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Adam Reed, Australian National University

This hands on session will cover numerous aspect of building and maintaining a SOE/MOE including understanding OS X, software packaging, basic scripting and the command line. In addition you will see and use various tools that make managing a SOE easier. Finally you will gain some practical ideas that you can utilise in your environment. This session is a repeat from 2011.

Christian Unger, University of Queensland

This workshop is intended to bridge the gap between developers & system
administrators and deals with intermediated SOE focused topic, with the
goal of supporting the full development framework used by developers
through the use of Puppet.

It covers:

• Leveraging your SOE to help other teams in your organisation;
• Puppet to assist in the deployment and maintenance of developing
• projects;
• Managing “complex” Puppet installations
• Creation of a real fact;
• Leveraging Puppet’s programming features.

Coverage also includes

• Pitfalls arising due to the different goals/needs of software developers
• and system administrators;
• Providing a more rapidly deployable kickstart environment;
• Implementing a disaster recoverable SOE infrastructure;
• Manual failing over between Puppetmasters; and
• Implementing/upgrading a Puppetmaster that uses Passenger.

The primary basis for the software used is CentOS 6.2 with the SOE being
Enterprise Linux. There is also a strong focus on leaving SELinux enabled.

This workshop expands on my other workshop “Building a Standard Operating
Environment on Linux”, however it stands largely alone. Never the less the
two workshops should ideally be attended in sequence, with much of the
example code being extended from the first workshop. The concepts apply to
Linux/Unix or OS X, however the primary technical focus remains on Puppet.

Christian Unger, University of Queensland

This workshop is intended to introduce an audience of technical staff to
the concepts associated with building a standardised operating environment
for the server environment. It covers with full worked examples how to
build:

• a repository server using;
• a kickstart environment; and
• a Puppetmaster to manage the fleet of servers.

The biggest single focus of the workshop is introducing the audience to
Puppet which occupies approximately two thirds of the workshop and is
platform agnostic. The course features Puppet examples for both Linux/Unix
and OS X.

Jenny Rhodes, University of NewcastlePart of XW12

A case study of the setup and support of the University of Newcastle’s council meetings into the paperless meeting space. Basic MDM for security and looking at what would be done differently if the project had access to the Apple Configurator tool. From concept to implementation and the ongoing support. This presentation will appeal to other universities that are concerned with mass managed deployment of iOS devices.

Dreyer Network ConsultantsPart of XW12

Arek Dreyer is a Chicago, USA based author, courseware developer and computer consultant, expert in Mac OS X and directory services in Mac OS X Server. He is an Apple Certified Trainer and Apple Certified System Administrator and has been delivering system administration training for Apple Worldwide Training and Certification since 2002. He maintains expertise in Microsoft Windows and UNIX based environments, particularly Sun Solaris, Mac OS X has become his preferred platform, and he enjoys the challenge of heterogeneous networks like integration with Active Directory.

He has been a presenter at the Macworld Expo conference on many occasions and presented at X World in the past.

He is is the author of many books including; Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Support Essentials; Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Server Essentials and his new book on Managing iOS Devices with OS X Lion Server.

Arek will be a feature presenter at X World 2012 as well as run a number of workshops.

Contact Arek Dreyer