Mac Admins Podcast

Many of our listeners will have set up AppleTVs at work. Some might use device management tools to configure one or more AppleTVs in ways that allow them to be used in corporate or education environments. We’ll talk through the nuance of AppleTV management in this episode, with Collin Elliot.

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

Guests:

• Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

Transcript:

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Links:

• Apple TV. 1st generation-2290.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

   

• Carousel Digital Signage

   

• GitHub - NU-ITS/Exhibit: Exhibit is a managed screensaver App for tvOS.

   

• Plex: Stream Movies & TV on the App Store

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Vision Pro could be the next big Apple product to change the way humans interact with computing devices. In this episode, we’ll look at some of the SDKs, sensors, and other technologies that have been in the making for a decade that make this technology possible. We’ll explore successes and failures of competing platforms, and think a little about the Vision Pro in the sense of device management, support, and what we might do with them in offices, which shapes how we might manage and support them. Bryson Tyrrell and Rich Trouton join us to talk through what we want, what we think we’ll get, and how we’ll respond to the ever-changing technology landscape.

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

Guests:

• Bryson Tyrrell - @bryson3gps
• Rich Trouton - @rtrouton

Transcript:

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Links:

• W Industries VR from 1990s https://collection.maas.museum/object/364729
• The Uncanny Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
• Oculus for Business: https://business.oculus.com/
• Rich’s Recording location: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/building-a-home-office/

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A lot of organizations want to treat device management like we treat code. Check in changes, get a second party to approve the check in, and the change goes live. That second set of eyes on a change provides a proactive approach to the security of changes made. It also helps mitigate small mistakes that can have a substantial impact on how users interact with their technology. We can then string together a collection of workflows to pipeline facts about devices to a SEIM or trigger events in other solutions. This usually involves agents. Yet we need to bootstrap devices into these types of systems, and that means MDM. In today's episode, we’ll discuss these types of workflows with Mike McNeil and JD Strong, from FleetDM.

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

Guests:

• Mike McNeil - LinkedIn
• JD Strong - LinkedIn

Transcript:

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Links:

Fleet Device Management links:

• Fleet Device Management
• Fleet Documentation - Tables
• Fleet Documentation - MDM

Open Source Projects:

• osquery
• macadmins/osquery-extension
• Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog
• GitHub - macadmins/nudge: A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
• MicroMDM - Mobile Device Management server
• MDMDirector
• KMFDDM is an Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) server. It works together with NanoMDM.
• Pricing | Fleet for osquery

Considering Open Source:

• Great talk by @fat: dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
• Why this way? | Fleet handbook

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Early in the podcast, there were plenty of stories of MacAdmins who had contentious relationships with security teams. We hear less and less of that every year. It still happens, but far less. We’ve had guests on to tell us how platform teams can work with infosec, but today we’re joined by a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) to give some tips coming from the other direction.

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

Guests:

• TC Niedzialkowski - LinkedIn

Transcript:

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• Alectrona
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It’s that time of the year again, when Apple drops mad-crazy-awesome-sauce updates on us. We’re used to iterative updates that make our lives better. This year we also have new products to manage. No word on whether there will be any management of Vision OS - but we’ll soon be managing Apple Watches. Because see, these are all computers - just like the Vision Pro. In today’s episode we’ll spend far more time talking about hardware, software, and management options. But in the meantime, let’s remind everyone that We often see the first release of Apple products as a bit less than. They can come in more expensive than other products in a given category. Like the iPhone and iPod, it will endure its share of ridicule for its high price and derivative functionality, people will complain about its design and point out its deficiencies. But in a year or five, the rest of the world will catch up to Apple’s vision.

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

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Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England.

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

Guests:

• Joel Rennich
• Ben Toms

Transcript:

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• Kandji
• Kolide
• dataJAR
• Alectrona
• Watchman Monitoring

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Every organization has a set of norms they follow. Within those are processes that people go through routinely - and those aren’t often documented at new organizations (be they orgs within other orgs or new companies). There have been systems like Six Sigma for tracking those processes, but like how neurons know what paths to take - those are only one part of the brain. EOS is one of those business operating systems, like the OS of the brain, that is more comprehensive than just processes, but goes far deeper into an org. Today we’re speaking with Lucas Acosta from Foojee about EOS and how that has helped Foojee

• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• James Smith - @[email protected]

Guests:

• Lucas Acosta - LinkedIn

Transcript:

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Links:

• www.lucasacosta.com
• Lucas Acosta (@lucasaaron) / Twitter
• Assessments – Rocket Fuel University
• Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business (Audible Audio Edition)
• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Audible Audio Edition): Gino Wickman, Kevin Pierce, Audible Studios: Books
• Ninety.io cloud-based tool to run EOS

   

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Lingon has been a part of the MacAdmins toolkit for as long as recent memory caused us to make launch items. Sandkorn became useful around the same time that we had to start looking at application sandboxes. In today’s episode, we interview the person behind these: Peter Borg

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

Guests:

• Peter Borg

Transcript:

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Links:

• Peter Borg Apps
• Placing Content in a Bundle | Apple Developer Documentation

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Rapid Security Response, the iMac turns 25, Apple financials, and… WWDC predictions!

• Tom Bridge
• Charles Edge
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle

Transcript:

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Links:

• https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
• Rapid Security Response on The IT Hour: The IT Hour | Rapid Security Response updates from Apple 5.5.23
• https://scriptingosx.com/2023/05/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2023-05-05/
• https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/04/18/RSR.html
• Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/05/apple-q2-2023-results-94-8b-revenue-better-than-expected/
• IBM Flying Cars Commercial
• https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-announces-ceo-transition-plan-appointing-john-strosahl-as-chief-executive-officer/

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• Alectrona
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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