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Mac Admins Podcast

Mac Admins Podcast LLC

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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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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01:07:35

Episode 291: Getting Caught Up on Configurator with...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/11/15

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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01:25:37

Episode 290: The Black Friday 3D Printing Panel

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/11/09

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

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01:12:28

Episode 289: Keeping Up With California Places with...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/11/01

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 -

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01:03:56

Episode 288: Mike from Bombich Software

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/10/25

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

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55:25

Episode 287: Objective by the Sea

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/10/17

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: Patrick Wardle - @patrickwardle Sharvil Shah - @sharvil Cat Self - @coolestcatiknow Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Meter.com Click here to read the transcript Links: #OBTS v5 - Talks Sponsors: Kandji Black Glove Mosyle Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please

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