For IT Professionals
Macworld offers all levels of IT professionals the opportunity to increase their skills and learn from the best instructors in the field.
Series 1: January 14 – 15
PD: Behind the Box - Mac OS X Server
David S. Long, Founder, v.2 Consulting Inc.
Simon Wheatley, Trainer/Owner, Caerian, Inc.
The goal of this course is to educate the attendee on the proper methods of installation, setup and configuration of Mac OS X Server while making sure each step is secure and reliable. Remotely, we’ll focus on many of the services Mac OS X Server offers and how to properly configure each one for a variety of environments.
PG: Beyond the Box – Advanced Mac OS X Server Techniques
Schoun Regan, CEO, ITInstruction.com
Kevin M. White, Training Specialist, ITInstruction.com
This highly customized course will examine several tasks that Mac OS X Server currently performs and teach you how to enhance them, alter them and learn how to properly troubleshoot them. We will also examine certain tasks that Mac OS X Server doesn’t currently do, and how to enable and manage those tasks. Whether you have been running Mac OS X Server since the beginning, or you are a newcomer, this course has something to offer.
PH: Imaging and Deploying Mac OS X
Philip Rinehart, Systems Programmer, Yale University
Greg Neagle, Sr. Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animations
Strategies, techniques and tools for quickly and efficiently deploying large numbers of machines, customizing workstations for specific users, maintaining OS and software updates, and managing user preferences and settings. Techniques presented are applicable not only to large labs of computers, but to individual “one-toone” deployments. We’ll examine Apple and thirdparty tools, and share real-world experiences.
PI: Total Network Awareness: Tools and Techniques for Network Management for Mac OS X
Chuck Goolsbee, VP of Technical Operations, digital.forest, Inc.
John Welch, Unix/Open Systems Administrator, Kansas City Life Insurance
Julian Koh, Senior Network Engineer, Northwestern University
Shaun Redmond, Manager of Information Systems & Technology, Wellington Catholic District School Board
Over these two days, we’ll walk you through the basic concepts behind most network tools, and show you some of them in use. We’ll demonstrate some of the basics of installing both commercial and open source tools, including some configure-compile-install open source tools. We’ll also cover the ways these tools are used in the real world in Higher Ed., K-12, ISPs, and commercial enterprises.
January 16 – 18
A series of Hands-On MacLabs have been developed to give IT Professionals an opportunity get hands-on instruction from the industry experts.
- Learning the Terminal
- Next-Generation Automation with Automator
- xargs | sed | awk | cut
- Automator Workflow
- Wireless Fundamentals
- Advanced Wireless
- Using Mac OS X to Enhance Online Privacy, Anonymity and Security
January 16 – 18
Broaden your understanding of Mac administration by participating in the largest gathering of Mac IT Managers. Invaluable technical sessions highlight both Apple and essential third-party IT applications. MacIT provides the best opportunities for meeting with field experts and collaborating with peers.
Go above and beyond the mainstream administration of Mac OS X to provide a thorough, well thought out layout of how to administer and manage Mac OS X. Using tested methods, each session contains solutions for even the most demanding system administrator.
- One Man-20,000 Macs
- Using Automator to Reduce Repetitive Tasks
- Best Practices for Client Management
- Introducing Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) on Mac OS X
Leveraging Apple Products for Enterprise Solutions
Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server are being deployed in large businesses in increasing numbers. With this being an upward trend, this track is dedicated to showcasing how Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server are utilized within enterprise level environments. Each session will provide solutions to allow better integration of Macs into heterogeneous networks.
- Xsan Administration
- Using Collaboration Serviceson Mac OS X Server
- Directory Services I, II & III
- Apple Server Virtualization 101
Hackers, crackers, sniffers, exploits, spyware. The computer is under siege from every angle. The choice of the operating system running on those computers has never been more critical than it is now. This track walks you through several aspects of security surrounding Mac OS X. This track should be attended by every system administrator who has ever had a user give away their password, lose their laptop or happily join any network they come across.
- Using Common Criteria Tools Under Mac OS X
- Wired and Wireless Security with RADIUS Servers
- eDiscovery and Forensics on Mac OS X
- Your Crashed Hard Drive Is Off-site For Data Recovery - Is Your Data Secure?
- Anatomy of a Disaster
- Protecting Workstations in an Education Environment
- Application Sandboxing
Open Source Solutions and Scripting for Mac OS X
Mac OS X is both extremely scriptable and can leverage a wide variety of open source software. This combination can be utilized by system administrators to create a myriad of scripts to handle routine administrative tasks by leveraging software that is often free for everyone to use. Couple that with the lack of license fees and ultimate configuration that comes with scripting and you have an unending ability to manage your Macs in any way you see fit.
- Sanity Saving Scripting for System Administrators
- An Open Source Overview for Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Laptop Deployments with Puppet
- Managing Mac OS X with Radmind
- RSync Automatically
- Riding the Rails on Mac OS X
- Version Control via Workgroup Services
