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Mac Admins Podcast

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A rotating panel of Mac admins and consultants are joined by members of the Mac admin community to discuss the latest news, issues, and challenges of managing Apple devices. New episodes weekly. Join the community at macadmins.org.

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Episode 310: Baseline with Trevor & Rob

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/04/11

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 -

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58:33

Episode 309: X World 2023

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/04/02

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 Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: X World Sessions Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac

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01:00:22

Episode 308: An academic look at autopkg with Manuela...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/03/28

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

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01:26:48

Episode 307: HomeKit Panel

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/03/22

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 -

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01:14:17

Episode 306: Filewave APIs with Josh Levitsky

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/03/14

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:

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01:21:09

Episode 305: Inside Baseball: Getting What You Need...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/03/07

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: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by

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01:24:50

Episode 304: webauthn and webauthn.io

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/02/27

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

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50:42

Episode 303: Application Vulnerability Testing

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/02/22

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

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53:18

Episode 302: MacADUK 2023 in Brighton!

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/02/13

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 Transcript: Click here to

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56:22

Episode 301: A Team of One

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/02/06

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

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01:27:08

Episode 300: Just Us

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/01/30

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

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51:52

Episode 299: Vira Tkachenko, CTO at MacPaw

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/01/24

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:

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01:12:20

Episode 298: Stringing Together Workflows

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/01/18

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

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01:07:34

Episode 297: Wartime Conferences in Ukraine

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2023/01/09

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 Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji

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01:59:02

Flashcast 10: 2022 Wrap-up

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/12/30

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

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01:12:35

Episode 296: Business people don’t hate tech people...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/12/20

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

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01:32:11

Episode 295: Just Us - Ventura and iOS 16 - How are...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/12/13

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 Transcript: Transcription of this episode

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55:40

Episode 294: Crowdstrike Falcon, Security Deployment...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/12/06

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

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01:22:04

Episode 293: Michael Epping from Microsoft on the...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/11/29

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

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01:13:04

Episode 292: New Apple Documentation

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/11/22

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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