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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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Episode 451: MacAD.UK 2026

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/03/04

Liam Donnelly from Jigsaw24 joins us to talk about MacAD 2026! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn Links: https://www.macad.uk/ https://www.jigsaw24.com/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're

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01:17:00

Episode 450: Device Attestation and CAs in 2026

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/02/26

PKI can be a real adventure, from dealing with minting certificates, to their whole lifecycle, all the way down to who trusts what and why. We're here this week with Smallstep's CEO Mike Malone to talk about device attestation, their latest projects, and everything about how we learn to better trust each other when we can, and what to do when we can't. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Mike Malone - LinkedIn Links: https://smallstep.com/

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56:11

Episode 449: Just Us: Ai Ai Ai...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/02/19

It's just us this week, and we're talking about AI - Apple Intelligence, "Apple" Intelligence, and Apple "Intelligence" - as we dive into a few key developments. The 26.3 group of releases is upon us, along with new Gemini models coming to Siri, and the hopes of new hardware! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links: https://kitzy.com/blog/openclaw-security-dangers/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101 Restricting the upgrade

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01:08:07

Episode 448: Ben Greiner on smplify

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/02/11

Everyone wants to manage devices these days, and not just Macs. Being able to embed device management into the platform you're already building can provide a seamless experience for your users. Open source projects like NanoMDM are free, but the resources required to set them up and maintain them are not. Smplify is a new player on the market who provides the infrastructure to manage devices so you can build MDM directly into your own solution. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina

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01:09:44

Episode 447: pseudo and super in 2026

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/02/04

Kevin White is here with a bucket of spackle and some know how to make Platform Single Sign On a better experience. Plus, he's got updates for us on Super. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Kevin White - LinkedIn Links: https://github.com/Macjutsu/pseudo https://github.com/Macjutsu/super https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/password-utility/ Apple BSI (née RSR) https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657 Sponsors: Iru

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54:06

Episode 446: Creating an App for Admins

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/01/28

MDM, DDM, VPP, ABM, even MSCP - all the acronyms that help us to manage devices the way that we need to, providing the amazing end-user experiences that the macadmin community is so conscious of. But what do we do when the tools provided by Apple or our device management service don't provide the capabilities we need? That's right, we build it ourselves! Michael Page is going to talk us through Dock Composer, one of these very tools that he has built to solve his own problem and help others solve

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01:14:03

Episode 445: Observability and the Mac Admin

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/01/21

As managing Macs evolves, it's no longer enough to just configure the devices we are responsible for. What happened after we configured them, are they still configured that way, has the user managed to get around the controls we put in place. Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

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02:03:25

Episode 444: Just Us - 2026 Predictions

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/01/12

2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links:

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01:41:31

Episode 443: Managing in the Antarctic

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2026/01/05

2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Anna

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01:18:43

Episode 442: Just Us on 2025

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/12/23

It's the End of the Year Special! We're here to break down the 2025 year with all the goods and bads! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links: https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/ Sponsors: Iru 1Password Backblaze Meter Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest

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50:48

Episode 441: Device lifecycle management and buyback...

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/12/17

Welcome to the podcast, Rippling IT, who are working on a novel solution for full lifecycle management related to the devices that their platform enables. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Zaafir Kherani - LinkedIn Sponsors: Iru 1Password Backblaze Meter Watchman Monitoring 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

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01:21:02

Episode 440: Making your own tools

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/12/09

Neil Johnson's been building some incredible tools for Mac Admins of late, and we wanted to sit down with him and talking through Apple Policy Explorer and some others. What's it like building tools these days, where do you start? Who is the right audience to design for? We'll dive deep on his process here this week, as well as talk about what's going on at Microsoft. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Neil Johnson,

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01:03:02

Episode 439: The history and present of SOTI

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/12/02

SOTI is one of the Ur-management platforms, being one of the very first Android EMM tools on the market. How Android Management works is a unique experience to the Apple management ecosystem. We're here to learn more about SOTI the company, as well as what they're doing in the Apple Ecosystem. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Mikhail Ishkanov Youssef Mohamed Sponsors: Iru 1Password Meter Backblaze Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in

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01:06:34

Episode 438: Running a medical school on Apple

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/11/26

What's it like managing Apple Devices in a medical school? Brian Atkinson of the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine joins us this week to take us through the challenges of running their whole environment on Apple products. From Macs to tablets to even the Vision Pro! Let's dive in and take a look. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Brian Atkinson - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Meter Backblaze Watchman

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01:13:13

Episode 437: Mac Automation in 2025

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/11/19

Automating our work load is a given in IT, and there are a lot of tools out there to help you accomplish streamlined workflows and reclaim time back in your day. Something the Mac Admin Community excels at is its open source mindset and providing tools to others to lend a helping hand. In today's episode we won't be focusing on a specific automation or a tool set, but the stories and problems behind them - and how these problems were solved by a member of our community - Dave- welcome to the

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01:26:30

Episode 436: Float like a Jellyfish, sting like a Bee

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/11/11

Kandji has announced a new name, and some new products, and they are now Iru! Weldon Dodd joins us to talk about their move toward Identity, Cross-Platform Device Management, Security, and Compliance products. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Weldon Dodd - LinkedIn Links: Passwordless Workforce Identity & Access | Iru Kandji Is Now Iru, the IT & Security Platform Built for the AI Era They're good rectangles: Ron LOVES

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01:08:50

Episode 435: Platform SSO (Okta's Version)

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/11/04

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

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01:33:58

Episode 434: Learning New Lore with Kitzy

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/10/28

Working at the same place for a long time can have some amazing benefits. Every conversation, meeting, or ticket solved is another person you met, another piece of knowledge you have that you didn't have before and another piece of the huge puzzle that is slowly getting assembled inside your brain. Institutional knowledge can be an amazing thing, and we all love that person we work with who seems to have been there right from the beginning and just.knows.stuff. But does having too many puzzle pieces

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01:26:17

Episode 433: Managing iOS is easy, right?

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/10/22

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

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48:56

Episode 432: Live from JNUC '25

Mac Admins Podcast ·

2025/10/14

The gang went to Denver. Here’s what happened next! Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Sam Johnson, Jamf - LinkedIn Anna Noel, Jamf Nation Giving Foundation - LinkedIn Matt Vlasach, Jamf - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Backblaze Watchman Monitoring 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

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