Santa’s got new digs up at North Pole Security! Join us as we talk with Russell and Pete from North Pole about what Santa’s move means, how it’s developing in the future, and what’s coming next for this powerful Mac Security Tool. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Pete Markowsky , North Pole Security - LinkedIn Russell Hancox, North Pole Security - LinkedIn Links: MacSysAdmin 2024 - Santa Past, Present, and Future - A...

Who loves VPNs? Folks in the network security team, please put your hands down - we weren’t asking you… Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way that we could offer privacy and protection out there in that wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the internet? Wouldn’t it be even better if it was baked into the operating system so each vendor wasn’t just making things up as they go? Apple announced iCloud private relay in 2021, and in 2023 we got what I guess you could call the “Enterprise...

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...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

Join Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024 Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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...

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Beth Johnson Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do8bxvpl7bA Sponsors: Kandji...

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Kris Roesken - LinkedIn Jeremy Egger - LinkedIn Links: www.diamondassets.com https://clarity.diamondassets.com/...

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...

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom ...

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please...

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...

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn Links: MDOYVR24 - Rebecca Latimer - Managed Software Center https://gingerscripting.com/ ...

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Collin Elliott - LinkedIn Links: ‘Came to Paris on a mission’: Saya Sakakibara claims gold in BMX racing Screen Time:...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] 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 [email protected] for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! ...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

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...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

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 - @[email protected] 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...

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 -...

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 - @[email protected] 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...