Mac Admins Podcast

Apple's back to talk about the 26 release cycle, new APIs and plenty of great work that we can get excited about.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/migrating-managed-devices
• Swift Connect https://swiftconnect.io/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Material Security
• Meter
• Watchman Monitoring

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Apple's released a gaggle of new hardware today. What's on the release list? What do we make of the new models? Let's dive in and figure it out.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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Marcus and (sorry)James live from X World in Melbourne

• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• James Smith - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Tony Gray - LinkedIn
• James White - LinkedIn
• Robert Hammen - LinkedIn
• Phill Wade - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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Alex Confer from Risotto joins the pod this week to discuss IT career development and what it's like to move to the world of startups. The conversation also touches on how to evaluate what AI is good for in 2025 including what's practical, what's not, and how to put things together.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Alex Confer - LinkedIn

Links:

• The Katering Show - Hot Wet Rice ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yr_etbfZtQ
• Form follows function - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
• Alex on the Mac Admins slack - @aconfer
• https://tryrisotto.com/
• Avoiding brainrot and keeping mental friction: https://pauljun.substack.com/p/anti-slop-and-anti-brainrot

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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Apple Silicon provides so many different opportunities with virtualisation, but many of us still miss the intel days when we could snapshot and use serial numbers to automate device enrollment. Tools like Tart provide opportunities to build workflows that allow us to configure and enhance the way we virtualise macOS.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Rob Potvin, Senior Consulting Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn

Links:

• MacADUK presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqS9bG3bkg
• Rob's Blog - https://www.motionbug.com/
• Tart - https://tart.run/
• Virtual Buddy - https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
• Bushel - https://getbushel.app/
• Orka - https://www.macstadium.com/orka
• Anka - https://veertu.com/anka-flow/
• UTM - https://mac.getutm.app/
• Great resource for VMs https://eclecticlight.co/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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The MacAdmins Community has a long, vibrant history of solving problems together usually through open source projects that become essential tools in our workflows. Whatever challenge you're facing, chances are there's already a project, or a group of passionate people, tackling something similar.

But with so many options, the path forward isn't always clear. Do you adopt an existing open source tool? Invest in a polished, commercial solution? Or roll up your sleeves and build something totally new?

Today we're diving into one admins journey into this struggle, and their path as they decided to build their own solutions for automating application and software patching in their organization.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Rob Schroeder - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://techitout.xyz/2025/04/24/automating-apple-os-ddm-software-updates-in-jamf-pro-using-azure-runbooks/
• https://techitout.xyz/2024/10/08/jnuc-2024/
• https://community.jamf.com/idaho-mac-admins-93/idaho-apple-admins-meetup-55529

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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Arek and Matt joined us in March of 2025 to talk about Vulnerability Management, and they're back to share their progress, as well as a look at the future. Then we'll dive in on the week's news.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
• Matt Day - LinkedIn

Links:

• Release notes - https://www.kandji.io/updates/2025/07/vulnerability-response-remediation/
• Support article - https://support.kandji.io/kb/patching-applications-based-on-cve-severity
• The Failure Mode of Clever - https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Macs are safe - they don't get malware. We used to hear this all the time and whilst Apple has done a wonderful job of building a secure by design operating system, there are still threats out there we need to protect ourselves against. It's also no surprise that macOS is not Windows. And it's further and further away from behaving like UNIX these days. So how do we know what to look for, and where to even go looking for it? Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs joins us to talk about his new book: Threat Hunting macOS - Mastering endpoint security

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Jaron Bradley - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://themittenmac.com/threat-hunting-book/
• https://objectivebythesea.org
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
• SpriteTree https://themittenmac.com/tools/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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We're live at the MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, talking about the week's events, the state of the community, and what it's like being at this very special conference. We've got great guests, and a good chance to have a wonderful conversation.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]

Guests:

• Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
• Greg Neagle - LinkedIn
• Jacob Burley - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

We're at Beta 3 and at least a third of the way through the beta season. How are things going, what have we discovered so far and what are we still looking to find out?

There are also plenty of other things happening in the Mac Admin community - lets talk through some of those things and get excited for what we are able to do now that we couldn't do before!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://github.com/headmin/paw-project
• https://jc0b.computer/posts/munki-mscp-generator
• https://github.com/gilburns/Intuneomator
• https://micromdm.io/blog/micromdm-v1-maintenance-mode/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson