Mac Admins Podcast

Tom & 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Erin 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Patrick 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Patrick Wardle - LinkedIn Links: The Art of Mac Malware Volume 2 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Jason 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

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 - @[email protected] 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 Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

With 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, DDM, Application Management and other frameworks in order to deliver them as workflows in a device management solution. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Selina Ali - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

India 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Shyam Sundar, Service Manager, Novo Nordisk - LinkedIn Karthikeyan Marappan, macOS Specialist, European Bioinformatics Institute - LinkedIn Links: https://www.macadmins.in https://www.linkedin.com/in/bewithkarthi/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-sundar-m9490/ [email protected] Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Root3 is joining us this week to talk about patch management and building a catalog of applications, and their support app. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] 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 you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

It'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 - @[email protected] 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 the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Career 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Graham Gilbert - LinkedIn Links: Eisenhower Matrix: https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Arek 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 - @[email protected] 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 https://shop.footballaustralia.com.au/collections/ntk-away Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Jobs 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 we advance our career and preserve our sanity? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Robert Hammen - LinkedIn Links: Charles Edge- The Evolving State of Device Management (X World 2015) https://www.reworked.co/talent-management/stack-ranking-makes-a-comeback/ Jason Broccardo & Robert Hammen at MacAdmins Conference Rands Leadership Slack and book "Managing Humans" W. Andrew Robinson, A Mac Admin Toolkit: https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2024/pdf/Day3Session4.pdf https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2024/video/Day3Session4.mp4 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Who 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @smashism Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-702P https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/50041/A%20Computer%20Adventure%20Game:%20Island%20of%20Secrets/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Matt 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Apple 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 are going to speak to Adam Derrick from Jamf, and Dave Goldberg from Horizon BCBS about using Jamf App Installers in production. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Adam Derrick, SE @ Jamf Dave Goldberg, Horizon BCBS of NJ Links: #JNUC 2024: Save Time with #Jamf App Installers - A Modern Approach to App Management Software Titles - Jamf App Catalog Release Notes - Jamf App Catalog Feature Requests - jamf.it/featurerequest Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Smallstep iMazing Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

The 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: John Britton, Workbrew - LinkedIn Mike McQuaid, Workbrew - LinkedIn Links: https://www.cisa.gov/sbom https://workbrew.com/macadmins PSU MacAdmins workbrew sessions (Marcus to add) https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-psu-2024-session-homebrew-balancing-the-needs-of-it-security-and-engineering-teams-at-scale https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-conference-2024-session-workbrew-a-deep-dive-into-the-enterprise-software-delivery-platform pcpartpicker.com https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mikemcquaid/saved/#view=7gjtWZ Mike's PC :D https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile Mike's Brewfile https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Homebrew Bundle/Brewfiles Sponsors: Kandji 1Password iMazing Smallstep Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Andrew 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Ari 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 - @[email protected] 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: https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Collin Elliott is back to talk to more about controlling the family devices in your midst. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Lets 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 - @[email protected] 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 you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Entra 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 - @[email protected] 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 date) https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20101123/6d648bd4/attachment.pdf Password Guide: https://aka.ms/PasswordlessGuide Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

This 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Patrick 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 - @[email protected] 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 Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Santa'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 - @[email protected] 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?v=KUyIcr1XoWs Google & Operation Aurora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora https://github.com/northpolesec/santa https://northpolesec.com https://northpole.dev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRl1yu5OEs Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Who 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 Vlasach here to talk about why Network Relays are awesome and how we can use them to make Apple devices more secure and useable Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Matt Vlasach - LinkedIn Links: MASQUE Protocol IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schinazi-masque-02.html WWDC 2023 - Protect App Traffic with Network Relays https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10002 https://reg.jnuc.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2024/home24/page/jnuc24sessioncatalog https://blog.cloudflare.com/masque-building-a-new-protocol-into-cloudflare-warp/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Do 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 State - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_p0kKe6IE Embracing Neurodiversity in IT: Building Inclusive Workplaces for All Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

With 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Jeremy 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Join Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024 Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Beth 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 - @[email protected] 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 Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Device 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 - @[email protected] 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 Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Software 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Bushrat Chowdhury - LinkedIn Links: Automated Device Enrolment and MDM – Apple Support (AU) What's new in managing Apple devices - WWDC23 - Videos New Features and Enhancements - Jamf Pro Release Notes 11.9.0 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

It 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Mischa van der Bent - LinkedIn Anthony Darlow - LinkedIn Armin Briegel - LinkedIn Links: GitHub - Jamf-Concepts/Setup-Manager Human Interface Guidelines | Apple Developer Documentation Jamf Concepts Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

With 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Death, 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 apply them. SOFA is an open source tool that MacAdmins can use to help with automation, documentation and many other aspects associated with keeping our bloody software up to date Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Henry Stamerjohann, Co-founder, Zentral - LinkedIn Graham Pugh, Senior Systems Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn Allister Banks, Citizen of Earth - LinkedIn Links: https://github.com/macadmins/sofa https://sofa.macadmins.io https://github.com/bartreardon/swiftDialog-scripts/tree/main/Update%20Notifications https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 https://docs.vulncheck.com/community/nist-nvd/introduction https://grahamrpugh.com/2023/12/06/xprotect-version-check.html https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2024/05/03/investigating-unpatched-cves-with-osquery-and-sofa/ https://github.com/macadmins/nudge https://github.com/macadmins/osquery-extension Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Rebecca 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 - @[email protected] 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/apples-permissions-features-are-out-of-balance/ Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy: New Tech Guy - Saturday Night Live Bringing a Mac Admin Mindset to Managing Windows Endpoints – Rebecca Latimer; Adam Anklewicz https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2024/aug/09/paris-olympics-2024-hoops-and-loops-on-day-14-in-pictures Mary Carillo's Badminton Rant - Athens 2004 Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Family 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 - @[email protected] 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://support.apple.com/en-us/105062 Android Family Link: https://safety.google/families/parental-supervision/ Circle: https://meetcircle.com/ UniFi Traffic Rules For Parental Controls (Example Use Cases) Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Ross 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 - @[email protected] 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 Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Chris 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 - @[email protected] 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 sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Mike 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Trust 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 and we've been looking forward to having him on the podcast to talk through it. Welcome to the MacAdmins Podcast Jedda! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Jedda Wignall - LinkedIn Links: Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices - a technical exploration Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices – Apple Platform Deployment Guide Smallstep - ACME Device Attestation Explained Google Linux Attestation (GitHub) google/go-attestation Duo Security - MDM Me Maybe: Device Enrollment Program Security Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Zach 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

In 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 - @[email protected] 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.com/Technop54777070/status/1788603343843074187 Claimed by hackers, Zscaler says there's no impact or compromise | Cybernews The ESF Playground – The Mitten Mac A Deep Dive into the OceanLotus Adversary Emulation for macOS & Linux https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/adversary_emulation_library/blob/master/ocean_lotus/Emulation_Plan/OceanLotus_Scenario.md Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

So 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan James Smith - @[email protected] Links: Using iCloud with macOS virtual machines | Apple Developer Documentation What's New in Privacy What's new in Device Management Private Cloud Compute Sponsors: Kandji 1Password If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Six 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 - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

This 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 – @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Tom 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 - @[email protected] 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 a at MacAD 2023 Empowering Users with Self-Service at JNUC 2022 Molly Watt Holly Foxcroft W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Managed Apple IDs and Federation Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

This 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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan James Smith - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] 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, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson