Mac Admins Podcast

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Flashcast 16: Awe Dropping Sep 15, 2025

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Apple's released a gaggle of new hardware today. What's on the release list? What do we make of the new models? Let's dive in and figure it out.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - 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 428: Live from X World '25 Sep 10, 2025

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Marcus and (sorry)James live from X World in Melbourne

Hosts:

Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
James Smith - LinkedIn

Guests:

Tony Gray - LinkedIn
James White - LinkedIn
Robert Hammen - LinkedIn
Phill Wade - LinkedIn

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Episode 427: AI's not for everything Sep 04, 2025

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Alex Confer from Risotto joins the pod this week to discuss IT career development and what it's like to move to the world of startups. The conversation also touches on how to evaluate what AI is good for in 2025 including what's practical, what's not, and how to put things together.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Alex Confer - LinkedIn

Links:

The Katering Show - Hot Wet Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yr_etbfZtQ
Form follows function - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
Alex on the Mac Admins slack - @aconfer
https://tryrisotto.com/
Avoiding brainrot and keeping mental friction: https://pauljun.substack.com/p/anti-slop-and-anti-brainrot

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Episode 426: Virtualization in 2025 Aug 27, 2025

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Apple Silicon provides so many different opportunities with virtualisation, but many of us still miss the intel days when we could snapshot and use serial numbers to automate device enrollment. Tools like Tart provide opportunities to build workflows that allow us to configure and enhance the way we virtualise macOS.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Rob Potvin, Senior Consulting Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn

Links:

MacADUK presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqS9bG3bkg
Rob's Blog - https://www.motionbug.com/
Tart - https://tart.run/
Virtual Buddy - https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
Bushel - https://getbushel.app/
Orka - https://www.macstadium.com/orka
Anka - https://veertu.com/anka-flow/
UTM - https://mac.getutm.app/
Great resource for VMs https://eclecticlight.co/

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Episode 425: App Auto-Patch and Beyond with Robert Schroeder Aug 21, 2025

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The MacAdmins Community has a long, vibrant history of solving problems together usually through open source projects that become essential tools in our workflows. Whatever challenge you're facing, chances are there's already a project, or a group of passionate people, tackling something similar.

But with so many options, the path forward isn't always clear. Do you adopt an existing open source tool? Invest in a polished, commercial solution? Or roll up your sleeves and build something totally new?

Today we're diving into one admins journey into this struggle, and their path as they decided to build their own solutions for automating application and software patching in their organization.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Rob Schroeder - LinkedIn

Links:

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Episode 424: Feeling Vulnerable with Arek and Matt Aug 12, 2025

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Arek and Matt joined us in March of 2025 to talk about Vulnerability Management, and they're back to share their progress, as well as a look at the future. Then we'll dive in on the week's news.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
Matt Day - LinkedIn

Links:

Release notes - https://www.kandji.io/updates/2025/07/vulnerability-response-remediation/
Support article - https://support.kandji.io/kb/patching-applications-based-on-cve-severity
The Failure Mode of Clever - https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

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Episode 423: Writing the book on Threat Hunting macOS, with Jaron Bradley Aug 05, 2025

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Macs are safe - they don't get malware. We used to hear this all the time and whilst Apple has done a wonderful job of building a secure by design operating system, there are still threats out there we need to protect ourselves against. It's also no surprise that macOS is not Windows. And it's further and further away from behaving like UNIX these days. So how do we know what to look for, and where to even go looking for it? Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs joins us to talk about his new book: Threat Hunting macOS - Mastering endpoint security

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Jaron Bradley - LinkedIn

Links:

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Episode 422: Live from MacAdmins at Penn State Jul 29, 2025

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We're live at the MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, talking about the week's events, the state of the community, and what it's like being at this very special conference. We've got great guests, and a good chance to have a wonderful conversation.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social

Guests:

Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
Greg Neagle - LinkedIn
Jacob Burley - LinkedIn

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Episode 421: Just Us, now with Selina Ali Jul 22, 2025

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We're at Beta 3 and at least a third of the way through the beta season. How are things going, what have we discovered so far and what are we still looking to find out?

There are also plenty of other things happening in the Mac Admin community - lets talk through some of those things and get excited for what we are able to do now that we couldn't do before!

Hosts:

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

Links:

Sponsors:

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Episode 420: Avoiding "careering" off the road, with Tony Young Jul 15, 2025

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What does it mean to be a Mac Admin in the year of jobs 2025? Long gone are the days of having to explain that no, that isn't something that macs can integrate with. Instead we have all had to become experts in so many different silos within the modern IT organisation, from Identity, Security, Networking and Certificates. Being able to embrace and understand these concepts has also led to opportunities in career growth. Gone are the days where hoping for a small windowless room and the opportunity to get some new hardware to test once in a while was seen as a good deal. The growth of macOS in the enterprise has meant that our skills are incredibly attractive to large organisations, especially if we are able to combine technical prowess with the negotiation and collaboration required to drag Windows-centric teams towards the path of righteousness when it comes to a cross-platform or employee choice environment

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