Mac Admins Podcast
A rotating panel of Mac admins and consultants are joined by members of the Mac admin community to discuss the latest news, issues, and challenges of managing Apple devices. New episodes weekly. Join the community at macadmins.org.
Episodes
The gang went to Denver. Here’s what happened next!
Hosts:
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Sam Johnson, Jamf - LinkedIn
- Anna Noel, Jamf Nation Giving Foundation - LinkedIn
- Matt Vlasach, Jamf - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
The new 26 OSes are here! How has the first week gone so far?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:
- Looking for deferral profile collisions - https://github.com/ninxsoft/LowProfile
- https://lowendma...
Here with an update about mSCP 2.0, some format changes, and new functionality, are Bob Gendler, Allen Golbig, and Dan Brodjieski! The macOS Security Compliance Project concluded their first ever Developer Conference earlier this year, where they met with stakeholders from the community, vendors, and a number of other interested parties to talk about the future of the project.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet....
Apple's back to talk about the 26 release cycle, new APIs and plenty of great work that we can get excited about.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
-
Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn
Links:
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.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Sponsors:
If you're interested in sponsoring...
Marcus and (sorry)James live from X World in Melbourne
Hosts:
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- James Smith - LinkedIn
Guests:
Sponsors:
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, pl...
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.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedI...
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.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom ...
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, commercia...
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.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
- Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
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 t...
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.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Guests:
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! Read more
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 opportuniti...
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?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- ...
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 capabi...
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.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Links:
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?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- ...
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 ...
Joel Rennich’s back with us to talk about code signing certificates,
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
Links:
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