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: Kim Trojanowski - LinkedIn Links: SupportApp - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp 2021 SupportApp JNUC Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijCmR6gQAM README file - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp/blob/master/README.md SupportApp Channel on Slack - https://macadmi...
Apr 01, 2024•43 min•Ep. 358
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: Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn 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 lat...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 357
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 to building a business around Open Source. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcu...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 356
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: Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn Links: https://www.instagram.com/p/zRML8gyxFN/ TILLREDA portable induction cooktop, 1 zone white - IKEA Toronto Mac Admins Presentation Sponsors: Kandji Kolide S...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 355
Keychain is one of the best password managers on the market - especially for the money. In this episode, we chat with Cody Thomas about his research into Keychain security, where he was able to find some successes in red teaming, and where his attempts were thwarted! Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Cody Thomas - LinkedIn Links: Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2022 Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2021 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watchm...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 354
MacAD returns to Brighton in May of 2024! We’re excited to welcome members of the organizing committee, Maxine & Liam join the podcast to talk about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and why you should be booking your trip. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Maxine Davenport - LinkedIn Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn Links: https://www.macad.uk macad@macad.uk Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watc...
Feb 19, 2024•57 min•Ep. 353
Admins face challenges with their own vaults of secrets. How do we secure/share secrets like passwords, but also those that aren’t, like SSH keys, certs, or passkeys? And what about mass deployments and IdP integrations? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Blake Brandon - LinkedIn Links: 1Password: https://1password.com/ Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bGNgU-2aBs Ryan Reynolds & 1Passwo...
Feb 14, 2024•54 min•Ep. 352
Bravas is a new offering based out of the EU, focused on the small business market. Identity and Device Management together, they’re trying something new for the SMB market. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Yoann Gini - LinkedIn Links: Bravas - https://www.bravas.io/en/ JWT - https://jwt.io/ WebAuthN - https://webauthn.io/ Shared Signals Framework - https://openid.net/wg/sharedsignals/ XKCD Standards - https://xkcd.com/927/ Kotlin Language - https:...
Feb 05, 2024•57 min•Ep. 351
The world is a collection of not-yet-interconnected endpoints. Today, we’re going to talk to Shyam Bhojwani, Director, Business Technology & Cybersecurity on one of the ways to connect those endpoints! Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Shyam Bhojwani - LinkedIn Links: Workato Systematic Community - Workato Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmin...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 350
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 Guests: Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn Links: Set up iCloud Keychain – Apple Support (AU) Two-factor authentication for Apple ID User Presence vs User Verification Log into Bitwarden with a passkey Sponsors: Kandji Ko...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 349
Aftermath is a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework. We’re here with the main contributors to the project to talk about incident response, security life on macOS in late 2023, and using good tools to help make security better. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Stuart Ashenbrenner - LinkedIn Matt Benyo - LinkedIn Links: Aftermath on Github: https://github.com/jamf/aftermath Jamf post about Aftermath: https://www.jamf.com/blog/aftermat...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 348
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 347
A review of the year that was! 2023 was monumental in so many ways – a huge WWDC, great new hardware, a ton of new management concepts – and 2024 is full of promise. Tom, Charles, Marcus, and Emily take us through the highlights, and have a few predictions for what 2024 will bring. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Links: https://eclecticlight.co/2023/12/02/rip-rsr/ https://www.sudoade.com...
Dec 30, 2023•1 hr 58 min
Dan Snelson has been in the Apple admin community for a long time and builds lots of great tools to help others. Join us this week to celebrate and learn more about his contributions! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Dan K. Snelson - Blog Links: AppleShare IP Xserve macOS Server Kaseya JNUC 2017 Beta Program Honor Roll swiftDialog #swiftdialog MacAdmins Slack Channel #setup-your-mac MacAdmins Slack Channel MDMAppsDeplo...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 346
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? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Joel Rennich - LinkedIn Scott Reed - LinkedIn Links: The 1Pass sponsored directory: https://passkeys.directory/ JumpCloud Go: https://jumpcloud.com/support/get-started-jumpcloud-go PKCE Flow: https://oauth.net/2/pkce/ Amazon Verified...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 345
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 updates with returning guest and friend of the podcast Kevin M. White! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Kevin M White - LinkedIn Links: Account-driven Device Enrollment How Apple separates user data from organization data Enfor...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 344
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 session we’ll look at some of the work Damian Cavanagh has posted to his Github, and the crazy lengths he went to in order to have Shortcuts that work with device management options. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Damian Cavanagh - LinkedIn Links: Shortcu...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 343
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 division called Moonlock. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Oleg Stukalenko - LinkedIn Links: https://moonlock.com/macos-sonoma-security-and-privacy https://moonlock.com/mac-security-survey-2023 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please...
Nov 20, 2023•55 min•Ep. 342
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 Apple! We’ll talk through what that looks like from the perspective of an MDM vendor in today’s episode, with Jason Dettbarn, from Addigy. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Jason Dettbarn - LinkedIn Links: Mac Admins Podcast Listene...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 341
“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 to be the goal of digital transformation but should be). Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Ashok Amirthalingam - Mac Admins Slack Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@maca...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 340
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. It can be overwhelming to look at your own setup and want it to look like all the things you may have heard about here, or read about on slack, or watched someone present about at one of the many Mac Admins conferences around the world. Today we are going to talk about some tips that may help you to impl...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 339
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 338
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! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Gene Reich - LinkedIn 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 @Mac...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 337
Join Tom, Charles, and Emily as they host the Speaker Q&A at MacSysAdmin 2023. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Links: MacSysAdmin Conference 2023 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 h...
Oct 09, 2023•56 min•Ep. 336
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. G...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 335
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 Pr...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 334
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 Stamer...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 333
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, ...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 12
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 Action...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 332
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...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 331
