodologies and
solutions you can act on, or at least consider, for those that you
support.
plists: The ins, the outs, the dangers
Almost all ways one manages devices, whether directly or via an MDM or
other management tool, is done in part at least via controlling and
configuring the preferences and settings of a system’s plists.
Preferences exist on all OS platforms and on macOS they have a .plist
extension. In this session, we’ll learn about how plists are
organized, how they behave, and how the multi domain system is
traversed to read the different available plist files. We’ll talk
about several tools which you can use to work with plist files. And,
we’ll learn about the right way to see preferences and modify them.
You’ll learn how a pro interacts with a system to understand the
preferences assigned to a given application. We’ll explore how plist
reading and interpretation can be incredibly useful for
troubleshooting, configuration and reporting on systems as an
administrator -- including how to create customized systems.
Modern Command Line: zsh, Swift & Best practices.
Apple has made it clear that bash is no longer its preference with zsh
and Swift being the future. Starting with macOS Catalina, the standard
is now zsh — Z Shell. At some point in the future, bash will not be
installed by default on macOS. In this session, we’ll talk about the
similarities and differences of zsh and bash. We’ll cover how you
can install bash on a system that doesn’t have it installed, but
more importantly, we’ll highlight the new features that zsh brings
to the table. We’ll also talk about best practices in zsh, and the
rich community resources available. We’ll also cover Apple’s
updates to Swift, and its clear direction in the future for all Apple
professionals. Come learn about the modern macOS command line, and the
changes that will impact those supporting others.
Kernel and System Extensions: What you need to know.
macOS is changing from the inside out and it’s critical that those
supporting Apple understand how the operating system works now, and
how it is likely to work in the future. Knowing exactly when something
fails can help you to know what process is failing, especially during
start up. Apple has been warning strongly for years to stay away from
writing kernel extensions — Kernel Extensions are going away,
replaced by System Extensions and other system modification methods.
Learn what makes a kernel extension a danger to the performance of
your computer hardware (fans off, processor to full speed ahead!).
Apple decided a while ago to deprecate network kernel extensions
making them unsupported in Catalina, but that effort took years to
accomplish. Learn what kinds of services were handled by network
kernel extensions in previous versions of macOS, and how that
landscape is shifting. Most importantly, learn the troubleshooting
methods that give you the best chance of correcting unwanted behaviors
caused by kernel extensions, system extensions, and other operating
system modification tools installed by 3rd parties. As part of this
exploration you will learn the practical differences between system
extensions and kernel extensions and how those differences will affect
how you do your work.
macOS Troubleshooting Tools and Tricks
With the changes and evolution of macOS, technologists need to keep up
with not only the changes but the tools for managing and
troubleshooting those changes. In this session, we’ll learn about
the troubleshooting and other tools that should be in your toolbox, as
well as some of the best tricks and methodologies for troubleshooting
and supporting systems that have gone awry.
After Event Bonus: Convergence - What's Coming? What should you be
Prepared for?
If one thing is clear, technology is converging -- and areas of
responsibility including telecom, connectivity, IoT, and evening
lighting are becoming more and more technology based. That means that
they are either about to be the responsibility of IT, if not already,
or will need to integrate with IT. In this talk, we’ll talk about
this convergence, the possible dangers, and the opportunities for
consultants, admins and IT Pros.
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