Mac Admins Podcast

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.

• 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

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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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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

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

• 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.

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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

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.

• 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.

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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

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.

• 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

• 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.

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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

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!

• 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.

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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

Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference.

• 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.

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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

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.

• 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.

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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

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!

• 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