MacSysAdmin 2025: Managing First Contact

• Keynote document on iCloud
• Presentation Video

Previously

• MacSysAdmin 2024: Swift: The Eras Tour, Armin Briegel

Star Trek

• Star Trek: TNG Bridge Background Ambience
• Wikipedia: Star Trek: First Contact

Enrollment Methods

• Apple Platform Deployment:
  • Enrollment methods for Apple devices
  • Automated Device Enrollment and device management
• MacSysAdmin 2024: Managed Apple Accounts and the Wary Admin, Tom Bridge
• MacSysAdmin 2023: Building a BYO Mobile Device Program at Jamf, Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle
• JNUC 2024: Understanding Apple’s Deployment Workflow, Daniel MacLaughlin, Mischa van der Bent

Screenshots/Recording at Enrollment

Important Note: The trick with enabling Screen Sharing during Setup Assistant has stopped working in 26.5. The remaining option to record the enrollment workflow is with a capture card/dongle.

• MacAdmins India 2025: Level up with Community/Apple Screen Recording, Mischa van der Bent
• Dan Snelson: Screen Recording Options
• Apple Support: Take a Screenshot on your Mac

Enrollment Options

• Video: How to Enforce a Minimum OS in Jamf Pro
• Jamf Pro: Automated Device Enrollment for Computers
• Jamf School: Automated Device Enrollment
• Apple Platform Deployment: Platform SSO
• Apple Developer: Implementing Platform SSO during device enrollment

Enrollment Progress

• DEPNotify (not maintained any more)
• Octory
• Setup-Your-Mac
• Baseline
• Jamf Self Service macOS Onboarding
• Setup Manager

Setup Experience

• Setup Checklist (coming soon)