Mac Admins Podcast

SYNOPSIS:

Rich Siegel of Bare Bones software joins the pod this week to talk about BBEdit, TextWrangler’s departure, and life in the App Store World.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUT GUESTS:

• Rich Siegel, Bare Bones Software

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

BBEdit

The old guard of Mac indy apps have thrived for more than 25 years

Apple asks app makers to remove or disclose behavior recording tools:
A Light Discussion on Bug Bounties
Tom’s Rant Corner on the SSD Service Program
SecureToken troutsplained
Resyncing local account passwords and Secure Token

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost Addigy Partner Summit Miami, Florida 6-8 March 2019 $500 Mac Admin & Developer Conference, UK London, United Kingdom 26-27 March 2019 £597 General Adminission MacDevOps:YVR Vancouver, Canada June 12-14, 2019 $275CAD – $495CAD Mac Admins at Penn State State College, PA 12-19 July 2019 Call For Presenters Open Jamf Nation User Conference Minneapolis, MN 12-14 November 2019 $799 Early Bird Rate ($699 for EDU) Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Toronto Mac Admins Globe and Mail Centre 28 February 2019, 6:00 p.m. ET Free St. Louis Mac Admins Hotel Saint Louis, Autograph Collection 7 March 2019, 6:00 p.m. CT Free San Diego Mac Admins Interlaced, Downtown SD 13 March 2019, 6:00 p.m. PT Free Dallas Apple Admins Bottle Rocket Studios 21 March 2019, 6:30 p.m. CT Free Houston Apple Admins Envision Design 27 March 2019, 5:30 p.m. CT Free SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

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Episode 112: Live From Seattle!

This week, a special episode of the Mac Admins Podcast, taped at Dropbox in Seattle! Tom sat down with four IT Leaders in the Seattle Mac Admins community to talk about careers, leadership, and the advice we all wish we’d had.

SYNOPSIS:

Tom visits Seattle, and finds a great conversation waiting about leadership, career development, and advice you want to give yourself. Vi Lynk, Ashley Smith, Chris Dawe and Jonathan Spiva join the pod at Dropbox in Seattle for a special live episode.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]

YOUR GUESTS:

• Chris Dawe, Wheelwrights LLC
• Vi Lynk, Director of Technology, Giddens School
• Jonathan Spiva, Director Of IT, Convoy
• Ashley Smith, Desktop Engineer, Accolade Inc

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Vi’s talk: Don’t even think about doing this work alone! – Finding and Maintaining Partners in IT

Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management

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Episode 111: Pennsylvania Dreaming SYNOPSIS:

Gretchen Kuwahara and Rusty Myers of Mac Admins at Penn State join the pod this week to talk about the 2019 Mac Admins Conference!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUESTS:

• Gretchen Kuwahara, Penn State University
• Rusty Myers, Penn State University

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Early Bird Registration: $649

Mac Admins Call For Presenters

Mac Admins at Penn State Website

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MAC ADMINS PODCAST COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING Conference Sites Event Name Location Dates Cost Addigy Partner Summit Miami, Florida 6-8 March 2019 $500 Mac Admin & Developer Conference, UK London, United Kingdom 26-27 March 2019 £597 General Adminission MacDevOps:YVR Vancouver, Canada June 12-14, 2019 $275CAD – $495CAD Mac Admins at Penn State State College, PA 12-19 July 2019 Call For Presenters Open Jamf Nation User Conference Minneapolis, MN 12-14 November 2019 $799 Early Bird Rate ($699 for EDU) Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost San Diego Mac Admins Interlaced, Downtown SD 13 February 2018, 6:00 p.m. PT Free University of Utah Mac Admins Marriott Library, University of Utah 20 February 2019, 11:00 a.m. MT Free MacDeployment Meetup 805 10 Ave SW, #200 20 February 2019, 6:30 p.m. MT Free Twin Cities Mac Admins CBX 21 February 2019, 5:00 p.m. CT Free MacSysAdmins Switzerland Cafe Gloria, Zürich 21 February 2019, 18:45 p.m. CET Free Seattle Apple Admins Dropbox Seattle 21 February 2019, 5:30 p.m. PT Free Atlanta Apple Admins SweetWater Brewery 21 February 2019, 6:00 p.m. ET Free Toronto Mac Admins Globe and Mail Centre 28 February 2019, 6:00 p.m. ET Free St. Louis Mac Admins Hotel Saint Louis, Autograph Collection 7 March 2019, 6:00 p.m. CT Free Houston Apple Admins Envision Design 27 March 2019, 5:30 p.m. CT Free RATE US ON ITUNES!

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SYNOPSIS:

Charles and Tom have a lot on their minds, from 10.14.3, to Adobe licensing, to the 35th anniversary of the Mac.

YOUR HOSTS:

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

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

10.14.3 Ships

Happy 35th Birthday to the Mac
Introduction of the Mac

Adobe Shared Device Licensing starts on January 28th

Office 365 in the App Store

Armin Briegel’s 2019 Outlook

Tycho was the loveliest of humans. He was kind, he was the most giving person I’ve ever met, and he set new standards for what it means to be a host. I try to emulate so much of his attributes, but continue to come up short. Even though we’ve known about his health issues for years, and specifically that he had announced he wouldn’t be involved in MacSysAdmin as the “dictator” any more, I am as devastated about this as I’ve been about anyone I’ve lost in my adult life. My heart goes out to Patrick, Anna, and all of his family and circle of friends. We’ve all lost a great friend and may we keep him with us always.

Donate to 350.org in his honor.

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SYNOPSIS:

Tim Perfitt’s back on the pod this week as we talk with him about Two Canoes’ latest offering, Mac Deploy Stick!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]
• Adam Codega, IT Consultant, Providence, RI [@adamcodega]

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Mac Deploy Stick
Mac Deploy Stick Repo
Mac Deploy Stick Bundle
Mac Deploy Stick Automaton
Mac Deploy Stick YouTube

Mac Deploy Stick Slack on MacAdmins: #macdeploystic

Adafruit / Itsybitsy
ItsyBitsyEnclosure for 3D printing

Arduino
Imagr
Bootstrappr

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SYNOPSIS:

Working in Python means working with external modules, virtual environments and all sorts of useful extensions of the Python language. This week we talk with Carl about how modules work, how to choose good ones, and how to get started with Python as a Mac Admin

YOUR HOSTS:

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

GUEST:

• Carl, A Mac Admin in the K-12 Sector

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LINKS & NOTES

Python 2.7.15 Documentation
The Python Standard Library
Python Namespace
Modules and Packages
Definitive Guide to Python import statements
Modules and Packages: Live and Let Die! (Warning – 3hr video)
Installing Packages
pip vs easy_install
Python for macOS
Wheel vs Egg
Python on wheels
XKCD Standards
Python Virtual Environments
Python virtual environments: A primer
Installing packages using pip and virtualenv
Docstring
XKCD Wisdom of the Ancients
Requests for Python
Corey Schafer on YouTube
Learn Python the Hard way
Pandas
Carl’s Apple Loops Script

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Episode 107: Sweet Rootkits, a Year in Review SYNOPSIS:

The end of 2018 is upon us! Join Tom, Marcus, Charles and James as they talk through the year that was and put some predictions out there for 2019. Thanks to everyone who made 2018 a banner year!

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• James Smith, IT Administrator, Culture Amp [@smithjw]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

New Mac Malware in 2018

Detecting Windtail in an Extension Attribute

Graham Gilbert & Wes Whetstone at MacDevOps YVR

Installr

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SYNOPSIS:

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the pod
Not a drive was stirring, not even the JBOD
Charles in his kerchief, and Marcus in his hat
Had just settled in for a long Christmas chat.

James Ridsdale did join them, and Ben Toms too,
And they talked about Kickstart and Slack and Ubuntu
“Don’t forget MacADUK!” they shouted, over beer,
We gotcha covered, fellas, no need to fear.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

GUEST:

• James Ridsdale, Managing Director, dataJAR Ltd.
• Ben Toms, Technical Director, dataJAR Ltd.

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

More Slackin’

Use the kickstart command-line utility on macOS Mojave 10.14

MacADUK

Jamf’s Github

Add Jamf Pro Smart Group to a Google Doc Using Zapier

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SYNOPSIS:

Communicating the difficult technical realities we live in can be a huge challenge. This week we’re joined by Adam and Tonya Engst, proprietors of TidBITS and the TidBITS Content Network, who specialize in making the technical approachable.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• James Smith, IT Administrator, Culture Amp [@smithjw]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

OUR GUESTS:

• Tonya Engst, Editor in Chief and CFO – TidBITS, TidBITS Content Network
• Adam Engst, CEO and Publisher – TidBITS, TidBITS Content Network

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

TidBITS

AUP

The Early Days of USENET

Apple Style Guide

Take Control Books

Screw Your Shoes

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SYNOPSIS:

Jeremy Butcher (Enterprise Product Marketing) and Doug Brooks (Mac Hardware Product Marketing) from Apple join the podcast this week to talk about Mobile Device Management, Apple Business Manager, the T2 chip, and how it all comes together.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
• Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf [@cedge318]

GUEST:

• Jeremy Butcher, Product Marketing for Enterprise Software, Apple Inc.
• Doug Brooks, Product Marketing for Mac Hardware, Apple Inc.

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Apple T2 Security Chip — Security Overview:

Getting started guide — Apple Business Manager

Configuration Profile Reference

macOS Security — overview for IT

iOS Security — iOS 12

Apple Business Manager Documentation

Mobile device management settings for IT

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