Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s new operating systems for 2023, and all the technologies that Mac Admins can look forward to trying out this Fall! Are you ready for Managed Apple IDs that do more for your business? Are you excited for Software Update with deadlines? Let’s dive in.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn

Links:

• Apple Business Essentials 
• AppleCare Products - Apple
• Using Shortcuts on macOS to create powerful multi-step actions for Stream Deck
• How We BYO @ Jamf, JNUC 2023

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Today’s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn
• Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn

Links:

• Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast

• Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves

• Henry’s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform

• Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day)

• Terraform && Zentral:
  • Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
  • Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform
  • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral
  • https://github.com/zentralopensource/circleci-zentral-osquery-example
  • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral-santa-rulesets-pipeline

• Use OIDC as a provider for AWS: Configuring OpenID Connect in Amazon Web Services - GitHub Docs

• Zentral - website
  • Henry Stamerjohann, LinkedIn
  • Éric Falconnier, LinkedIn

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Join our hosts as we discuss all the announcements from Apple's September 2023 Event, Wonderlust.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge
• Charles Edge
• Erin Merchant

Sponsors:

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Automation is important for all of us, especially a margin business like an MSP. In todays episode we’ll chat with Bobby Hardaway and Ryon Riley of Advisory Solutions to hear about how they automate Jamf infrastructure with GitActions. Hosts:

• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Bobby Hardaway - LinkedIn
• Ryon Riley - LinkedIn

Links:

• GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
• Advisory Solutions: https://advisorymsp.com/
• Penn State MacAdmins talk on GitHub Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznnSyl9i48
• JNUC Session - AutoPKG for Jamf Pro with GitHub Actions
• JNUC Session - So what's all the fuss about CI/CD? GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin
• LAPS Endpoints on Jamf: https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-laps-current/page/Local_Administrator_Password_Solution.html
• HCS LAPS Documentation: https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_LAPS.pdf

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We had a lovely conversation with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson about home automation and specifically HomeKit and the Home App in a previous episode, but we didn’t get to everything. So we decided to have a second one! In this episode we’ll get more into onboarding of devices, Siri voice control, security, automation, and troubleshooting. 

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Tim Pearson - LinkedIn
• Bob Gendler - LinkedIn
• Steve Yuroff - LinkedIn

Links:

• Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia
• https://www.bosch-home.com/
• https://us.govee.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
• https://www.z-wave.com/
• https://www.starlinghome.io/

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Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Transcript:

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• Alectrona
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Today’s episode features Kane Narraway talk through his journeys with ZTNA - what they are, what they do, selection criteria, how they integrate with other tools, and all the fun bits that go into getting a pretty interface to wireguard to work seamlessly in your environment.

Hosts:

• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Kane Narraway - LinkedIn

Links:

• Black Hat Sessions: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/
• Defcon Sessions: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html
• Extensions Manager: https://github.com/krypted/extensionsmanager
• Google BeyondCorp Zero Trust: https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/
• Okta + Jamf Unified Identity Access: https://www.jamf.com/integrations/okta/
• https://www.amazon.com/Extrusion-Detection-Security-Monitoring-Intrusions/dp/0321349962

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Today’s guest is Elliot Jordan, Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix, here to talk Escrow Buddy, Recipe Robot, AutoPkgr, and about all the fun projects he’s been involved in over the years!

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Elliot Jordan

Transcript:

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Links:

• Mike Solin’s Post on Focus Modes: https://mikesolin.com/2023/08/05/finding-balance-while-working-remotely/
• Crypt: https://github.com/grahamgilbert/crypt
• Escrow Buddy: https://github.com/macadmins/escrow-buddy/
• Stop prompting users for passwords when re-escrowing FileVault keys: https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/filevault-reissue/ 
• MAOS panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyEYsgz5MI
• Recipe Robot: https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot 
• Stethoscope: https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflix-stethoscope-5f3c392368e3
• Extraordinary Attorney Woo: https://www.netflix.com/title/81518991
• Mr. Robot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/
• Utopia (AU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)
• The Bear, Season 2: https://www.hulu.com/guides/the-bear
• Elliot’s site: https://www.elliotjordan.com/ 
• Upcoming JNUC session on Escrow Buddy: https://reg.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2023/home23/page/sessioncatalog/session/1682654671482001Ah7L

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