Episode 345: Scott Reed&Joel Rennich on JumpCloud Go from 2023-12-11T23:03

Authentication is a big challenge for any organization - how do you decide who gets into what resource, with what security mechanism, and from what device?...

Episode 344: Kevin M. White on Apple Docs Updates from 2023-12-04T11:00

The Apple Platform Deployment Guide is one of the most impressive and important documents that Apple updates about device management with Apple Devices. This week, we’ll be talking about all the...

Episode 343: Damian Cavanagh on Shortcuts for Admin Tasks from 2023-11-27T10:06

Shortcuts aren’t just a little Applescript goodness that can be used to make droplets. Although you could do that. Shortcuts can be used to perform fairly complex atomic operations. In this sess...

Episode 342: Oleg Stukalenko on Moonlock from 2023-11-20T10:54

After thwarting Russian attackers since well before the invasion, the team at MacPaw in Ukraine has a keen eye on emerging security threats. Today's episode is about their new cybersecurity divi...

Episode 341: Jason Dettbarn from 2023-11-14T10:32

Fall is that time of the year when we can take stock of the latest Apple releases, measure them against what our expectations were, and see how much tech debt piled up trying to keep up with App...

Episode 340: Ashok Amirthalingam on the Mac, Digital Transformation, and Cloud Holdouts from 2023-11-07T10:03

“Digital transformation” can mean a lot of things to different people. In this episode we unpack it, look at how it helps drive Apple adoption, and maybe get productive (which doesn’t often seem...

Episode 339: Just Us - Getting from A to B from 2023-10-30T11:16

We have had so many wonderful guests on the Mac Admins Podcast, telling us about things they have created, workflows they have implemented or products they have integrated in their environments....

Episode 338: Ben Greisler on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle (and Mac) Maintenance from 2023-10-23T10:32

Episode 337: Gene Reich tells all about JNUC from 2023-10-16T10:02

Gene Reich from Point joins the pod this week to tell us all about the 2023 edition of the Jamf Nation User Conference in Austin! 

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Episode 336: Live at MacSysAdmin from 2023-10-09T10:20

Join Tom, Charles, and Emily as they host the Speaker Q&A at MacSysAdmin 2023.

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Episode 335: Just Us on Sonoma and iOS 17 from 2023-10-02T11:32

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 cus...

Episode 334: What's new at Apple with Jeremy Butcher from 2023-09-26T11:59

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 rea...

Episode 333: Henry and Eric on GitOps from 2023-09-18T03:18

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...

Flashcast 12: Wonderlust from 2023-09-16T05:15

Join our hosts as we discuss all the announcements from Apple's September 2023 Event, Wonderlust.

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• Tom Bridge
• Charles Edge
• Erin Merchant

Episode 332: GitHub Actions and Automating MDM Infrastructure from 2023-09-11T11:39

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 aut...

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Episode 331: HomeKit Panel Part 2 from 2023-09-04T11:13

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 everythin...

Episode 330: Ben Greiner on Evangelising With MSPs from 2023-08-30T10:45

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Episode 329: ZTNA with Kane Narraway from 2023-08-22T11:50

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 in...

Episode 328: Elliot Jordan and Escrow Buddy from 2023-08-14T11:07

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!...

Episode 327: Community Management with Becky Scott from 2023-08-07T11:56

Episode 326: Training Up Junior Admins and Support Staff with Evan Walker from 2023-07-31T11:16

Episode 325: Karthikeyan on Being a MacAdmin in India from 2023-07-24T11:28

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 projecte...

Episode 324: Mykola Savin of Setapp from 2023-07-17T12:38

Episode 323: Collin Elliot on AppleTV Management from 2023-07-11T12:18

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 env...

Episode 322: Operating Systems for Businesses (Part 2) from 2023-07-03T13:13

Episode 321: Vision Pro Panel with Bryson and Rich from 2023-06-26T18:17

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 hav...

Episode 320: Managing Macs Like We Manage Code from 2023-06-20T12:20

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 ch...

Episode 319: TC Niedzialkowski on CISOs and MacAdmins from 2023-06-13T12:16

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. W...

Flashcast 11: WWDC 2023 from 2023-06-08T11:52

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 manag...

Episode 318: MacAD.UK Panel 2023 from 2023-06-06T09:44

Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England.

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Episode 317: Operating Systems for Businesses (Part 1) from 2023-05-29T12:49

Every organization has a set of norms they follow. Within those are processes that people go through routinely - and those aren’t often documented at new organizations (be they orgs within other...

Episode 316: Peter Borg from 2023-05-22T11:47

Lingon has been a part of the MacAdmins toolkit for as long as recent memory caused us to make launch items. Sandkorn became useful around the same time that we had to start looking at applicati...

Episode 315: Just Us from 2023-05-16T01:46

Rapid Security Response, the iMac turns 25, Apple financials, and… WWDC predictions!

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Episode 314: All About Fonts with Glenn Kowalski from 2023-05-08T13:23

MacAdmins have to manage all kinds of things. We talk a lot about settings and features when it comes to device management. But fonts are one of those things that can be important and ...

Episode 313: NanoMDM from 2023-05-02T10:59

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Episode 312: Selina Ali from 2023-04-25T21:59

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Episode 311: Sean Colins from 2023-04-18T10:07

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” - Plato

There are so many different ways to l...

Episode 310: Baseline with Trevor&Rob from 2023-04-11T22:51

Configuring new devices with Automated Device Enrollment can be a thoroughly magical experience for the end user receiving their machine, but Apple doesn’t have the entire flow program...

Episode 309: X World 2023 from 2023-04-02T02:17

Join us today for a live panel episode from the X World conference in Melbourne, Australia

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Episode 308: An academic look at autopkg with Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra from 2023-03-28T10:46

Packaging every version of each piece of software managed can be incredibly time consuming. Without automation, it would take an inordinate amount of time to download, package, test, and deploy ...

Episode 307: HomeKit Panel from 2023-03-22T21:50

HomeKit and the Home app. There are many like it, but this is the kit (no pun intended) that Apple has vetted for automating the home. This ecosystem of products is the culmination of decades of...

Episode 306: Filewave APIs with Josh Levitsky from 2023-03-14T21:54

We love APIs. It tells us a little about products and a lot about how various vendors feel about structured automation. In today’s episode we’ll chat about the FileWave API - what can be done, w...

Episode 305: Inside Baseball: Getting What You Need From Product Managers from 2023-03-07T21:56

There’s always news. So we’ll talk about that for a hot minute. We’ll also talk about how to get the most from products that, well, don’t do everything you want them to do. Or at least the ones ...

Episode 304: webauthn and webauthn.io from 2023-02-27T22:02

Apple’s version of passkeys are the latest piece of a sprawling identity picture for the Apple platform that isn’t widely supported just yet - which is a perfect time to start learning...

Episode 303: Application Vulnerability Testing from 2023-02-22T22:18

We have these computers. And they are truly bastion hosts. Nothing comes in, and only that with which we want goes out. They’re perfect when we finish setting them up. Then people make changes a...

Episode 302: MacADUK 2023 in Brighton! from 2023-02-13T11:45

Spring is coming, and with it, MacADUK’s return to Brighton, England for this year’s first European Mac Admin Conference. We’re talking with two of the organizing committee, Alex Hawes and James...

Episode 301: A Team of One from 2023-02-06T21:42

According to a recent PDQ survey, 85% of people who manage devices are a team of 1. Many of our guests have a small scope to their job: they manage Macs and/or iPhones. But many in IT manage, we...

Episode 300: Just Us from 2023-01-30T11:26

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Episode 299: Vira Tkachenko, CTO at MacPaw from 2023-01-24T23:12

We’ve wanted to have an episode with MacPaw since far before Ukraine was invaded on February 24th, 2022. Then we pushed it back over and over out of respect for everything going on. But we’re su...

Episode 298: Stringing Together Workflows from 2023-01-18T07:05

One of the most useful things we do is to automate tasks. Some of those tasks might be opening and closing tickets; others would be making a change on an endpoint...

Episode 297: Wartime Conferences in Ukraine from 2023-01-09T11:57

We wish we could just talk nerd. But the world is a complicated place - and there are questions we would be remiss if we didn’t ask! This week, we are honored to have Yuri Vlasyuk join us as our...

Flashcast 10: 2022 Wrap-up from 2022-12-30T01:41

2022 is just about over, so let’s talk about everything that’s happened this year, as well as make some outrageous and likely wrong predictions for 2023!
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Episode 296: Business people don’t hate tech people with Nate Walck from 2022-12-20T09:47

The nature of the role of a Mac admin is different at big and small companies. Like many jobs, we have a smaller scope in larger companies - but potentially a larger impact. Every choice or line...

Episode 295: Just Us - Ventura and iOS 16 - How are they going and what do we love/hate? from 2022-12-13T12:16

iOS 16 was released on September 12 and Ventura on October 24. We all went through the rollercoaster of the post-WWDC Betas, but how have they both fared out ther...

Episode 294: Crowdstrike Falcon, Security Deployment Techniques,&Threat Awareness from 2022-12-06T10:16

Once upon a time we claimed the Mac couldn’t get a virus. Now we know the folly of our ways. There is a red ocean of endpoint protection solutions for the platfor...

Episode 293: Michael Epping from Microsoft on the Single Sign On Extension from 2022-11-29T19:52

One of the biggest challenges of the era is how to securely sign people on to work devices from anywhere in the world. Apple has had Kerberos and Active Directory...

Episode 292: New Apple Documentation from 2022-11-22T11:31

Apple continues to get better and better at documenting not only APIs but also the Apple Platform Deployment portal that contains plenty of information on how Apple intends for administrators to...

Episode 291: Getting Caught Up on Configurator with Subhi Hashwa from 2022-11-15T10:00

Apple Configurator has been a part of the Apple Admin’s toolkit for some time. Initially built to help admins do more than what was available in iTunes it’s grown over the years to add options f...

Episode 290: The Black Friday 3D Printing Panel from 2022-11-09T09:16

We’ve wanted to an episode on 3D printers for a long time but every time we went to book one, one of our printers stopped working for some stupid reason, we got mad, and said nevermind. Yup, it’...

Episode 289: Keeping Up With California Places with Fiona Skelton from 2022-11-01T21:53

Another year, another operating system named after cats or cool spots to visit in California! And another cycle of trying to figure out which of our automations b...

Episode 288: Mike from Bombich Software from 2022-10-25T10:24

One of the tools we don’t talk about that much on the podcast but have all used is Carbon Copy Cloner. Before CCC, we wrote scripts to clone drives, figured out r...

Episode 287: Objective by the Sea from 2022-10-17T21:37

This week Tom sits down with three speakers from the Objective but the Sea v5.0 Conference held in sunny Spain.

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Episode 286: Thijs Alkemade on the vulnerability from Black Hat from 2022-10-11T08:47

One of our favorite things about interviewing security researchers is that those who can talk about what they do at places like DEF CON and Black Hat are the good...

Episode 285: What's New At Kandji? from 2022-10-03T17:30

Today we're welcoming Weldon Dodd from Kandji back to the podcast to discuss how things have been going this year, and today's announcement around bringing IT and InfoSec together.

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Episode 284: Rich Trouton on Apple Device Management, 2nd Edition from 2022-09-27T12:53:37

The good developers at Apple throw us new and exciting curve balls with every new release. This means books can’t just sit on a shelf for five years like in some ...

Episode 283: The State of the Update from 2022-09-20T00:05:01

Software Updates might be the trickiest part of being a Mac Admin right now, there’s lots of different approaches, and a whole bunch of edge and corner cases. Listen

Episode 282: Robin Lauren and Human Centered Security from 2022-09-12T22:31:47

Robin Laurén joins the pod this week to talk about Human Centered Security. We’ll pick up where he left off in his MacADUK talk, discuss any reactions, and get into a little of the practical app...

Episode 281: MacAdmins In Higher Education from 2022-09-05T21:06:42

Some of the larger early Apple deployments were in education and many of the more complicated of those were in higher education. This has given higher education d...

Episode 280: Where Device Management and MSPs Intersect, with Charles Mangin from 2022-09-01T10:27:58

We cover a lot of different types of workflows on this podcast. They’re all equally as complicated, and some are very specifically designed for a given industry. ...

Episode 279: XCreds Part II with Tim Perfitt from 2022-08-22T11:22:26

Tim Perfitt is back again to continue last week's episode about his latest macOS app; Listen

Episode 278: XCreds with Tim Perfitt from 2022-08-16T23:43:59

Tim Perfitt rejoins the Pod to talk about a new project for macOS devices: Listen

Episode 277: Automated Asset Management from 2022-08-08T09:45:40

Asset Management isn't sexy, in fact it's super boring. Matt Currie is here to tell us how his team combined Kandji, Airtable, Slack and Tray.io into an automated asset management system that hi...

Episode 276: Big Changes to Jamf APIs and JSSImporter, with Graham Pugh from 2022-08-01T23:01:18

APIs are an integral aspect of how we can programmatically work with any product. The original Jamf Classic API won’t be allowing basic authentication any longer, which means any workflows that ...

Episode 275: On Windows 365 and the Mac from 2022-07-25T10:58:12

Many a Mac deployment includes computers that need some piece software that just isn’t available on the Mac. This goes back to the early days of Mac OS X. We once called this the “app gap” and w...

Episode 274: Greg Neagle On Signed Binaries And The Future Of Munki from 2022-07-18T10:31:36

Munki was released in 2009. The past decade-plus has seen MDM first introduced, then become almost a requirement to manage fleets of devices, changes in how we build daemons, develop tools, secu...

Episode 273: Gabe Sterritt and Lucid Automations from 2022-07-11T10:48:37

The term hyperautomation was a good buzzword for a bit, but we can get a lot of use out of what it actually means. In this episode we’re gonna’ look at some of the automation options available t...

Episode 272: Non-Violent Coping Mechanisms from 2022-07-05T11:04:18

Being a MacAdmin is significantly more difficult now than it used to be, and it’s getting harder every year. How does one cope? Keep up? Stay informed? Train oneself? Find the answers? Deal with...

Episode 271: Yubikeeeeyyyyyyssssss from 2022-06-27T10:36:55

Multi Factor Authentication is a topic we’ve covered here and there in the past. Yubikey is one of those companies that many of us have worked with. But planning for larger scale deployments is ...

Episode 270: Summertime in the world of P-12 from 2022-06-20T12:07:25

Episode 269: Adobe Deployments from 2022-06-14T13:19:30

What are the latest options to deploy Adobe products onto Apple devices? It’s one of the oldest skills those of us who work on the platform need. In this episode ...

Flashcast 09: WWDC 2022 from 2022-06-07T04:23:31

Join Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James as they discuss all the news from the first day of WWDC 2022

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Episode 268: WWDC Predictions from 2022-06-06T11:32:47

Episode 267: Fraser Hess from 2022-05-30T11:52:34

One of those things we all end up managing is how our Apple fleet routes traffic into the interwebs. We often have to go through apps that load network extensions...

Episode 266: The Mac Admins Foundation from 2022-05-23T11:30:53

The Mac Admins Foundation is a new non-profit organization benefitting the Mac Admins community. This week, Charles and Marcus sit down with the Board of the Foundation to discuss the organizati...

Episode 265: Veertu from 2022-05-17T12:56

Apple device management often veers into the devops and automation side of things. Maybe we’re using these tools for our own workflows or maybe we’re trying to pr...

Episode 264: Elegy for a Server Operating System from 2022-05-09T11:42:47

It's time to pour one out for macOS Server

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• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - Listen

Episode 263: Roundtable from 2022-05-02T12:08

This week it’s just us, and we’re going over all the news that’s fit to print, including 12.4 betas, the latest in security news, and more. 

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• Tom Bridge - Listen

Episode 262: Bart Reardon from 2022-04-26T12:54:57

Bart Reardon is back on the podcast to discuss what's new with swiftDialog

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Episode 261: Internet Filtering with Rob McCartney from 2022-04-18T10:28:30

It takes a lot of different types of systems to keep a fleet of machines in good shape. Today we’re going to talk about one of those: internet filters. Today we’re gonna’ talk through the good, ...

Episode 260: Apple in the Enterprise: A 2022 Report Card from 2022-04-13T02:31:57

Our friends at Kandji have once again commissioned the Apple Enterprise Report Card, as compiled by Jason Snell of Six Colors! We’re here to take it question by q...

Episode 259: MacAD.UK 2022 from 2022-04-02T23:04:41

Tom hosts an episode of the Podcast live at the 2022 MacAD.UK conference.

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• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777

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Episode 258: User Groups with Adam Burg from 2022-03-28T09:55:20

Episode 257: Roundtable from 2022-03-21T10:50:47

Tom, Marcus, and Emily discuss new features dropping with macOS 12.3 and a few WWDC predictions for the year.

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Episode 256: Josh Seyer from 2022-03-14T09:45:02

MacAdmins seem to be increasingly stretching our skillset to include other platforms. Sometimes this is because we’re using a single pane of glass to manage Windows and Mac. Other times it’s jus...

Flashcast 08: Peek Performance from 2022-03-09T22:34

Tom, Charles, & Marcus discuss the Peek Performance event held on March 8th

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Episode 255: Apple Business Essentials from 2022-03-07T11:54:39

Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s latest product for Mac Admins, Apple Business Essentials!

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Episode 254: John Hutchison on Octory from 2022-02-28T22:25:04

First impressions matter. Onboarding is one of the best ways we can provide an elegant and savvy first impression to our coworkers when they’re hired. We’ve had the developers of Octory on the p...

Episode 253: Alexander Kaltsas from 2022-02-21T11:29:42

Episode 252: Patch Management from 2022-02-14T11:28:08

Charles, Tom, and Marcus talk at length about patch management – OS and third party – and what goes into a good patch management policy. The history, challenges, tools, and the adventures of Patch ...

Episode 251: Weldon Dodd from 2022-02-07T22:17:54

Weldon Dodd is with us this week to talk about the changes in macOS 12.3, Unlisted apps, the 38th birthday of the Mac, and the latest quarterly reports from Apple.

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Episode 250: Alison Wojahn from 2022-01-31T12:36:02

Alison Wojahn joins the 250th episode of the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about what it's like to move into IT accidentally, learning to manage 1:1 iPad Deployments on the fly, all while also teac...

Episode 249: Kory Prince on MicroMDM from 2022-01-24T05:57:34

One aspect of device management that we love to dig into is what’s going on under the hood. We’ve interviewed a couple of people involved in the MicroMDM project ...

Episode 248: A Day In The Life Of A MacAdmin from 2022-01-17T10:46:33

The life of a Mac Admin isn’t just about Macs. Those are often the easy part. Instead we spend a lot of time figuring out how to make the Mac exist in the ecosystem of other tools we have in our...

Episode 247: Cat Part Deux from 2022-01-10T10:46:38

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Episode 246: Brock Walters from 2021-12-13T12:04

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Episode 245: Honest Security, One Year Later from 2021-12-08T19:26:39

A year after Kolide released Honest Security, the issues that were covered in the manifesto remain, but how have they made it to the market? Much of this story can be told through the eyes of Ha...

Episode 244: End of the Year (and I feel fine…) from 2021-11-29T12:07:20

Episode 243: dataJAR's New Product Focus from 2021-11-22T12:12:06

Episode 242: Security&Privacy - Evaluating Encrypted DNS from 2021-11-15T10:47:21

Alcyr from Mosyle is back again to discuss Security & Privacy and how they are utilising Encrypted DNS with customers.

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Episode 241: Grand Unified Apple Platform Deployment Theory from 2021-11-08T10:52:31

Episode 240: Kevin M. Cox on AxM from 2021-11-01T10:13:24

Episode 239: The Mac Spa from 2021-10-25T11:42:50

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