Had a great time and will be back!

Btw, you should let the attendees know about the skyway system in the city. I walked on the ground level like a commoner for three days in the freezing cold.

I know this is probably on everyone's list, but I must complain politely about the Wi-Fi network. I know that the Guthrie's network wasn't designed for 4000+ devices (1300 people x 2.5 devices each), and I know that JAMF probably supplemented it with extra wireless tech, but it wasn't enough. Other conferences have managed to solve this problem (PSU MacAdmins and MacTech come to mind), and there are professional solutions that exist that can be temporarily brought in for an event and then removed. If you'd like, I can refer you to a network consultant acquaintance of mine that has intimate knowledge of wireless networks and building out for conferences.

60 minutes between sessions was too long. I would have preferred more tracks instead of so much free time.

I agree on the wifi issue as well. I ended up using my iPhone hotspot. Already blew through my 10 gig limit this week.

Also, I did notice on a couple presentations that text on screenshot was a little hard to read. Not sure if they could implement a zoom feature in the presentation.

On that note, will there be a central place to grab all the files from the sessions? Looking for the deck slides from the sessions I wasn't able to attend to maximize my knowledge.

In general I'm in agreement with the Wi-Fi issue and also the amount of time (in most cases) between the sessions. 30 minutes between sessions to allow attendees to get something to eat/drink, use the restrooms and such should be sufficient, but maybe that was calculated based on the 1300+ attendees. It can be useful for chatting and networking, but I did feel at a few moments that the time between the sessions dragged a bit.

I also felt there could have been a few more advanced sessions. I counted only 5 across the 3 days, compared to 19 intermediate and 9 beginner ones. I realize that some of this depends on the user community coming forth with advanced session topics, but maybe JAMF could fill in with one or two additional ones if the community doesn't.

All that said, it was a great conference, and wouldn't have missed it. Thanks JAMF!

First of all, great conference and great venue. The Guthrie staff were superb and the food was very good. Felt a little spoiled given that there was no registration fee to speak of. So thank you for that!

Connectivity was a major problem, especially for those of us who are expected to be reachable for our jobs during the conference. Wi-fi was unusable and the cellular black hole that parts of the Guthrie tend to be did not give me much when it comes to using a mobile hotspot.

One hour between sessions was a bit much, but I did find the 2 hours for lunch to be great for eating, networking, getting a little exercise or visiting the support area. There were a few times that I would have liked to be in two sessions at once. Maybe it would be possible to shorten the breaks and squeeze in a 5th session each day in order to maximize total JAMF intake?

I'll throw my +1 in on the wi-fi issue.

As far as @mm2270 comment about sessions, might I suggest JAMF put out a "Call for speakers" as early as June or so. Or perhaps a "Call for ideas" to grab the topics that most interest the Nation. As a speaker this year, I chose my topic based solely on what I felt was a need in the community. Not having to gaze into a crystal ball to guess what the community wants would be nice. Then perhaps we could construct sessions on that topic that hit all three levels: basic, intermediate and advanced.

It was another mind blowing conference, and I look forward to next year. And a vote to stay at the Guthrie, even if it means capping at a maximum number of attendees.

Thanks JAMF!

I agree with Steve Wood about the session topics. This was my 3rd JNUC while it was a great and fun networking event, I found that my knowledge take-away was not as significant as in the past. Some of the "Intermediate" sessions were actually beginner and some of the "Advanced" sessions has zero practical application to my environment. So I was left with "Beginner" sessions that were often JumpStart reviews or Intermediate sessions that covered information better suited for beginners.

I would have liked to see a session on managing AppleTVs with Casper (yes, I know it's limited but it could have also included peer-to-peer Airplay, etc.). I would also liked to have seen a session on the rise of Adware and malware on the OS X platform and some of the best practices for training users and keeping our platform clear of this rising scourge.

Still a great conference.

seems like we could do some scripting classes, basic unix stuff to advanced unix stuff file system permissions, command line, ssh to remote machines for debugging imaging issues, Launch Daemon creation, to help a lot of what we see as every day questions lately are around basic scripting stuff. Problem with that is you then get into the problem of what to teach, bash, perl, python, etc. then how to edit with something good (according to an old guy) like vi which is always there and always works, or some graphical tool that can introduce random invisible characters when cutting and pasting and does not always exist on every machine.
I would love to sit with Rich Trouton and see how he reverse engineers Apple stuff

I have to agree with connectivity. We are techies and we need our fix, even if it is real work we need to do.

The conference was great. For me as a JAMF Noob in the enterprise, I would like to see a few more enterprise related topics along with step by step setups. There was only one session that did this. Also, if you have a session thats only going to be Q&A can you please make sure its in the description?

I ditto what @nessts said, also anything on keychains would be very helpful as well as printers and authentication

Thanks for a great conference! I agree with what others have said regarding the problems with WiFi and the 1 hour between sessions being too long. It would be great if you could squeeze in an additional session for the first two days of the conference. I did miss watching people play Mario Cart on the Wurtele Thrust Stage stage at lunch though.

I will add a +1 for Wi-Fi issues as well. Problems only got worse when we all started tethering. MacTechs did a great job supplementing the wifi in previous years.

As for sessions, I'd love to see more advanced sessions, a shorter break in between sessions, so that we could fit a few more sessions in.

But all in all, you guys did a great job! Food, sessions, and activities were awesome. I am also glad it's free to attend, so thank you!

Addressing Wi-Fi while striving to avoid a metoo response:
Consider adding hardwire connections to the 8th floor classrooms, or opening port 22 so administrators can administrate in a low bandwidth fashion.

Again another one chiming in on the wifi issues. I wasn't so bothered about the lack of connectivity but it did play merry hell with the iBeacon demonstrations and I really only got to see that work on the last day.

I was quite happy with the general format although i'd like to see more caffeine present! I was pretty much relying on that to keep going as (and this is the day after), I still haven't adjusted from UK time to Central. Crashing at 8pm every night was not a good thing.

On the whole my experiences were very positive, especially for my first JNUC visit (all @bentoms fault of course :) ). Pleased to have met an awful lot of very helpful and cool people. Special shout outs go to people like @donmontalvo @bentoms Adam Codega, Erin, Mia, Rob Potvin and Drew Duggan of JAMF. And Chip, obviously ;)

I'd like to see a Spotify list of all the songs (or as many as can be found in Spotify's database) played at each JNUC. There were some really great tunes selected by someone at JAMF. I snagged a few with Shazam but there were many many I missed.

I'll throw in my .02 and agree with some of the previous comments. Wi-Fi was an issue. The breaks between sessions were a little long. Having a bit longer time during lunch was good as it allowed time to network and also some mini events.

The Guthrie is a great venue and I thought things went well. The additional lunch locations also helped alleviate some congestion that happened in the past. The First Avenue Club was a great atmosphere for our group gathering.

While there were some great take aways from the conference that I'm excited to try, there could have been a few more advanced sessions. Those I attended were very good (maybe not always applicable to my environment but shed light on some possibilities for future projects). In the past there had been some panel discussions with Q & A after. Did I miss them this year?

Already looking forward to JNUC 2015!

Hey @damienbarrett - check it out, compliments of Mike Paul @ JAMF- https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5739#responseChild70961

+1 Wifi woes

Maybe there can be a clarification between presentations and sessions? It may be an issue of semantics, but it's true that some of the advanced topics were so particular to the environment that they may be interesting, but not practical for other attendees. Maybe the JNUC, now that it's getting so large, can go for poster sessions and presentations that supplement topics that have a broader reach. Something that AMS and SMT (American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory [I'm a PhD student in music theory on the side]) do are take more specialized topics and have them happen in more informal sessions in the evenings, after dinner, like 7:30-ish. Maybe it would take away from some socializing for some people, but it would put like-minded people with potentially more similar environments and interests together and smaller gatherings on specialized topics can be incredibly valuable. Also, if folks suggest topics that are similar, they could split the hour into 15 minute chunks for 3 people (or do a 1.5 hour session with 20 minute or 30 minute talks) and then have a more open dialogue amongst themselves and with the attendees during the Q&A.

Also, we need a puppy station to pet puppies. I'd probably prefer kitties but they're not as easy to corral and more people tend to be allergic to cats then dogs. Some of us go through major withdrawal without critters around…

Another recommendation would be a shuttles to the after party if it's more than a 10-15 minute walk from the venue. If 1-2 shuttles went down to First Avenue and back every 15 minutes or so, it would have been much easier for folks to get there and back.

All in all I think JAMF is doing a LOT right with the JNUC. It was a blast. I think as JAMF and "Apple in the Enterprise" grow, the JNUC should grow too!

As others have said, great JNUC, great in most every respect. And the Guthrie is a fantastic interim venue for JNUC until the Vikings stadium is ready... ;)

On the topic of the wi-fi, I sent the jnuchelp address the following in an email the other day:
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...The problem is that the subnet for the Guest network is a /22 (192.168.200.0/255.255.252.0) which only provides 1,022 usable IP addresses. With well over 1,000 attendees and JAMF staff in attendance, carrying a geek-average 2.3 wifi-capable devices (I have three with me), I am impressed this setup works ...at all ...for anyone...
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When I was able to get a stable connection for a few minutes, I did a speedtest a couple times, getting about 15 Mbs download, not at all shabby, so my guess is that the problem is not so much WAN bandwidth as LAN IP availability. However, if you were able to get ~3,000 devices on the Guest network, that large of a broadcast domain might not work so well either. Breaking up the broadcast domains, though, would mean you'd probably need a bonjour/multicast gateway to make sure that all the Apple services worked properly. I don't envy you your task! But I know you've got the right talent to do it!

Thanks for everything!

I want to echo that the conference is great. I look forward to it for months.

+1 wifi woes
+1 break times
+1 lunch was phenomenally better this year
+1 number of advanced sessions

I'll also add that it might be nice if JAMF set up a designated space where we could meet for mini events after hours since the Guthrie is off limits. Not all of us drink and it seemed like all of the meeting places were in bars.

Adding an RFP process might enable different speakers with different backgrounds, and it might allow for greater variety in topics. For instance, people are all the time asking about printers and how to manage them, but there wasn't even a single topic on them.

The conference is very well organized and well run. As everybody else has said, JAMF does a great job with the venue, music, food, and sense of community.

Wi-Fi was obviously a problem and I know you'll have it corrected next year. I'll also second what @stevewood][/url said about putting out a call for session content early on to let the community help choose the content. Personally, I would actually appreciate a little more session content from JAMF on new/updated features, little known tricks (like last year), deeper dive info about the product, etc.

I also agree with what @emilykausalik][/url said about breaking up the sessions. 60 minutes is a long time for lecture style technical presentations. Some of the presentations about processes created by users tend to include lots of details that most people won't retain. Those who need the details will be getting them afterward anyway.

Maybe breaking up the non panel presentations into:

1) Big picture overview of the real world problem and solution 2) More detailed look at solution
3) Q and A

Some people may not be interested in hearing the details after hearing that the problem doesn't apply to them so it would make it easier for them to check out a different session.

Another thought would be to break it up into multiple sessions, so start the conference or the day with shorter 15-20 minute sessions that give an intro to the big picture problem and solution and then later follow them up with a "deeper dive" sessions that go into more detail. People could check out the intro sessions to see what they're interested in and then choose which followup sessions to attend later.

Like I said, overall the conference is extremely well run and enjoyable. Incremental changes are all that is needed to take it to the next level and soliciting feedback is a great way to start.

Thanks for all of the work that goes into this conference. It's a great benefit to the community.

Wifi issues Time between sessions to long. No event app this year to easily connect with attendees or speakers or link to the content being presented

Not really a negative but just a note :This was my 2nd Jnuc and I made some new contacts however I still oddly find JNUC to be slightly more difficult to make new connections unless you actively put effort into it like I did this year. Perhaps it's the mix of so many new users and veteran users with people who already have a hang out group they hang with.

I enjoyed the sessions however I do feel there were more sessions last year and with better content.

I always look forward to JNUC however and will be back next year. Thanks !

I've been wondering if the classrooms could be booked out for some hands on sessions too.

Other than WiFi, being the social butterfly that I am meant that I was happy with the gap in-between sessions.

For the panel that I was on, it may have been better to have introduced ourselves with some examples of our distributed environments & some challenges before questions were asked.

Also, an event app with maybe a chat/Q&A function would be cool. If only to save some of the running from some of the JAMFs.

+1 on the wi-fi.
+1 on breaks between sessions being a bit long.
+1 on lunch being delicious.