Most Macadmins use Suspicious Package regularly. Many also use Apparency. But few know much about the person behind all this awesomeness. In today’s episode we’ll interview Randy Saldinger, of Mothers Ruin Software and talk about plenty of suspicious topics, from packaging to making software scriptable to… the future of distribution (or as much as we can ascertain given the current available information).

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Randy Saldinger

Links:

• Mother's Ruin 

• Doin’ Mac Pkgs Rong

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• Watchman Monitoring

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Most Mac Admins use a lot of Apple products. A lot of us also use Homekit either at home or at work. And some of us run a special server just to bridge all the things (maybe running on a Mac or a pihole in the basement). We’ve discussed home automation on the pod, but in today’s episode we’ll dig in deeper, with developers from the popular hombridge.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Andi
• Sean

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

This week’s episode digs in a bit on something we feel we glossed over in the previous episode with Greg Neagle. Innovation runs rampant in the open source communities (in a good way). Why is that? What about the open source community brings us Apache, Tomcat, and other technologies that end up changing the world? We solve this multi-trillion dollar question on this episode; or we just jabber on; we’ll let you decide which! Hosts:

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

On this week’s episode, we bring Greg Neagle back to discuss what’s new in Munki, & its transition to a native app on Apple Silicon, Some more follow-up from WWDC & where we think the conference space is heading in the future, and wrap up with a discussion on Open Source and how you can contribute to projects you love!

 

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Greg Neagle, a major animation studio you may have heard of

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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 pick new stuff up here and there. Little things that when combined together add up to give us a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the Apple ecosystem. In this episode we’ll look at some of the little things we’ve picked up along the way; some new, some old, some just new to us!

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

Links:

• Jamf Unlock (and Azure iDP) 
• Inside the Content Caching server: performance and troubleshooting
• UserVoice - How can we improve App catalog, App install or App updates experience in Creative Cloud Desktop?.
• How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It 
• SOC 2 Admin and Control Owner Responsibilities - JumpCloud 
• Scripting OS X - Weekly News

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• Watchman Monitoring

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With WWDC 2021 in the rear view mirror, Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James have gotten back together to discuss what they learned after taking a deep dive into the management and development track sessions of this year's World Wide Developer Conference.

Hosts:

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

Links:

• WWDC 2021 - What’s new in managing Apple devices
• WWDC 2021 - Discover account-driven User Enrollment
• WWDC 2021 - Manage devices with Apple Configurator
• WWDC 2021 - Manage software updates in your organization
• WWDC 2021 - Improve MDM assignment of Apps and Books
• WWDC 2021 - Meet declarative device management
• What is Apple Declarative Device Management?

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• Watchman Monitoring

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Apple held WWDC’s First Day on 7 June 2021 and this is our commentary on how we survived it all! Here’s what we know about iOS and iPadOS 15, macOS 12 Monterey, and more.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
• James Smith - @smithjw

Links:

• WWDC 2021 Labs
• AppleSeed for IT
• James' Mac Blows Up After macOS Monterey

Sponsors:

• Kandji

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Home automation is a thing. It’s been here for a long time, it’s crossed the chasm as tech, and it’s ready for the masses. In today’s episode we chat with Stuart Lamont, host of the Hive Mind YouTube channel. We chat about home automation, YouTube channels, automation, and all the things!

Guests:

• Stuart Lamont - Creator/Host of Hive Mind Automation - @HiveMindAuto

Hosts:

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

Links:

• Hive Mind Automation on YouTube
• https://www.hivemindautomation.com.au/
• Home Automation Lightning Talk @ X World 2019

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• Secureframe
• Watchman Monitoring

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Our friends at Kandji commissioned Jason Snell of Six Colors to put together an Enterprise Report Card for Apple. We’re here to talk about how Mac Admins feel about Apple’s Enterprise technologies.

Guests:

• Jason Snell, Editor, Six Colors - @jsnell

Hosts:

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

Links:

• Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• Secureframe
• 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

Yoann Gini joins the pod to talk about his new product, Credentia - a new Login Window plugin for the Mac.

Guests:

• Yoann Gini, CEO, Abelionni

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Links:

• Six Colors: 2021 Apple Enterprise Report Card
• https://www.credentia.app
• https://auth0.com/blog/how-saml-authentication-works/
• https://auth0.com/docs/protocols/openid-connect-protocol
• https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
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• Secureframe
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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