How to build an AV Conference room MacMini

Owned by Neil Love
Jun 18, 2019
1 min read

Building a conference room MacMini under macOS 10.14 Mojave requires some manual setup for the best end user experience.


  1. Build the system as normal using the DEP workflow utilizing internet recovery. Please follow this link for reference. https://miworkspace.atlassian.net/wiki/x/A4BIH
  2. Conference room systems should not be encrypted with FileVault/IronIzzy
  3. After the build is complete, log in using an account with admin priveleges 
  4. Enable guest user and set this user to automatic login.
    1. Navigate to System Preferences → Users & Groups
    2. Unlock the preferences pane by clicking the padlock symbol in the lower left corner of the window and entering your admin credentials
    3. Select "Guest User" in the left hand column, check the box for "Allow guests to log in to this computer
    4. click the "login options" button in the left column and then choose "Guest User" from the Automatic Login drop down menu
    5. lock the preferences pane by clicking the padlock symbol in the lower left corner of the window
  5. Set the energy saver settings
    1. Navigate to System Preferences → Energy Saver
    2. Using the sliders, set the "Computer Sleep" to 'never' and "Display Sleep" to '1 Hr'
  6. Set the system to auto-logout incase a non-Guest user logs in.
    1. Navigate to System Preferences → Security & Privacy
    2. Unlock the preferences pane by clicking the padlock symbol in the lower left corner of the window and entering your admin credentials
    3. Click the 'Advanced...' button in the lower right corner
      1. Check the box for 'Log out after' and set it to '60' minutes of inactivity