Mac Admins Podcast

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Episode 448: Ben Greiner on smplify Feb 11, 2026

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Everyone wants to manage devices these days, and not just Macs. Being able to embed device management into the platform you're already building can provide a seamless experience for your users. Open source projects like NanoMDM are free, but the resources required to set them up and maintain them are not. Smplify is a new player on the market who provides the infrastructure to manage devices so you can build MDM directly into your own solution.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

Ben Greiner - LinkedIn

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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Episode 447: pseudo and super in 2026 Feb 04, 2026

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Kevin White is here with a bucket of spackle and some know how to make Platform Single Sign On a better experience. Plus, he's got updates for us on Super.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

Kevin White - LinkedIn

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Episode 446: Creating an App for Admins Jan 28, 2026

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MDM, DDM, VPP, ABM, even MSCP - all the acronyms that help us to manage devices the way that we need to, providing the amazing end-user experiences that the macadmin community is so conscious of. But what do we do when the tools provided by Apple or our device management service don't provide the capabilities we need? That's right, we build it ourselves! Michael Page is going to talk us through Dock Composer, one of these very tools that he has built to solve his own problem and help others solve the same problems in their environments

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

Michael Page - LinkedIn

Links:

Dock Master
- https://github.com/Error-freeIT/Dock-Master
- https://techion.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master
Dock Composer on the Mac App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/dock-composer/id6751523907
Dockutil - https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil
Docklib - https://github.com/homebysix/docklib
Git Kraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/

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Episode 445: Observability and the Mac Admin Jan 21, 2026

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As managing Macs evolves, it's no longer enough to just configure the devices we are responsible for. What happened after we configured them, are they still configured that way, has the user managed to get around the controls we put in place. Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Eric Metzger - LinkedIn

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Episode 444: Just Us - 2026 Predictions Jan 12, 2026

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2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing?

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

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Episode 443: Managing in the Antarctic Jan 05, 2026

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Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

Anna Mentzer-Hernández - LinkedIn

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Episode 442: Just Us on 2025 Dec 23, 2025

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It's the End of the Year Special! We're here to break down the 2025 year with all the goods and bads!

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Links:

https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/

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Episode 441: Device lifecycle management and buyback with Rippling Dec 17, 2025

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Welcome to the podcast, Rippling IT, who are working on a novel solution for full lifecycle management related to the devices that their platform enables.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

Zaafir Kherani - LinkedIn

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Episode 440: Making your own tools Dec 09, 2025

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Neil Johnson's been building some incredible tools for Mac Admins of late, and we wanted to sit down with him and talking through Apple Policy Explorer and some others. What's it like building tools these days, where do you start? Who is the right audience to design for? We'll dive deep on his process here this week, as well as talk about what's going on at Microsoft.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

Neil Johnson, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft - LinkedIn

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Episode 439: The history and present of SOTI Dec 02, 2025

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SOTI is one of the Ur-management platforms, being one of the very first Android EMM tools on the market. How Android Management works is a unique experience to the Apple management ecosystem. We're here to learn more about SOTI the company, as well as what they're doing in the Apple Ecosystem.

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