X World 2012 was held in July and was another first rate event attend by over 140 University IT and technical staff from Australia, New Zealand, USA and the wider Pacific.
Copies of the presentations and relevant links to further information are now available on the web site. Our thanks to the presenters who gave their time and effort to present and for making copies of their presentations available.
Profile Manager makes it easy to configure your user’s Mac OS X Lion computers and iOS devices so they’re set up to use your company or school resources and so they have the settings your organization requires. This workshop will cover what you need to know about Profile Manager including:
plus how to integrate Profile Manager with Active Directory and other third-party LDAP services.
Managing your data effectively enhances your project. Inadequate data management can also lead to catastrophes like the loss of data or the violation of people’s privacy. This talk will focus on digital asset management systems that are currently used by educational and research institutions, libraries and museums. I will also cover software resources available to create good general models of data management planning for any project.
This will cover backup strategies, content management, cloud computing and collaboration tools. This is likely to be of particular interest to system administrators, developers, researchers/research administrators who are charged with data management for a research project or an institution.
Rsync is a very powerful and very flexible tool (and associated Rsnapshot) for backup and sync-ing on Macs (and other operating systems). Integrated with the fantastic Carbon Copy Cloner tool (CCC) (free for use in education institutions) it makes a powerful combination.
This technology and tools are not a replacement for Time Machine but fills a complementary need. Setting up these technologies can also be sometimes confusing and complicated (e.g. setting up the keys to allow no-password ssh). This presentation is relevant to beginner and intermediate level administrators who haven’t really explored the potential of the rsync technology.
1.4 MBAs Trinity College’s use of iPads has grown from a small pilot study, to a medium sized cohort of students, and now a forecast 600 students and 100 staff this year, we have steadily improved how we manage the configuration of those iPads. The presentation will briefly recap the evolution of iPad configuration management at Trinity, and look at existing solutions that are available. However, the majority of the presentation will cover our Django-based web application. It allows IT staff to prepare a configuration profile using iPhone Configuration Utility and upload it to the web app; students then authenticate to the web app with their LDAP credentials, and download a profile directly on their iPad over wireless, customised with their own account settings for email, wireless authentication, etc. The presentation will include how to set up the Open Source web app for use in your own institution, as well as a quick demonstration of the app.
The technical fields the presentation will cover are the structure of an iOS configuration profile, Django and its use on a Linux or Mac OS X server, and the configuration installation process on iOS. The intended audience is IT administrators with responsibility for iOS device configuration management for staff or students.
7.4 MBDevelopment of the goodthink project was driven by the evolving necessity to provide appropriate teaching and learning technology to staff and students in an increasingly BYOD environment. Most tertiary institutions have been very good at providing formal, face-to-face teaching technology in lecture theaters and classrooms. However, less attention and consideration has been given to the need for technology in the informal spaces where students congregate and can work collaboratively with each other outside the traditional classroom. This area of research is known as ‘informal learning space design’ and it is possible to provide the infrastructure and technology in any hallway, foyer, cafe or library where there is space, furniture and access to power & wireless Internet access. Our desire to provide this technology was driven by some of the positive outcomes and installations that other Universities have achieved. However, we were dismayed by the high cost of entry to some of the current costly proprietary systems that are available now. As a result, we reflected on the tools and services already available on campus and began to imagine how we might provide an informal, collaborative environment for our community.
Goodthink was prototyped on an Apple Mac Mini using exclusively open source components and existing operating system frameworks (10.7+). The goodthink system provides a wireless network for clients to connect to, along with a web interface and captive portal to route new connections to the collaborative environment (currently powered by Google Apps but other collaborative solutions are available). Connected users are free to interact with the goodthink central screen, open collaborative documents on their own devices and connect to other web resources via the goodthink wireless network (as restrictions permit). The goal is to produce a system functionally equivalent to commercial environments such as Teamspot, using exclusively free components.
We propose a live assembly of a working goodthink collaborative environment in a hands on workshop. Dale would explain the rationale for the development of goodthink and the pedagogical uses of the prototype, summarize some research into collaborative technologies in academia and then explain each component of the system as attendees assembles a working mockup. Attendees would then be invited to join the collaborative environment remotely from their own devices.
Documents on IOS devices, the legalities, practicalities & pitfalls.
iOS devices are now ubiquitous in our organisations, and there is a clear business need for our users to access their documents on theses devices. We will be exploring how users can access their documents using popular syncing services and directly accessing your existing storage infrastructure. We also look at the risks and implications of storing data on external company servers.
This presentation is suitable for all attendees who deal with iOS devices.
1 MBThis session will discuss strategies that the University of Wollongong employed to design an operating environment that immediately responds to new OS releases whether they be major updates or hardware specific builds.
891.6 KBThis presentation is on best practice techniques that the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland is delivering to users this year to ensure quality of service and to improve security of our fleet. The presentation aims to inform those who are in the business of informing key decision makers of their options when deploying Apple technology in their departments, and making their Apple devices EQUAL citizens to their Microsoft counterparts. Topics covered include:
The presentation will allude to the changes that have come to us thanks to centralization of IT, for example, our Exchange mail services moved centrally this year, and we used Profile Manager to make the changes to user’s profiles so that they would use the correct server after the migration. This may include a demonstration of how simple the changes were to implement.
3.3 MBThis presentation is on Integration of IOS/OSX Devices into an enterprise environment using Profile Manager found in OSX Lion Server and Casper Management Suite. Topics covered include:
Intended Audience is anyone support or deployment staff interested in managing larger number of iOS devices across a network.
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