Mac Admins Podcast

SYNOPSIS

Sam Valencia, co-host of Command Control Power, joins us to talk about training, consulting, and the history of Mac-focused podcasts.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage [@marcusransom]

GUESTS

• Sam Valencia, Command Control Power, Connecticut Office of HCS Technology Group [@UID501]

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Michael Lynn’s Bug Report on High Sierra, The TouchBar and AD Accounts

ISE requires 4.5 release

Keychain oddities in High Sierra

More Broadcom Vulns

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Call for Presenters

Mac AD UK in Leicester Square, February 20-21, 2018

Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Mac Admin Monthly will meet on 10/10 at Google in New York and by Google Hangout.

Denver Mac Admins will meet on 10/12 at Rewind Technology in Centennial.

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SYNOPSIS

Sarah Edwards joins us to talk about Digital Forensics on the Mac, and using system tools, special software, and all kinds of other cool tools to do forensic research on iOS devices and Macs.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage [@marcusransom]
• Adam Codega, Consultant [@adamcodega]

GUESTS

• Sarah Edwards, mac4n6.com – Mobile Forensics Engineer, Parsons Corporation / SANS Author & Instructor of Mac Forensic Analysis – [@iamevltwin]

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Mac 4n6 Blog
Location scraper
MacMRU Parser

Five Dollar Wrench

iP Box

MacQuisition

SleuthKit

iExplorer

OpenBSM Auditing on macOS

OpenBSM article in MacTech (from Rich Trouton)

iOS Frequent Locations Dumper

HFSPlus Resources

Chicago Tribune

Stanford Heart Research

iTunes Information

Qi Charging

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Call for Presenters

Mac AD UK in Leicester Square, February 20-21, 2018

Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Melbourne Apple Admins for Thursday 28th September at REA
#franken-macadmins Meetup in Nuremberg, Germany, next meeting is on 9/28, for more info visit us over at #franken-macadmins
Netherlands Apple Admins will meet Thursday 9/28 at 1:30, at LAI in Schiedam, the Netherlands
Apple Admins of Seattle will meet on 9/28 at Synapse.
Mac Admin Monthly will meet on 10/10 at Google in New York and by Google Hangout.

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SYNOPSIS

Ed Marczak of Google joins us to talk about his story as a Mac Admin, as well as the many projects that Google has built, and also a lot of great history about MacTech Conference

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• James Smith, IT Administrator @ Culture Amp [@smithjw]
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage [@marcusransom]

GUESTS

• Ed Marczak, MacOps team at Google [@marczak]

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Radiotope

Speaking Professionally

Macysadmin 2013 – Ed Marczak “The Future”

Ed Marczak at MacDevOps: How To Fail

Simian
Cauliflower Vest
Micromdm
Santa

Zombies Run

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Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Mac DMV 16th of September at noon at Tunnicliff’s Tavern in DC
University of Utah Mac Admins Wed, Sept 20th @ 11am MT in the Marriott Library, room 1705a.
Atlanta Apple Admins Thursday 21st September – venue TBD
Melbourne Apple Admins for Thursday 28th September at REA
#franken-macadmins Meetup in Nuremberg, Germany, next meeting is on 9/28, for more info visit us over at #franken-macadmins
Netherlands Apple Admins will meet Thursday 9/28 at 1:30, at LAI in Schiedam, the Netherlands

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SYNOPSIS

Lisa Davies, a Senior System Engineer from Oath – a Verizon subsidiary of 50+ media and tech brands including Yahoo and AOL – joins us to talk about adventures in machine compliance, 10.13 testing, CIS compliance, and her career as a senior Mac admin at Oath – formerly Yahoo and AOL and a number of other media brands now part of Verizon.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, Systems Engineer for The Home Depot [@emilyooo]
• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC, [@tbridge]

GUESTS

• Lisa Davies, Sr System Engineer, Oath

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

CIS stuff:
OSX Lockdown
OS X Config Check
CIS for macOS Sierra by Jamf Professional Services

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Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Mac Admin Monthly will meet September 12th at 4:30pm at Google in New York.
London Apple Admins 14th of September which will be held at MullenLowe’s offices in Old Street, from approx 7-9pm
Mac DMV 16th of September at noon at Tunnicliff’s Tavern in DC
Atlanta Apple Admins Thursday 21st September – venue TBD
Melbourne Apple Admins for Thursday 28th September at REA
#franken-macadmins Meetup in Nuremberg, Germany, next meeting is on 9/28, for more info visit us over at #franken-macadmins
Netherlands Apple Admins will meet Thursday 9/28 at 1:30, at LAI in Schiedam, the Netherlands

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SYNOPSIS

Mike Dodge explains Chef in detail, talks about life at Fry's Electronics before Facebook existed, and that time he scripted his entire life.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• John Kitzmiller, Senior IT Engineer at Fastly. [@johnkitzmiller]
• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC, [@tbridge]

GUESTS

• Mike Dodge, Client Platform Engineer, Facebook

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Facebook Chef Cookbooks

Chef at Facebook
Domain Specific Language in Chef
Nodes in Chef
Ohai in Chef
AD/CB

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Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Austin Apple Admins will meet September 6th at Eanes ISD in Austin, TX.
Perth Apple AdminsWednesday 6th September @ 5:30pm Upstairs at The Loft in Perth Australia.
Mac Admin Monthly will meet September 12th at 4:30pm at Google in New York.
London Apple Admins 14th of September which will be held at MullenLowe’s offices in Old Street, from approx 7-9pm
Mac DMV 16th of September at noon at Tunnicliff’s Tavern in DC
Atlanta Apple Admins Thursday 21st September – venue TBD
Melbourne Apple Admins for Thursday 28th September at REA
#franken-macadmins Meetup in Nuremberg, Germany, next meeting is on 9/28, for more info visit us over at #franken-macadmins

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SYNOPSIS

Ben Greiner talks about consulting, running a SaaS before that was even an acronym, and life as a Mac Admin at Ball State in the olden days.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC, [@tbridge]

GUESTS

• Ben Greiner, Owner, Forget Computers

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Bender Backup for macOS Server

Oprah gives away iPods

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Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Austin Apple Admins will meet September 6th at Eanes ISD in Austin, TX.
Mac Admin Monthly will meet September 12th at 4:30pm at Google in New York.
London Apple Admins 14th of September which will be held at MullenLowe’s offices in Old Street, from approx 7-9pm
Melbourne Apple Admins for Thursday 28th September – at REA

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SYNOPSIS:

Allister Banks joins the Podcast for an episode focused around the current state of macOS, as well as conversations about life in many different IT contexts, open source software, and many other events.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
• John Kitzmiller, Senior IT Engineer at Fastly. [@johnkitzmiller]

GUESTS

• Allister Banks, Excitable [Website], [Github]

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LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir

Script to Install High Sierra DP5

We Need to Document macOS

Technical Note TN2459: Secure Kernel Extension Loading

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Conference Sites

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Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 2017
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26, 2017
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA on November 15-17 2017

Meet-ups

Austin Apple Admins will meet September 6th at Eanes ISD in Austin, TX.
Mac Admin Monthly will meet September 12th at 4:30pm at Google in New York.
London Apple Admins 14th of September which will be held at MullenLowe’s offices in Old Street, from approx 7-9pm
Melbourne Apple Admins for Thursday 21st September – venue to be announced soon

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Episode 46: Hot Sauce Talk with Allen Hancock of Watchman Monitoring SYNOPSIS

Allen Hancock of Watchman Monitoring joins the Podcast to talk about what it’s like to transition from consulting to SaaS-provider, as well as the history of the product.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
• Adam Codega, Apple Consultant [@adamcodega]

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Penn State MacAdmins Videos

Steve Yuroff: It’s Incredible This Works At All

Proactive Support Course and Certification

A 2 hour course and certification for people looking to promote the proactive support they provide. Next events in Orlando, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in conjunction with MacTech events

BackupMinder – Watchman Monitoring offers a tool to trim backups which might otherwise fill a hard drive. Released with an MIT license

Adobe signs the death warrant for Flash

Hot Sauces of Mac Admins:

Valentina Hot Sauce

Beerenberg Chilli Sauce

Langdon Wood 1814 Hot Sauce

Gochujang Sriracha

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Conference Sites

CMD-D Conference in Santa Clara, CA August 9
Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 17
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26

Meet-ups

MacDMV will meet August 15th at ID.me in Tysons Corner, Virginia
Mac Admin Monthly will meet August 8th at Google in New York, and via Google Hangout.
Philly Mac Admins August meet up on the 17th at the Walnut street apple store @ 6pm
Austin Apple Admins will meet September 6th at Eanes ISD in Austin, TX.

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Mac Admins Podcast, Episode 45: Things Get Loopy When The Rock Shows Up SYNOPSIS

The team talks the end of conference season for a little bit, iOS 10.3.3 and macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and the associated critical security update, a bit about testing iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, and then things get a little loopy when The Rock and Siri show up.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

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WiFi Trek

Munki Mistakes Made Right

Fighting With Physics: A Wi-Fi Workshop

Intro to GitLab: DevOps tools on a shell script budget

Advanced Munki Infrastructure: Moving to Cloud Services

macOS 10.12.6 and iOS 10.3.3

Testing iOS 10 and Sierra

Out of School: 224: Test Again

Kernel extensions email went out to devs

Kexts that will make an admin cry – python script to check for installed 3rd party kexts

Kextpocalypse

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Conference Sites

CMD-D Conference in Santa Clara, CA August 9
Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 17
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26

Meet-ups

MacDMV will meet August 15th at ID.me in Tysons Corner, Virginia
Mac Admin Monthly will meet August 8th at Google in New York, and via Google Hangout.
Philly Mac Admins August meet up on the 17th at the Walnut street apple store @ 6pm
Austin Apple Admins will meet September 6th at Eanes ISD in Austin, TX.

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SYNOPSIS

Tom and Pepijn record a live episode at the PSU Mac Admins Conferenceto talk about careers and jobs in the Mac Admin world, as well as a discussion of current events.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com

GUESTS

• Jason Miller, IT Support Lead, Thumbtack [@jasonkmiller]
• Robert Hammen, Mac Support Lead, NCBI at NIH [@roberthammen
• Jason Broccardo, System Administrator, Forget Computers [@zoocoup]
• Gretchen Kuwahara, Conference Committee, PSU Mac Admins Conference. [@osuterrycat
• Special Guest Mike Lynn, Facebook [@mikeymikey]

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Robert & Jason’s Presentation on Jumping off the #jobs-board

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Conference Sites

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CMD-D Conference in Santa Clara, CA August 9
Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 17
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26

Meet-ups

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Twin Cities Mac Admins will be hosting a meetup at Target Commons in Minneapolis on Wednesday, July 19th.
Seattle Apple Admins Meetup Thursday July 20th at Nordstrom in Seattle
Auckland Mac Admins Meet up 28 July at 7pm NZST. For more information, visit #anzmac in Slack.
Melbourne Apple Admins on the 27th of July at Seek

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