Mac Admins Podcast

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

Links:

• Nanoleaf Panel
• Mmhmm App
• HARO

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Arek Dreyer and Adam Karneboge join the podcast to talk the latest and greatest edition of the Peachpit’s “macOS Support Essentials 11 - Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting macOS Big Sur” - what went in, what got cut, how long it takes to assemble 992 pages of screenshots, and what they think is most important for a Mac Admin to take away from Big Sur!

• Arek Dreyer
• Adam Karneboge

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

Links:

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• macOS 11 Support Essentials
  • Save 35% on your purchase of macOS Support Essentials 11. Enter code MACOS11 during checkout to apply discount. Offer expires April 18, 2021.
• John McIntyre - Baltimore Sun

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Apple released the Apple Network Server in 1996. Nearly a decade after having thrown down the gauntlet with IBM in the personal computer ads, such as the now infamous 1984 ad, Apple and IBM were nice and cozy and Apple had taken a number of lumps in the market. Since the desktop operating system wasn’t made with the type of threading required for increasingly large centralized workloads, they partnered with IBM to get AIX running on a Network Server 500. Must have been quite the shiner.

• Chuck Goolsbee “just some guy, you know”

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

Links:

• Marathon
• Apple Fritter
• AISS
• Nanoraptor ANS
• Xserve Eulogy: May It Rack In Peace
• System X
• Chuck’s Review of the 1965 E-Type
• Chuck's Road Trip Blog Post
• Cannonball

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Han Su Kim talks how IT managers are planning for the rest of 2021 and what makes a workplace the best in Boston! We get a little technical, talk budgets, and, well, what tools would make the next best place to work in Boston!

• Han Su Kim

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

Links:

• Michael McIntyre on Passwords
• “Very Bad Day” at Victoria University of Wellington

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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The macOS security architecture continues to evolve. We have new boot modes, fallback recovery operating systems, sealed key protection for Filevault, revive. The new security documentation is a solid read. So we’re curious, what does a security researcher see when looking at that! What new green fields of hackerationing opportunity lie in front of us? In this episode we chat with Patrick Wardle to see what he’s been up to and to talk about the evolving security footprint of Apple devices.

• Patrick Wardle

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

Links:

• The Art Of Mac Malware
• Apple’s security documentation
• Objective-See Github
• Safari Extension nerderation

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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COVID has a lot of us sitting at home twiddling our thumbs. But some have chosen to do a bit more than that. In this episode we’ll have Armin Briegel back on to discuss his latest book on the command line!

• Armin Briegel

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

Links:

• macOS Terminal and Shell
• Terminal Primer
• macOS User Groups
• SSH for Mac Admins
• Obscure Terminal Features
• Installomator
• Mac OS X Command Line Book (2008)

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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It’s been about a year since most workers and students started getting sent home from organizations to slow the spread of COVID. Some environments were well positioned and others needed a much larger lift. Actually, it seems like a lot of things needed to change. In this episode we’ll look at a few things that had to change and a few that didn’t, and the novel concept of the Technology Drivers Test.

• Damien Barrett, Systems Administrator, Montclair Kimberley Academy

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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John Wetter joins the pod to talk through moving from the technical side to doing more and more with policies, budgeting, and governance. These lessons in schools aren’t as far off the lessons in enterprise companies as you might think!

• John Wetter, Technical Services Manager, Hopkins Public Schools, Hopkins, MN

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

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Patch management is one of the most time consuming aspects of any admin. There have been a number of projects that have sought to make this easier for admins. Some of the earliest tools we used to admin devices such as Filewave’s File Sets were replaced with the package format at many a shop when we moved to PackageMaker and the early Casper Suite. But those meant each organization needed to do the same work on the 10 to 1,000 software titles. Then tools like AutoPkg, Jamf Patch, and Kinobi came where the community could share recipes for making packages automatically. This is mostly for software that isn’t yet on the App Store.

These days we see a lot of hybrid approaches. AutoPkg with Autopkgr going to munki or Jamf through JamJar or Kinobi picking up a feed. We’ve had people from each of those tools on in the past, so today we have Ryan from Alectrona here to talk about what he’s been doing in this space!

• Ryan Ball

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

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Apple is a bit of a lifestyle brand. We’ve found that over the years our customers as consultants and users as engineers ask us more questions about the consumer ecosystem and company news than most any other gig in IT. So today we’re going to get caught up on the latest news coming out of Cupertino (and beyond).

• Graham Pugh - @GrahamRPugh

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

Links:

• Six Colors Report Card
• Buy Apple
• M1 Packet Captures
• Apple Car
• Gartner UEM
• Contact Tracys

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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