Mac Admins Podcast

In this episode, Joel Rennich joins to explain what went into NoMAD 2, why it happened, and what that means for the future of Jamf Connect.

• Joel Rennich, Jamf - @mactroll

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

Links:

• NoMAD 2
• Joel on Twitter
• Carthage

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Johnny Brown joins the MacAdmins podcast to talk about a common first step in getting the M1 and Rosetta into an environment, the splash screen. In this case, depnotify. We’ll go through the process and look at how that impacts the rest of the deployment.

• Johnny Brown, Apple Administrator, Kennesaw State University

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

Links:

• Graham’s Scripts
• Packaging Universal applications for M1
• Filevault differences between Intel and M1

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Richard Glaser has been in the Apple management space as long as anyone. His work on radmind helped shape the direction many management platforms took and he (and the excellent team he works with) continue to make lives better for MacAdmins everywhere.

• Richard Glaser, Assistant Head for Client Platform Services, University of Utah

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

Links:

• Building a custom set of tools that bridge the support gap
• SLC Punk
• revrdist
• MacAdministrator
• PodcastProducer
• Radmind Auto Image Creator
• AEiOS (Automated Enterprise iOS)
• Enterprise Streaming Services
• Application Management Best Practices - WWDC 2004 Session 630
• White Paper: Mac OS X Enterprise Application Management - Best Practices
• Presentation: Mac OS X File System Maintenance with Radmind
• Poorly Made Apps
• Application Management Best Practices - WWDC 2004 Session 630
• #jctl - MacAdmins Channel
• python-jamf
• jctl

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Halp
• Watchman Monitoring

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Jason Meller of Kolide joins the pod to talk about why good security looks like good medicine: informed consent, two-way streets, and transparency of action. Check out honest.security for more on this emerging trend.

• Jason Meller, CEO, Kolide

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

Links:

• Honest Security
• OSQuery
• Christmas Bonuses That Were Phishing Training
• Promised a Raise, Given a Phishing Test
• User Adaptive Security: Christina Camilleri
• House Bill 1668 on IoT
• Modern Macs Still Need FileVault
• Apple Location Services White Paper, November 2019
• Device and Data access when personal safety is at risk
• Sticker Pack - The ABCs of Programming

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Watchman Monitoring

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• Rebecca Latimer, IT Technician, Hibbing Public Schools

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

Sponsors:

• VMWare Workspace One
• Watchman Monitoring

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The final episode of the year is just with your loving hosts bringing you their thoughts from the year. We bounced between the M1 processor to Big Sur to the latest and greatest iOS.

Apple changed everything when they announced this summer that they were moving to the ARM architecture. Microsoft has adapted Microsoft Office to be built natively for the M1 using Apple’s tools since WWDC this summer, and Erik Schwiebert is here to talk about the challenges they faced!

• Erik Schwiebert, Microsoft, Office NEXT Team

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

Sponsors:

• Halp
• Patreon
• Watchman Monitoring

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This week, Frankie White joins the pod to discuss supporting users, bots, and IT tooling with Tom, Marcus, & Charles.

• Frankie White, Business Technology Operations Lead, Slack

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

Sponsors:

• Halp
• Mac Business Solutions
• Patreon
• Watchman Monitoring

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This week, Collins joins the pod to discuss Extension Attributes, Scripts, and providing a white-glove experience for employees with Marcus & Charles.

• Collins, IT Manager, Reverb

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

ponsors:

• Halp
• Mac Business Solutions
• Patreon
• Watchman Monitoring

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

• Matt Wilson, Solutions Architect, Insight

• Halp
• Mac Business Solutions
• Patreon
• Watchman Monitoring

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