Hey all, first things first, want to say thanks to all that attended.
This session was heavily focused on add-ons that have been created in the JAMF community to extend automation to places that are at present not available "out of the box" via Casper Suite.
Leveraging the API, there are many great tools created by the Mac community that play great with Casper, and during the JUG Meeting, we had a chance to discuss not only how one of our fellow admins is leveraging some of these tools, but had one of the developers of one of these great add-ons on hand to give a quick demo of how it works.
Raul Santos (@RaulSantos][/url][/url][/url) from Weill Cornell Medical College gave a quick presentation on how he is leveraging Casper at a major medical school. He discussed how being at an edu site comes with some unique challenges towards end user management, and how he is leveraging community sourced tools like AutoPKG to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to patch management.
Raul's presentation was the perfect segway to introduce Allister Banks (/url][/url][/url">@Banks][/url][/url][/url) further demo of AutoPKG, and the JSSImporter for AutoPKG, an add-on he created for Casper that imports packages that were automated with AutoPKG into the JSS for distribution. it can be found here : [http://www.318.com/2014/01/introducing-jssimporter-for-autopkg/
I will be posting the presentations as soon as i get them from Raul and Allister, and i thank them for their time.
Post-Pizza Open Discussion items:
JAMFCloud - who is using presently, and what options are there out in the real world for securing LDAP in a 2 factor authentication world.
DFS - who is using at their site, and issue.
SMB slowness- question was posed if anyone was seeing issues with SMB, especially with Mavericks. discussion steered towards the known issues with SMB2.
JDS - Still some mixed results with the JDS in the real world.
802.1x Profiles and Casper 9 - Discussed the ongoing issues with 802.1x Profiles and Casper 9.
Yosemite - Touched on where most of the group was in their testing of 10.10.
Overall, it was a great turn out, with some new faces and a minimum of extra Pizza. We will see about other munchables for the next event, including some gluten free/vegan options.
I'm shooting for end of August for the next meeting, unless that is bad for the Education folks who attend. Please let me know and we can plan accordingly.
thanks again to all that came by, I hope to see you all at the next event.
--MM
