Mac Admins Podcast

Who doesn't like a nice round number? Much like watching the odometer on the car tick over, we decided to make something special of episode 400, even if it technically might be the 410th episode we recorded… Please allow us to indulge ourselves by having a look back on the almost nine years we have been doing this. We are so humbled y'all are still here!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @smashism

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataman
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-702P
• https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/50041/A%20Computer%20Adventure%20Game:%20Island%20of%20Secrets/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• iMazing
• Smallstep
• 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

Matt from Omnissa joins the Mac Admins team to talk about Omnissa's latest developments for Workspace ONE, and life after the Broadcom divestment.

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

Guests:

• Matt Coppinger - LinkedIn

Links:

• 2406 release Notes

• Microsoft - Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• iMazing
• Smallstep
• 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

Apple has done a great job of providing first-party applications to achieve pretty much anything you would want to do using their devices. From iMovie to Final Cut Pro, contentious changes to the Photos app, and the productivity tools like Pages, Numbers, and the awesome power of Keynote. Despite this, we generally need to provide much more than this to our users, installing applications from many different vendors with wildly varying approaches to installation, configuration and updates. There are almost as many approaches to managing the installation and patching of third-party software as there are vendors, and today we are going to speak to Adam Derrick from Jamf, and Dave Goldberg from Horizon BCBS about using Jamf App Installers in production.

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

Guests:

• Adam Derrick, SE @ Jamf
• Dave Goldberg, Horizon BCBS of NJ

Links:

• #JNUC 2024: Save Time with #Jamf App Installers - A Modern Approach to App Management
• Software Titles - Jamf App Catalog
• Release Notes - Jamf App Catalog
• Feature Requests - jamf.it/featurerequest

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Smallstep
• iMazing
• 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

The team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they've gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They're with us today to talk about SBOMs - Software Bill of Materials - and security in your work environments. Patching remains a really integral part of doing Mac Admin work right, and this critical concept is one we're going deep on.

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

Guests:

• John Britton, Workbrew - LinkedIn
• Mike McQuaid, Workbrew - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
• https://workbrew.com/macadmins
• PSU MacAdmins workbrew sessions (Marcus to add)
  • https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-psu-2024-session-homebrew-balancing-the-needs-of-it-security-and-engineering-teams-at-scale
  • https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-conference-2024-session-workbrew-a-deep-dive-into-the-enterprise-software-delivery-platform
• pcpartpicker.com
  • https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mikemcquaid/saved/#view=7gjtWZ Mike's PC :D
• https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile Mike's Brewfile
• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Homebrew Bundle/Brewfiles

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• iMazing
• Smallstep
• 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

Andrew Orrison from CrashPlan joins the pod to talk about a couple topics: how they've moved to be their own organization from being part of Code42, and how they use the Mac Admins Slack as a way to support the community.

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

Guests:

• Andrew Orrison - LinkedIn

Links:

• Mac Admins Slack Vendor Guidelines
• Parablu acquisition
• Lady Washington (Ship)

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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

Ari from iMazing joins the podcast to talk about iMazing Profile Editor, a tool near and dear to Mac Admins for its wide understanding of the MDM Specification and ability to create signed profiles easily for distribution in the MDM of your choice.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Becky Scott - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Ari Leviatan - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://github.com/ProfileManifests/ProfileManifests
• https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/profilemanifestsmirror/
• https://github.com/Jamf-Custom-Profile-Schemas/ProfileManifestsMirror
• https://xkcd.com/1053/
• https://imazing.com/cli
• https://imazing.com/configurator
• Rosey: https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Rosey

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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

Collin Elliott is back to talk to more about controlling the family devices in your midst.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Becky Scott - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

Links:

• Episode 376: https://podcast.macadmins.org/2024/08/14/episode-376-family-device-control-with-collin-elliott/
• https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/228006487-FamilyShield-Router-Configuration-Instructions

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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

Lets look back on 2024 and remember the year that was. There will be lots of laughing, maybe some eye rolling. Probably also some tears.

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

Links:

• Management profile settings and OS upgrade implications | Der Flounder
• Episode 359: Mac@Cisco – A Mac Admins Perspective
• Episode 362: ACES Conference with Justin Esgar
• Episode 370: Jedda Wignall on Managed Device Attestation
• Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO with Microsoft Entra ID–Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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

Entra ID is the current inheritor of the mantle of Active Directory. No, don't be afraid, we're not going to do any binding on this show. We're going to give you the brass tacks for what Microsoft is using Entra for, how Mac Admins should think about it, and how it fits into the modern world for Mac Admins.

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

Guests:

• Michael Epping, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft – LinkedIn
• Mark Morowczynski, Principal Security Researcher, Microsoft – LinkedIn

Links:

• Extending the AD schema (pay attention to the date) https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20101123/6d648bd4/attachment.pdf
• Password Guide: https://aka.ms/PasswordlessGuide

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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

This year, the Mac Admins Foundation is hosting a fundraising drive to build the future of the organization and shore up the financial future of the foundation.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]

Guests:

• John Mahlman - LinkedIn
• Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn
• Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
• Chris Dawe - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.macadmins.org/
• https://xkcd.com/979/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• 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