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The world is changing, often violently, and maybe not for the better? The move toward LLMs and artificial intelligence is definitely doing a number on the profession and this week, we're talking with Erin Merchant from Risotto about her 2026 Mac AD talk on the state of hiring and jobs in the IT industry.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
Links:
- Erin's Talk at Mac AD: AI and IT Staffing, or How to Blow Up a Hiring Pipeline | Erin Merchant
- Puddles Pity Party: Party Sad Clown Stuns Crowd with Sia's Chandelier - America's Got Talent 2017
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- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This week, it's just us hosts! We're catching up on everything that's come down the pike during beta season: new payloads, new DDM functionality, and bugs of course. We'll also talk about how Siri might be good now, how everything's more expensive, and more.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- X World - https://xworld.au/index.php
- PSU Mac Admins https://www.youtube.com/@MacAdmins/videos
- Arek's Talk: Platform SSO State of the Union – Arek Dreyer
- https://mashable.com/tech/dell-xps-13-announcement-computex-macbook-neo-alternative
- https://x.com/Ahmadansari2233/status/2050105084382740919
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Anyone who has spent any time in our Apple world knows that the Mac Admins Community is a unique and special place for us to collectively celebrate our wins, mourn our lows, and help each other out when we are faced with a tricky problem. Within that community there are user groups that are all over the world - these are community run and led by volunteers focussed on fostering a sense of togetherness near and far. For this episode we wanted to highlight one of the community user groups and welcome Juan and Cesar to tell us more about Mac Admins Latin America.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Juan Taveras, IT Leader - LinkedIn
- Cesar Santana, Sys Admin, Karat - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://macadmins-latam.org/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
A few weeks back, we talked with Jamf about identifying hallmarks of AI Use on device. However, on-device AI use is only part of the story these days. We welcome back Joel Rennich from JumpCloud to talk about what agent identity looks like in July of 2026.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
- Matt Slocum - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-klrc-aiagent-auth-00.html
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/wimse/documents/
- https://spiffe.io/
- https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe
- https://oauth.net/2/dpop/
- RFC-8693 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8693.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/10/2006-throwback-took-down-telstra-national-phone-networ
- https://www.slate.auto/en
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Platform Single Sign-on comes in several different flavours, and each of them offers a different user experience, and solves for Identity Security in a different way. Password Sync, Secure Enclave, and don't forget Smart Card (can anyone who manages them ever forget Smart Card?). There are very strict delineations between features available for one type, and not for another. How do we work out what method is appropriate for our use case, and what settings we should be attempting to configure? Arki and Dan from Okta are back again today to discuss what the current PSSO landscape looks like
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Arki Krowczynski
- Dan Hefley - LinkedIn
Links:
- Okta Blog: https://www.okta.com/blog/product-innovation/okta-platform-sso-macos-secure-enclave/
- Arki's Blog: https://blog.iamarki.ai/step-by-step-deploying-platform-sso-with-secure-enclave-support/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
AI has been a constant in tech buzzword bingo for some time now, and the tide has very much changed from "how do we block this" to "how do we use it for the things that make sense". As the constraints have been loosened, and the token costs go up… how do we get a clear understanding of exactly what is being used in our environment, what the AI agents and harnesses are doing, and ensuring we are meeting the expectations of the people who are held accountable? Matt Vlasach is back to talk to us about AI Governance and how Jamf is tackling this in an authentically Apple way.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Matt Vlasach - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.jamf.com/solutions/ai-governance/
- Clankers: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Clanker
- The Talk Show at WWDC: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/the_talk_show_live_from_wwdc_2026
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
It seems like every day there is a new tool or product out there that is promising our end users abilities on par of turning lead into gold. With just this one tool, our end users can do anything! If only their pesky IT team would let them install it, then they could generate endless shareholder value, become super efficient, and actually this exact tool is critical for their job and how dare you question it!
When end users are requesting new tools that will lead them to the promised lands, how can we as IT teams ensure that the tools are actually what they say they are, and how can we measure their risk in our environments?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Alex Smith - LinkedIn
Links:
- Apparency, Suspicious Package & Archaeology: https://www.mothersruin.com/
- Otool Man Page: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/otool-classic.1.html
- Alex's Presentation at Mac Admins Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DXOagVtpA
- LaunchControl: https://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/
- Mac Monitor: https://github.com/Brandon7CC/mac-monitor
- DBVisualizer: https://www.dbvis.com/
- Apple Github: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions
- Jonathan Levin's books at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jonathan-Levin/author/B008ZF7ZKK
- Tyrrell P34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This week, we learned a lot about the 2027 series of releases from Apple. We've been testing and exploring since the events of the Keynote, and here's everything we've got so far…
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Anthony Reimer - Blog
Links:
- Apple Developer Q&A for Business and Education https://developer.apple.com/forums/activities/1614080?u_t=1
- Jamf DDM Explorer
- https://concepts.jamf.com/en/concepts/ddm-explorer/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ddm-explorer/id6754861743
- Socceroos: Football is for everyone https://pfa.net.au/news/football-is-for-everyone-socceroos-send-message-celebrating-multicultural-australia-ahead-of-2026-fifa-world-cup/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference covers all new things Apple, and we're here to talk you through everything announced at WWDC 2026!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/device-management-updates-depd638aa061/1/web/1.0
- https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/identity-integration-updates-dep956785e70/1/web/1.0
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Brands are things that I never really thought about when I was younger. I knew and trusted certain brands based on some reputation that I subliminally learned from…somewhere. Sure I've set up non profits, I've represented businesses professionally around the world, I have been a part of a larger brand that someone worked hard to create. But as someone with zero marketing finesse, I was shocked when I was interviewing for a job internally years ago, and someone mentioned that I had a strong brand. Me? Anti Marketing - having a brand?
We all have a brand, whether it's literally a company that we own or a company we represent, or figuratively as one we put out in the world. And if you're like me, someone who hasn't put much thought into what having a brand means, and why you should care about protecting it - this episode is for you.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Rolf Woodward - LinkedIn
Links:
- How does your brand look to the outside world from a DMARC perspective? | Rolf Woodward
- https://command-r.co.uk/
- https://command-r.co.uk/services/dmarc-checker/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This year's Apple Enterprise Report Card is out, and we're talking with Jason Snell and someone from Iru!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Jason Snell - LinkedIn
- Weldon Dodd - LinkedIn
Links:
- Report Card Link: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/apple-in-the-enterprise-a-2026-report-card/
- Full Comments: https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/05/apple-in-the-enterprise-the-complete-2026-commentary/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This episode is a little bit different than our usual live recordings. Usually our live recordings are on stage, in front of an audience- with guests that follows a very similar format to what we usually do.
This episode is not that - it has many guests- who will introduce themselves, a hazy plotline, and was recorded with a stolen microphone, unofficially, guerilla style at the first ever MacAdmins Europe conference. Follow me throughout the day as I accost victims- I mean guests- on the spot and ask questions about the conference, their perspectives, and what they've enjoyed most.
Hosts: * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://macadmins-eu.org/
- https://macadmins-eu.org/2026/videos/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Workbrew
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This week we're talking about Apple Business and all the changes that Apple's made of late! We're deep into the APIs and promises that exist in this critical platform.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://support.apple.com/guide/profile-manager/welcome/mac
- deploy.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126655
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Live at MacAD! We're talking about Apple Business, the MacBook Neo, and hopes & dreams going into WWDC
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Cat MacDonald
- David Starr - LinkedIn
- Rolf Woodward - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Mac Devops YVR becomes MacDevOps YUL this year as the popular conference makes a move to a new city thanks to the World Cup. We're here with conference founder Mat X to talk about what to expect, what's on tap, and who should make the trek to Montreal
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Mat X - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://mdoyvr.com/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Ulrik Aabye-Hansen has made a career by teaching people in the Mac Admins Community, and his conference talks are both education and culture. This week, we're talking with him about learning philosophy and how he approaches this critical topic, so we can all learn just a bit more from him as well.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Ulrik Aabye-Hansen - LinkedIn
Links:
- Friday the JQth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5uCXY21DAs
- jsonlives.com
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
The ACES conference enters its 12th year this spring with a May event in Minneapolis. Targeted at those people who manage Macs as consultants and at managed service providers, this year's conference has a bunch of new events. Here to tell us all about it is conference founder and longtime Mac Admin Justin Esgar.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Justin Esgar - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://acesconf.com/
- https://nemaa.org/art-a-whirl/
- https://acesconf.com/edward-esgar-scholarship/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
iOS security is an important topic that we don't talk about nearly enough. The current moment is driving a lot of people to understand it better, though! Let's dive in on iOS Security! We wanted to talk about iOS security. There's been a lot of conversations lately about how our personal devices can sell us out, and how attackers can come after your mobile devices, both personal and corporate.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Patrick Wardle - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
- https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/personal-safety/ips2aad835e1/1.0/web/1.0
- https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
- https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/
- Kung Fury- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
There are some people in the workplace that you know you can always count on to have an answer for a really obscure question or a tool to point you in the right direction for finding those esoteric bits of knowledge. Someone where every time you talk to them they absolutely blow your mind with some new piece of information or fun new tool in the workplace. Today's guest is one of those people- someone whose every response prompts immediate note taking and bookmarking because some day - we'll need those obscure facts while troubleshooting a problem and they will have it.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Mark Buffington - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://developer.jamf.com/jamf-pro/docs/test-apps-with-managedapp-and-blueprints
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/deploying-apps-with-declarative-management
- https://xyproblem.info/
- https://github.com/ninxsoft/LowProfile
- https://concepts.jamf.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckworth%E2%80%93Lewis%E2%80%93Stern_method
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
It was March 2016 when the first episode of the Mac Admins Podcast dropped, lead by the theme song that Adam Codega composed the first time he opened garage band. Hard to believe it! What's changed since 2016? What's the same? What do we think will be the same in 2036 if we're still doing this?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn * James Smith - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://isimagingdead.com/
- https://podcast.macadmins.org/2019/08/13/episode-133-sunburst-and-luminary-with-don-eyles/
- https://podcast.macadmins.org/2018/02/21/episode-70-tim-perfitt-twocanoes-software/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This April 30th, Mac Admins Europe launches for the first time in Leiden, Netherlands. Mischa van der Bent is here to tell us all about why this event exists, what to expect at the very first instance, and how the world is changing for Mac Admins.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Mischa van der Bent - LinkedIn
- Armin Briegel - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://macadmins-eu.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitterballen
- https://github.com/Jamf-Concepts/setup-checklist
- https://modernismweek.com/
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- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
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- Watchman Monitoring
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JR Rasberry and Adam Solove on ICEOut.tech
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- JR Rasberry - LinkedIn
- Adam Solove - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/
- Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (https://www.ilcm.org/) and Unidos MN (https://unidos-mn.org/). Both orgs are providing critical support to low-income immigrants in MN
- https://www.mnmad.org/ Minnesota Mutual Aid directory
- https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ - local gofundmes and mutual aid
- Stand by Me x The People United https://bsky.app/profile/taylordahlin.com/post/3mdeijmip522z
- Singing Resistance : https://linktr.ee/singingresistance
- Cameron McCloud (Artist): https://www.instagram.com/cureforparanoia/#
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- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
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Liam Donnelly from Jigsaw24 joins us to talk about MacAD 2026!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.macad.uk/
- https://www.jigsaw24.com/
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- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
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PKI can be a real adventure, from dealing with minting certificates, to their whole lifecycle, all the way down to who trusts what and why. We're here this week with Smallstep's CEO Mike Malone to talk about device attestation, their latest projects, and everything about how we learn to better trust each other when we can, and what to do when we can't.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Mike Malone - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://smallstep.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment
- https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/
- https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/07/30/3124136/0/en/Smallstep-and-Jamf-Partner-to-Deliver-Hardware-Backed-Device-Identity-for-Enterprise-Managed-Apple-Fleets.html
- Apple JNUC 2025 Presentation on Apple Platform Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wj2Oc-LUMQ
- https://smallstep.com/product/ai-and-mcp/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko_Wilcox-O%27Hearn
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- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
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It's just us this week, and we're talking about AI - Apple Intelligence, "Apple" Intelligence, and Apple "Intelligence" - as we dive into a few key developments. The 26.3 group of releases is upon us, along with new Gemini models coming to Siri, and the hopes of new hardware!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://kitzy.com/blog/openclaw-security-dangers/
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101
- Restricting the upgrade dialog: https://soundmacguy.org.uk/2026/01/29/suppress-the-upgrade-dialog-for-keynote-numbers-and-pages.html
- https://education.apple.com/story/250015008
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
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Everyone wants to manage devices these days, and not just Macs. Being able to embed device management into the platform you're already building can provide a seamless experience for your users. Open source projects like NanoMDM are free, but the resources required to set them up and maintain them are not. Smplify is a new player on the market who provides the infrastructure to manage devices so you can build MDM directly into your own solution.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Ben Greiner - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.smplify.com/
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases
- https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-food
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- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
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Kevin White is here with a bucket of spackle and some know how to make Platform Single Sign On a better experience. Plus, he's got updates for us on Super.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Kevin White - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://github.com/Macjutsu/pseudo
- https://github.com/Macjutsu/super
- https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/password-utility/
- Apple BSI (née RSR) https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Primo
- Watchman Monitoring
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MDM, DDM, VPP, ABM, even MSCP - all the acronyms that help us to manage devices the way that we need to, providing the amazing end-user experiences that the macadmin community is so conscious of. But what do we do when the tools provided by Apple or our device management service don't provide the capabilities we need? That's right, we build it ourselves! Michael Page is going to talk us through Dock Composer, one of these very tools that he has built to solve his own problem and help others solve the same problems in their environments
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Michael Page - LinkedIn
Links:
- Dock Master
- https://github.com/Error-freeIT/Dock-Master
- https://techion.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master
- Dock Composer on the Mac App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/dock-composer/id6751523907
- Dockutil - https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil
- Docklib - https://github.com/homebysix/docklib
- Git Kraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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As managing Macs evolves, it's no longer enough to just configure the devices we are responsible for. What happened after we configured them, are they still configured that way, has the user managed to get around the controls we put in place. Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Eric Metzger - LinkedIn
Links:
- SIEMply Irresistable - JNUC 2025
- Jamf Protect Telemetry Data Model (Free Jamf ID required)
Sponsors:
- Iru
- Fleet Device Management
- Meter
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2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twin-cities-mac-admins-meetup-ddm-with-selina-ali-mark-buffington-tickets-1978292003637?aff=oddtdtcreator
- https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- https://fleetdm.com/?utm_campaign=macadmins_podcast
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Anna Mentzer-Hernández - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twin-cities-mac-admins-meetup-ddm-with-selina-ali-mark-buffington-tickets-1978292003637?aff=oddtdtcreator
- https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/
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- Meter
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It's the End of the Year Special! We're here to break down the 2025 year with all the goods and bads!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/
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- Iru
- 1Password
- Backblaze
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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Welcome to the podcast, Rippling IT, who are working on a novel solution for full lifecycle management related to the devices that their platform enables.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Zaafir Kherani - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Iru
- 1Password
- Backblaze
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Neil Johnson's been building some incredible tools for Mac Admins of late, and we wanted to sit down with him and talking through Apple Policy Explorer and some others. What's it like building tools these days, where do you start? Who is the right audience to design for? We'll dive deep on his process here this week, as well as talk about what's going on at Microsoft.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Neil Johnson, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://appledevicepolicy.tools/policy-explorer
- https://appledevicepolicy.tools/microsoft-apps
- https://code.visualstudio.com/
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- Iru
- 1Password
- Meter
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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SOTI is one of the Ur-management platforms, being one of the very first Android EMM tools on the market. How Android Management works is a unique experience to the Apple management ecosystem. We're here to learn more about SOTI the company, as well as what they're doing in the Apple Ecosystem.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Mikhail Ishkanov, SOTI, Senior Director Product Strategy and Sales Enablement
- Youssef Mohamed, SOTI, Product Manager
Sponsors:
- Iru
- 1Password
- Meter
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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What's it like managing Apple Devices in a medical school? Brian Atkinson of the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine joins us this week to take us through the challenges of running their whole environment on Apple products. From Macs to tablets to even the Vision Pro! Let's dive in and take a look.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Brian Atkinson - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Meter
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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Automating our work load is a given in IT, and there are a lot of tools out there to help you accomplish streamlined workflows and reclaim time back in your day. Something the Mac Admin Community excels at is its open source mindset and providing tools to others to lend a helping hand. In today's episode we won't be focusing on a specific automation or a tool set, but the stories and problems behind them - and how these problems were solved by a member of our community - Dave- welcome to the podcast!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Dave Siederer - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://tart.run/
- https://isimagingdead.com/
- https://github.com/ds0x
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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Kandji has announced a new name, and some new products, and they are now Iru! Weldon Dodd joins us to talk about their move toward Identity, Cross-Platform Device Management, Security, and Compliance products.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Weldon Dodd - LinkedIn
Links:
- Passwordless Workforce Identity & Access | Iru
- Kandji Is Now Iru, the IT & Security Platform Built for the AI Era
- They're good rectangles: Ron LOVES his new music player | Parks and Recreation - YouTube
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- Iru
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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Apple announced Platform Single Sign-on at the setup assistant in macOS 26, and it's been a race for Identity Providers and Device Management Services to wrap their heads around the changes and implement it. Okta recently released their implementation and we are joined by Arki and Dan to talk about what this changes, what was involved in getting it to work, and what is still to come. We are also going to discuss how Platform Single Sign-on is just a small part of what is required for a securing your users.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Arki Krowczynski, Principal Product Acceleration Specialist, Okta
- Dan Hefley, Senior Product Manager, Okta - LinkedIn
Links:
- Arki's blog post on PSSO: https://iamse.blog/2025/10/16/farewell-complexity-platform-sso-simplified-setup-on-macos-26-powered-by-okta-and-jamf/
- Okta Blog post: https://www.okta.com/blog/product-innovation/merging-identity-with-macos-onboarding/
- Mac Admins Slack: #okta-device-access
Sponsors:
- Iru
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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Working at the same place for a long time can have some amazing benefits. Every conversation, meeting, or ticket solved is another person you met, another piece of knowledge you have that you didn't have before and another piece of the huge puzzle that is slowly getting assembled inside your brain. Institutional knowledge can be an amazing thing, and we all love that person we work with who seems to have been there right from the beginning and just.knows.stuff. But does having too many puzzle pieces assembled in your mind prevent you from getting overly curious, for fear of tipping everything over? What about the excitement of starting a new job, meeting new people and discovering new ways of doing things? Today we are so happy to welcome Kitzy back to the Mac Admins podcast after a very long time to talk about rediscovering curiosity and what it's like to walk away from being the keeper of the lore.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Kitzy - Kitzy.com
Links:
- https://kitzy.com/blog/losing-nine-years-of-answers-to-find-better-questions/
Sponsors:
- Iru
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Material Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Alexandre Morin joins the podcast to talk all about iOS Management - ADUE, ADDE, ADE, BYOD, there's too many acronyms to mention. All of this is a known, totally easy piece of cake, right? There's no challenges here.
Oh, but what about cellular? eSIM? Different use-cases? dedicated devices locked into single app usage? It's not so straight forward, is it?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Alexandre Morin - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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The gang went to Denver. Here's what happened next!
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Sam Johnson, Jamf - LinkedIn
- Anna Noel, Jamf Nation Giving Foundation - LinkedIn
- Matt Vlasach, Jamf - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Backblaze
- Watchman Monitoring
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The new 26 OSes are here! How has the first week gone so far?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- Looking for deferral profile collisions - https://github.com/ninxsoft/LowProfile
- https://lowendmac.com/2025/farewell-firewire-macos-tahoe-drops-support/
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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Here with an update about mSCP 2.0, some format changes, and new functionality, are Bob Gendler, Allen Golbig, and Dan Brodjieski! The macOS Security Compliance Project concluded their first ever Developer Conference earlier this year, where they met with stakeholders from the community, vendors, and a number of other interested parties to talk about the future of the project.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Bob Gendler, Mac Specialist, NIST - LinkedIn
- Allen Golbig, macOS Threat & Detections Researcher, Jamf - LinkedIn
- Dan Brodjieski, Apple Systems Engineer - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security
- https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/certifications/apc322685bb2/web
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Material Security
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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Apple's back to talk about the 26 release cycle, new APIs and plenty of great work that we can get excited about.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/migrating-managed-devices
- Swift Connect https://swiftconnect.io/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Material Security
- Meter
- Watchman Monitoring
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Apple’s released a gaggle of new hardware today. What’s on the release list? What do we make of the new models? Let’s dive in and figure it out.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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Marcus and (sorry)James live from X World in Melbourne
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Tony Gray - LinkedIn
- James White - LinkedIn
- Robert Hammen - LinkedIn
- Phill Wade - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Material Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Alex Confer from Risotto joins the pod this week to discuss IT career development and what it’s like to move to the world of startups. The conversation also touches on how to evaluate what AI is good for in 2025 including what’s practical, what’s not, and how to put things together.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Alex Confer - LinkedIn
Links:
- The Katering Show - Hot Wet Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yr_etbfZtQ
- Form follows function - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
- Alex on the Mac Admins slack - @aconfer
- https://tryrisotto.com/
- Avoiding brainrot and keeping mental friction: https://pauljun.substack.com/p/anti-slop-and-anti-brainrot
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Material Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Apple Silicon provides so many different opportunities with virtualisation, but many of us still miss the intel days when we could snapshot and use serial numbers to automate device enrollment. Tools like Tart provide opportunities to build workflows that allow us to configure and enhance the way we virtualise macOS.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Rob Potvin, Senior Consulting Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn
Links:
- MacADUK presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqS9bG3bkg
- Rob’s Blog - https://www.motionbug.com/
- Tart - https://tart.run/
- Virtual Buddy - https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
- Bushel - https://getbushel.app/
- Orka - https://www.macstadium.com/orka
- Anka - https://veertu.com/anka-flow/
- UTM - https://mac.getutm.app/
- Great resource for VMs https://eclecticlight.co/
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Material Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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The MacAdmins Community has a long, vibrant history of solving problems together usually through open source projects that become essential tools in our workflows. Whatever challenge you’re facing, chances are there’s already a project, or a group of passionate people, tackling something similar.
But with so many options, the path forward isn’t always clear. Do you adopt an existing open source tool? Invest in a polished, commercial solution? Or roll up your sleeves and build something totally new?
Today we’re diving into one admins journey into this struggle, and their path as they decided to build their own solutions for automating application and software patching in their organization.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Rob Schroeder - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://techitout.xyz/2025/04/24/automating-apple-os-ddm-software-updates-in-jamf-pro-using-azure-runbooks/
- https://techitout.xyz/2024/10/08/jnuc-2024/
- https://community.jamf.com/idaho-mac-admins-93/idaho-apple-admins-meetup-55529
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- Material Security
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Arek and Matt joined us in March of 2025 to talk about Vulnerability Management, and they’re back to share their progress, as well as a look at the future. Then we’ll dive in on the week’s news.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
- Matt Day - LinkedIn
Links:
- Release notes - https://www.kandji.io/updates/2025/07/vulnerability-response-remediation/
- Support article - https://support.kandji.io/kb/patching-applications-based-on-cve-severity
- The Failure Mode of Clever - https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Material Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Macs are safe - they don’t get malware. We used to hear this all the time and whilst Apple has done a wonderful job of building a secure by design operating system, there are still threats out there we need to protect ourselves against. It’s also no surprise that macOS is not Windows. And it’s further and further away from behaving like UNIX these days. So how do we know what to look for, and where to even go looking for it? Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs joins us to talk about his new book: Threat Hunting macOS - Mastering endpoint security
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Jaron Bradley - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://themittenmac.com/threat-hunting-book/
- https://objectivebythesea.org
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
- SpriteTree https://themittenmac.com/tools/
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- Material Security
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We’re live at the MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, talking about the week’s events, the state of the community, and what it’s like being at this very special conference. We’ve got great guests, and a good chance to have a wonderful conversation.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Guests:
- Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
- Greg Neagle - LinkedIn
- Jacob Burley - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
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- Nudge Security
- Material Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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We’re at Beta 3 and at least a third of the way through the beta season. How are things going, what have we discovered so far and what are we still looking to find out?
There are also plenty of other things happening in the Mac Admin community - lets talk through some of those things and get excited for what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do before!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://github.com/headmin/paw-project
- https://jc0b.computer/posts/munki-mscp-generator
- https://github.com/gilburns/Intuneomator
- https://micromdm.io/blog/micromdm-v1-maintenance-mode/
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What does it mean to be a Mac Admin in the year of jobs 2025? Long gone are the days of having to explain that no, that isn’t something that macs can integrate with. Instead we have all had to become experts in so many different silos within the modern IT organisation, from Identity, Security, Networking and Certificates. Being able to embrace and understand these concepts has also led to opportunities in career growth. Gone are the days where hoping for a small windowless room and the opportunity to get some new hardware to test once in a while was seen as a good deal. The growth of macOS in the enterprise has meant that our skills are incredibly attractive to large organisations, especially if we are able to combine technical prowess with the negotiation and collaboration required to drag Windows-centric teams towards the path of righteousness when it comes to a cross-platform or employee choice environment
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tony Young - LinkedIn
Links:
- Tony’s Career Audit
- Career Audit Template
- Kane Narraway
- What is Client Platform Engineering
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- Kandji
- Kolide
- Alectrona
- Watchman Monitoring
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Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion join us to talk about device security & compliance, as well as how to handle the necessary access control issues that can come from it. Whether it’s SSF, app management, identity management, there’s always knock-on effects. How can folks handle them?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Sriram Kakarala, CPO, Scalefusion - LinkedIn
- Preetham Gurram, VP of Product, Scalefusion - LinkedIn
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We have all enjoyed seeing Apple make the noticeable shift to embracing modern cloud identity with the integrations we have seen over the past few years. From modern authentication at enrollment, Single Sign on extensions through to Federation of Managed Apple accounts and Platform Single Sign-on. The announcements at WWDC this year gave us more reasons to be excited, with a whole bunch of new capabilities announced. What does this really mean and can I start using this in production tomorrow?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Michael Epping - LinkedIn
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/implementing-platform-sso-during-device-enrollment
- Parallelipiped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelepiped
- The Great Disnub Dirhomboidodecahedron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_disnub_dirhombidodecahedron
- Klein Bottle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
- Apple and Emory Healthcare: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-products-transform-care-at-emory-healthcare/
- Microsoft FIDO Alliance Case Study: https://fidoalliance.org/case-study-microsoft/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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We’re into the beta season! Apple has released a bunch of documentation, as well as a full suite of betas to go with everything we talked about last week on the Flashcast. We’ll be talking PSSO, MDM Migration, and the AxM APIs.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api
- https://registry.terraform.io/providers/neilmartin83/axm/latest/docs
- https://github.com/rodchristiansen/asbmutil
- https://bartreardon.github.io/2025/06/11/using-the-new-api-for-apple-business-school-manager.html
- https://github.com/apple/device-management/branches
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/enrolling-with-platform-single-sign-on
- https://tombridge.com/2025/06/09/how-new-mdm-features-ship-to-mdm-customers/
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api
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Declarative Device Management is just as easy as turning on the protocol, accepting the messages, and then responding over the new channel, right? Should be a couple weeks' work for any MDM, right? Well, we’re going deep on DDM’s nuts and bolts with Bryce from Addigy on their journey to DDM management. Let’s see how it really went?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Bryce Carlson - LinkedIn
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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With WWDC announced for June 9 through 12 this year, we’re all looking forward to whatever new device management capabilities we get to see. Toss a coin to your MDM vendors (o' valley of plenty) for they are the ones that need to turn these wonderful new frameworks and features into something that we as Mac Admins can integrate into the workflows we need to create the magical end user experiences we strive for.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
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- Kandji
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- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Joel Rennich’s back with us to talk about code signing certificates,
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
Links:
- Dave Pike Set - Mathar
There are a lot of incredible conferences out there for Mac Admins to attend - MacSysAdmin, MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, X World, Objective by the Sea - but what’s the story behind the story? This week we’re talking with conference organizers about how they think about their events, the challenges that they face, and the future of these critical community events.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Guests:
- Patrik Jerneheim, MacSysAdmin - LinkedIn
- Mat X, MacDevOps YVR - LinkedIn
- Gretchen Kuwahara, MacAdmins at Penn State University - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
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- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Tom & Marcus are in Brighton this week with three friends: Neil Johnson, Cat McDonald, and Liam Donnelly. MacAD.UK 2025 was full of great talks, so let’s dial it in and talk with three of the best speakers.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Neil Johnson - LinkedIn
- Cat McDonald
- Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.macad.uk/
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- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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Erin Merchant’s back with the Mac Admins Podcast to help us get caught up with the latest news and events. We’re talking macOS 15.4 (and 15.4.1), the latest kerfuffles with Apple Intelligence, and we’re all wondering why Tom’s MacBook Pro keeps restarting in his backpack.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
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Patrick Wardle’s a busy guy, and 2025 is no exception! No Starch Press just published volume two of the Art of Mac Malware on Detection, including a free PDF version. Objective by the Sea is back in October in the Balearics. iOS Security Research is a new area of focus, but there’s plenty to talk about. Welcome back, Patrick!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Patrick Wardle - LinkedIn
Links:
- The Art of Mac Malware Volume 2
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- 1Password
- Nudge Security
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Jason Snell and Weldon Dodd are back on the Mac Admins Podcast to discuss this year’s Apple in the Enterprise Report Card. How did the last year go for Mac Admins with Apple Products? Well, let’s find out…
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jason Snell - @jsnell
- Weldon Dodd - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://sixcolors.com/
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Kevin English and Tom Rice from SHI join the pod this week to talk about Value Added Resellers and their role in the Apple Ecosystem. Ever wonder how the models work for these folks? We’re here to tell you.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tom Rice - LinkedIn
- Kevin English - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://shi.com/apple
- We Got Your Mac: https://www.wegotyourmac.com/listen/
- Mac Eval Utility: https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/04/mac-evaluation-utility/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
With WWDC announced for June 9 through 12 this year, we’re all looking forward to whatever new device management capabilities we get to see. Toss a coin to your MDM vendors (o' valley of plenty) for they are the ones that need to turn these wonderful new frameworks and features into something that we as Mac Admins can integrate into the workflows we need to create the magical end user experiences we strive for.
Selina Ali, Senior Product Manager at Addigy is back on the podcast today to talk about what it’s like to wrap your head around MDM, DDM, Application Management and other frameworks in order to deliver them as workflows in a device management solution.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
India doesn’t just have the largest population of any country in the world, it also has a thriving community of Mac Admins who are becoming more and more visible as time goes by. In addition to the popular MacAdmins India, with monthly hangouts and other events, this year we are excited to hear about the upcoming Mac Admins India conference. Karthik and Shyam join us to talk about their experiences being part of organising this community as well as what they have planned for the conference.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Shyam Sundar, Service Manager, Novo Nordisk - LinkedIn
- Karthikeyan Marappan, macOS Specialist, European Bioinformatics Institute - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.macadmins.in
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bewithkarthi/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-sundar-m9490/
- admins@macadmins.in
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- Nudge Security
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Root3 is joining us this week to talk about patch management and building a catalog of applications, and their support app.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jordy Witteman, Apple Principal Consultant, Root3 - LinkedIn
- Martin van Diemen, CEO, Root3 - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.root3.nl/en/
- https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp
- https://appcatalog.cloud/
- Hacking with Swift: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/
- Swift with Majid: https://swiftwithmajid.com/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
It’s just us this week, as we talk through the March beta cycle, the iPhone 16e, what we hope is coming any day for the MacBook Air, and everything else that the cat drug in.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.macadmins.org/news/2025/3/14/mac-admins-foundation-announces-the-charles-s-edge-jr-new-speakers-grant
- https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/07/m3-ultra-chip-gpu-benchmark/
- https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/06/m3-ultra-chip-first-benchmark-result/
- https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/dfu-blaster/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Career progression in IT can feel a bit unclear at times. Start as a Helpdesk, get to be a CPE, what happens next? How does development actually work? What do most organizations do to tier their people? How do you move up as an individual contributor? We’re talking with Graham Gilbert of Airbnb about what it’s like to move up toward the rarified air of staff engineer and beyond.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Graham Gilbert - LinkedIn
Links:
- Eisenhower Matrix: https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix
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- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Arek Dreyer from Kandji is back to talk through some updates to Kandji’s platform focused on Security, and he’s brought a friend, Matt Day. From Vulnerability management on through to Behavior Detection, there’s a lot going on in the marketplace today, and Kandji’s got some new tools to work with!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
- Matt Day - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.kandji.io/blog/vulnerability-management
- https://www.matildas.com.au/news/nike-and-football-australia-unveil-first-australian-national-football-team-collection-designed
- https://shop.footballaustralia.com.au/collections/ntk-away
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Jobs are great, and we’re not just talking Steve here. Some of us are even fortunate enough to have a job. In the current economic climate, changing jobs isn’t always something that can be planned, so holding onto a job is often our primary concern. But how do we know when we have outgrown our current role? What are some of the signs that it’s time to start looking? How do we know if we are jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire? What are some of the strategies that we can use to make sure we advance our career and preserve our sanity?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Robert Hammen - LinkedIn
Links:
- Charles Edge- The Evolving State of Device Management (X World 2015)
- https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/stack-ranking-makes-a-comeback/
- Jason Broccardo & Robert Hammen at MacAdmins Conference
- Rands Leadership Slack and book “Managing Humans”
- W. Andrew Robinson, A Mac Admin Toolkit:
- https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2024/pdf/Day3Session4.pdf
- https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2024/video/Day3Session4.mp4
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Who doesn’t like a nice round number? Much like watching the odometer on the car tick over, we decided to make something special of episode 400, even if it technically might be the 410th episode we recorded… Please allow us to indulge ourselves by having a look back on the almost nine years we have been doing this. We are so humbled y’all are still here!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @smashism
Links:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataman
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-702P
- https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/50041/A%20Computer%20Adventure%20Game:%20Island%20of%20Secrets/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Matt from Omnissa joins the Mac Admins team to talk about Omnissa’s latest developments for Workspace ONE, and life after the Broadcom divestment.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Matt Coppinger - LinkedIn
Links:
- 2406 release Notes
- Microsoft - Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Apple has done a great job of providing first-party applications to achieve pretty much anything you would want to do using their devices. From iMovie to Final Cut Pro, contentious changes to the Photos app, and the productivity tools like Pages, Numbers, and the awesome power of Keynote. Despite this, we generally need to provide much more than this to our users, installing applications from many different vendors with wildly varying approaches to installation, configuration and updates. There are almost as many approaches to managing the installation and patching of third-party software as there are vendors, and today we are going to speak to Adam Derrick from Jamf, and Dave Goldberg from Horizon BCBS about using Jamf App Installers in production.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Adam Derrick, SE @ Jamf
- Dave Goldberg, Horizon BCBS of NJ
Links:
-
JNUC 2024: Save Time with #Jamf App Installers - A Modern Approach to App Management
- Software Titles - Jamf App Catalog
- Release Notes - Jamf App Catalog
- Feature Requests - jamf.it/featurerequest
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Smallstep
- iMazing
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
The team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they’ve gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They’re with us today to talk about SBOMs - Software Bill of Materials - and security in your work environments. Patching remains a really integral part of doing Mac Admin work right, and this critical concept is one we’re going deep on.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- John Britton, Workbrew - LinkedIn
- Mike McQuaid, Workbrew - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
- https://workbrew.com/macadmins
- PSU MacAdmins workbrew sessions (Marcus to add)
- https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-psu-2024-session-homebrew-balancing-the-needs-of-it-security-and-engineering-teams-at-scale
- https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-conference-2024-session-workbrew-a-deep-dive-into-the-enterprise-software-delivery-platform
- pcpartpicker.com
- https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mikemcquaid/saved/#view=7gjtWZ Mike’s PC :D
- https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile Mike’s Brewfile
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Homebrew Bundle/Brewfiles
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- iMazing
- Smallstep
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Andrew Orrison from CrashPlan joins the pod to talk about a couple topics: how they’ve moved to be their own organization from being part of Code42, and how they use the Mac Admins Slack as a way to support the community.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Andrew Orrison - LinkedIn
Links:
- Mac Admins Slack Vendor Guidelines
- Parablu acquisition
- Lady Washington (Ship)
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Ari from iMazing joins the podcast to talk about iMazing Profile Editor, a tool near and dear to Mac Admins for its wide understanding of the MDM Specification and ability to create signed profiles easily for distribution in the MDM of your choice.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Becky Scott - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Ari Leviatan - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://github.com/ProfileManifests/ProfileManifests
- https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/profilemanifestsmirror/
- https://github.com/Jamf-Custom-Profile-Schemas/ProfileManifestsMirror
- https://xkcd.com/1053/
- https://imazing.com/cli
- https://imazing.com/configurator
- Rosey: https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey
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- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Collin Elliott is back to talk to more about controlling the family devices in your midst.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Becky Scott - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Collin Elliott - LinkedIn
Links:
- Episode 376: https://podcast.macadmins.org/2024/08/14/episode-376-family-device-control-with-collin-elliott/
- https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/228006487-FamilyShield-Router-Configuration-Instructions
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- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Lets look back on 2024 and remember the year that was. There will be lots of laughing, maybe some eye rolling. Probably also some tears.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - LinkedIn
Links:
- Management profile settings and OS upgrade implications | Der Flounder
- Episode 359: Mac@Cisco – A Mac Admins Perspective
- Episode 362: ACES Conference with Justin Esgar
- Episode 370: Jedda Wignall on Managed Device Attestation
- Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO with Microsoft Entra ID–Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski
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- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Entra ID is the current inheritor of the mantle of Active Directory. No, don’t be afraid, we’re not going to do any binding on this show. We’re going to give you the brass tacks for what Microsoft is using Entra for, how Mac Admins should think about it, and how it fits into the modern world for Mac Admins.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Michael Epping, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft – LinkedIn
- Mark Morowczynski, Principal Security Researcher, Microsoft – LinkedIn
Links:
- Extending the AD schema (pay attention to the date) https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20101123/6d648bd4/attachment.pdf
- Password Guide: https://aka.ms/PasswordlessGuide
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- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This year, the Mac Admins Foundation is hosting a fundraising drive to build the future of the organization and shore up the financial future of the foundation.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Guests:
- John Mahlman - LinkedIn
- Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn
- Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
- Chris Dawe - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.macadmins.org/
- https://xkcd.com/979/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Patrick Wardle from DoubleYou and the Objective See Foundation joins us to talk about their recent event in Kyiv, as well as everything Mac Security, along with Mikhail, his collaborator at DoubleYou.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Patrick Wardle - LinkedIn
- Mikhail Sosonkin - LinkedIn
Links:
- Art of Mac Malware, Volume 2: https://nostarch.com/art-mac-malware-v2
- OBTS v7.0: https://objectivebythesea.org/v7/index.html
- https://x.com/patrickwardle/status/1851026703683813771
- https://x.com/lorenzofb/status/1836820420747563260
- https://www.trellix.com/blogs/research/macos-malware-surges-as-corporate-usage-grows/
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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Santa’s got new digs up at North Pole Security! Join us as we talk with Russell and Pete from North Pole about what Santa’s move means, how it’s developing in the future, and what’s coming next for this powerful Mac Security Tool.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Pete Markowsky , North Pole Security - LinkedIn
- Russell Hancox, North Pole Security - LinkedIn
Links:
- MacSysAdmin 2024 - Santa Past, Present, and Future - A Christmas Carol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyIcr1XoWs
- Google & Operation Aurora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
- https://github.com/northpolesec/santa
- https://northpolesec.com
- https://northpole.dev
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRl1yu5OEs
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- Kandji
- 1Password
- Watchman Monitoring
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Who loves VPNs? Folks in the network security team, please put your hands down - we weren’t asking you… Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way that we could offer privacy and protection out there in that wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the internet? Wouldn’t it be even better if it was baked into the operating system so each vendor wasn’t just making things up as they go? Apple announced iCloud private relay in 2021, and in 2023 we got what I guess you could call the “Enterprise version” - Network Relays. Today we have Matt Vlasach here to talk about why Network Relays are awesome and how we can use them to make Apple devices more secure and useable
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Matt Vlasach - LinkedIn
Links:
- MASQUE Protocol IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schinazi-masque-02.html
- WWDC 2023 - Protect App Traffic with Network Relays https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10002
- JNUC rainfocus links to come (early Nov, before this episode goes live) Marcus to add.
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/masque-building-a-new-protocol-into-cloudflare-warp/
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Do you find that life is like trying to understand code without comments? Many of us are discovering later in life that there is a word that explains why the unwritten rules of life just don’t seem to make sense. Rowan Quigley recently presented at JNUC in Nashville around how workplaces can embrace Neurodiversity, catering for neurodivergent folks as well as neurotypicals.
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Rowan Quigley - @rquigley
Links:
- Fern Brady https://www.tiktok.com/@cultofpinky/video/7230743131581353242
- Piratesoftware - https://www.tiktok.com/@brainystreamers/video/7422629711127334177
- Penn State - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_p0kKe6IE
- Embracing Neurodiversity in IT: Building Inclusive Workplaces for All
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With JNUC and Macsysadmin last week, conference season is behind us for 2025. Tom and Marcus look back on the conference year that was and discuss how to get the most out of these awesome events
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Jim Rispin - Care & Feeding of your IT Professional
- https://jc0b.computer/posts/attending-your-first-conference/
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Jeremy Butcher returns to the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about this Fall’s releases of new operating systems, a bit on Apple Intelligence, and how Mac Admins should be preparing for these latest releases.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn
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Join Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
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Beth Johnson’s talk at MacAdmins this year was all about bringing Compliance routines to her organization, and we wanted to spend some time getting her to share more about the process, the tools, and most importantly, the philosophy behind her efforts. And we’ll get into her incredibly beautiful slides, also.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Beth Johnson
Links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do8bxvpl7bA
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Device Lifecycle is a massive topic for Mac Admins – what’s the right length? how do you purchase? what devices keep their value? – and we’re excited to have Kris Roesken from Diamond Assets here to tell us how their customers are approaching this interesting subject.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Kris Roesken - LinkedIn
- Jeremy Egger - LinkedIn
Links:
- www.diamondassets.com
- https://clarity.diamondassets.com/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/
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Software Updates is a subject that is dear to the heart of all Mac Admins. Traditionally this was a task that we could only perform after devices were enrolled. Beginning with macOS 14, Automated Device Enrollment began to support the requirement of a Minimum OS Version, which allows us to mandate that the device is updated before we allow it to enroll into our device management system. This week, we’ll talk with Bushrat Chowdhury of Jamf about the adaptation of this feature into the product.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Bushrat Chowdhury - LinkedIn
Links:
- Automated Device Enrolment and MDM – Apple Support (AU)
- What’s new in managing Apple devices - WWDC23 - Videos
- New Features and Enhancements - Jamf Pro Release Notes 11.9.0
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It seems like it’s onboarding assistants all the way down at the moment. Everyone has embraced the idea of ensuring our users are kept informed about what is going on when their device is being configured, but most of them share one thing in common - they run once the user has arrived at the desktop. Today we are going. to discuss Jamf Setup Manager, which runs before the setup assistant during enrollment.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Mischa van der Bent - LinkedIn
- Anthony Darlow - LinkedIn
- Armin Briegel - LinkedIn
Links:
- GitHub - Jamf-Concepts/Setup-Manager
- Human Interface Guidelines | Apple Developer Documentation
- Jamf Concepts
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With major Apple platform releases and a live event around the corner, Tom, Marcus, and Emily round up for a look back at Sonoma and iOS 17, an anxiety check on Sequoia and iOS 18, and ponder some of the questions admins are eager to have answered this Septober.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
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Death, taxes and software updates… We deal with a constant stream of updates: Minor, major, N, N-1, N-2. Why do we even have updates? Because software inherently sucks and bad people find ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that they find, or is it that good people find them and disclose them before the bad people get a chance to use them... If simply applying these software updates wasn’t hard enough, we also need to understand what devices are eligible for which updates, and may have auditing responsibilities to make decisions as to why and how quickly we need to apply them. SOFA is an open source tool that MacAdmins can use to help with automation, documentation and many other aspects associated with keeping our bloody software up to date
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Henry Stamerjohann, Co-founder, Zentral - LinkedIn
- Graham Pugh, Senior Systems Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn
- Allister Banks, Citizen of Earth - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://github.com/macadmins/sofa
- https://sofa.macadmins.io
- https://github.com/bartreardon/swiftDialog-scripts/tree/main/Update%20Notifications
- https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
- https://docs.vulncheck.com/community/nist-nvd/introduction
- https://grahamrpugh.com/2023/12/06/xprotect-version-check.html
- https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2024/05/03/investigating-unpatched-cves-with-osquery-and-sofa/
- https://github.com/macadmins/nudge
- https://github.com/macadmins/osquery-extension
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Rebecca Latimer join us to tell us everything she’s been up to since Episode 197! We’ll be talking about managing
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn
Links:
- MDOYVR24 - Rebecca Latimer - Managed Software Center
- https://gingerscripting.com/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonpu/2024/08/10/the-australian-breakdancer-in-the-olympics-explained/
- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/12/raygun-rachael-gunn-paris-olympics-breaking-viral-kangaroo-hop-video
- https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/apples-permissions-features-are-out-of-balance/
- Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy: New Tech Guy - Saturday Night Live
- Bringing a Mac Admin Mindset to Managing Windows Endpoints – Rebecca Latimer; Adam Anklewicz
- https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2024/aug/09/paris-olympics-2024-hoops-and-loops-on-day-14-in-pictures
- Mary Carillo's Badminton Rant - Athens 2004
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Family Device Control is a hot topic in the world, and we’ve never touched on it. Joining us this week is Collin Elliott to talk about how to manage your kids' devices, and handling co-parenting, as well as all sorts of ways to keep your devices in line.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Collin Elliott - LinkedIn
Links:
- ‘Came to Paris on a mission’: Saya Sakakibara claims gold in BMX racing
- Screen Time: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108806
-
What is Family Sharing? https://support.apple.com/en-us/105062
-
Android Family Link: https://safety.google/families/parental-supervision/
- Circle: https://meetcircle.com/
- UniFi Traffic Rules For Parental Controls (Example Use Cases)
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Ross Matsuda joins the Podcast from Ntiva, where he manages a ton of Macs in a ton of different systems and ways. This episode is going to cover the challenge of managing Macs at scale, but not from the same platform
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Ross Matsuda - LinkedIn
Links:
- Sudoade - Ross’ Apple Administration blog
- Add personality to your app through UX writing
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Chris Chapman joins us from MacStadium, returning after 200 episodes, to tell us all about Orka Desktop, help us understand VMs that can be defined in code, and how we can all have more performant and better testing environments!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Chris Chapman, CTO, MacStadium - LinkedIn
Links:
- Orka Desktop | Deploy macOS virtual machines (VMs) on your local machine for testing & QA
- Open Container Initiative
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Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Michael Epping - LinkedIn
- Pam Lefkowitz - LinkedIn
- Joshua Miller - LinkedIn
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Mike Boylan from Kandji joins the pod to talk about Kandji’s new approach to configurations management as part of their new Assignment Maps feature.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Mike Boylan - LinkedIn
Links:
- Assignment Maps | Kandji Launch Event | June 2024
- Assignment Maps vs Classic Blueprints
- Assignment Maps Overview
- Best Practices for Building Assignment Maps
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It’s just us this week, as we prepare for Penn State Mac Admins, as well as start the Beta Season. Here’s everything we’re thinking about as we get ready for the most exciting 3 months of Mac Admin life each year!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
Links:
- Apple’s “Home on iPod” is Back | WIRED
- Home on the iPod | Macworld
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Trust is a subject we regularly discuss with our guests. How do we trust our users, how do we trust the software they want to run, how do we trust the devices they are on. In the modern world where you can’t believe everything a computer or mobile device is telling you about itself, how do we make sure that the devices we are managing and granting access to the privileged information we need to secure are in fact what they say they are? Jedda Wignall put together a very comprehensive deep dive into Managed Device attestation last year and we’ve been looking forward to having him on the podcast to talk through it. Welcome to the MacAdmins Podcast Jedda!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jedda Wignall - LinkedIn
Links:
- Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices - a technical exploration
- Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices – Apple Platform Deployment Guide
- Smallstep - ACME Device Attestation Explained
- Google Linux Attestation (GitHub) google/go-attestation
- Duo Security - MDM Me Maybe: Device Enrollment Program Security
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Zach Wasserman from Fleet DM joins the podcast this week to talk about software updates, osquery, DDM, and more! This wide-ranging conversation will cover all manner of new things… (To be finished once we get the full knowledge of WWDC…)
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Zach Wasserman - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://fleetdm.com/device-management
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In this episode, we’ll talk about security, ATT&CK, and the changing landscape of Mac security with one of our favoritest guests, Cat Self.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Cat Self - LinkedIn
Links:
- MITRE ATT&CK®
- Getting Started with ATT&CK (video)
- ATT&CK Framework v15 Update Log
- What is STIX/TAXII? | Cloudflare
- Blog on pulling MITRE ATT&CK data sources with JuypterLab
- Malware Unicorn: Dylib Injection Attacks
- Atomic Red Team Tests
- I created Lutherans
- Atomic Test Harness
- zScaler Advisories
- https://x.com/Technop54777070/status/1788603343843074187
- Claimed by hackers, Zscaler says there’s no impact or compromise | Cybernews
- The ESF Playground – The Mitten Mac
- A Deep Dive into the OceanLotus Adversary Emulation for macOS & Linux
- https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/adversary_emulation_library/blob/master/ocean_lotus/Emulation_Plan/OceanLotus_Scenario.md
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So it feels like we should all be wearing white jumpsuits with awesome rainbow stripes, preparing to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane… It’s been a whirlwind week since the Keynote and now we have finally gotten to watch “What’s new in Device Management” (note the different name this year!) - we thought it would be fun to get together and livestream our thoughts. So, before we get into the details, what would you give the Keynote out of 10?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan * James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social
Links:
- Using iCloud with macOS virtual machines | Apple Developer Documentation
- What’s New in Privacy
- What’s new in Device Management
- Private Cloud Compute
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Six Months into the Vision Pro, where are we? What’s working? What’s not? How are people thinking about this new technological innovation?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
- Bryson Tyrrell - LinkedIn
- Gerard Massey - LinkedIn
Links:
- Jamf Trust on Vision Pro
- How to Manage and Secure Apple Vision Pro
- ForeFlight - Voyager
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- Alectrona
- Watchman Monitoring
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This week Tom, Marcus, and Emily finish off their predictions for next week's Apple World Wide Developer Conference. This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge – @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom – @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle – @emilyooo
Links:
- X World - “I do declare” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnUjUg_6HE
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- Kolide
- Watchman Monitoring
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Tom hosts a live episode directly from the MacAD conference stage in Brighton as part of this year’s event! Catriona McDonald, Elliot Jordan, and Liam Donnelly join to talk about the conference sessions and everything that’s happened at the event! This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Guests:
- Catriona McDonald - LinkedIn
- Elliot Jordan - LinkedIn
- Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn
Links:
- MacAD 2024
- How not to do bad things with Autopkg
- ELA ELA ELA, a a a at MacAD 2023
- Empowering Users with Self-Service at JNUC 2022
- Molly Watt
- Holly Foxcroft
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Managed Apple IDs and Federation
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- Kolide
- Watchman Monitoring
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This week Tom, Marcus, James, and Emily round up for what they assume is part one of their Apple World Wide Developer Conference predictions for 2024. This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan * James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social
Links:
- https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157120/dell-windows-on-arm-leak-qualcomm-chips-battery-life
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New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today’s episode we’ll look at evaluating when it’s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn
Links:
- Set up iCloud Keychain – Apple Support (AU)
- Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
- User Presence vs User Verification
- Log into Bitwarden with a passkey
- NIH Framework for Technology Selection
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Justin Esgar returns to the pod to tell us all about the upcoming ACES Conference in Salt Lake City!
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests: * Justin Esgar - LinkedIn
Links: * ACES Conference Tickets (with discount) * ACES Conference
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Remember the ‘90s when Micrososft was the big bad wolf with their anti-competitive methods of pushing Internet Explorer at the expense of Netscape and other non-microsoft browsers? Now the eye of Sauron has turned on Apple and today we are going to discuss the current landscape of phones, app stores, and everything else that it seems all the tech pundits (does this make us pundits?) have an opinion on.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-apple-inc
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Tim Perfitt is back to talk about animal husbandry and the best new features that are in XCreds 4.0!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tim Perfitt - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/xcreds/
- https://twocanoes.com/knowledge-base/whats-new-in-xcreds-4-0/
- https://store.twocanoes.com/collections/smart-card-readers
- https://twocanoes.com/products/ios/wireless-mobile-reader/
- https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/winclone/
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Most of us will have seen or heard about Fletcher Previn’s presentation at JNUC 2023 around the employee choice program at Cisco, and how the numbers stack up for offering the mac. This presentation, and Fletcher’s previous presentations for IBM were described from the perspective of the executives and decision makers, and you our dear listeners will be all too aware that implementing a successful program such as this requires a lot of effort, enthusiasm and collaboration at an engineering level to deliver the outcomes that the stakeholders want for the users. We thought it would be great to hear about what this program at looked like from the inside, so we are fortunate to have Jacob Davidson and Nicole Nolen from the mac@Cisco team to speak to us.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jacob Davidson - LinkedIn
- Nicole Nolen - LinkedIn
Links:
- Fletcher’s JNUC presentation https://www.jamf.com/blog/mac-in-the-enterprise-employee-choice/
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlocking-power-hybrid-work-5-guiding-principles-from-kelly-jones-8e88e/
- https://github.com/macadmins/nudge
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In this episode we meet Kim Trojanowski and hear a little about her experience with SupportApp and finding and working with new tools.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Kim Trojanowski - LinkedIn
Links:
- SupportApp - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp
- 2021 SupportApp JNUC Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijCmR6gQAM
- README file - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp/blob/master/README.md
- SupportApp Channel on Slack - https://macadmins.slack.com/archives/C02JD4WCXLH
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Being a solo admin is great! So is going to a larger team, where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. We interview Jordan Burnette about such a transition in today’s episode.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
- Kandji
- Kolide
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The team from Workbrew joins us this week to discuss the challenges MacAdmins face with Homebrew at their companies. We discuss ways to cut down on IT busywork while also getting ahead with your engineering and security teams with an uncompromising approach to engineering productivity and security posture. Along the way we’ll touch upon maintaining the Homebrew Open Source Project and their approach to building a business around Open Source.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Vanessa Gennarelli, COO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn
- Mike McQuaid, CTO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn
- John Britton, CEO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn
Links:
- Workbrew
- https://brew.sh/
- https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/30d/
- Vanessa’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Change-Work-Vanessa-Gennarelli/dp/195261662X
- Git in Practice: Includes 66 Techniques
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When polled, one of the most requested guests was one we’ve had on before, Arek Dreyer. So rather than tell Arek, what we wanted to talk about, we thought we’d hit him up for what he wanted to talk about!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.instagram.com/p/zRML8gyxFN/
- TILLREDA portable induction cooktop, 1 zone white - IKEA
- Toronto Mac Admins Presentation
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Keychain is one of the best password managers on the market - especially for the money. In this episode, we chat with Cody Thomas about his research into Keychain security, where he was able to find some successes in red teaming, and where his attempts were thwarted!
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Cody Thomas - LinkedIn
Links:
- Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2022
- Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2021
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MacAD returns to Brighton in May of 2024! We’re excited to welcome members of the organizing committee, Maxine & Liam join the podcast to talk about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and why you should be booking your trip.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Maxine Davenport - LinkedIn
- Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://www.macad.uk
- macad@macad.uk
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Admins face challenges with their own vaults of secrets. How do we secure/share secrets like passwords, but also those that aren’t, like SSH keys, certs, or passkeys? And what about mass deployments and IdP integrations?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Blake Brandon - LinkedIn
Links:
- 1Password: https://1password.com/
- Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bGNgU-2aBs
- Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG6ksdavtY
- SCIM: https://support.1password.com/scim/
- https://support.1password.com/mobile-device-management/
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Bravas is a new offering based out of the EU, focused on the small business market. Identity and Device Management together, they’re trying something new for the SMB market.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Yoann Gini - LinkedIn
Links:
- Bravas - https://www.bravas.io/en/
- JWT - https://jwt.io/
- WebAuthN - https://webauthn.io/
- Shared Signals Framework - https://openid.net/wg/sharedsignals/
- XKCD Standards - https://xkcd.com/927/
- Kotlin Language - https://kotlinlang.org/
- ACME - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment
- SCEP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Certificate_Enrollment_Protocol
- ACME vs SCEP, from Secure W-2 - https://www.securew2.com/blog/acme-ios-certificate-enrollment
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The world is a collection of not-yet-interconnected endpoints. Today, we’re going to talk to Shyam Bhojwani, Director, Business Technology & Cybersecurity on one of the ways to connect those endpoints!
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Shyam Bhojwani - LinkedIn
Links:
- Workato
- Systematic Community - Workato
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New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today’s episode we’ll look at evaluating when it’s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn
Links:
- Set up iCloud Keychain – Apple Support (AU)
- Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
- User Presence vs User Verification
- Log into Bitwarden with a passkey
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Aftermath is a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework. We’re here with the main contributors to the project to talk about incident response, security life on macOS in late 2023, and using good tools to help make security better.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Stuart Ashenbrenner - LinkedIn
- Matt Benyo - LinkedIn
Links:
- Aftermath on Github: https://github.com/jamf/aftermath
- Jamf post about Aftermath: https://www.jamf.com/blog/aftermath-open-source-incident-response-tool/
- Jaron’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/OS-Incident-Response-Scripting-Analysis-ebook/dp/B01FHOHHVS
- Episode with Jaron from the Jamf Threat Labs Team: https://podcast.macadmins.org/2021/08/09/episode-228-supply-chain-attackery/
- https://xkcd.com/2867/
- Venator (now retired): https://github.com/richiercyrus/Venator
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- Siit IT Helpdesk
- Nudge Security
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A review of the year that was! 2023 was monumental in so many ways – a huge WWDC, great new hardware, a ton of new management concepts – and 2024 is full of promise. Tom, Charles, Marcus, and Emily take us through the highlights, and have a few predictions for what 2024 will bring.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Links:
- https://eclecticlight.co/2023/12/02/rip-rsr/
- https://www.sudoade.com/ddm-software-update-logs/
- https://www.macadmins.in/
- https://podcast.macadmins.org/2023/07/24/episode-325-karthikeyan-on-being-a-macadmin-in-india/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine
- Joel’s Talk at MSA: https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4
Sponsors:
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- Watchman Monitoring
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Dan Snelson has been in the Apple admin community for a long time and builds lots of great tools to help others. Join us this week to celebrate and learn more about his contributions!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Dan K. Snelson - Blog
Links:
- AppleShare IP
- Xserve
- macOS Server
- Kaseya
- JNUC 2017 Beta Program Honor Roll
- swiftDialog
-
swiftdialog MacAdmins Slack Channel
-
setup-your-mac MacAdmins Slack Channel
- MDMAppsDeploy
- swiftEnrolment
- Setup Your Mac (1.13.0): Under-the-hood
- Setup Your Mac with SYM-Helper.app
- Setup Your Mac: Racing Stripes, Gotchas and "One More Thing" | JNUC 2023
- Setup Your Mac: Jamf Pro Policy Validation
- Actionable messages with Jamf Helper
- Display Message (0.0.8) via swiftDialog
- Custom Branded Notifications & Messages with swiftDialog
- Snippets in Visual Studio Code
- Jamf Pro LAPS: Retrieving Password via Terminal
- Brickset.com
- Sponsoring
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Authentication is a big challenge for any organization - how do you decide who gets into what resource, with what security mechanism, and from what device?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
- Scott Reed - LinkedIn
Links:
- The 1Pass sponsored directory: https://passkeys.directory/
- JumpCloud Go: https://jumpcloud.com/support/get-started-jumpcloud-go
- PKCE Flow: https://oauth.net/2/pkce/
- Amazon Verified Access: https://aws.amazon.com/verified-access/
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The Apple Platform Deployment Guide is one of the most impressive and important documents that Apple updates about device management with Apple Devices. This week, we’ll be talking about all the updates with returning guest and friend of the podcast Kevin M. White!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Kevin M White - LinkedIn
Links:
- Account-driven Device Enrollment
- How Apple separates user data from organization data
- Enforcing a minimum version of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
- Return to Service for iPhone and iPad
- Enforcing Automated Device Enrollment on macOS 14
- Automate Apple Configurator processes
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration for Apple devices
- Manage proprietary in-house apps for Mac computers
- Apple Watch deployment
- Service access with Managed Apple IDs
- Platform Single Sign-on for macOS
- Joel Rennich’s talk at MacSysAdmin
- Conn ect Apple devices to 802.1X networks
- Network relays in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS
- Relay MDM payload settings for Apple devices
- Managing 5G Network Slicing
- super v4
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Shortcuts aren’t just a little Applescript goodness that can be used to make droplets. Although you could do that. Shortcuts can be used to perform fairly complex atomic operations. In this session we’ll look at some of the work Damian Cavanagh has posted to his Github, and the crazy lengths he went to in order to have Shortcuts that work with device management options.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Damian Cavanagh - LinkedIn
Links:
- ShortcutsForJamfPro
- Canvas podcast - Workflow Series
- Automators podcast - Shortcuts utility apps
- Actions app GitHub repo
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After thwarting Russian attackers since well before the invasion, the team at MacPaw in Ukraine has a keen eye on emerging security threats. Today's episode is about their new cybersecurity division called Moonlock.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Oleg Stukalenko - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://moonlock.com/macos-sonoma-security-and-privacy
- https://moonlock.com/mac-security-survey-2023
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Fall is that time of the year when we can take stock of the latest Apple releases, measure them against what our expectations were, and see how much tech debt piled up trying to keep up with Apple! We’ll talk through what that looks like from the perspective of an MDM vendor in today’s episode, with Jason Dettbarn, from Addigy.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jason Dettbarn - LinkedIn
Links:
- Mac Admins Podcast Listener Survey
- Durian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
- Inspired - https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507
- ASVAB - https://www.officialasvab.com/
- Joel’s talk on Platform SSO - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4
- Dr. K’s Presentation from MacSysAdmin - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video/Day3Session2.mp4
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“Digital transformation” can mean a lot of things to different people. In this episode we unpack it, look at how it helps drive Apple adoption, and maybe get productive (which doesn’t often seem to be the goal of digital transformation but should be).
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Ashok Amirthalingam - Mac Admins Slack
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We have had so many wonderful guests on the Mac Admins Podcast, telling us about things they have created, workflows they have implemented or products they have integrated in their environments. It can be overwhelming to look at your own setup and want it to look like all the things you may have heard about here, or read about on slack, or watched someone present about at one of the many Mac Admins conferences around the world. Today we are going to talk about some tips that may help you to implement change.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- New Vendor Checklists
- Jamf Migrator | App Directory
- Minnesota DMV software project: Faulty Towers/Neverending Story patterns
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Gene Reich from Point joins the pod this week to tell us all about the 2023 edition of the Jamf Nation User Conference in Austin!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Gene Reich - LinkedIn
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Join Tom, Charles, and Emily as they host the Speaker Q&A at MacSysAdmin 2023.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Links:
- MacSysAdmin Conference 2023
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Sonoma dropped this weekend, and while this episode will be about a week out, it’s worth talking about something we haven’t really touched on: how vendors define the guidance they give their customers.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s new operating systems for 2023, and all the technologies that Mac Admins can look forward to trying out this Fall! Are you ready for Managed Apple IDs that do more for your business? Are you excited for Software Update with deadlines? Let’s dive in.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn
Links:
- Apple Business Essentials
- AppleCare Products - Apple
- Using Shortcuts on macOS to create powerful multi-step actions for Stream Deck
- How We BYO @ Jamf, JNUC 2023
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Today’s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn
- Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn
Links:
-
Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast
-
Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves
-
Henry’s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform
-
Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day)
-
Terraform && Zentral:
- Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
- Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform
- GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral
- https://github.com/zentralopensource/circleci-zentral-osquery-example
- GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral-santa-rulesets-pipeline
-
Use OIDC as a provider for AWS: Configuring OpenID Connect in Amazon Web Services - GitHub Docs
-
Zentral - website
- Henry Stamerjohann, LinkedIn
- Éric Falconnier, LinkedIn
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Join our hosts as we discuss all the announcements from Apple's September 2023 Event, Wonderlust.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge * Charles Edge * Erin Merchant
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Automation is important for all of us, especially a margin business like an MSP. In todays episode we’ll chat with Bobby Hardaway and Ryon Riley of Advisory Solutions to hear about how they automate Jamf infrastructure with GitActions. Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Bobby Hardaway - LinkedIn
- Ryon Riley - LinkedIn
Links:
- GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
- Advisory Solutions: https://advisorymsp.com/
- Penn State MacAdmins talk on GitHub Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznnSyl9i48
- JNUC Session - AutoPKG for Jamf Pro with GitHub Actions
- JNUC Session - So what's all the fuss about CI/CD? GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin
- LAPS Endpoints on Jamf: https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-laps-current/page/Local_Administrator_Password_Solution.html
- HCS LAPS Documentation: https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_LAPS.pdf
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We had a lovely conversation with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson about home automation and specifically HomeKit and the Home App in a previous episode, but we didn’t get to everything. So we decided to have a second one! In this episode we’ll get more into onboarding of devices, Siri voice control, security, automation, and troubleshooting.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tim Pearson - LinkedIn
- Bob Gendler - LinkedIn
- Steve Yuroff - LinkedIn
Links:
- Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia
- https://www.bosch-home.com/
- https://us.govee.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
- https://www.z-wave.com/
- https://www.starlinghome.io/
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Today’s episode features Kane Narraway talk through his journeys with ZTNA - what they are, what they do, selection criteria, how they integrate with other tools, and all the fun bits that go into getting a pretty interface to wireguard to work seamlessly in your environment.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Kane Narraway - LinkedIn
Links:
- Black Hat Sessions: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/
- Defcon Sessions: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html
- Extensions Manager: https://github.com/krypted/extensionsmanager
- Google BeyondCorp Zero Trust: https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/
- Okta + Jamf Unified Identity Access: https://www.jamf.com/integrations/okta/
- https://www.amazon.com/Extrusion-Detection-Security-Monitoring-Intrusions/dp/0321349962
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Today’s guest is Elliot Jordan, Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix, here to talk Escrow Buddy, Recipe Robot, AutoPkgr, and about all the fun projects he’s been involved in over the years!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Elliot Jordan
Transcript:
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Links:
- Mike Solin’s Post on Focus Modes: https://mikesolin.com/2023/08/05/finding-balance-while-working-remotely/
- Crypt: https://github.com/grahamgilbert/crypt
- Escrow Buddy: https://github.com/macadmins/escrow-buddy/
- Stop prompting users for passwords when re-escrowing FileVault keys: https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/filevault-reissue/
- MAOS panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyEYsgz5MI
- Recipe Robot: https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot
- Stethoscope: https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflix-stethoscope-5f3c392368e3
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo: https://www.netflix.com/title/81518991
- Mr. Robot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/
- Utopia (AU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)
- The Bear, Season 2: https://www.hulu.com/guides/the-bear
- Elliot’s site: https://www.elliotjordan.com/
- Upcoming JNUC session on Escrow Buddy: https://reg.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2023/home23/page/sessioncatalog/session/1682654671482001Ah7L
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The job of a MacAdmin is a global affair. We’ve done episodes with guests in a number of countries, but wanted to focus on what it’s like in a nation with over 1.4 billion people that’s projected to be the most populous country in the near future.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Karthikeyan Marappan - LinkedIn
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Many of our listeners will have set up AppleTVs at work. Some might use device management tools to configure one or more AppleTVs in ways that allow them to be used in corporate or education environments. We’ll talk through the nuance of AppleTV management in this episode, with Collin Elliot.
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Collin Elliott - LinkedIn
Transcript:
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Links:
- Apple TV. 1st generation-2290.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
- Carousel Digital Signage
- GitHub - NU-ITS/Exhibit: Exhibit is a managed screensaver App for tvOS.
- Plex: Stream Movies & TV on the App Store
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Vision Pro could be the next big Apple product to change the way humans interact with computing devices. In this episode, we’ll look at some of the SDKs, sensors, and other technologies that have been in the making for a decade that make this technology possible. We’ll explore successes and failures of competing platforms, and think a little about the Vision Pro in the sense of device management, support, and what we might do with them in offices, which shapes how we might manage and support them. Bryson Tyrrell and Rich Trouton join us to talk through what we want, what we think we’ll get, and how we’ll respond to the ever-changing technology landscape.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Bryson Tyrrell - @bryson3gps
- Rich Trouton - @rtrouton
Transcript:
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Links:
- W Industries VR from 1990s https://collection.maas.museum/object/364729
- The Uncanny Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
- Oculus for Business: https://business.oculus.com/
- Rich’s Recording location: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/building-a-home-office/
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A lot of organizations want to treat device management like we treat code. Check in changes, get a second party to approve the check in, and the change goes live. That second set of eyes on a change provides a proactive approach to the security of changes made. It also helps mitigate small mistakes that can have a substantial impact on how users interact with their technology. We can then string together a collection of workflows to pipeline facts about devices to a SEIM or trigger events in other solutions. This usually involves agents. Yet we need to bootstrap devices into these types of systems, and that means MDM. In today's episode, we’ll discuss these types of workflows with Mike McNeil and JD Strong, from FleetDM.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Mike McNeil - LinkedIn
- JD Strong - LinkedIn
Transcript:
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Links:
Fleet Device Management links:
- Fleet Device Management
- Fleet Documentation - Tables
- Fleet Documentation - MDM
Open Source Projects:
- osquery
- macadmins/osquery-extension
- Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog
- GitHub - macadmins/nudge: A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
- MicroMDM - Mobile Device Management server
- MDMDirector
- KMFDDM is an Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) server. It works together with NanoMDM.
- Pricing | Fleet for osquery
Considering Open Source:
- Great talk by @fat: dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
- Why this way? | Fleet handbook
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Early in the podcast, there were plenty of stories of MacAdmins who had contentious relationships with security teams. We hear less and less of that every year. It still happens, but far less. We’ve had guests on to tell us how platform teams can work with infosec, but today we’re joined by a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) to give some tips coming from the other direction.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- TC Niedzialkowski - LinkedIn
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It’s that time of the year again, when Apple drops mad-crazy-awesome-sauce updates on us. We’re used to iterative updates that make our lives better. This year we also have new products to manage. No word on whether there will be any management of Vision OS - but we’ll soon be managing Apple Watches. Because see, these are all computers - just like the Vision Pro. In today’s episode we’ll spend far more time talking about hardware, software, and management options. But in the meantime, let’s remind everyone that We often see the first release of Apple products as a bit less than. They can come in more expensive than other products in a given category. Like the iPhone and iPod, it will endure its share of ridicule for its high price and derivative functionality, people will complain about its design and point out its deficiencies. But in a year or five, the rest of the world will catch up to Apple’s vision.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Joel Rennich
- Ben Toms
Transcript:
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Every organization has a set of norms they follow. Within those are processes that people go through routinely - and those aren’t often documented at new organizations (be they orgs within other orgs or new companies). There have been systems like Six Sigma for tracking those processes, but like how neurons know what paths to take - those are only one part of the brain. EOS is one of those business operating systems, like the OS of the brain, that is more comprehensive than just processes, but goes far deeper into an org. Today we’re speaking with Lucas Acosta from Foojee about EOS and how that has helped Foojee
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social
Guests:
- Lucas Acosta - LinkedIn
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- Assessments – Rocket Fuel University
- Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business (Audible Audio Edition)
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Audible Audio Edition): Gino Wickman, Kevin Pierce, Audible Studios: Books
- Ninety.io cloud-based tool to run EOS
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Lingon has been a part of the MacAdmins toolkit for as long as recent memory caused us to make launch items. Sandkorn became useful around the same time that we had to start looking at application sandboxes. In today’s episode, we interview the person behind these: Peter Borg
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Peter Borg
Transcript:
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Links:
- Peter Borg Apps
- Placing Content in a Bundle | Apple Developer Documentation
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Rapid Security Response, the iMac turns 25, Apple financials, and… WWDC predictions!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge * Charles Edge * Emily Kausalik-Whittle
Transcript:
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Links:
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
- Rapid Security Response on The IT Hour: The IT Hour | Rapid Security Response updates from Apple 5.5.23
- https://scriptingosx.com/2023/05/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2023-05-05/
- https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/04/18/RSR.html
- Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/05/apple-q2-2023-results-94-8b-revenue-better-than-expected/
- IBM Flying Cars Commercial
- https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-announces-ceo-transition-plan-appointing-john-strosahl-as-chief-executive-officer/
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MacAdmins have to manage all kinds of things. We talk a lot about settings and features when it comes to device management. But fonts are one of those things that can be important and in fact a security issue as well. For example, if a drug company uses the wrong font they could face massive penalties from regulators. Employees might send out materials with unlicensed fonts. In today’s episode we’ll talk about what’s involved in font management: how to get the right fonts on the right devices and build sustainable workflows so teams can have access to such an important aspect of computing.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Glenn Kowalski - LinkedIn
Transcript:
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- DfontSplitter « Peter Upfold
- Extensis
- Trajan (typeface) - Wikipedia
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Today, let’s talk about integrations. Most software companies these days want to be a “platform”. Part of that play is to build APIs, document them, and facilitate other companies building integrations as well. But many of us have unique workflows and so have to build our own. In this episode we’ll think about building our own integrations with various tools (e.g. LogicMonitor), and some things to consider when doing so.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom * Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
Guests: * Selina Ali, Product Manager, LogicMonitor – LinkedIn
Links: * LogicMonitor SDKs * Using LogicMonitor’s REST API * API Tokens | LogicMonitor * https://developer.connectwise.com/ * Bonus Question Links: + Boat – Wikipedia + History of email – Wikipedia - Alpine Inn first email: The saga of Alpine Inn aka Zott’s over the years – InMenlo + George Mallory – Wikipedia + Antikythera mechanism – Wikipedia + Pesse canoe – Wikipedia – oldest canoe afaik + Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe’s Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine – one of the oldest boat depictions * Selina Ali – LinkedIn
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“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” - Plato
There are so many different ways to learn about the MacAdmin field. One that we haven’t covered on the pod is the Lynda.com (now LinkedIn) courses that date back to the era of Mac OS X Server. Today, we’ll hear from its creator Sean Collins about his courses, how the industry has evolved, how being considered an industry “expert” helps with building consulting business, and even a little about his upcoming book called “Technically Fit”.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Sean Colins - @sean_m_colins
Transcript:
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Links:
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- Sean Colins - President - Creative Technology Management | LinkedIn
- https://www.facebook.com/seancolins
- https://www.technically-fit.com
- https://www.seancolins.com
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Configuring new devices with Automated Device Enrollment can be a thoroughly magical experience for the end user receiving their machine, but Apple doesn’t have the entire flow programmed in such a way that it’s obvious to the end user what’s happening. Baseline is a new open-source way to handle some of that messaging, and we’re here today to talk with Rob and Trevor from Second Son Consulting in LA about their development efforts.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Trevor Sysock - @BigMacAdmin@masto.ai
- Rob Calvert - LinkedIn
Transcript:
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- Baseline - GitHub Repo
- Baseline - Wiki
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Join us today for a live panel episode from the X World conference in Melbourne, Australia
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @james@smithjw.me
Guests:
- Tony Gray
- James Corcoran
- Jon Rhoades
- Merill Fernando
- Bart Reardon
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Links:
- X World Sessions
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Packaging every version of each piece of software managed can be incredibly time consuming. Without automation, it would take an inordinate amount of time to download, package, test, and deploy software at a cadence that matches how often third party vendors patch their tools. Autopkg can be one of the biggest time savers for those charged with managing Apple devices. We’ve discussed it in previous episodes but in this episode we’ll talk to Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra about her studies of autopkg at a more academic level.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra - LinkedIn
Transcript:
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Links:
- Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant): Gibson, William: 9780425198681: Amazon.com: Books
- GitHub - grahampugh/jamf-upload: Scripts for uploading packages to Jamf Cloud
- GitHub - autopkg/autopkg: Automating packaging and software distribution on macOS.
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HomeKit and the Home app. There are many like it, but this is the kit (no pun intended) that Apple has vetted for automating the home. This ecosystem of products is the culmination of decades of R&D by the home automation industry, made simple - or simple(ish) by Apple. Yet it doesn’t always work as it says on the tin. In this episode we’ll have a panel with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson to talk through what we like, what we don’t, and everything in between!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tim Pearson
- Bob Gendler
- Steve Yuroff
Transcript:
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- Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia
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We love APIs. It tells us a little about products and a lot about how various vendors feel about structured automation. In today’s episode we’ll chat about the FileWave API - what can be done, what can’t - and of course, some cool uses in a new age of AI for everything! Our guest is Josh Levitsky, Global Head of Pro Services at FileWave, who gets to tinker with the FileWave APIs often.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Josh Levitsky - @jlevitsk
Transcript:
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Links:
- Carmina Burana - 'In Taberna Quando Sumus' - Carl Orff
- Bulk Update the Enrollment User (auth_username) using API
- JumpCloud Restart an MDM Device with Kext Paths: JumpCloud API - 2.0
- AlmaLinux OS
- Use the winget tool to install and manage applications | Microsoft Learn
- Charles’ Similarity script to find GPT-3 and GPT-J sources
- Forums - FileWave Alliance - Web Forum
- FileWave Discord Server - Discord Server
- Josh Levitsky: josh.levitsky@filewave.com / https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlevitsk
- FileWave Product Management - Knowledge Base - FileWave Knowledge Base (atlassian.net)
- Script to Bulk Update auth/enrollment username and client name from CSV - Knowledge Base - FileWave Knowledge Base (atlassian.net)
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There’s always news. So we’ll talk about that for a hot minute. We’ll also talk about how to get the most from products that, well, don’t do everything you want them to do. Or at least the ones that don’t do what you want… yet… In other words, let’s chat about how you convince product managers to build what you need.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Transcript:
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Links:
- X World Sessions – 2023 – AUC
- Objective by the Sea
- Automaton 2 Update (Feb 8, 2023) – Twocanoes Software
- MacSysAdmin
- MacAD.UK
- MacAdmins Conference
- Automaton 2 – Twocanoes Store
- What is yak shaving?
- Marty Coffey - Celebrity Speakers
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Apple’s version of passkeys are the latest piece of a sprawling identity picture for the Apple platform that isn’t widely supported just yet - which is a perfect time to start learning about it. Passkeys aren’t just Apple; they’re supported on Mac, Windows, Android, and even in our browsers. This evolution in WebAuthn's capabilities means we don’t need physical tokens (although that’s still an option) to have a second factor in auth flows - nor is that other factor tied to a phone number, making it more secure. But for admins, there are plenty of questions we need to figure out. What do we have instead of a username and what is there in lieu of a password? As we develop solutions that work with webauthn, we often use a reference implementation at webauthn.io to test functionality. Our guest today is one of the people behind that site, Matt Miller.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Matthew Miller - @iamkale@infosec.exchange
Transcript:
Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona)
Links:
- WebAuthn Debugger
- Project to paste in JSON versions of responses for WebAuthn calls and see their internals: SimpleWebAuthn
- Chrome extension project to view navigator.credentials endpoints and (if the most recent code checks clean and gets committed in time) paste in JSON versions of responses for WebAuthn calls and see their internals: WebAuthn Inspector
- Standards body definitions for WebAuthn: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials - Level 2
- Matt Miller’s Blog - Matt's Headroom
- SimpleWebAuthn
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We have these computers. And they are truly bastion hosts. Nothing comes in, and only that with which we want goes out. They’re perfect when we finish setting them up. Then people make changes and put apps on there. The changes we can mitigate, the apps require a little more analysis. A common strategy to manage that risk is to employ a reputation-based access such as dictated by zero trust - another is to test apps for vulnerabilities, which in a way feeds back into the zero trust decision mechanism in the end. But what kind of tests can be effective, especially since those compiled runtimes don’t tell us a lot about what’s going on. We’ll chat about this paradigm with today’s guest Niels Hofmans, and look for ways to fill up that task list for 2023!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Niels Hofmans - @hazcod
Transcript:
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Links:
- Intigriti
- Niels’ GitHub
- OWASP Foundation
- OWASP Mobile Application Security
- CodeQL
- NVD
- Belgian Beer Waffles
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Spring is coming, and with it, MacADUK’s return to Brighton, England for this year’s first European Mac Admin Conference. We’re talking with two of the organizing committee, Alex Hawes and James Ridsdale about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and what’s important to them in a Mac Admins Conference.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * CHarles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Alex Hawes - @alexdthawes
- James Ridsdale - @james_ridsdale
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According to a recent PDQ survey, 85% of people who manage devices are a team of 1. Many of our guests have a small scope to their job: they manage Macs and/or iPhones. But many in IT manage, well, everything. That means being a jack of many traits: knowing just enough about networking, switches, routers, every piece of software used in an organization, budgeting, or whatever is on the docket at the moment. Today we’re going to cover what it’s like to cover such breadth with Ylan.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Ylan Muller - @HeyItsYlan
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It’s just us again, and that means we’re talking about everything going on right now. Layoffs, new hardware, Ventura and Deferrals, and then Passkeys, Hardware Tokens and Apple IDs, and more.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777 * Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom
Links: * What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News * MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch – Tech Specs – Apple * Mac mini – Technical Specifications – Apple * HomePod – Apple * Kensington Locking Kit for Mac Studio – Apple
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We’ve wanted to have an episode with MacPaw since far before Ukraine was invaded on February 24th, 2022. Then we pushed it back over and over out of respect for everything going on. But we’re super-excited to finally have someone on the podcast to talk about what it was like to go through an invasion, the technical infrastructure, tooling, emotional toll, and how they still managed to get work done 11 months into a war. We welcome Vira Tkachenko to the pod to take us through her journey.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Vira Tkachenko - @iVira
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Links:
- MacPaw Foundation
- About MacPaw
- MacPaw’s Operations amidst the Russian Aggression against Ukraine
- Ukraine's MacPaw releases SpyBuster, designed to beat Russian hacks | AppleInsider
- MacPaw Inc. · GitHub
- How Ukraine’s MacPaw got its business ready for war | Computerworld
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One of the most useful things we do is to automate tasks. Some of those tasks might be opening and closing tickets; others would be making a change on an endpoint that we want to behave in a specific way. We buy devices, or procure them, and we dispose of them when they’re out of date or broken. Between those tasks, we on-board and off-board the humans who use the devices. We make sure the devices meet our requirements. Much of what is expected of us wouldn’t be possible without teams of people running around looking at settings without software that helps us along the way. The tasks themselves, while we feel are pretty unique on Apple devices, are often similar across platforms. We’ll chat with Flora Walters in today’s episode about her journey, scope, and some of the tools that make her job possible in today’s episode.
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Flora Walters - LinkedIn
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We wish we could just talk nerd. But the world is a complicated place - and there are questions we would be remiss if we didn’t ask! This week, we are honored to have Yuri Vlasyuk join us as our special guest. Yuri is the CEO of iLand and an organizer of MacAdminsUA. We will of course talk nerd, but also much more!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Yuri Vlasyuk - @iyura
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2022 is just about over, so let’s talk about everything that’s happened this year, as well as make some outrageous and likely wrong predictions for 2023!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Links:
- How To: Get the currently logged in user, in a more Apple approved way – macmule
- Getting the current user in macOS – Update – Scripting OS X
- About the Mac Admins Foundation
- About X World – AUC
- MacAD.UK
- MacAdmins Conference
- MacDevOpsYVR
- Jamf Nation User Conference
- WWDC22 - Apple Developer
- Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Notebooks - Apple
- Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac desktops and displays - Apple
- AppleSeed for IT
- Rapid Security Responses on Apple devices
- Introduction to Apple platform deployment
- Announcing Kandji's Support for Declarative Device Management
- Jamf Announces Same-Day Support for macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16
- Adopt declarative device management - WWDC22 - Videos - Apple Developer
- Kolide
- GitHub - macadmins/nudge: A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
- Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog
- Mactracker
- Apple Will Buy Chips Produced at Arizona Factory - CNET
- View activities in the Dynamic Island on iPhone - Apple Support
- Turning Off Work with iOS 15 Focus Modes – Cannonball
- GitHub - usnistgov/macos_security: macOS Security Compliance Project
- Compliance Editor
- Duolingo
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The nature of the role of a Mac admin is different at big and small companies. Like many jobs, we have a smaller scope in larger companies - but potentially a larger impact. Every choice or line of code at a true enterprise scale has a resounding effect. At smaller companies, we take the blinders off given that we don’t step on other people’s toes. The role of a Mac admin might include security, compliance, developer operations, and even business analysis. Today, we’re going to talk with Nate Walck about his journey from a CPE at a large enterprise to working at a startup and how that transition has been.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Nate Walck
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iOS 16 was released on September 12 and Ventura on October 24. We all went through the rollercoaster of the post-WWDC Betas, but how have they both fared out there in the wildlands of prod? What features do we love and which still need a little work? In this episode, Tom, Marcus, and Charles chat Ventura, iOS 16, and even a little about Tom’s awesome holiday sweater!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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Once upon a time we claimed the Mac couldn’t get a virus. Now we know the folly of our ways. There is a red ocean of endpoint protection solutions for the platform today, but we’re curious to better understand the requirements and the benefits. Crowdstrike Falcon is one of those tools and we’ve asked Bilal Habib to join us for this episode to discuss what it is, how it does it, and what are some things an admin needs to know. But we want to tell that story as a journey for how someone in the trenches actually got to know the things!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Bilal Habib
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Links:
- Crowdstrike Products: Endpoint, Cloud & Identity Protection Products | CrowdStrike
- Downloading Crowdstrike for Fun and Profit, from Richard Purves: Downloading Crowdstrike via API for Fun and Profit – Richard Purves
- Bundle IDs for Crowdstrike: Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor v6.11+ Big Sur and M1 De... - Jamf Nation Community
- Source Code for Elk Cloner for the 6502 (from the guy that wrote it)
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One of the biggest challenges of the era is how to securely sign people on to work devices from anywhere in the world. Apple has had Kerberos and Active Directory support for some time. They have also recently released frameworks and APIs for modern identity support and payloads for MDM for ExtensibleSingleSignOn. Today we’re going to cover the SSOE with the Product Manager at Microsoft for Azure AD, to see what we can do today - and how we factor this into our plans for the future.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Michael Epping - @mepples21
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- Microsoft Enterprise SSO plug-in for Apple devices (preview)
- MDOYVR20 - Joel Rennich - Single Sign On for fun and profit
- ASAuthorizationProviderExtensio...
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Apple continues to get better and better at documenting not only APIs but also the Apple Platform Deployment portal that contains plenty of information on how Apple intends for administrators to centrally manage their devices. In this episode we’ll look at a couple of new ways to peruse the docs as well as some insights about device management that can be had by looking at their change control system.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Links:
- The Apple Platform Deployment portal
- The revision history
- Deploy “helper” apps
- Rapid security response documentation
- Carrier eSIM settings
- Using MDM with eSIM
- GDMF
- Apple software lookup service with json definitions
- Deferral settings
- Migration Assistant changes
- Managed Device attestation and ACME
- Where to find Bundle identifiers for native apple apps easily
- Wi-fi specs
- MDM Payload List
- MCX as FileVault payload settings
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Apple Configurator has been a part of the Apple Admin’s toolkit for some time. Initially built to help admins do more than what was available in iTunes it’s grown over the years to add options for the Mac, aid in supervision, and automate tasks further with the ability to script it. We’ll get caught up with how some of these features are working in today’s episode with Subhi Hashwa!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Links:
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- IsImagingDead.com
- Create a Package in Apple Business Essentials
- Instant Apple Configurator How-to: Edge, Charles, Houston, TJ
- Apple Configurator & Automator
- cfgutil Man Page
- Marriott Library - Apple Infrastructure | AEiOS (Automated Enterprise iOS)
- BASIC Fun: Computer Games, Puzzles, and Problems Children Can Write
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Apple Configurator has been a part of the Apple Admin’s toolkit for some time. Initially built to help admins do more than what was available in iTunes it’s grown over the years to add options for the Mac, aid in supervision, and automate tasks further with the ability to script it. We’ll get caught up with how some of these features are working in today’s episode with Subhi Hashwa!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Subhi Hashwa
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- Apple Device Management
- IsImagingDead.com
- Create a Package in Apple Business Essentials
- Instant Apple Configurator How-to: Edge, Charles, Houston, TJ
- Apple Configurator & Automator
- cfgutil Man Page
- Marriott Library - Apple Infrastructure | AEiOS (Automated Enterprise iOS)
- BASIC Fun: Computer Games, Puzzles, and Problems Children Can Write
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We’ve wanted to an episode on 3D printers for a long time but every time we went to book one, one of our printers stopped working for some stupid reason, we got mad, and said nevermind. Yup, it’s still a little bit of a hobbyist market. It feels like the Apple I era in a way but it’s starting to feel more and more like the months leading up to the release of the 1977 Holy Trinity. And our listeners are hackers and we want to demystify this stuff a little for anyone maybe thinking of having Santa deliver one of these for the holidays.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Trevor Sysock - @BigMacAdmin
- James Smith - @smithjw
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- From @xavier https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3945911
- Designs by Trevor: https://www.thingiverse.com/alchemic/designs
- Designs by Charles: https://www.thingiverse.com/krypted/designs
- Print with chocolate: https://www.3dprintersonlinestore.com/foodbot-s2-food-3d-printer
- Coconut Printer https://www.amazon.com/Toybox-Printer-Kids-Software-Needed/dp/B07KKLRVMK
- LiDAR Scanner https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polycam-lidar-3d-scanner/id1532482376
- https://www.blender.org/
- https://pixologic.com/
- https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/owner-resources/vehicle-documents/how-do-i-use-3d-printing-to-customize-my-ford-maverick-pickup/
- Fusion 360 Tutorials: https://productdesignonline.com/fusion-360-tutorials/create-a-beer-bottle-in-fusion-360/
- Not mentioned in the episode, but Charles Mangin’s (former guest and friend of the pod) designs: https://www.thingiverse.com/option8/designs
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We’ve wanted to an episode on 3D printers for a long time but every time we went to book one, one of our printers stopped working for some stupid reason, we got mad, and said nevermind. Yup, it’s still a little bit of a hobbyist market. It feels like the Apple I era in a way but it’s starting to feel more and more like the months leading up to the release of the 1977 Holy Trinity. And our listeners are hackers and we want to demystify this stuff a little for anyone maybe thinking of having Santa deliver one of these for the holidays.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Trevor Sysock - @BigMacAdmin
- James Smith - @smithjw
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Links:
- From @xavier https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3945911
- Designs by Trevor: https://www.thingiverse.com/alchemic/designs
- Designs by Charles: https://www.thingiverse.com/krypted/designs
- Print with chocolate: https://www.3dprintersonlinestore.com/foodbot-s2-food-3d-printer
- Coconut Printer https://www.amazon.com/Toybox-Printer-Kids-Software-Needed/dp/B07KKLRVMK
- LiDAR Scanner https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polycam-lidar-3d-scanner/id1532482376
- https://www.blender.org/
- https://pixologic.com/
- https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/owner-resources/vehicle-documents/how-do-i-use-3d-printing-to-customize-my-ford-maverick-pickup/
- Fusion 360 Tutorials: https://productdesignonline.com/fusion-360-tutorials/create-a-beer-bottle-in-fusion-360/
- Not mentioned in the episode, but Charles Mangin’s (former guest and friend of the pod) designs: https://www.thingiverse.com/option8/designs
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Another year, another operating system named after cats or cool spots to visit in California! And another cycle of trying to figure out which of our automations broke! We’ve had years to get used to it and it keeps getting easier, but it’s still part of the job. In this episode we’re stoked that Fiona Skelton agreed to join us and take us through a little of her process to stay sane amongst a constantly changing landscape!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Fiona Skelton
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- dan-snelson/Nudge-Post-install
- Charles is disgusted and yet intrigued by interpreting python from within ruby
-
SorryNotSorry
- https://www.tiktok.com/@robotsdraw/video/7130452906418982187
- https://www.tiktok.com/@robotsdraw/video/7117724456365100330
- https://www.tiktok.com/@robotsdraw/video/7123021864397720878
- https://www.tiktok.com/@robotsdraw/video/7110035878424300846
- https://www.tiktok.com/@robotsdraw/video/7110393706842230058
- https://www.tiktok.com/@robotsdraw/video/7137369646272892203
- Gonzalez v. Google, LLC, No. 18-16700 (9th Cir. 2021)
- The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
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One of the tools we don’t talk about that much on the podcast but have all used is Carbon Copy Cloner. Before CCC, we wrote scripts to clone drives, figured out rsync, build manual imaging workflows with firewire drives, and in general just had this barrier of entry to do what should have been simple tasks that we really didn’t need. After CCC, there was a simple GUI with some fairly complicated logic underneath. Then it went far beyond the basic cloning technology to do much more and do it faster. We should have had Mike Bombich, the creator of CCC, on far earlier, but are stoked to finally nab an interview with him!
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
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This week Tom sits down with three speakers from the Objective but the Sea v5.0 Conference held in sunny Spain.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
Guests:
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- Patrick Wardle - @patrickwardle
- Sharvil Shah - @sharvil
- Cat Self - @coolestcatiknow
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OBTS v5 - Talks
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One of our favorite things about interviewing security researchers is that those who can talk about what they do at places like DEF CON and Black Hat are the good guys. They exploit vulnerabilities and report their findings to vendors so that humanity can stay safer on our devices. If it weren’t for them, the vulnerabilities would likely be uncovered and sold on the black market or used by nation states. So a huge thanks to our guest Thijs Alkemade for his hard work and talk at DEF CON and Black Hat on process injection for Mac apps!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Thijs Alkemade - @xnyhps
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Links:
- Process injection
- CVE-2021-30873
- How Signing and Privacy Xcode Options For Developers Translate to MacAdmins - krypted
- Process injection: breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability · Sector 7
- Thijs Alkemade (@xnyhps) / Twitter
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Today we're welcoming Weldon Dodd from Kandji back to the podcast to discuss how things have been going this year, and today's announcement around bringing IT and InfoSec together.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Weldon Dodd - @weldon
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Links:
- CVE
- NVD
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System SIG
- GitHub - krypted/maccvecheck: Checks the CVE database for any macOS Vulnerabilities
-
security-alerts channel on Slack
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The good developers at Apple throw us new and exciting curve balls with every new release. This means books can’t just sit on a shelf for five years like in some previous eras but have to be refreshed routinely. The 1st edition of the Apple Device Management book was over 500 pages. Charles and Rich wanted to keep the page count about the same, but there’s so much new crap to shoehorn in there. That means stuff’s gotta’ go. That’s the perfect time to step back, take stock, and look at how the broader device management landscape is shifting and what admins need to know for the future.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Rich Trouton - @rtrouton
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Links:
- Apple Device Management’
- IsImagingDead.com
- Create a Package in Apple Business Essentials
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Software Updates might be the trickiest part of being a Mac Admin right now, there’s lots of different approaches, and a whole bunch of edge and corner cases.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Kevin M. White - Macjutsu
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Links:
- S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N.
- S.U.P.E.R.M.A.N. Wiki
- Erase-Install
- IBM Notifier
-
super channel on Mac Admins Slack
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Robin Laurén joins the pod this week to talk about Human Centered Security. We’ll pick up where he left off in his MacADUK talk, discuss any reactions, and get into a little of the practical applications.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @smithjw
Guests:
- Robin Laurén - @RobinLauren
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Links:
- MacAdUK 2022 Robin Lauren - Security for Humans
- Dr. Robert Cialdini's Seven Principles of Persuasion | IAW
- Otto Scharmer's 4 Levels of Listening: Be a Better Listener - The World of Work Project
- xkcd: tar
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Some of the larger early Apple deployments were in education and many of the more complicated of those were in higher education. This has given higher education deployments a front-row seat to some of the larger challenges in how technology, and specifically the Apple technology, that we manage evolves. We’re stoked to have Jennifer Nieland on the pod this week to help us navigate the hallowed halls of the collegiate technology stack.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jennifer Nieland - nielandj@iastate.edu
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- Greenlee School
- Radmind
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We cover a lot of different types of workflows on this podcast. They’re all equally as complicated, and some are very specifically designed for a given industry. In today’s episode we’ll have Charles Mangin from N-Able on to talk about how the Managed Service Provider (MSP) treats Apple devices and how the latest innovations from Apple have helped to shape how MSPs can be more productive.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Charles Mangin - @mac_mgmt_nerd
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Links:
- https://twitter.com/mac_mgmt_nerd
- Automation Cookbook
- Charles Mangin’s Blog
- Frotz Text Adventure Emulator
- Doom on John Deere Tractors
- Pitch Dark
- Eaten by a Grue
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Tim Perfitt is back again to continue last week's episode about his latest macOS app; XCreds! If you’ve ever dealt with labs, this episode is for you.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Joel Rennich - @mactroll
Guests:
- Tim Perfitt, Two Canoes - @tperfitt
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- Security. Cryptography. Whatever (Podcast)
- Filemaker 19 from Claris
- Azure AD SSO Plugin (Preview)
- Top 5 ways to Improve your Apple end user experience in M365/AAAD (PSU Mac Admins Talk with Michael Epping and Mark Morowczynski)
- XCreds
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Tim Perfitt rejoins the Pod to talk about a new project for macOS devices: XCreds! If you’ve ever dealt with labs, this episode is for you.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Joel Rennich - @mactroll
Guests:
- Tim Perfitt, Two Canoes - @tperfitt
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- XCreds
- OIDC Lite
- ROPG
- Sneakers
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Asset Management isn't sexy, in fact it's super boring. Matt Currie is here to tell us how his team combined Kandji, Airtable, Slack and Tray.io into an automated asset management system that his team could use seamlessly.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Matt Currie - @mattcurrie
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APIs are an integral aspect of how we can programmatically work with any product. The original Jamf Classic API won’t be allowing basic authentication any longer, which means any workflows that hook into the old URI-based REST endpoints will be going away. So there are big changes coming to the Jamf API and Graham Pugh will be joining us to talk through what that means for some of the projects he maintains.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Graham Pugh - @GrahamRPugh
Links:
- Jamf Pro Classic API Authentication Changes
- Blog Post (Feb 2022): How do changes to the Jamf Pro API authentication affect JamfUploader and JSSImporter?
- Python-jamf by Uni of Utah Marriott Library
- Ruby-jss by Pixar Animation Studios
- https://github.com/jamf/Classic-API-Postman-Collection
- Prune by Leslie Helou - Remove unused items from your Jamf server
- KMART by Nindi Gill
- Git2jss by Geoff Lee
- Detect Thoughts REST app by Charles Edge
- Scriptorium by Tony Williams
- JamfUploader - AutoPkg processors
- JNUC 2021 Presentation video: Making package uploading and deployment easier with JamfUploader (Anthony Reimer and Graham Pugh)
- MacAdmins @ PSU 2022 Presentation Video: Demystifying JamfUploader
- JamfRecipeMaker
- Graham’s Music Contribution to the Pod
- Of course there is a Derflounder post about moving to bearer tokens
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Many a Mac deployment includes computers that need some piece software that just isn’t available on the Mac. This goes back to the early days of Mac OS X. We once called this the “app gap” and while it happens less and less in the modern macOS era, it’s still a thing - especially for financial software packages. We’ve used Terminal Services, Citrix, wine (which drove many of us to drink copious amounts of wine) and other tools to address that gap. Today’s episode with Viktor Glemme explores the good and bad of one of the newer ways to address that gap: Windows 365.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Viktor Glemme - @Glemme
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Munki was released in 2009. The past decade-plus has seen MDM first introduced, then become almost a requirement to manage fleets of devices, changes in how we build daemons, develop tools, secure computers, and sign/compile binaries. That last piece could be a little tricky for the future of any custom software. It’s fitting that Ventura Blvd isn’t far from where Greg works, ‘cause in this episode we’ll look at the changes in Ventura and what they mean for Munki - as well as what they could mean for the future of the Munki project.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Greg Neagle - @gregneagle
Links:
- Munki and Venture Notes
- Strange World Teaser
- IPA Sign
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The term hyperautomation was a good buzzword for a bit, but we can get a lot of use out of what it actually means. In this episode we’re gonna’ look at some of the automation options available to help us manage all these devices, with varying degrees of scripting requirements, and how we can find that magical place of lucid systems administration with Gabe Sterritt.
Hosts: * James Smith - @smithjw * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Gabe Sterritt - @gabester
Links:
- https://xkcd.com/1205/
- https://xkcd.com/1445/
- https://xkcd.com/1319/
- https://xkcd.com/974/
- Forum Post - Why does apple hate us?
- Gabe on LinkedIn
- Gabe on GitHub
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Being a MacAdmin is significantly more difficult now than it used to be, and it’s getting harder every year. How does one cope? Keep up? Stay informed? Train oneself? Find the answers? Deal with the extra stress? Stay in tune and aligned with the rapidly-changing IT landscape as it shifts (sometimes under our feet).
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- John Mahlman - @EdTechJohnM
- Caleb Coy - @calebmicah
- Reid Blondell - @reidblondell
- Rebecca Latimer - @GingerScripting
- Damien Barrett - @damienbarrett
Links:
- RevRdist
- Sunsama
- Reclaim
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Multi Factor Authentication is a topic we’ve covered here and there in the past. Yubikey is one of those companies that many of us have worked with. But planning for larger scale deployments is different than getting a key to work with our own password manager or in isolated cases. Further, webauthn and other standards are being embraced by Apple in the upcoming releases of the Apple operating systems. So in this episode we’ll talk about what a Yubikey is, how to use them, and some of those things that we wish we’d’ve known before we got started!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- John Mahlman - @EdTechJohnM
Links:
- Yubikey 5
- Yubikey FIPS
- WebAuthn
- Azure AD and Yubikey
- Yubikey on Google Accounts
- Use Yubikey with JumpCloud
- Setting up a Google Workspace Account with a hardware key
- sc_auth man page
- PIV Certificate Key Slots
- Yubikey SDK
- CMMC 2.0
- FIPS 140-2
Acronyms:
- CAC = Common Access Cards
- PIV = Personal Identity Verification
- SCIF = Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
- FIPS = Federal Information Processing Standards
- PGP = Pretty Good Privacy
- CMMC = Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
- FedRAMP = Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
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What are the latest options to deploy Adobe products onto Apple devices? It’s one of the oldest skills those of us who work on the platform need. In this episode we’ll dig into what the latest techniques are, some gotchas, and how to deliver the best experience possible to our users. We’re joined by Dom, who has been a support engineer in Adobe’s enterprise team for over 11 years to talk through all the different options now available - and how best to think about them!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Dom from Adobe
Links:
- Packaging:
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/preparing-deploy.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/enterprise-deployment-overview.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/deploy-packages.html
- https://www.adobe.com/howtobuy/buying-programs/compare.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/create-sdl-packages.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/customize-creative-cloud-app.html
- Identity Integration:
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sso-overview.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/user-sync.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/adobe-identity-management-provisioning-tutorial
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sso-setup-azure.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/configure-okta-with-adobe-sso.html
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Join Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James as they discuss all the news from the first day of WWDC 2022
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @smithjw
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One of those things we all end up managing is how our Apple fleet routes traffic into the interwebs. We often have to go through apps that load network extensions that effectively proxy traffic. Sometimes we call what they do fancy new industry buzzwords. One of the first platforms to use Apple’s frameworks was Cisco Umbrella. In this episode, Fraser Hess joins us to talk about using Umbrella and some interesting things he found along the way!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Fraser Hess
Links:
- https://umbrella.cisco.com
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4271
- https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20773
- https://particulars.app
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The Mac Admins Foundation is a new non-profit organization benefitting the Mac Admins community. This week, Charles and Marcus sit down with the Board of the Foundation to discuss the organization’s mission, how it came to be, and what they're working on.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tom Bridge, Co-Chair
- Emily Kausalik-Whittle, Co-Chair
- Rich Trouton, Treasurer
- Chris Dawe, Secretary
- Caleb Coy, Chair Emeritus
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Apple device management often veers into the devops and automation side of things. Maybe we’re using these tools for our own workflows or maybe we’re trying to provide an elegant workflow for our coworkers to get their code to testing, staging, and production environments. Continuous everything is the name of the game, so today we’re going to talk about CI/CD pipelines with a couple of guests from Veertu.
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Nathan Pierce - @NorseGaud
Links:
- Veertu
- Veertu Getting Started Github Repository
- AWS Marketplace
- Jenkins Integration
- Anka Homebrew
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It's time to pour one out for macOS Server
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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This week it’s just us, and we’re going over all the news that’s fit to print, including 12.4 betas, the latest in security news, and more.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Zero Day Vulns
- https://twitter.com/ClassicII_MrMac/status/1512466769268588545
- On env shebangs
- https://system7.app/
- https://macos8.app/
- Fatboy Slim plays Brighton
- Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train
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Bart Reardon is back on the podcast to discuss what's new with swiftDialog
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @smithjw
Guests:
- Bart Reardon - @bartreardon
Links:
- swiftDialog - GitHub
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It takes a lot of different types of systems to keep a fleet of machines in good shape. Today we’re going to talk about one of those: internet filters. Today we’re gonna’ talk through the good, the bad, the why, the why not, and sometimes the ugly. But in many an environment, the necessary.
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Rob McCartney - @McCartneyRob
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Our friends at Kandji have once again commissioned the Apple Enterprise Report Card, as compiled by Jason Snell of Six Colors! We’re here to take it question by question, topic by topic, to figure out exactly what that means for Mac Admins
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Jason Snell - @jsnell
Links:
- Apple in the Enterprise: A 2022 Report Card
- Savannah Bananas
- 2022 Six Colors Apple Enterprise Report Card Survey
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Tom hosts an episode of the Podcast live at the 2022 MacAD.UK conference.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
Guests:
- Nick McDonald - @dtnb_tech
- James Ridsdale - @james_ridsdale
- David Acland - @davidacland
- Joel Rennich - @Mactroll
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Tom, Marcus, and Emily discuss new features dropping with macOS 12.3 and a few WWDC predictions for the year.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
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MacAdmins seem to be increasingly stretching our skillset to include other platforms. Sometimes this is because we’re using a single pane of glass to manage Windows and Mac. Other times it’s just a pure necessity to have some of the best and brightest help out with Windows or Android management. Josh Seyer has been living that for awhile now and we wanted to touch base and see what the techie bits are like in a hybrid role. So join us for an episode of the Mac Admins podcast to talk about the similarities and differences between Windows and Apple deployments!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Josh Seyer - @seyerj
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Tom, Charles, & Marcus discuss the Peek Performance event held on March 8th
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s latest product for Mac Admins, Apple Business Essentials!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Jeremy Butcher
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First impressions matter. Onboarding is one of the best ways we can provide an elegant and savvy first impression to our coworkers when they’re hired. We’ve had the developers of Octory on the podcast to talk about what they built, but today we wanted to get someone on to talk about using Octory from the admin’s perspective, so we’re lucky to have John Hutchison agree to join us!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- John Hutchison
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Charles, Tom, and Marcus talk at length about patch management – OS and third party – and what goes into a good patch management policy. The history, challenges, tools, and the adventures of Patch Management are all on the table to help understand methodologies Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Weldon Dodd is with us this week to talk about the changes in macOS 12.3, Unlisted apps, the 38th birthday of the Mac, and the latest quarterly reports from Apple.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Weldon Dodd - @weldon
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Alison Wojahn joins the 250th episode of the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about what it's like to move into IT accidentally, learning to manage 1:1 iPad Deployments on the fly, all while also teaching classes. Coping strategies, research methods, and designing good experiences are all parts of the job we talked about with Alison!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Allison Wojahn - @woaikonglong
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One aspect of device management that we love to dig into is what’s going on under the hood. We’ve interviewed a couple of people involved in the MicroMDM project in the past but today we wanted to talk to a newcomer to better understand what the process was like to get started with MicroMDM. And what contributing code to the project ended up looking like. Turns out the team is much nicer than we’d heard! Just kidding, we always knew they were nice.
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Kory Prince - @korylprince
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The life of a Mac Admin isn’t just about Macs. Those are often the easy part. Instead we spend a lot of time figuring out how to make the Mac exist in the ecosystem of other tools we have in our environments. Today's episode will follow Tiffany Woods in her journey to become a Mac Admin. We’ll get an update about tools like NoMAD and look to the next year to try and figure out what challenges await us all in the coming months.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tiffany Woods
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Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Cat Self - @coolestcatiknow
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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- Brock Walters
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A year after Kolide released Honest Security, the issues that were covered in the manifesto remain, but how have they made it to the market? Much of this story can be told through the eyes of Harlie Hardage, a senior security specialist at 1Password who helped bring Kolide to the company in 2021. Having found the values of Honest Security were so well aligned with the strict values at 1Password (autonomy, responsibility, and kindness), it was an easy decision to make.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Jason Meller - @jmeller
- Harlie Hardage - @ItsMeHarlieD
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Alcyr from Mosyle is back again to discuss Security & Privacy and how they are utilising Encrypted DNS with customers.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
Guests:
- Alcyr Araujo
Links:
- https://mosyle.com
- Movember 2021
- Movember Donate
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Amy McKnight
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Erin Merchant is back again to discuss what’s happened in the last year. How can you make time for yourself? What is it like to work at a hyper-growth startup? How can you handle the necessary internal conflicts that generates, and what's next...
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Erin Merchant - @daftplague
Links:
- Say Goodbye to Your Manager
- Burning out and quitting
- Classes, Levels, And Equipment For The RPG We Call A Startup
- Jody Rogers “Becoming Crucial”
- https://twitter.com/HansFiene/status/1444636190792167435/photo/1
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Black Hat comes around every year and we sometimes end up having to respond quickly, like making sure we’ve patched all the things! Today we’re joined by Luke Roberts and Calum Hall who presented research on bending the mdmclient and custom agents to their will in order to see how an attacker might go after Apple devices.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Luke Roberts - @rookuu_
- Calum Hall - @_calumhall
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With Conferences coming back -- albeit mostly virtual! -- it’s time to talk about what folks are excited for as we head into the season. There’s three big conferences underway in October, from OBTS in Hawaii in person, to MacSysAdmin virtually in Sweden, and JNUC, virtually in Minneapolis.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo * James Smith - @smithjw
Guests:
- Greg Neagle - @gregneagle
- Joel Rennich - @mactroll
- Ed Marczak - @marczak
Links:
- https://www.loom.com
- https://reincubate.com/camo/
- https://obsproject.com
- https://www.veed.io
- https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/110/
- https://otter.ai/
- https://www.macsysadmin.se
- https://mdoyvr.com
- https://macdeployment.ca
- https://macadmins.psu.edu
- https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2021/
- https://authenticatecon.com/event/authenticate-2021-conference/
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Tony Williams - @honestpuck
Links:
- PatchBot
- Scriptorium
- Microbee
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Matt Woestehoff joins the pod to talk about the changing face of remote work, from big organizations to small ones. What’s accelerating, what’s slowing, and what technologies are we looking for in a new world.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Apple’s Fall Event brought new iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches! Let’s tear it all down, shall we?
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
The art of the security Red Team is a difficult one, and Cedric Owens joins us this week to talk about how it works, some of the tools of the trade, and how to go after macOS fleets. Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Cedric Owens
Links:
- Gone Apple Pickin: Red Teaming MacOS Environments in 2021
- Bloodhound
- Machound
- Introducing Machound
- Persistent JXA
- Cody Thomas’ talk on Bifrost at OBTS
- Apple bug bounty
- Mythic
- Mischa van de Bent macOS Security Compliance - CIS Baseline
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Rich Siegel of Bare Bones returns to the Podcast to talk about BBEdit 14, Containers, the App Store writ large, and everything he’s excited about in Monterey. Annnnnd why “It wasn't just about the money” Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests: * Rich Siegel, Head Honcho, Bare Bones Software
Links:
- Microsoft Language Server Protocol
- Bash LSP
- Rich’s Electron Thread
- Fizzbuzz Enterprise Edition
- Dan’s Tweet
- Kitchen Aid Mixers
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One of the best things you can do to boost productivity and save yourself time is automate tasks. (For example, we love moving workflows into Slack.) In this episode Tom, Marcus, and Charles interview Ella Hansen of IgnitionIT and discuss stringing together workflows using tools like Slack and Google Apps Script to help make real humans more productive. It’s a pretty awesome thing to do.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Ella Hansen
Links:
- Ella on Githubs
- Ignition IT
- Change Enrollment User on WS1
- Google Apps Script
- Configure apps with manifests
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Threat hunting and forensics is possibly one of the most interesting aspects of IT. It’s like we’re starring in our own version of one of those crime shows. But we can wear sweats and pet the cat while we work. No, we still can’t have two people typing on the same keyboard like on TV but thank you for asking. But we do get a glimpse into some pretty cool stuff
Hosts: * Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777 * Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom, Apple Systems Architect, CompNow – @marcusransom
Guests: * Erika Noerenberg
Links * Australian Contact “Traceys” * DFRWS * Evasion jailbreak * Shlayer * Bundlore * Stuxnet * Crack 99 * Teamviewer APIs
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Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring Conferences
| Event Name | Location | Dates | Format | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Mac Admins Campfire Sessions | Online | 3, 10, 17, 24 June; 8, 15, 22, 29 July 2021 | Synchronous • Thursdays 13:00-15:00 EDT (UTC-4) | Free | | MacAdminsUA | Online | 16 September | Synchronous | Free | | Objective by the Sea | Maui, Hawaii, USA | 28 September – 01 October 2021 | In-person • 2 days training, 2 days presentations | Free or USD$499 Corporate | | MacSysAdmin | Online | 5–8 October 2021 | Asynchronous • New sessions available daily | Free (Optional T-shirt purchase) | | Jamf Nation User Conference | Online | 19–21 October 2021 | Synchronous • 3 consecutive days | Free | | MacTech Conference | TBA | 3rd Quarter 2021 or later | TBA | TBA | | MacAD.UK | London, UK | March 2022 | In-person • 2 consecutive days | £495-595 |
Upcoming Meetups
| Event Name | Location | Dates | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Future Meetups
| Event Name | Location | Dates | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | London Apple Admins Pub | Online (see #laa-pub in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) | Most Thursdays at 5 p.m.-ish (17:00 UTC) | Free | | #ANZMac Channel Happy Hour | Online (see #anzmac in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) | Thursdays 5 p.m. AEST | Free |
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Most Mac Admins use a device management tool – be it agentless (ie MDM which arguably has a first party agent) or one that uses an agent to provide more capabilities than the MDM protocol does on its own. Recently, we’ve seen a number of attacks that target systems used to keep computers updated and matching security requirements. Today’s episode explores a recent article in Wired about the potential behind supply chain attacks on the Jamf platform – with about the best people you could be having talk about it, people from Jamf!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777 * Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom, Apple Systems Architect, CompNow – @marcusransom
Guests: * Matthias Wollnik (Product Marketing Manager, Security) * Catherine (Katie) McKay, Consulting Engineer for Security * Jaron Bradley, Detections Lead
Links * Black Hat Talk * Wired Story * History of Defcon * All the defcon talks * Defcon Red Teaming * The Cuckoo’s Egg * XCSSET Zero-day Exploit * Ken Thompson’s Reflections of Trust * Handbrake hacked * Jaron’s Blog * Jaron’s Book
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Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring Conferences
| Event Name | Location | Dates | Format | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Mac Admins Campfire Sessions | Online | 3, 10, 17, 24 June; 8, 15, 22, 29 July 2021 | Synchronous • Thursdays 13:00-15:00 EDT (UTC-4) | Free | | MacAdminsUA | Online | 16 September | Synchronous | Free | | Objective by the Sea | Maui, Hawaii, USA | 28 September – 01 October 2021 | In-person • 2 days training, 2 days presentations | Free or USD$499 Corporate | | MacSysAdmin | Online | 5–8 October 2021 | Asynchronous • New sessions available daily | Free (Optional T-shirt purchase) | | Jamf Nation User Conference | Online | 19–21 October 2021 | Synchronous • 3 consecutive days | Free | | MacTech Conference | TBA | 3rd Quarter 2021 or later | TBA | TBA | | MacAD.UK | London, UK | March 2022 | In-person • 2 consecutive days | £495-595 |
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| Event Name | Location | Dates | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | London Apple Admins Pub | Online (see #laa-pub in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) | Most Thursdays at 5 p.m.-ish (17:00 UTC) | Free | | #ANZMac Channel Happy Hour | Online (see #anzmac in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) | Thursdays 5 p.m. AEST | Free |
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Sometimes compliance seems like a bunch of checkboxes. And it can be. But in today’s episode we’re going to spend some time looking at what all those checkboxes mean, where they came from, and how we as admins might be impacted when our organization starts the process of acting like a grown up. Our guest is Shrav Mehta of Secureframe, who unpacks what all this means to us.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Shrav Mehta, Secureframe
Links:
- SOC2 Domains: https://www.aicpa.org/content/dam/aicpa/interestareas/frc/assuranceadvisoryservices/downloadabledocuments/trust-services-criteria.pdf
- AICPA: https://www.aicpa.org
- Secureframe: https://secureframe.com
- ISO 27001: https://www.iso.org/isoiec-27001-information-security.html
- Fedramp: https://www.fedramp.gov
- PCI: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org
- CMMC: https://www.acq.osd.mil/cmmc/
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
We welcome back Jeremy Butcher from Apple to talk about Declarative Management, Apple’s new framework for Mobile Device Management, as well as macOS Monterey, Erase all Contents and Settings, and why the M1 Macs are changing enterprise Mac deployment for the better.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Guests:
- Jeremy Butcher, Product Marketing at Apple
Links New Mac page on Apple’s business website
What’s New for Business – WWDC 2021 [PDF]
new findings from Forrester looking at the Total Economic Impact of Mac in the Enterprise
Video: What’s new in managing Apple Devices WWDC21 – https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10130/
Video: Meet declarative device management WWDC21 – https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10131
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Most Macadmins use Suspicious Package regularly. Many also use Apparency. But few know much about the person behind all this awesomeness. In today’s episode we’ll interview Randy Saldinger, of Mothers Ruin Software and talk about plenty of suspicious topics, from packaging to making software scriptable to… the future of distribution (or as much as we can ascertain given the current available information).
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Randy Saldinger
Links:
- Mother's Ruin
- Doin’ Mac Pkgs Rong
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Most Mac Admins use a lot of Apple products. A lot of us also use Homekit either at home or at work. And some of us run a special server just to bridge all the things (maybe running on a Mac or a pihole in the basement). We’ve discussed home automation on the pod, but in today’s episode we’ll dig in deeper, with developers from the popular hombridge.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Andi
- Sean
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
This week’s episode digs in a bit on something we feel we glossed over in the previous episode with Greg Neagle. Innovation runs rampant in the open source communities (in a good way). Why is that? What about the open source community brings us Apache, Tomcat, and other technologies that end up changing the world? We solve this multi-trillion dollar question on this episode; or we just jabber on; we’ll let you decide which! Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
On this week’s episode, we bring Greg Neagle back to discuss what’s new in Munki, & its transition to a native app on Apple Silicon, Some more follow-up from WWDC & where we think the conference space is heading in the future, and wrap up with a discussion on Open Source and how you can contribute to projects you love!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Greg Neagle, a major animation studio you may have heard of
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
We pick new stuff up here and there. Little things that when combined together add up to give us a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the Apple ecosystem. In this episode we’ll look at some of the little things we’ve picked up along the way; some new, some old, some just new to us!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Links:
- Jamf Unlock (and Azure iDP)
- Inside the Content Caching server: performance and troubleshooting
- UserVoice - How can we improve App catalog, App install or App updates experience in Creative Cloud Desktop?.
- How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It
- SOC 2 Admin and Control Owner Responsibilities - JumpCloud
- Scripting OS X - Weekly News
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
With WWDC 2021 in the rear view mirror, Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James have gotten back together to discuss what they learned after taking a deep dive into the management and development track sessions of this year's World Wide Developer Conference.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @smithjw
Links:
- WWDC 2021 - What’s new in managing Apple devices
- WWDC 2021 - Discover account-driven User Enrollment
- WWDC 2021 - Manage devices with Apple Configurator
- WWDC 2021 - Manage software updates in your organization
- WWDC 2021 - Improve MDM assignment of Apps and Books
- WWDC 2021 - Meet declarative device management
- What is Apple Declarative Device Management?
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Apple held WWDC’s First Day on 7 June 2021 and this is our commentary on how we survived it all! Here’s what we know about iOS and iPadOS 15, macOS 12 Monterey, and more.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo * James Smith - @smithjw
Links:
- WWDC 2021 Labs
- AppleSeed for IT
- James' Mac Blows Up After macOS Monterey
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Home automation is a thing. It’s been here for a long time, it’s crossed the chasm as tech, and it’s ready for the masses. In today’s episode we chat with Stuart Lamont, host of the Hive Mind YouTube channel. We chat about home automation, YouTube channels, automation, and all the things!
Guests: * Stuart Lamont - Creator/Host of Hive Mind Automation - @HiveMindAuto
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Hive Mind Automation on YouTube
- https://www.hivemindautomation.com.au/
- Home Automation Lightning Talk @ X World 2019
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Our friends at Kandji commissioned Jason Snell of Six Colors to put together an Enterprise Report Card for Apple. We’re here to talk about how Mac Admins feel about Apple’s Enterprise technologies.
Guests: * Jason Snell, Editor, Six Colors - @jsnell
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Yoann Gini joins the pod to talk about his new product, Credentia - a new Login Window plugin for the Mac.
Guests: * Yoann Gini, CEO, Abelionni
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card
- https://www.credentia.app
- https://auth0.com/blog/how-saml-authentication-works/
- https://auth0.com/docs/protocols/openid-connect-protocol
- https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
MITRE ATT&CK is a framework to explain how networks get penetrated and the techniques attackers use to move laterally and attack other devices. What does this mean for Apple devices? How can we best protect Macs and iOS devices? What are the philosophies? In this episode, we’ll chat with an Adversary Engineer at MITRE ATT&CK, Cat Self, who takes us through what MITRE ATT&CK is and what the framework means for administrators.
Guests: * Cat Self - @coolestcatiknow
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework
- Attack Navigator
- Hackers (1995)
- The Prodigy
- MAD training
- Defcon
- CRXcavator
- ThiefQuest
- SANS
- Haunted West and Harlem Unbound
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
SwiftUI is making it even easier for admins to build sleek, beautiful tools for the Mac. And one of those admins has been helping to bring us some pretty rad stuff for a long time. In this week's episode, Erik Gomez of Uber joins the pod again to talk about Nudge, SwiftUI, and the state of Mac management.
Guests: * Erik Gomez - @Contains_ENG
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card
- Nudge
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
We changed things up this week and thought it would be interesting to interview Tom and Emily on their new roles! What is it like going from a technical role to a product role? What’s a better way to say “that’s stupid?” about a product feature? All that and more!
Guests: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
We can see a light at the end of the tunnel. We’re going back into the office. But, what does that really mean now? There’s a new normal coming and the more deliberate we are about what it is, the more we’ll be ready for it. So what broke? What worked great? What’s missing? What technical changes are two forward in need of one step back? What happens to business travel? We’ll ponder all of this and more in this episode!
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson
Apple’s Event on April 20th brought new iMacs, AirTags, an Apple TV upgrade, and more. The gang is here to help you make sense of all of it, and geek out on the new colors.
Alcyr Araujo of Mosyle joins the Macadmins Podcast to talk about how the past year of remote work went and the amazing results - upgrades to Mosyle Business, FUSE, all the security and identity and the Mac in the enterprise in general! Guest: * Alcyr Araujo, Mosyle
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Mosyle FUSE
- macos_security
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilooo
Links:
- Nanoleaf Panel
- Mmhmm App
- HARO
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- Kandji
- VMWare Workspace One
- Halp
- Watchman Monitoring
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Arek Dreyer and Adam Karneboge join the podcast to talk the latest and greatest edition of the Peachpit’s “macOS Support Essentials 11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting macOS Big Sur” - what went in, what got cut, how long it takes to assemble 992 pages of screenshots, and what they think is most important for a Mac Admin to take away from Big Sur!
Guest: * Arek Dreyer * Adam Karneboge
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- macOS 11 Support Essentials
- Save 35% on your purchase of macOS Support Essentials 11. Enter code MACOS11 during checkout to apply discount. Offer expires April 18, 2021.
- John McIntyre - Baltimore Sun
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Apple released the Apple Network Server in 1996. Nearly a decade after having thrown down the gauntlet with IBM in the personal computer ads, such as the now infamous 1984 ad, Apple and IBM were nice and cozy and Apple had taken a number of lumps in the market. Since the desktop operating system wasn’t made with the type of threading required for increasingly large centralized workloads, they partnered with IBM to get AIX running on a Network Server 500. Must have been quite the shiner.
Guest: * Chuck Goolsbee “just some guy, you know”
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Marathon
- Apple Fritter
- AISS
- Nanoraptor ANS
- Xserve Eulogy: May It Rack In Peace
- System X
- Chuck’s Review of the 1965 E-Type
- Chuck's Road Trip Blog Post
- Cannonball
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Han Su Kim talks how IT managers are planning for the rest of 2021 and what makes a workplace the best in Boston! We get a little technical, talk budgets, and, well, what tools would make the next best place to work in Boston!
Guest: * Han Su Kim
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Michael McIntyre on Passwords
- “Very Bad Day” at Victoria University of Wellington
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The macOS security architecture continues to evolve. We have new boot modes, fallback recovery operating systems, sealed key protection for Filevault, revive. The new security documentation is a solid read. So we’re curious, what does a security researcher see when looking at that! What new green fields of hackerationing opportunity lie in front of us? In this episode we chat with Patrick Wardle to see what he’s been up to and to talk about the evolving security footprint of Apple devices.
Guest: * Patrick Wardle
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- The Art Of Mac Malware
- Apple’s security documentation
- Objective-See Github
- Safari Extension nerderation
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COVID has a lot of us sitting at home twiddling our thumbs. But some have chosen to do a bit more than that. In this episode we’ll have Armin Briegel back on to discuss his latest book on the command line!
Guest: * Armin Briegel
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- macOS Terminal and Shell
- Terminal Primer
- macOS User Groups
- SSH for Mac Admins
- Obscure Terminal Features
- Installomator
- Mac OS X Command Line Book (2008)
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It’s been about a year since most workers and students started getting sent home from organizations to slow the spread of COVID. Some environments were well positioned and others needed a much larger lift. Actually, it seems like a lot of things needed to change. In this episode we’ll look at a few things that had to change and a few that didn’t, and the novel concept of the Technology Drivers Test.
Guest: * Damien Barrett, Systems Administrator, Montclair Kimberley Academy
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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John Wetter joins the pod to talk through moving from the technical side to doing more and more with policies, budgeting, and governance. These lessons in schools aren’t as far off the lessons in enterprise companies as you might think!
Guest: * John Wetter, Technical Services Manager, Hopkins Public Schools, Hopkins, MN
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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Patch management is one of the most time consuming aspects of any admin. There have been a number of projects that have sought to make this easier for admins. Some of the earliest tools we used to admin devices such as Filewave’s File Sets were replaced with the package format at many a shop when we moved to PackageMaker and the early Casper Suite. But those meant each organization needed to do the same work on the 10 to 1,000 software titles. Then tools like AutoPkg, Jamf Patch, and Kinobi came where the community could share recipes for making packages automatically. This is mostly for software that isn’t yet on the App Store.
These days we see a lot of hybrid approaches. AutoPkg with Autopkgr going to munki or Jamf through JamJar or Kinobi picking up a feed. We’ve had people from each of those tools on in the past, so today we have Ryan from Alectrona here to talk about what he’s been doing in this space!
Guest: * Ryan Ball
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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Apple is a bit of a lifestyle brand. We’ve found that over the years our customers as consultants and users as engineers ask us more questions about the consumer ecosystem and company news than most any other gig in IT. So today we’re going to get caught up on the latest news coming out of Cupertino (and beyond).
Music Remix: * Graham Pugh - @GrahamRPugh
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- Six Colors Report Card
- Buy Apple
- M1 Packet Captures
- Apple Car
- Gartner UEM
- Contact Tracys
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- VMWare Workspace One
- Halp
- Watchman Monitoring
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In this episode, Joel Rennich joins to explain what went into NoMAD 2, why it happened, and what that means for the future of Jamf Connect.
Guest: * Joel Rennich, Jamf - @mactroll
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- NoMAD 2
- Joel on Twitter
- Carthage
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Johnny Brown joins the MacAdmins podcast to talk about a common first step in getting the M1 and Rosetta into an environment, the splash screen. In this case, depnotify. We’ll go through the process and look at how that impacts the rest of the deployment.
Guest: * Johnny Brown, Apple Administrator, Kennesaw State University
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- Graham’s Scripts
- Packaging Universal applications for M1
- Filevault differences between Intel and M1
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Richard Glaser has been in the Apple management space as long as anyone. His work on radmind helped shape the direction many management platforms took and he (and the excellent team he works with) continue to make lives better for MacAdmins everywhere.
Guest: * Richard Glaser, Assistant Head for Client Platform Services, University of Utah
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- Building a custom set of tools that bridge the support gap
- SLC Punk
- revrdist
- MacAdministrator
- PodcastProducer
- Radmind Auto Image Creator
- AEiOS (Automated Enterprise iOS)
- Enterprise Streaming Services
- Application Management Best Practices - WWDC 2004 Session 630
- White Paper: Mac OS X Enterprise Application Management - Best Practices
- Presentation: Mac OS X File System Maintenance with Radmind
- Poorly Made Apps
- Application Management Best Practices - WWDC 2004 Session 630
-
jctl - MacAdmins Channel
- python-jamf
- jctl
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Jason Meller of Kolide joins the pod to talk about why good security looks like good medicine: informed consent, two-way streets, and transparency of action. Check out honest.security for more on this emerging trend.
Guest: * Jason Meller, CEO, Kolide
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links:
- Honest Security
- OSQuery
- Christmas Bonuses That Were Phishing Training
- Promised a Raise, Given a Phishing Test
- User Adaptive Security: Christina Camilleri
- House Bill 1668 on IoT
- Modern Macs Still Need FileVault
- Apple Location Services White Paper, November 2019
- Device and Data access when personal safety is at risk
- Sticker Pack - The ABCs of Programming
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- VMWare Workspace One
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Guest: * Rebecca Latimer, IT Technician, Hibbing Public Schools
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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The final episode of the year is just with your loving hosts bringing you their thoughts from the year. We bounced between the M1 processor to Big Sur to the latest and greatest iOS.
Apple changed everything when they announced this summer that they were moving to the ARM architecture. Microsoft has adapted Microsoft Office to be built natively for the M1 using Apple’s tools since WWDC this summer, and Erik Schwiebert is here to talk about the challenges they faced!
Guest: * Erik Schwiebert, Microsoft, Office NEXT Team
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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This week, Frankie White joins the pod to discuss supporting users, bots, and IT tooling with Tom, Marcus, & Charles.
Guest: * Frankie White, Business Technology Operations Lead, Slack
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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- Halp
- Mac Business Solutions
- Patreon
- Watchman Monitoring
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This week, Collins joins the pod to discuss Extension Attributes, Scripts, and providing a white-glove experience for employees with Marcus & Charles.
Guest: * Collins, IT Manager, Reverb
Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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- Mac Business Solutions
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guest: * Matt Wilson, Solutions Architect, Insight
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * James Smith - @smithjw
Sponsors: * Halp * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guest: * Duncan McCracken from Jamf (formerly at Mondada)
Sponsors: * Halp * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guest: * Naveen Pitchandi & John Richards from VMWare
Links: * New options announced at VMworld * More on those new features * More on Freestyle Orchestrator * Freestyle Tutorial * MDM Director
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guest: * Donna Sanclemente, Princeton University
Links: * Alectrona Migrator
Sponsors: * Halp * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links: * MacSysAdmin * The Big Banana - Coffs Harbour
Sponsors: * Halp * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links: * Adobe CCP Recipes * dataJAR - Adobe 2020 * Jamf Acquires Mondada * Adobe Suite Deployment * Daz Wallace's Blog
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links: * https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7497916?hl=en * http://Myitindy.com
Sponsors: * Halp * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links: * Low Profile * SwiftUI * Everyone Can Code * Develop in Swift * Hacking With Swift * SwiftLint * Boardies * Swift Bash Runner
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links: * RSK Group * Georgia Tennessee Football Rivalry * Osborne Brothers - Rocky Top
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- SentinelOne Blog
- Sqwarq DetectX
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: A roundtable episode discussing fork-ups of the past with Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom * James Smith - @smithjw
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: Taylor Boyko joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss what's new with SimpleMDM.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: David Kingsbury joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss the challenges of stadium-wide IT.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Sponsors: * Workspace One * Mac Business Solutions * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: Caleb Coy joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss Fleetsmith, app packaging, & Battlestar Galactica.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Graham’s terraform munki
- Autopkg
- Installomater
- Set Condition One - A Battlestar Galactica Fancast
Sponsors: * SetApp for Teams * Workspace One * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: Tim Perfitt joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss the latest features In Mac Deploy Stick 3, WWDC 2020, & the future of Mac and iOS Management.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Mac Deploy Stick
Sponsors: * Kolide * SetApp for Teams * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: Anna Mentzer joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss what a Sales Engineer actually does, what it’s like to work for a vendor you love, and the BLM movement.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- Afro-Futurism
- The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin
Sponsors: * Kolide * SetApp for Teams * Patreon * Watchman Monitoring
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Synopsis: Allen, Bob, & Dan join the pod to discuss the new macOS Security Compliance Project and all the acronyms with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
- macOS Security Compliance Project
- USGCB - United States Government Configuration Baseline
- CNSSI - Committee on National Security Systems Instructions
- DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency
- DISA STIG - DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides
- CIS Guidelines - Centre for Internet Security Guidelines
- NIST - National Institute for Standards and Technology
- NIST CCE - NIST Common Configuration Enumeration
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Act
- LUST - Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
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SYNOPSIS: Tom, Charles and Marcus talk about Day One of WWDC 2020!
YOUR HOSTS: * Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777] * Charles Edge, Tinkerer [@cedge318] * Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]
LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES Apple Developer Site
Kexts on Apple Silicon
Big Sur Capable Macs
Business & Enterprise Sessions
Enterprise, IT & Apps at WWDC
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Synopsis: Weldon Dodd join the pod to discuss Kandji, MDM, & Training with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Henry Stamerjohann join the pod to discuss Zentral and IDent with Tom & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Eric Boyd join the pod to discuss the creation of Jamf's Virtual Visits and implementing it at UC San Diego Health with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Links: * Jamf Virtual Visits
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Samira join the pod to discuss Jamf's Virtual Visits with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Links: * Jamf Virtual Visits
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Tania and Amanda join the pod to talk about facilitating remote learning in schools at the click of a finger with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Bill Smith joins the pod to discuss Rubber Chickens, Travel, Microsoft Office, and Macs with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Links: * TalkingMoose on GitHub * RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Eric Holtam joins the pod to discuss Catalina Adoption, softwareupdate, Bootstrap Tokens, & MDM Testing with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Links: * OSXBYTES
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Allister Banks joins the pod to discuss the Stalk Market, moving to Japan, wrangling code, and tabs vs. spaces with Tom & Charles.
Links: * Cakebread * NGRP B4WK * Code Wranglin * Looking less silly on GitHub
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
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Synopsis: Tom Larkin joins the pod to discuss managing an existing environment of devices, collecting all the logs, and warehousing it in Snowflake with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Synopsis: Ed Marczak joins the pod to discuss the ever-changing world of security research with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links: * Zoom Blog Post * Patrick Wardle’s Twitter * The Idea Factory * Duo Labs Blog * Software Engineering at Google * The Lesson * Tom: The City We Became * Marcus: Neryl Walker Paper Dolls
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Synopsis: Chad Swarthout & Becky Tiffany joins the pod to discuss a first of its kind virtual summit, bringing together global tech leadership to address the operational, security, and financial impact of COVID-19 with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links: * Futureproof IT * Apple COVID-19 website and app * Tim Perfitt crowd sources keyboard shortcuts * Oliver Jeffers - stay at home story time
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Synopsis: Jason Dettbarn from Addigy joins the pod to discuss Apple Device Management for IT Pros, MSP tools, and MDM Live with Tom, Charles, & Marcus.
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links: * Addigy * 3 Min Video Overview of Addigy * NEW Smart Software - Released Public Production 2 weeks ago (inspects pkgs, checkbox PPPC, and orchestrated MDM and software deployment) * Our Automated Device Enrollment Demo [leveraging Okta + Config + 1GB of Software < 1 min (excluding time of manual selection)] * Addigy Live Desktop to Public Production this week
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Synopsis: Erin Merchant joins the pod to discuss remote work, consulting, and vendors with Tom & Charles
Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Charles Edge - @cedge318
Links: * AirTable * IT Kit Podcast * Making Big Decisions With Scoring Rubrics
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Synopsis: Bradley Chambers from 9to5Mac joins Tom and Marcus to talk about the new Apple at Work podcast
Your Hosts: * Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links: * Apple @ Work Podcast
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Synopsis: Justin Esgar joins the pod to discuss the world of consulting and what it takes to run a conference.
Your Hosts: * Charles Edge - @cedge318 * Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links: * ACES Conference: The Podcast
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Synopsis: Tania joins the pod to talk about solving problems and /jamf, a Slack app to simplify Mac lookups and troubleshooting.
Your Hosts: * Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777] * Charles Edge [@cedge318] * Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]
Listen! News: * Push Diagnostics update - includes checks for required Apple Endpoints * Re-enable the startup chime! * Apple pushing 1-year certificates
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