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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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01:13:04

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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45:03

Episode 286: Thijs Alkemade on the vulnerability from...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/10/11

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

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01:04:46

Episode 285: What's New At Kandji?

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/10/03

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 Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Meter.com Click here to read the transcript Links: CVE NVD Common Vulnerability Scoring System SIG

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01:05:37

Episode 284: Rich Trouton on Apple Device Management,...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/09/27

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

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58:50

Episode 283: The State of the Update

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/09/20

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 Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Meter.com Click here to read the transcript 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 Sponsors: Kandji

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01:05:22

Episode 282: Robin Lauren and Human Centered Security

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/09/12

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 Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Meter.com Click here to read the transcript Links: MacAdUK 2022 Robin Lauren - Security for Humans Dr

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01:28:49

Episode 281: MacAdmins In Higher Education

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/09/05

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

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01:03:38

Episode 280: Where Device Management and MSPs...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/09/01

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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01:26:48

Episode 279: XCreds Part II with Tim Perfitt

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/08/22

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 Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Meter.com Click here to read the transcript Links: Security. Cryptography. Whatever (Podcast) Filemaker 19 from Claris Azure AD SSO Plugin (Preview) Top

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01:22:31

Episode 278: XCreds with Tim Perfitt

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/08/16

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 Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Meter.com Click here to read the transcript Links: XCreds OIDC Lite ROPG Sneakers Sponsors: Kandji Black Glove Mosyle Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in

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56:16

Episode 277: Automated Asset Management

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/08/08

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 - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji Black Glove Mosyle Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more

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52:38

Episode 276: Big Changes to Jamf APIs and...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/08/01

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

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Episode 275: On Windows 365 and the Mac

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/07/25

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

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56:50

Episode 274: Greg Neagle On Signed Binaries And The...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/07/18

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

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01:05:32

Episode 273: Gabe Sterritt and Lucid Automations

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2022/07/11

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/

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