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Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 439: The history and present of SOTISOTI 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 Youssef Mohamed Sponsors: Iru 1Password Meter Backblaze Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more i...
2025-12-021h 03
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 438: Running a medical school on AppleWhat'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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast...
2025-11-261h 06
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 437: Mac Automation in 2025Automating 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 B...
2025-11-191h 13
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 436: Float like a Jellyfish, sting like a BeeKandji 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 Sponsors: Iru 1...
2025-11-111h 26
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 435: Platform SSO (Okta's Version)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...
2025-11-041h 08
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 434: Learning New Lore with KitzyWorking 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...
2025-10-281h 33
Mac Admins PodcastManaging iOS is easy, right? 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...
2025-10-221h 26
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 432: Live from JNUC '25The 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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named...
2025-10-1448 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 431: Just UsThe 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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins...
2025-10-091h 20
Mac Admins PodcastmSCP 2.0 & Tahoe SupportHere 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...
2025-10-011h 02
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 429: Enterprise IT and the '26 releasesApple'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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Material Security Meter Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about th...
2025-09-241h 23
Mac Admins PodcastFlashcast 16: Awe DroppingApple'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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our...
2025-09-151h 20
Mac Admins PodcastLive from X World '25Marcus 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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this...
2025-09-1045 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 427: AI's not for everythingAlex 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 - http...
2025-09-041h 14
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 426: Virtualization in 2025Apple 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...
2025-08-271h 20
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 425: App Auto-Patch and Beyond with Robert SchroederThe 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...
2025-08-2158 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 424: Feeling Vulnerable with Arek and MattArek 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/ Sponsors:
2025-08-121h 10
Mac Admins PodcastWriting the book on Threat Hunting macOS, with Jaron BradleyMacs 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...
2025-08-051h 03
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 422: Live from MacAdmins at Penn StateWe'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 1Password Nudge Security Material Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
2025-07-2954 min
Mac Admins PodcastJust Us, now with Selina AliWe'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...
2025-07-231h 17
Mac Admins PodcastAvoiding "careering" off the road, with Tony YoungWhat 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...
2025-07-151h 24
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 419: Device Compliance with Sriram & Preetham from ScalefusionSriram & 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org...
2025-07-081h 18
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 418: Looking at PSSO after WWDC, with Michael Epping & Joel RennichWe 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:
2025-07-011h 26
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 417: WWDC Wrap and First Look at BetasWe'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...
2025-06-261h 23
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 416: DDM with Bryce from AddigyDeclarative 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins...
2025-06-171h 20
Mac Admins PodcastFlashcast 15: WWDC 25With 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 Sponsors: K...
2025-06-101h 23
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 415: Codesigning and Building Software in 2025Joel 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
2025-06-021h 13
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 414: The Why of Mac Admins ConferencesThere 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
2025-05-271h 14
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 413: Live from MacAD.uk 2025Tom & 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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
2025-05-1949 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 412: Just Us - Latest News and StuffErin 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about...
2025-05-131h 21
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 411: The Art of Mac Malware Volume 2Patrick 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring
2025-05-051h 28
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 410: The 2025 Apple in the Enterprise Report CardJason 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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the...
2025-04-301h 24
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 409: What's a VAR for?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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security...
2025-04-221h 10
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 408: Turning Frameworks into FunctionalityWith 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...
2025-04-151h 21
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 407: A New Conference, Mac Admins IndiaIndia 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...
2025-04-031h 08
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 406: An App Catalog in the Cloud, with Root3Root3 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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If...
2025-03-271h 17
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 405: Just UsIt'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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring...
2025-03-191h 28
Mac Admins PodcastGraham Gilbert on the Path to Staff EngineerCareer 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...
2025-03-121h 12
Mac Admins PodcastVulnerability Management with KandjiArek 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
2025-03-0559 min
Mac Admins PodcastRobert Hammen on Making ChangesJobs 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...
2025-02-261h 23
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 400Who 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/Ca...
2025-02-211h 53
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 399: Omnissa in 2025Matt 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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow...
2025-02-131h 21
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 398: App Installers and Jamf ProApple 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...
2025-02-051h 20
Mac Admins PodcastSoftware Bill of Materials with WorkbrewThe 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:
2025-01-291h 24
Mac Admins PodcastCrashPlan's Andrew Orrison talks BackupAndrew 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) Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast...
2025-01-2559 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 395: iMazing is AmazingAri 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...
2025-01-151h 01
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 394: Family Device Control, Part 2Collin 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @Ma...
2025-01-061h 05
Mac Admins PodcastGood bye and good riddance 2024Lets 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If...
2024-12-311h 47
Mac Admins PodcastMichael & Mark on Entra IDEntra 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...
2024-12-171h 18
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 391: Mac Admins FoundationThis 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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. ...
2024-12-041h 01
Mac Admins PodcastPatrick Wardle on Objective for the We, DoubleYou, & MorePatrick 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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password...
2024-12-021h 15
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 389: North Pole Security & SantaSanta'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...
2024-11-191h 22
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 388: Behind the Masque of Network Relays with Matt VlasachWho 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 Vl...
2024-11-1658 min
Mac Admins PodcastNeurodiversity in the Workplace with Rowan QuigleyDo 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...
2024-11-071h 11
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 386: The Art of ConferencingWith 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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get t...
2024-10-291h 14
Mac Admins PodcastFall 2024 Releases with AppleJeremy 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on...
2024-10-161h 01
Mac Admins PodcastLive from MacSysAdmin GothenburgJoin Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024 Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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...
2024-10-1058 min
Mac Admins PodcastBeth Johnson on ComplianceBeth 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac...
2024-10-0156 min
Mac Admins PodcastAn API for Harmonized Tariff Codes, with Diamond AssetsDevice 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/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac...
2024-09-251h 10
Mac Admins PodcastEnforcing minimum OS with Bushrat ChowdhurySoftware 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 ...
2024-09-2053 min
Mac Admins PodcastJamf Setup ManagerIt 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 - Li...
2024-09-101h 11
Mac Admins PodcastJust Us on 2024 Fall ReleasesWith 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins...
2024-09-0657 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 378: Henry, Allister, & Graham join us on the Mac Admins SOFADeath, 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 ap...
2024-08-271h 15
Mac Admins PodcastRebecca Latimer on Getting Folks to use StuffRebecca Latimer join us to tell us everything she's been up to since Episode 197! We'll be talking about managing users' expectations, as well as how they participate in your company's IT ecosystem. Also how managing coworkers isn't quite like managing goats. 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/a...
2024-08-2049 min
Mac Admins PodcastFamily Device Control with Collin ElliottFamily 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://s...
2024-08-141h 14
Mac Admins PodcastManaging Macs at MSPs with Ross MatsudaRoss 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the M...
2024-08-061h 11
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 374: MacStadium and Orka, with Chris ChapmanChris 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in...
2024-07-301h 20
Mac Admins PodcastPSU Mac Admins 2024Join 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons th...
2024-07-2354 min
Mac Admins PodcastMike Boylan on Kandji Assignment MapsMike 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the...
2024-07-171h 10
Mac Admins PodcastJust Us (& Joel Rennich)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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast...
2024-07-091h 15
Mac Admins PodcastJedda Wignall on Managed Device AttestationTrust 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...
2024-07-021h 20
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 369: Zach Wasserman, Fleet, & OsqueryZach 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 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the late...
2024-06-261h 07
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 368: The Latest on MITRE ATT&CK with Cat SelfIn 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.c...
2024-06-191h 08
Mac Admins PodcastFlashcast 14: WWDC 2024 LiveSo 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 Smi...
2024-06-151h 52
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 367: Vision Pro ReduxSix 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.
2024-06-111h 22
Mac Admins PodcastWWDC 2024 Predictions, Part 2This 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast...
2024-06-041h 16
Mac Admins PodcastLive at MacADUK 2024Tom 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...
2024-05-2843 min
Mac Admins PodcastWWDC 2024 Predictions, Part 1This 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. ...
2024-05-211h 24
Mac Admins PodcastEvaluating New Tech, Part IINew 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 Se...
2024-05-141h 10
Mac Admins PodcastACES Conference with Justin EsgarJustin 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 If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this...
2024-05-071h 31
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 361: Just UsRemember 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 I...
2024-04-291h 15
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 360: Tim Perfitt on XCreds 4.0Tim 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/ Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast...
2024-04-151h 29
Mac Admins PodcastMac@Cisco - A Mac Admins PerspectiveMost 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...
2024-04-081h 23
Mac Admins PodcastKim Trojanowski on SupportAppIn 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kol...
2024-04-0142 min
Mac Admins PodcastJordan Burnette on Transitioning From A Solo Admin To TeamBeing 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 Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow u...
2024-03-271h 00
Mac Admins PodcastWorkbrewThe 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...
2024-03-181h 31
Mac Admins PodcastArek Dreyer - Back By Popular DemandWhen 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit...
2024-03-041h 16
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 354: Cody ThomasKeychain 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested...
2024-02-271h 24
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 353: MacAD for 2024MacAD 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast...
2024-02-1956 min
Mac Admins PodcastBlake Brandon from 1PasswordAdmins 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://sup...
2024-02-1454 min
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 351: Yoann Gini on BravasBravas 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...
2024-02-0557 min
Mac Admins PodcastShyam Bhojwani on Workato for MacAdminsThe 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on...
2024-01-301h 05
Mac Admins PodcastAndrew Robinson On Evaluating New TechNew 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nu...
2024-01-221h 01
Mac Admins PodcastStuart and Matt On AftermathAftermath 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 T...
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Mac Admins PodcastFlashcast 13: 2023 in ReviewA 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.wi...
2023-12-301h 57
Mac Admins PodcastDan K. SnelsonDan 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...
2023-12-181h 09
Mac Admins PodcastEpisode 345: Scott Reed & Joel Rennich on JumpCloud GoAuthentication 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/ Sponsors: Kandji Kolide...
2023-12-121h 13
Mac Admins PodcastKevin M. White on Apple Docs UpdatesThe 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...
2023-12-041h 20
Mac Admins PodcastDamian Cavanagh on Shortcuts for Admin TasksShortcuts 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...
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