Mac Admins Podcast

SYNOPSIS:

Arek Dreyer joins the pod to talk about the latest in Apple’s training series on macOS Essentials!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUEST:

• Arek Dreyer, Author

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macOS Support Essentials 10.15

Discount Code: MACOS1015
Save 37% on macOS Support Essentials 10.15 – Apple Pro Training Series: Supporting and Troubleshooting macOS Catalina

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird MacDevOpsYVR 2020 SFU Harbour Centre Vancouver, Canada 10-12 June 2020 CAD$400 education early bird, CAD$600 independent early bird, CAD$800 corporate early bird JNUC 2020 Hilton San Diego Bayfront 29 September – 1 October 2020 $1,399 Just in Time, $1,199 Standard, $1,099 Early Bird, $999 Super Early Bird Upcoming Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Netherlands Jamf user group Bol.com 31 January 2020, 5:00 p.m. CET Free Sydney Mac Admins Jamf Sydney Office 12 February 2020, 6:00 p.m. AEST Free San Diego Mac Admins UC San Diego Health 12 February 2020, 6:00 p.m. PT Free London Apple Admins Funding Circle 13 February 2020, 6:30 p.m. GMT Free Univ of Utah MacAdmins Univ of Utah, Marriott Library, 1705a Classroom 19 February 2020, 11:00 a.m. MT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Bart Busschots joins the pod for the first episode of 2020 to talk about the Mac and security posture!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUEST:

• Bart Busschots, Maynooth University [@bbusschots]

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Let’s Talk
Security Segments on Podfeet

Bart’s Epic Photo

Halide

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird JNUC 2020 Hilton San Diego Bayfront 29 September – 1 October 2020 $1,399 Just in Time, $1,199 Standard, $1,099 Early Bird, $999 Super Early Bird Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Houston Apple Admins Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co 21 January 2020, 5:30 p.m. CT Free MacDMV Right Proper Brewing Co 22 January 2020, 6:30 p.m. EST Free Toronto MacAdmins LoyaltyOne Atrium 22 January 2020, 6:00 p.m. ET Free Atlanta Apple Admins Serendipity Labs 23 January 2020, 6:00 p.m. ET Free Philly Apple Admins Yards Brewing Company 23 January 2020, 6:30 p.m. EST Free Netherlands Jamf user group Bol.com 31 January 2020, 5:00 p.m. CET Free Sydney Mac Admins Jamf Sydney Office 12 February 2020, 6:00 p.m. AEST Free London Apple Admins Funding Circle 13 February 2020, 6:30 p.m. GMT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

We’re not quite done with 2019 just yet. Here’s our wrap-up for everything that happened in 2019.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]
• Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Tim Perfitt Talks about the Mac Pro

Apple Enterprise Network Documentation

Apple Security Guide, Fall 2019
Apple Deployment Reference (iOS), Fall 2019
Apple Deployment Reference (macOS), Fall 2019
Apple Mobile Device Management Settings, Fall 2019

Episode 129: Apple’s Been Very Busy This Year, with Jeremy Butcher

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Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird JNUC 2020 Hilton San Diego Bayfront 29 September – 1 October 2020 $1,199 Standard, $899 First Bird, $999 Super Early Bird Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost San Diego Mac Admins UC San Diego Health 15 January 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Alexis Bridoux from Amaris joins Tom and Charles to talk about Ceremony, a new first-launch application for deployment tools!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUESTS:

• Alexis Bridoux, Consultant, Amaris Group

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Ceremony

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird JNUC 2020 Hilton San Diego Bayfront 29 September – 1 October 2020 $1,199 Standard, $899 First Bird, $999 Super Early Bird Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost San Diego Mac Admins UC San Diego Health 15 January 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Shawn Honsberger from Linde Group joins to talk about AutoPkgr, how the project has grown and changed, and the latest release.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]
• Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]

OUR GUESTS:

• Shawn Honsberger, Senior IT Engineer, Linde Group

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Linde Group
AutoPkgr Readme
AutoPkgr Release
AutoPkgr “It’s only mostly dead” announcement
AutoPkgr Wiki
JSSImporter Wiki
AutoPkg Wiki
Cocoa Pods
How Not To Do Bad Things With AutoPkg
Take Vacations with this one weird trick: Documentation!

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Matt Armstrong from Jamf brings all the pretty pictures to this week’s episode to talk about connecting management tools with data visualization!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]
• Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]

OUR GUESTS:

• Matt Armstrong, Jamf

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4729/
Jamf and Domo
Jamf module for PowerBI
Jamf and Grafana
JamfSOS

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost San Diego Mac Admins UC San Diego Health 18 December 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Part Two of our Consulting Series with Charles interviewing Tom and Marcus.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUESTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Command Control Power

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost MacADUK 2020 The London Film Museum 24-25 March 2020 £595 List, £420 Early Bird Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost MacDeployment Meetup 1000 5 Ave SW (9th floor), Calgary, Canada 28 November 2019, 6:30 p.m. MT Free Sydney Mac Admins Origin 84 4 December 2019, 4:30 p.m. AEDT Free Houston Apple Admins Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co 4 December 2019, 5:30 p.m. CT Free MacDMV Right Proper Brewing Company 4 December 2019, 6 p.m. ET RSVP Twin Cities Mac Admins Jamf HQ 10 December 2019, 5:00 p.m. CT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Brad Chapman knows entirely too much about APNs and MDM, and he’s here to share.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUEST:

• Brad Chapman, Mac Systems Engineer

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Use Apple Products on Enterprise Networks
If your macOS and iOS clients aren’t getting Apple push notifications
TCP and UDP Ports used by Apple software products
About macOS, iOS, and iTunes server host connections and iTunes background processes
A Technical Update on APNS and MDM for Elite Squadrons of Device Administrators

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SYNOPSIS:

Live from the Hyatt Regency Nicollet Ballroom and JNUC 2019, Tom and Charles talk with Patrick Wardle and Josh Stein about Jamf Protect.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUEST:

• Josh Stein, Director, Product Strategy – Jamf Protect, Jamf
• Patrick Wardle, Senior Security Researcher, Jamf

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Jamf Protect

Apple GamePlayKit

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost Jamf Nation User Conference Minneapolis, MN 12-14 November 2019 $1199 Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost San Diego Mac Admins UC San Diego Health 20 November 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT Free Atlanta Apple Admins VMWare 21 November 2019, 6:00 p.m. ET Free Apple Admins of Seattle and the Great Northwest HBO 21 November 2019, 6.00 p.m. PT Free Dallas Apple Admins Meetup Bottle Rocket Studio 21 November 2019, 6.30 p.m. PT Free Los Angeles Mac Admins Meetup [Universal City – See Jamf Nation for more information] 21 November 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT Free MacDeployment Meetup 1000 5 Ave SW (9th floor), Calgary, Canada 28 November 2019, 6:30 p.m. MT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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SYNOPSIS:

Ben Toms, the Mac Mule himself, joins Tom, Charles and Marcus to talk about building tools and picking the right moment for them to ride off into the sunset.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]
• Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom]

OUR GUEST:

• Ben Toms, Technical Director, dataJar Ltd. [@macmuleblog]

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Farewell AutoCasperNBI and AutoImagrNBI

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