Mac Admins Podcast

Sonoma dropped this weekend, and while this episode will be about a week out, it’s worth talking about something we haven’t really touched on: how vendors define the guidance they give their customers. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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  

Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s new operating systems for 2023, and all the technologies that Mac Admins can look forward to trying out this Fall! Are you ready for Managed Apple IDs that do more for your business? Are you excited for Software Update with deadlines? Let’s dive in. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn Links: Apple Business Essentials  AppleCare Products - Apple Using Shortcuts on macOS to create powerful multi-step actions for Stream Deck How We BYO @ Jamf, JNUC 2023 Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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

Today’s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn Links: Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves Henry’s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day) Terraform && Zentral: Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral https://github.com/zentralopensource

Join our hosts as we discuss all the announcements from Apple's September 2023 Event, Wonderlust. Hosts: Tom Bridge Charles Edge Erin Merchant Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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  

Automation is important for all of us, especially a margin business like an MSP. In todays episode we’ll chat with Bobby Hardaway and Ryon Riley of Advisory Solutions to hear about how they automate Jamf infrastructure with GitActions. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Bobby Hardaway - LinkedIn Ryon Riley - LinkedIn Links: GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions Advisory Solutions: https://advisorymsp.com/ Penn State MacAdmins talk on GitHub Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznnSyl9i48 JNUC Session - AutoPKG for Jamf Pro with GitHub Actions JNUC Session - So what's all the fuss about CI/CD? GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin LAPS Endpoints on Jamf: https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-laps-current/page/Local_Administrator_Password_Solution.html HCS LAPS Documentation: https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_LAPS.pdf Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsorin

We had a lovely conversation with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson about home automation and specifically HomeKit and the Home App in a previous episode, but we didn’t get to everything. So we decided to have a second one! In this episode we’ll get more into onboarding of devices, Siri voice control, security, automation, and troubleshooting.  Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Tim Pearson - LinkedIn Bob Gendler - LinkedIn Steve Yuroff - LinkedIn Links: Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia https://www.bosch-home.com/ https://us.govee.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee https://www.z-wave.com/ https://www.starlinghome.io/ Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Adm

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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  

Today’s episode features Kane Narraway talk through his journeys with ZTNA - what they are, what they do, selection criteria, how they integrate with other tools, and all the fun bits that go into getting a pretty interface to wireguard to work seamlessly in your environment. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Kane Narraway - LinkedIn Links: Black Hat Sessions: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/ Defcon Sessions: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html Extensions Manager: https://github.com/krypted/extensionsmanager Google BeyondCorp Zero Trust: https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/ Okta + Jamf Unified Identity Access: https://www.jamf.com/integrations/okta/ https://www.amazon.com/Extrusion-Detection-Security-Monitoring-Intrusions/dp/0321349962 Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide SimpleMDM Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for mor

Today’s guest is Elliot Jordan, Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix, here to talk Escrow Buddy, Recipe Robot, AutoPkgr, and about all the fun projects he’s been involved in over the years! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Elliot Jordan Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Links: Mike Solin’s Post on Focus Modes: https://mikesolin.com/2023/08/05/finding-balance-while-working-remotely/ Crypt: https://github.com/grahamgilbert/crypt Escrow Buddy: https://github.com/macadmins/escrow-buddy/ Stop prompting users for passwords when re-escrowing FileVault keys: https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/filevault-reissue/  MAOS panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyEYsgz5MI Recipe Robot: https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot  Stethoscope: https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflix-stethoscope-5f3c392368e3 Extraordinary Attorney Woo: https://www.netflix.com/title/81518991 Mr. Robot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4

The job of a MacAdmin is a global affair. We’ve done episodes with guests in a number of countries, but wanted to focus on what it’s like in a nation with over 1.4 billion people that’s projected to be the most populous country in the near future. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Karthikeyan Marappan - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji SimpleMDM Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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

Many of our listeners will have set up AppleTVs at work. Some might use device management tools to configure one or more AppleTVs in ways that allow them to be used in corporate or education environments. We’ll talk through the nuance of AppleTV management in this episode, with Collin Elliot. Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Collin Elliott - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Apple TV. 1st generation-2290.jpg - Wikimedia Commons   Carousel Digital Signage   GitHub - NU-ITS/Exhibit: Exhibit is a managed screensaver App for tvOS.   Plex: Stream Movies & TV on the App Store Sponsors: Kandji Kolide SimpleMDM Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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

Vision Pro could be the next big Apple product to change the way humans interact with computing devices. In this episode, we’ll look at some of the SDKs, sensors, and other technologies that have been in the making for a decade that make this technology possible. We’ll explore successes and failures of competing platforms, and think a little about the Vision Pro in the sense of device management, support, and what we might do with them in offices, which shapes how we might manage and support them. Bryson Tyrrell and Rich Trouton join us to talk through what we want, what we think we’ll get, and how we’ll respond to the ever-changing technology landscape. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Bryson Tyrrell - @bryson3gps Rich Trouton - @rtrouton Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: W Industries VR from 1990s https://collection.maas.museum/object/364729 The Uncanny Valley: https

A lot of organizations want to treat device management like we treat code. Check in changes, get a second party to approve the check in, and the change goes live. That second set of eyes on a change provides a proactive approach to the security of changes made. It also helps mitigate small mistakes that can have a substantial impact on how users interact with their technology. We can then string together a collection of workflows to pipeline facts about devices to a SEIM or trigger events in other solutions. This usually involves agents. Yet we need to bootstrap devices into these types of systems, and that means MDM. In today's episode, we’ll discuss these types of workflows with Mike McNeil and JD Strong, from FleetDM. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Mike McNeil - LinkedIn JD Strong - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Fleet Device Management links: Fleet De

Early in the podcast, there were plenty of stories of MacAdmins who had contentious relationships with security teams. We hear less and less of that every year. It still happens, but far less. We’ve had guests on to tell us how platform teams can work with infosec, but today we’re joined by a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) to give some tips coming from the other direction. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: TC Niedzialkowski - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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 Swa

It’s that time of the year again, when Apple drops mad-crazy-awesome-sauce updates on us. We’re used to iterative updates that make our lives better. This year we also have new products to manage. No word on whether there will be any management of Vision OS - but we’ll soon be managing Apple Watches. Because see, these are all computers - just like the Vision Pro. In today’s episode we’ll spend far more time talking about hardware, software, and management options. But in the meantime, let’s remind everyone that We often see the first release of Apple products as a bit less than. They can come in more expensive than other products in a given category. Like the iPhone and iPod, it will endure its share of ridicule for its high price and derivative functionality, people will complain about its design and point out its deficiencies. But in a year or five, the rest of the world will catch up to Apple’s vision. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kand

Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Joel Rennich Ben Toms Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org 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