The MacAdmins Community has a long, vibrant history of solving problems together usually through open source projects that become essential tools in our workflows. Whatever challenge you’re facing, chances are there’s already a project, or a group of passionate people, tackling something similar.

But with so many options, the path forward isn’t always clear. Do you adopt an existing open source tool? Invest in a polished, commercial solution? Or roll up your sleeves and build something totally new?

Today we’re diving into one admins journey into this struggle, and their path as they decided to build their own solutions for automating application and software patching in their organization.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

•  Rob Schroeder - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://techitout.xyz/2025/04/24/automating-apple-os-ddm-software-updates-in-jamf-pro-using-azure-runbooks/
• https://techitout.xyz/2024/10/08/jnuc-2024/
• https://community.jamf.com/idaho-mac-admins-93/idaho-apple-admins-meetup-55529

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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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 and Matt joined us in March of 2025 to talk about Vulnerability Management, and they’re back to share their progress, as well as a look at the future. Then we’ll dive in on the week’s news.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

•  Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
• Matt Day - LinkedIn

Links:

• Release notes - https://www.kandji.io/updates/2025/07/vulnerability-response-remediation/
• Support article - https://support.kandji.io/kb/patching-applications-based-on-cve-severity
• The Failure Mode of Clever - https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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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

Macs are safe - they don’t get malware. We used to hear this all the time and whilst Apple has done a wonderful job of building a secure by design operating system, there are still threats out there we need to protect ourselves against. It’s also no surprise that macOS is not Windows. And it’s further and further away from behaving like UNIX these days. So how do we know what to look for, and where to even go looking for it? Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs joins us to talk about his new book: Threat Hunting macOS - Mastering endpoint security

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Jaron Bradley - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://themittenmac.com/threat-hunting-book/
• https://objectivebythesea.org
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
• SpriteTree https://themittenmac.com/tools/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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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

We’re live at the MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, talking about the week’s events, the state of the community, and what it’s like being at this very special conference. We’ve got great guests, and a good chance to have a wonderful conversation.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]

Guests:

• Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
• Greg Neagle - LinkedIn
• Jacob Burley - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

We’re at Beta 3 and at least a third of the way through the beta season. How are things going, what have we discovered so far and what are we still looking to find out?

There are also plenty of other things happening in the Mac Admin community - lets talk through some of those things and get excited for what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do before!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://github.com/headmin/paw-project
• https://jc0b.computer/posts/munki-mscp-generator
• https://github.com/gilburns/Intuneomator
• https://micromdm.io/blog/micromdm-v1-maintenance-mode/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

What does it mean to be a Mac Admin in the year of jobs 2025? Long gone are the days of having to explain that no, that isn’t something that macs can integrate with. Instead we have all had to become experts in so many different silos within the modern IT organisation, from Identity, Security, Networking and Certificates. Being able to embrace and understand these concepts has also led to opportunities in career growth. Gone are the days where hoping for a small windowless room and the opportunity to get some new hardware to test once in a while was seen as a good deal. The growth of macOS in the enterprise has meant that our skills are incredibly attractive to large organisations, especially if we are able to combine technical prowess with the negotiation and collaboration required to drag Windows-centric teams towards the path of righteousness when it comes to a cross-platform or employee choice environment

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Tony Young - LinkedIn

Links:

• Tony’s Career Audit
• Career Audit Template
• Kane Narraway
• What is Client Platform Engineering

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Alectrona
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion join us to talk about device security & compliance, as well as how to handle the necessary access control issues that can come from it. Whether it’s SSF, app management, identity management, there’s always knock-on effects. How can folks handle them?

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Sriram Kakarala, CPO, Scalefusion - LinkedIn
• Preetham Gurram, VP of Product, Scalefusion - 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.

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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

We have all enjoyed seeing Apple make the noticeable shift to embracing modern cloud identity with the integrations we have seen over the past few years. From modern authentication at enrollment, Single Sign on extensions through to Federation of Managed Apple accounts and Platform Single Sign-on. The announcements at WWDC this year gave us more reasons to be excited, with a whole bunch of new capabilities announced. What does this really mean and can I start using this in production tomorrow?

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Michael Epping - LinkedIn
• Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/implementing-platform-sso-during-device-enrollment
• Parallelipiped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelepiped
• The Great Disnub Dirhomboidodecahedron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_disnub_dirhombidodecahedron
• Klein Bottle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
• Apple and Emory Healthcare: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-products-transform-care-at-emory-healthcare/
• Microsoft FIDO Alliance Case Study: https://fidoalliance.org/case-study-microsoft/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

We’re into the beta season! Apple has released a bunch of documentation, as well as a full suite of betas to go with everything we talked about last week on the Flashcast. We’ll be talking PSSO, MDM Migration, and the AxM APIs.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Links:

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api
• https://registry.terraform.io/providers/neilmartin83/axm/latest/docs
• https://github.com/rodchristiansen/asbmutil
• https://bartreardon.github.io/2025/06/11/using-the-new-api-for-apple-business-school-manager.html
• https://github.com/apple/device-management/branches
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/enrolling-with-platform-single-sign-on
• https://tombridge.com/2025/06/09/how-new-mdm-features-ship-to-mdm-customers/
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

Declarative Device Management is just as easy as turning on the protocol, accepting the messages, and then responding over the new channel, right? Should be a couple weeks' work for any MDM, right? Well, we’re going deep on DDM’s nuts and bolts with Bryce from Addigy on their journey to DDM management. Let’s see how it really went?

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Bryce Carlson - 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.

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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