Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-10-07

MacAdmin conference season is in full swing with MacSysAdmin Online and Objective-by-the-Sea happening this week.


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That also means we are getting announcements of the dates of conferences for next year. PSU MacAdmins conference has announced the date for their first post-pandemic in-person conference: July 18–21, 2023. JNUC is planned for Austin, TX on September 19–21, 2023 and MacSysAdmin will be back in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 3–6. I have updated my conferences page with the new dates.

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