Registration

09:00 - 10:15

Come get your conference badge, your T-shirt, and get ready celebrate our 20th Anniversary with four days of fun and tech in Göteborg.

While you eagerly await the start of this year's event you can get a coffee, a snack, maybe meet some familiar faces, and say hello to this year's exhibitors.

Welcome

10:15 - 10:45
Patrik Jerneheim - MacSysAdmin

Hello and welcome to the 20th annual chapter of our knowledge sharing project. Get the latest information about who, when, and where around this year's anniversary event.

Join us for a short session about what to expect from the MacSysAdmin Conference 2025.

Keynote

10:55 - 11:50
Speakers - Organization

Come get the latest from the greatest.

Platform SSO Revisited

12:05 - 13:00
Joel Rennich - Jumpcloud

It's been a few years since we've done a deep dive into Platform SSO (PSSO) and what it might be able to do for your organization. In the interim Apple has added a number of new features, especially in macOS Tahoe and how PSSO can now create new accounts during device enrollment flows.

During this session we'll dive into how those flows work and what changes they might bring to your deployment process. We'll also discuss the new authenticated guest access and the tap to login functionality that Tahoe brings. We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll prognosticate about the possibilities of your chosen MDM solution actually supporting any of these flows as well.

As always some live demos will be part of the session to help you better understand what your users may encounter. So come prepared to gaze in wonder at features of macOS that hopefully you have never seen before. A guided Q+A session will be offered as well.

Exhibitor - Fleet

14:00 - 14:25
Brock Walters - Fleet
Viktor Filipsson - Sonos

Using GitOps For Device Management

Why it's time for DevOps & configuration-as-code strategies to be used to conquer the complexity of device management solutions.

~ % git -adhd

15:55 - 16:50
Justin Pitts - Advania Norge A/S

Adventures in creating GitOps workflows when you can’t remember what your boss said 20 minutes ago.

Managing First Contact

17:00 - 17:55
Armin Briegel - Jamf / scriptingOSX

Enrollment is the “First Contact” situation for a managed device. It is the first experience a new employee will have with the IT practices in your organization. First impressions are important, so we need the enrollment workflow to be solid and resilient, but also flexible to changes in the platform and organization.

We will look at the different phases of the enrollment process and where and how Mac and iOS Admins can influence and customize them. We will demonstrate different deployment strategies and workflows for different organizational and management styles.

Retrospective

9:00 - 9:10
Patrik Jerneheim - MacSysAdmin

The early years.

Exhibitor - Techstep

9:15 - 9:40
Pontus Palmgren - Techstep

Goodbye chaos, hello control:
Managing the Mac lifecycle

What if you could move beyond chasing devices across the company, dealing with lost hardware, end-of-life chaos, and endless Excel-sheets for budget tracking? Instead of wrestling with spreadsheets and manual processes, imagine focusing your energy on digital transformation and the core business. Get ready to see how modern lifecycle management improves the Mac experience through real efficiency gains, sustainability wins, and smoother experience for end users.

Join us as we enter Techstep's Device Lifecycle Portal, and get a hands-on walkthrough of how it enables IT to manage every stage of the Mac journey—from acquisition to refurbishment, and everything in between. Let’s reimagine how your organization handles Macs from day one.

Career Kext Not Loaded?

09:50 - 10:30
Andrina Kelly - UpliftedSpirits

Finding the Right Drivers for Your Growth.
Some career paths load effortlessly; others need a bit of troubleshooting. Whether you’re an early-career admin or a seasoned pro, growth isn’t just about moving up - it’s about finding the right drivers that keep you engaged, motivated, and moving forward.

In this session, we’ll explore what truly powers your career - your core motivators - and how to use them to determine your next steps. Through thought-provoking exercises and real-world stories, you’ll assess whether your current role aligns with what matters most to you, what happens when those motivators shift, and whether you should deepen your expertise, step into leadership, or carve out a new path altogether.

If your career feels like it’s running in Safe Mode, this session will help you debug your next move.

Solve macOS Puzzles
with Gary the Search Tool

12:05 - 13:00
Maggie Zirnhelt - Jamf

In this session I'll be introducing Gary, a macOS app for intuitive file collection exploration in a GUI with curated grep functionality and built-in YARA matching. To learn how it works we will use it to find our answers in a Capture the Flag style game.

Exhibitor - OWC

14.00 - 14.25
Troy Lynch - OWC

Enterprise Security Posture

At MacSysAdmin 2025, Troy will present on enterprise security posture, offering insights into how organizations can protect and scale their IT environments. He’ll also showcase OWC innovations like the Thunderbolt™ 5 Dock and the Atlas Ultra M.2 NVMe SSD, solutions that deliver breakthrough speed and performance for Mac professionals worldwide

Friday the jq’th - Json Lives

14:35 - 15:30
Ulrik Aabye-Hansen - Talktech

Slashing APIs with jq*
Step into the dark woods of API data as we explore how jq (buildt into macOS since Seqouia) can turn tangled JSON into something you can actually use. We’ll break down JSON structure in a way that’s simple enough for newcomers, then move into practical demonstrations of slicing and filtering real data from Apple Business Manager, Jamf Pro, and Microsoft Intune APIs.

Along the scary path, you’ll learn how to:
- Read and understand JSON
- Use jq to filter, transform, and query complex data
- Work around MDM limitations by using the API
- Apply these techniques to solve real-world challenges

Bring your curiosity — and maybe a flashlight — because once you learn to handle JSON this way, you’ll never look at raw API output the same again.

Broken Isolation

15:55 - 16:50
Wojciech Regula - SecuRing

Draining your Credentials from Popular macOS Password Managers.

Evolution of macOS Security
From the Desert to the Lake

17:00 - 17:40
Csaba Fitzl - Kandji

Evolution of macOS security. In this talk I will give an overview of how macOS security improved over the years related to logic vulnerabilities. I will go through how the Sandbox (SIP), GateKeeper and TCC evolved over the past 7 years, what new generic mitigations Apple introduced and how all of these impacted various kinds of vulnerabilities and exploits.

We will see what kind of bug classes, which were once all around, are dead now thanks to Apple's efforts and how the life of a security researcher is getting harder year by year. At the end we will also touch on some serious long term open issues.

Your Future is Writable

09:50 - 10:30
Diana Birsan - Downpay

Stop waiting for admin approval. What if your early career wasn’t a waiting room, but a training ground? In this session, you'll hear how transferable skills from IT can fuel entrepreneurship, why generalists make powerful founders, and how you can move from maintaining systems to building your own. Your career isn't locked down, your future is writable.

What Would You Say To…?

10:55 - 11:50
W Andrew Robinson - Krene K. K. / Omise

…Yourself, if you could go back to the beginning? What advice would you give yourself? What has worked well for you, what hasn’t?

As we celebrate 20 years of MacSysAdmin in 2025, it’s good to look back, and how a little ‘thought experiment’ might be useful to help others in our shared “Mac Systems Administration” world. Join me in this session as we take a look at what possibilities can be found when we ask these questions of ourselves and our colleagues, with yet Others in mind.

Moving House Made Simple

14:35 - 15:05
Arek Dreyer - Kandji
Grace Goodrich - Magic Hat

If you’ve ever switched Mobile Device Management systems, you know the pain — it’s like moving to a new home: stressful, time-consuming, and full of surprises. From backing up and wiping devices to reassigning, re-enrolling, and restoring everything (while handling the flood of support tickets), it’s enough to make any IT team say, “Never again.”

Join Arek and Grace when they reveal how modern tools are transforming what used to be a massive IT burden into a seamless transition — with minimal disruption and zero lost sleep. Whether you're planning a switch or just curious about what's possible now, this session will change how you think about MDM forever.

Introducing Munki 7

15:15 - 16:10
Greg Neagle - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Munki 7 is a major update to the popular open source tool for managing software installation and updates on macOS. Greg will walk us through the changes, which include a move away from Python to Swift, removal of certain legacy features, support for Apple's new Liquid Glass “look" in macOS 26, and of course, a few new capabilities. With the removal of Munki's included Python, Munki admins may need to prepare before updating to Munki 7. Greg will show us what steps you may need to take to be ready for this exciting update!.

The 20 Year Anniversary

16:15 - 17:15
Celebration - Exhibitor Area

Really amusing times.

22 Short Films About Macs

09.35 - 10:30
Tom Bridge - I.M.P. Productions

The lessons we learn across a lifetime pile up into knowledge and wisdom. Here are some of the best of the last 25 years of being a Mac Admin.

Is AI going to take over
your job?

10:55 - 11:50
Tim Standing -
let self = Programmer(company: nil, position: nil)

We keep hearing about the ability to create software with AI, how non-coders can create applications which are ready to be shipped to customers. Is this reality or just a SciFi dream? This talk will investigate the current state of using AI for code generation and how it will affect the software industry in the future.

Lunch

12:00 - 13:00
Break Area - Chalmers Conference Centre

Don't forget to wear your conference badge!

Update

14:05 - 15:00
Steve Hayman

Steve had the great honour of presenting at MacSysAdmin many times on a wide variety of topics - from Applescript to regular expressions, through to Unicode and the history of text encoding, Swift and iOS app development and the uses and misuses of quotation marks. He'd like to update you on all these topics, and share a few other things he's learned after 32 years at Apple.