Mac Admins Podcast

What does it mean to be a Mac Admin in the year of jobs 2025? Long gone are the days of having to explain that no, that isn't something that macs can integrate with. Instead we have all had to become experts in so many different silos within the modern IT organisation, from Identity, Security, Networking and Certificates. Being able to embrace and understand these concepts has also led to opportunities in career growth. Gone are the days where hoping for a small windowless room and the opportunity to get some new hardware to test once in a while was seen as a good deal. The growth of macOS in the enterprise has meant that our skills are incredibly attractive to large organisations, especially if we are able to combine technical prowess with the negotiation and collaboration required to drag Windows-centric teams towards the path of righteousness when it comes to a cross-platform or employee choice environment

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

Guests:

• Tony Young - LinkedIn

Links:

• Tony's Career Audit
• Career Audit Template
• Kane Narraway
• What is Client Platform Engineering

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Alectrona
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion join us to talk about device security & compliance, as well as how to handle the necessary access control issues that can come from it. Whether it's SSF, app management, identity management, there's always knock-on effects. How can folks handle them?

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

Guests:

• Sriram Kakarala, CPO, Scalefusion - LinkedIn
• Preetham Gurram, VP of Product, Scalefusion - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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 have all enjoyed seeing Apple make the noticeable shift to embracing modern cloud identity with the integrations we have seen over the past few years. From modern authentication at enrollment, Single Sign on extensions through to Federation of Managed Apple accounts and Platform Single Sign-on. The announcements at WWDC this year gave us more reasons to be excited, with a whole bunch of new capabilities announced. What does this really mean and can I start using this in production tomorrow?

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Michael Epping - LinkedIn
• Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/implementing-platform-sso-during-device-enrollment
• Parallelipiped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelepiped
• The Great Disnub Dirhomboidodecahedron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_disnub_dirhombidodecahedron
• Klein Bottle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
• Apple and Emory Healthcare: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-products-transform-care-at-emory-healthcare/
• Microsoft FIDO Alliance Case Study: https://fidoalliance.org/case-study-microsoft/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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 into the beta season! Apple has released a bunch of documentation, as well as a full suite of betas to go with everything we talked about last week on the Flashcast. We'll be talking PSSO, MDM Migration, and the AxM APIs.

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

Links:

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api
• https://registry.terraform.io/providers/neilmartin83/axm/latest/docs
• https://github.com/rodchristiansen/asbmutil
• https://bartreardon.github.io/2025/06/11/using-the-new-api-for-apple-business-school-manager.html
• https://github.com/apple/device-management/branches
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/enrolling-with-platform-single-sign-on
• https://tombridge.com/2025/06/09/how-new-mdm-features-ship-to-mdm-customers/
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-school-and-business-manager-api

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

Declarative Device Management is just as easy as turning on the protocol, accepting the messages, and then responding over the new channel, right? Should be a couple weeks' work for any MDM, right? Well, we're going deep on DDM's nuts and bolts with Bryce from Addigy on their journey to DDM management. Let's see how it really went?

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

Guests:

• Bryce Carlson - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

With WWDC announced for June 9 through 12 this year, we're all looking forward to whatever new device management capabilities we get to see. Toss a coin to your MDM vendors (o' valley of plenty) for they are the ones that need to turn these wonderful new frameworks and features into something that we as Mac Admins can integrate into the workflows we need to create the magical end user experiences we strive for.

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

Guests:

• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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

Joel Rennich's back with us to talk about code signing certificates,

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

Guests:

• Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

Links:

• Dave Pike Set - Mathar
• Jumpin' Jack Flash

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

There are a lot of incredible conferences out there for Mac Admins to attend - MacSysAdmin, MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, X World, Objective by the Sea - but what's the story behind the story? This week we're talking with conference organizers about how they think about their events, the challenges that they face, and the future of these critical community events.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]

Guests:

• Patrik Jerneheim, MacSysAdmin - LinkedIn
• Mat X, MacDevOps YVR - LinkedIn
• Gretchen Kuwahara, MacAdmins at Penn State University - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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

Tom & Marcus are in Brighton this week with three friends: Neil Johnson, Cat McDonald, and Liam Donnelly. MacAD.UK 2025 was full of great talks, so let's dial it in and talk with three of the best speakers.

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

Guests:

• Neil Johnson - LinkedIn
• Cat McDonald
• Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.macad.uk/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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

Erin Merchant's back with the Mac Admins Podcast to help us get caught up with the latest news and events. We're talking macOS 15.4 (and 15.4.1), the latest kerfuffles with Apple Intelligence, and we're all wondering why Tom's MacBook Pro keeps restarting in his backpack.

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

Guests:

• Erin Merchant - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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