Thanks to everyone that came out last night. Thanks to Apple for use of their site, and to JAMF for providing munchies for the meeting, And thanks to the Apple reps and JAMFs that were on hand to answer questions.
We are looking to keep the bi-monthly Schedule, and will shoot for a Mid-June meeting. Location TBD, but the Apple site was ideal for the crowd that turned out with plenty of room for us to host up to 50 people or so.
@daniel.behan][/url Spoke a bit about how his company transitioned from older tools to Casper, and had some great tips for everyone that may be making the case to move to a management solution.
We had almost an even split this time between Enterprise and EDU Admins. Since we have had 2 Enterprise speakers, it may be a good time if anyone from the EDU Side wants to tell their story. If anyone wants to volunteer, drop me a line.
Open Discussion over Pizza:
Active Directory Integration: What should AD be used for? - Discussion on the need for Single Sign on, and what AD integration really means. Good mix of users that use AD and do not use AD.
Device Enrollment Program: Discussed the new DEP and how it works, and how it may work in the future, and had a demo by @ericbenfer from Apple. Discussed possible ways that Casper can further integrate with this new program
VPP and Casper 9.3: Discussion on how the new VPP ties into Casper 9.3
FileVault using Casper: Discussed the various methods that are available and some of the more unique encryption methodologies that some of the admins present have implemented in their environments.
SMB Slowness? - Dovetailing off of discussions that Apple has had with some enterprise customers about SMB performance issues.
Casper imaging issues: Discussed some difficulties some of the admins were having and possible workarounds that other Admins are performing at their sites.
AutoPKG integration: A good portion of the admins are using AutoPKG, and discussed the various ways to integrate with Casper including @Banks][/url JSS Add-on.
Feature Requests: Request for a easier ways to leverage 3rd party updates, and better mechanisms of announcing these updates to users. Many Admins are leveraging solutions that use CocoaDialog and feel it may be time for JAMF to incorporate some of these features in later releases or at least beef up JAMFHelper.
JDS Implementation: Questions about how folks are using JDS and how the JDS processes a big install like Creative Suite.
If anyone has any questions, or suggestions, please reach out and i look forward to seeing you at NYC Metro JUG 3: the Threequel.
-MM
