I was a Jamf customer for nearly 10 years before becoming a JumpStart Integrator and later an employee. Friday's release of a marketing piece (now retracted) comparing Jamf to free and open source software (FOSS) was a surprise to many Jamfs as well as the community at large. Don't let this mistake set your opinion … Continue reading Jamf AND not Jamf OR
Posting my PSU 2016 MacAdmins Conference presentation
Tech conferences are both energizing and exhausting at the same time. For five days at PSU 2016 MacAdmins Conference, I got to spend time with friends from here in the Twin Cities area, visit with long-distance friends (some I hadn't seen in 2-3 years), eat lots of food, let someone else make the bed in the morning and … Continue reading Posting my PSU 2016 MacAdmins Conference presentation
2015: The year of careers
Today, I start a new job with a new company. After more than three years with 318, Inc., as a consultant, I'm moving to Minneapolis-based JAMF Software as a Professional Services Engineer. JAMF is a company I've known more than 10 years with many people I've known nearly as long. In a call with my … Continue reading 2015: The year of careers
Meeting Paul Bowden
Just a little more than a week ago, Paul Bowden introduce himself in the #microsoft-office channel of the Slack MacAdmins team: Thanks to @talkingmoose for introducing me to the group. I was going to set my slack username to "Mr sudo $USER" but I'll just have to plead for forgiveness from all of you and … Continue reading Meeting Paul Bowden
Posting my PSU 2015 MacAdmins Conference presentations
From the home office in Saint Paul, MN, I'm posting my PSU 2015 MacAdmins Conference presentations. Below are links to both PDFs as well as the original Keynote files, which include my notes and talking points. The conference organizers recorded most of the sessions and will post them in a few weeks. I’ll add an update here letting … Continue reading Posting my PSU 2015 MacAdmins Conference presentations
PSU MacAdmins II: Return to the very human tech conference
Late this afternoon I returned to State College, Pa., for my second Penn State MacAdmins Conference running through Friday of this week. In just a few minutes I was running into friends from last year and chatting like we were picking up on conversations from yesterday. The Mac Admin community is spread far and wide but … Continue reading PSU MacAdmins II: Return to the very human tech conference
Rendering a tiny little underline more perfectly
What's wrong with this sentence? Depending on your browser, maybe nothing at all. Take a closer look. Underlining was born on a typewriter. To underline text required typing the text first and then returning to the beginning of the word or line to overtype a series of underline characters. It was tedious work and the … Continue reading Rendering a tiny little underline more perfectly
Posting Outlook for Mac Exchange Setup script survey results
Microsoft released Outlook 15 for Mac 3-1/2 months ago to its Office 365 Exchange Online customers. Prior to that I had some foresight this new version would break a script I wrote originally for Microsoft Entourage and later Outlook for Mac. The script enabled administrators to help their users configure Exchange settings in environments where … Continue reading Posting Outlook for Mac Exchange Setup script survey results
Introducing Twin Cities Mac Admins
Humans are social creatures and last I checked most Mac Admins are humans. After a conference hallway conversation back in July followed by a Twitter discussion a couple weeks later, a few of us humans were meeting for beers to talk about putting together a Mac Admins group here in the Twin Cities. Some of us … Continue reading Introducing Twin Cities Mac Admins
For Thanksgiving voyeurs
From the Department of Nothing Better To Do Department... While visiting with fellow Microsoft MVPs and developers a few weeks ago, I managed to snag a GoPro Hero3 camera. These are tiny little cameras bicyclists wear on their helmets to record their rides (or accidents with cars) or drivers mount on their dashboards to record their commutes (and maybe their accidents … Continue reading For Thanksgiving voyeurs
Remember the Human 