Do you find that life is like trying to understand code without comments? Many of us are discovering later in life that there is a word that explains why the unwritten rules of life just don’t seem to make sense. Rowan Quigley recently presented at JNUC in Nashville around how workplaces can embrace Neurodiversity, catering for neurodivergent folks as well as neurotypicals. Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Rowan Quigley - @rquigley Links: Fern Brady https://www.tiktok.com/@cultofpink...
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 387
With JNUC and Macsysadmin last week, conference season is behind us for 2025. Tom and Marcus look back on the conference year that was and discuss how to get the most out of these awesome events Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Jim Rispin - Care & Feeding of your IT Professional https://jc0b.computer/posts/attending-your-first-conference/ Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcas...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 386
Jeremy Butcher returns to the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about this Fall’s releases of new operating systems, a bit on Apple Intelligence, and how Mac Admins should be preparing for these latest releases. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Guests: Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for mor...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 385
Join Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024 Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Sponsors: Kandji 1Password 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...
Oct 10, 2024•58 min•Ep. 384
Beth Johnson’s talk at MacAdmins this year was all about bringing Compliance routines to her organization, and we wanted to spend some time getting her to share more about the process, the tools, and most importantly, the philosophy behind her efforts. And we’ll get into her incredibly beautiful slides, also. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Beth Johnson Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do8bxvpl7bA Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watch...
Oct 01, 2024•56 min•Ep. 383
Device Lifecycle is a massive topic for Mac Admins – what’s the right length? how do you purchase? what devices keep their value? – and we’re excited to have Kris Roesken from Diamond Assets here to tell us how their customers are approaching this interesting subject . Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Kris Roesken - LinkedIn Jeremy Egger - LinkedIn Links: www.diamondassets.com https://clarity.diamondassets.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypi...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 382
Software Updates is a subject that is dear to the heart of all Mac Admins. Traditionally this was a task that we could only perform after devices were enrolled. Beginning with macOS 14, Automated Device Enrollment began to support the requirement of a Minimum OS Version, which allows us to mandate that the device is updated before we allow it to enroll into our device management system. This week, we’ll talk with Bushrat Chowdhury of Jamf about the adaptation of this feature into the product. Ho...
Sep 20, 2024•54 min•Ep. 381
It seems like it’s onboarding assistants all the way down at the moment. Everyone has embraced the idea of ensuring our users are kept informed about what is going on when their device is being configured, but most of them share one thing in common - they run once the user has arrived at the desktop. Today we are going. to discuss Jamf Setup Manager, which runs before the setup assistant during enrollment. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Misc...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 380
With major Apple platform releases and a live event around the corner, Tom, Marcus, and Emily round up for a look back at Sonoma and iOS 17, an anxiety check on Sequoia and iOS 18, and ponder some of the questions admins are eager to have answered this Septober. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podca...
Sep 06, 2024•58 min•Ep. 379
Death, taxes and software updates… We deal with a constant stream of updates: Minor, major, N, N-1, N-2. Why do we even have updates? Because software inherently sucks and bad people find ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that they find, or is it that good people find them and disclose them before the bad people get a chance to use them... If simply applying these software updates wasn’t hard enough, we also need to understand what devices are eligible for which updates, and may have auditing ...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 378
Rebecca Latimer join us to tell us everything she’s been up to since Episode 197! We’ll be talking about managing users' expectations, as well as how they participate in your company's IT ecosystem. Also how managing coworkers isn't quite like managing goats. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn Links: MDOYVR24 - Rebecca Latimer - Managed Software Center https://gingerscripting.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonpu/2...
Aug 20, 2024•50 min•Ep. 377
Family Device Control is a hot topic in the world, and we’ve never touched on it. Joining us this week is Collin Elliott to talk about how to manage your kids' devices, and handling co-parenting, as well as all sorts of ways to keep your devices in line. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Collin Elliott - LinkedIn Links: ‘Came to Paris on a mission’: Saya Sakakibara claims gold in BMX racing Screen Time: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108806 Wh...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 376
Ross Matsuda joins the Podcast from Ntiva, where he manages a ton of Macs in a ton of different systems and ways. This episode is going to cover the challenge of managing Macs at scale, but not from the same platform Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Ross Matsuda - LinkedIn Links: Sudoade - Ross’ Apple Administration blog Add personality to your app through UX writing Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponso...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 375
Chris Chapman joins us from MacStadium, returning after 200 episodes, to tell us all about Orka Desktop, help us understand VMs that can be defined in code, and how we can all have more performant and better testing environments! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Guests: Chris Chapman, CTO, MacStadium - LinkedIn Links: Orka Desktop | Deploy macOS virtual machines (VMs) on your local machine for testing & QA Open C...
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 374
Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Michael Epping - LinkedIn Pam Lefkowitz - LinkedIn Joshua Miller - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji 1Password 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 Pod...
Jul 23, 2024•54 min•Ep. 373
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: Mike Boylan - LinkedIn Links: Assignment Maps | Kandji Launch Event | June 2024 Assignment Maps vs Classic Blueprints Assignment Maps Overview Best Practices for Building Assignment Maps Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsor...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 372
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: Joel Rennich - LinkedIn Links: Apple’s “Home on iPod” is Back | WIRED Home on the iPod | Macworld Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podca...
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 371
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 secure are in fact what they say they are? Jedda Wignall put together a very comprehensive deep dive i...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 370
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: Zach Wasserman - LinkedIn Links: https://fleetdm.com/device-management Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast,...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 369
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: Cat Self - LinkedIn Links: MITRE ATT&CK® Getting Started with ATT&CK (video) ATT&CK Framework v15 Update Log What is STIX/TAXII? | Cloudflare Blog on pulling MITRE ATT&CK data sources with JuypterLab Malware Unicorn: Dylib Injection Attacks Atomic Red Te...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 368
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 details, what would you give the Keynote out of 10? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Ma...
Jun 15, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 14
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 Guests: Joel Rennich - LinkedIn Bryson Tyrrell - LinkedIn Gerard Massey - LinkedIn Links: Jamf Trust on Vision Pro How to Manage and Secure Apple Vision Pro ForeFlight - Voyager Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins P...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 367
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 Kausalik-Whittle – @emilyooo Links: X World - “I do declare” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnUjUg_6HE Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcas...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 366
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 Guests: Catriona McDonald - LinkedIn Elliot Jordan - LinkedIn Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn Links: MacAD 2024 How not to do bad things wi...
May 27, 2024•44 min•Ep. 365
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 Links: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157120/dell-windows-on-arm-leak-qualcomm-chips-battery-life Sponsors: Kandji Koli...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 364
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: 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...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 363
Justin Esgar returns to the pod to tell us all about the upcoming ACES Conference in Salt Lake City! Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Justin Esgar - LinkedIn Links: ACES Conference Tickets (with discount) ACES Conference 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...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 362
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 on. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marc...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 361
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: Tim Perfitt - LinkedIn Links: https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/xcreds/ https://twocanoes.com/knowledge-base/whats-new-in-xcreds-4-0/ https://store.twocanoes.com/collections/smart-card-readers https://twocanoes.com/products/ios/wireless-mobile-reader/ https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 360
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 program such as this requires a lot of effort, enthusiasm and collaboration at an engineering level...
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 359
