Mac Admins Podcast

Erin Merchant is back again to discuss what’s happened in the last year. How can you make time for yourself? What is it like to work at a hyper-growth startup? How can you handle the necessary internal conflicts that generates, and what's next...

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Erin Merchant - @daftplague

Links:

• Say Goodbye to Your Manager
• Burning out and quitting
• Classes, Levels, And Equipment For The RPG We Call A Startup
• Jody Rogers “Becoming Crucial”
• https://twitter.com/HansFiene/status/1444636190792167435/photo/1

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMware Workspace One
• Halp
• 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

Black Hat comes around every year and we sometimes end up having to respond quickly, like making sure we’ve patched all the things! Today we’re joined by Luke Roberts and Calum Hall who presented research on bending the mdmclient and custom agents to their will in order to see how an attacker might go after Apple devices.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Luke Roberts - @rookuu_
• Calum Hall - @_calumhall

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

With Conferences coming back -- albeit mostly virtual! -- it’s time to talk about what folks are excited for as we head into the season. There’s three big conferences underway in October, from OBTS in Hawaii in person, to MacSysAdmin virtually in Sweden, and JNUC, virtually in Minneapolis.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Greg Neagle - @gregneagle
• Joel Rennich - @mactroll
• Ed Marczak - @marczak

Links:

• https://www.loom.com
• https://reincubate.com/camo/
• https://obsproject.com
• https://www.veed.io
• https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/110/
• https://otter.ai/
• https://www.macsysadmin.se
• https://mdoyvr.com
• https://macdeployment.ca 
• https://macadmins.psu.edu
• https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2021/
• https://authenticatecon.com/event/authenticate-2021-conference/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Tony Williams - @honestpuck

Links:

• PatchBot
• Scriptorium
• Microbee

 

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

Matt Woestehoff joins the pod to talk about the changing face of remote work, from big organizations to small ones. What’s accelerating, what’s slowing, and what technologies are we looking for in a new world.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Matt Woestehoff

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

Apple’s Fall Event brought new iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches! Let’s tear it all down, shall we?

Hosts:

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji

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

The art of the security Red Team is a difficult one, and Cedric Owens joins us this week to talk about how it works, some of the tools of the trade, and how to go after macOS fleets. Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Cedric Owens

Links:

• Gone Apple Pickin: Red Teaming MacOS Environments in 2021
• Bloodhound
• Machound 
• Introducing Machound 
• Persistent JXA
• Cody Thomas’ talk on Bifrost at OBTS
• Apple bug bounty
• Mythic
• Mischa van de Bent macOS Security Compliance - CIS Baseline
•  

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

Rich Siegel of Bare Bones returns to the Podcast to talk about BBEdit 14, Containers, the App Store writ large, and everything he’s excited about in Monterey. Annnnnd why “It wasn't just about the money” Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Rich Siegel, Head Honcho, Bare Bones Software

Links:

• Microsoft Language Server Protocol
• Bash LSP
• Rich’s Electron Thread
• Fizzbuzz Enterprise Edition
• Dan’s Tweet
• Kitchen Aid Mixers

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

One of the best things you can do to boost productivity and save yourself time is automate tasks. (For example, we love moving workflows into Slack.) In this episode Tom, Marcus, and Charles interview Ella Hansen of IgnitionIT and discuss stringing together workflows using tools like Slack and Google Apps Script to help make real humans more productive. It’s a pretty awesome thing to do.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Ella Hansen

Links:

• Ella on Githubs
• Ignition IT
• Change Enrollment User on WS1
• Google Apps Script
• Configure apps with manifests

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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