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
Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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Mike Boylan from Kandji joins the pod to talk about Kandji’s new approach to configurations management as part of their new Assignment Maps feature.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Mike Boylan - LinkedIn
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It’s just us this week, as we prepare for Penn State Mac Admins, as well as start the Beta Season. Here’s everything we’re thinking about as we get ready for the most exciting 3 months of Mac Admin life each year!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
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Trust is a subject we regularly discuss with our guests. How do we trust our users, how do we trust the software they want to run, how do we trust the devices they are on. In the modern world where you can’t believe everything a computer or mobile device is telling you about itself, how do we make sure that the devices we are managing and granting access to the privileged information we need to secur...
Zach Wasserman from Fleet DM joins the podcast this week to talk about software updates, osquery, DDM, and more! This wide-ranging conversation will cover all manner of new things… (To be finished once we get the full knowledge of WWDC…)
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Zach Wasserman - LinkedIn
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In this episode, we’ll talk about security, ATT&CK, and the changing landscape of Mac security with one of our favoritest guests, Cat Self.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Cat Self - LinkedIn
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So it feels like we should all be wearing white jumpsuits with awesome rainbow stripes, preparing to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane… It’s been a whirlwind week since the Keynote and now we have finally gotten to watch “What’s new in Device Management” (note the different name this year!) - we thought it would be fun to get together and livestream our thoughts. So, before we get into the detai...
Six Months into the Vision Pro, where are we? What’s working? What’s not? How are people thinking about this new technological innovation?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
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This week Tom, Marcus, and Emily finish off their predictions for next week's Apple World Wide Developer Conference. This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge – @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom – @marcusransom
- Emily Kausa...
Tom hosts a live episode directly from the MacAD conference stage in Brighton as part of this year’s event! Catriona McDonald, Elliot Jordan, and Liam Donnelly join to talk about the conference sessions and everything that’s happened at the event! This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
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...This week Tom, Marcus, James, and Emily round up for what they assume is part one of their Apple World Wide Developer Conference predictions for 2024. This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan
- James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social
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New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today’s episode we’ll look at evaluating when it’s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn
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Remember the ‘90s when Micrososft was the big bad wolf with their anti-competitive methods of pushing Internet Explorer at the expense of Netscape and other non-microsoft browsers? Now the eye of Sauron has turned on Apple and today we are going to discuss the current landscape of phones, app stores, and everything else that it seems all the tech pundits (does this make us pundits?) have an opinion o...
Tim Perfitt is back to talk about animal husbandry and the best new features that are in XCreds 4.0!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Tim Perfitt - LinkedIn
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Most of us will have seen or heard about Fletcher Previn’s presentation at JNUC 2023 around the employee choice program at Cisco, and how the numbers stack up for offering the mac. This presentation, and Fletcher’s previous presentations for IBM were described from the perspective of the executives and decision makers, and you our dear listeners will be all too aware that implementing a successful pr...
In this episode we meet Kim Trojanowski and hear a little about her experience with SupportApp and finding and working with new tools.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
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Kim Trojanowski - LinkedIn
Links:
- SupportApp - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp
Being a solo admin is great! So is going to a larger team, where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. We interview Jordan Burnette about such a transition in today’s episode.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn
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The team from Workbrew joins us this week to discuss the challenges MacAdmins face with Homebrew at their companies. We discuss ways to cut down on IT busywork while also getting ahead with your engineering and security teams with an uncompromising approach to engineering productivity and security posture. Along the way we’ll touch upon maintaining the Homebrew Open Source Project and their approach ...
When polled, one of the most requested guests was one we’ve had on before, Arek Dreyer. So rather than tell Arek, what we wanted to talk about, we thought we’d hit him up for what he wanted to talk about!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
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