Mac Admins Podcast

Many a Mac deployment includes computers that need some piece software that just isn’t available on the Mac. This goes back to the early days of Mac OS X. We once called this the “app gap” and while it happens less and less in the modern macOS era, it’s still a thing - especially for financial software packages. We’ve used Terminal Services, Citrix, wine (which drove many of us to drink copious amounts of wine) and other tools to address that gap. Today’s episode with Viktor Glemme explores the good and bad of one of the newer ways to address that gap: Windows 365.

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

Guests:

• Viktor Glemme - @Glemme

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• Watchman Monitoring

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Munki was released in 2009. The past decade-plus has seen MDM first introduced, then become almost a requirement to manage fleets of devices, changes in how we build daemons, develop tools, secure computers, and sign/compile binaries. That last piece could be a little tricky for the future of any custom software. It’s fitting that Ventura Blvd isn’t far from where Greg works, ‘cause in this episode we’ll look at the changes in Ventura and what they mean for Munki - as well as what they could mean for the future of the Munki project.

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

Guests:

• Greg Neagle - @gregneagle

Links:

• Munki and Venture Notes 
• Strange World Teaser
• IPA Sign

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• 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

The term hyperautomation was a good buzzword for a bit, but we can get a lot of use out of what it actually means. In this episode we’re gonna’ look at some of the automation options available to help us manage all these devices, with varying degrees of scripting requirements, and how we can find that magical place of lucid systems administration with Gabe Sterritt.

• James Smith - @smithjw
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Gabe Sterritt - @gabester

Links:

• https://xkcd.com/1205/ 
• https://xkcd.com/1445/
• https://xkcd.com/1319/ 
• https://xkcd.com/974/ 
• Forum Post - Why does apple hate us?
• Gabe on LinkedIn
• Gabe on GitHub

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• 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

Being a MacAdmin is significantly more difficult now than it used to be, and it’s getting harder every year. How does one cope? Keep up? Stay informed? Train oneself? Find the answers? Deal with the extra stress? Stay in tune and aligned with the rapidly-changing IT landscape as it shifts (sometimes under our feet). 

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

Guests:

• John Mahlman - @EdTechJohnM
• Caleb Coy - @calebmicah
• Reid Blondell - @reidblondell
• Rebecca Latimer - @GingerScripting
• Damien Barrett - @damienbarrett

Links:

• RevRdist
• Sunsama
• Reclaim

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• 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

Multi Factor Authentication is a topic we’ve covered here and there in the past. Yubikey is one of those companies that many of us have worked with. But planning for larger scale deployments is different than getting a key to work with our own password manager or in isolated cases. Further, webauthn and other standards are being embraced by Apple in the upcoming releases of the Apple operating systems. So in this episode we’ll talk about what a Yubikey is, how to use them, and some of those things that we wish we’d’ve known before we got started!

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

Guests:

• John Mahlman - @EdTechJohnM

Links:

• Yubikey 5
• Yubikey FIPS
• WebAuthn
• Azure AD and Yubikey
• Yubikey on Google Accounts
• Use Yubikey with JumpCloud
• Setting up a Google Workspace Account with a hardware key
• sc_auth man page
• PIV Certificate Key Slots
• Yubikey SDK
• CMMC 2.0
• FIPS 140-2

Acronyms:

• CAC = Common Access Cards
• PIV = Personal Identity Verification
• SCIF = Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
• FIPS = Federal Information Processing Standards
• PGP = Pretty Good Privacy
• CMMC = Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
• FedRAMP = Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• 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 are the latest options to deploy Adobe products onto Apple devices? It’s one of the oldest skills those of us who work on the platform need. In this episode we’ll dig into what the latest techniques are, some gotchas, and how to deliver the best experience possible to our users. We’re joined by Dom, who has been a support engineer in Adobe’s enterprise team for over 11 years to talk through all the different options now available - and how best to think about them!

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

Guests:

• Dom from Adobe

Links:

• Packaging:
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/preparing-deploy.html
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/enterprise-deployment-overview.html
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/deploy-packages.html 
  • https://www.adobe.com/howtobuy/buying-programs/compare.html
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/create-sdl-packages.html 
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/customize-creative-cloud-app.html
• Identity Integration:
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sso-overview.html 
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/user-sync.html 
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/adobe-identity-management-provisioning-tutorial 
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sso-setup-azure.html
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/configure-okta-with-adobe-sso.html 

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• 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, Charles, Marcus, & James as they discuss all the news from the first day of WWDC 2022

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji

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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

One of those things we all end up managing is how our Apple fleet routes traffic into the interwebs. We often have to go through apps that load network extensions that effectively proxy traffic. Sometimes we call what they do fancy new industry buzzwords. One of the first platforms to use Apple’s frameworks was Cisco Umbrella. In this episode, Fraser Hess joins us to talk about using Umbrella and some interesting things he found along the way!

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

Guests:

• Fraser Hess

Links:

• https://umbrella.cisco.com
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4271 
• https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20773 
• https://particulars.app

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Halp
• VMware Workspace One
• 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