Mac Admins Podcast

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Episode 419: Device Compliance with Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion Jul 08, 2025

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Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion join us to talk about device security & compliance, as well as how to handle the necessary access control issues that can come from it. Whether it's SSF, app management, identity management, there's always knock-on effects. How can folks handle them?

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Sriram Kakarala, CPO, Scalefusion - LinkedIn
Preetham Gurram, VP of Product, Scalefusion - 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 418: Looking at PSSO after WWDC, with Michael Epping & Joel Rennich Jul 01, 2025

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We have all enjoyed seeing Apple make the noticeable shift to embracing modern cloud identity with the integrations we have seen over the past few years. From modern authentication at enrollment, Single Sign on extensions through to Federation of Managed Apple accounts and Platform Single Sign-on. The announcements at WWDC this year gave us more reasons to be excited, with a whole bunch of new capabilities announced. What does this really mean and can I start using this in production tomorrow?

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Michael Epping - LinkedIn
Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

Links:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/implementing-platform-sso-during-device-enrollment
Parallelipiped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelepiped
The Great Disnub Dirhomboidodecahedron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_disnub_dirhombidodecahedron
Klein Bottle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
Apple and Emory Healthcare: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-products-transform-care-at-emory-healthcare/
Microsoft FIDO Alliance Case Study: https://fidoalliance.org/case-study-microsoft/

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Episode 417: WWDC Wrap and First Look at Betas Jun 25, 2025

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We're into the beta season! Apple has released a bunch of documentation, as well as a full suite of betas to go with everything we talked about last week on the Flashcast. We'll be talking PSSO, MDM Migration, and the AxM APIs.

Hosts:

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

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Episode 416: DDM with Bryce from Addigy Jun 16, 2025

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Declarative Device Management is just as easy as turning on the protocol, accepting the messages, and then responding over the new channel, right? Should be a couple weeks' work for any MDM, right? Well, we're going deep on DDM's nuts and bolts with Bryce from Addigy on their journey to DDM management. Let's see how it really went?

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Bryce Carlson - LinkedIn

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Flashcast 15: WWDC 25 Jun 10, 2025

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With WWDC announced for June 9 through 12 this year, we're all looking forward to whatever new device management capabilities we get to see. Toss a coin to your MDM vendors (o' valley of plenty) for they are the ones that need to turn these wonderful new frameworks and features into something that we as Mac Admins can integrate into the workflows we need to create the magical end user experiences we strive for.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Selina Ali - LinkedIn

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Episode 415: Codesigning and Building Software in 2025 Jun 02, 2025

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Joel Rennich's back with us to talk about code signing certificates,

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

Links:

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Episode 414: The Why of Mac Admins Conferences May 27, 2025

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There are a lot of incredible conferences out there for Mac Admins to attend - MacSysAdmin, MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, X World, Objective by the Sea - but what's the story behind the story? This week we're talking with conference organizers about how they think about their events, the challenges that they face, and the future of these critical community events.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social

Guests:

Patrik Jerneheim, MacSysAdmin - LinkedIn
Mat X, MacDevOps YVR - LinkedIn
Gretchen Kuwahara, MacAdmins at Penn State University - LinkedIn

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Episode 413: Live from MacAD.uk 2025 May 19, 2025

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Tom & Marcus are in Brighton this week with three friends: Neil Johnson, Cat McDonald, and Liam Donnelly. MacAD.UK 2025 was full of great talks, so let's dial it in and talk with three of the best speakers.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Neil Johnson - LinkedIn
Cat McDonald
Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.macad.uk/

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Episode 412: Just Us - Latest News and Stuff May 13, 2025

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Erin Merchant's back with the Mac Admins Podcast to help us get caught up with the latest news and events. We're talking macOS 15.4 (and 15.4.1), the latest kerfuffles with Apple Intelligence, and we're all wondering why Tom's MacBook Pro keeps restarting in his backpack.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Erin Merchant - LinkedIn

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Episode 411: The Art of Mac Malware Volume 2 May 05, 2025

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Patrick Wardle's a busy guy, and 2025 is no exception! No Starch Press just published volume two of the Art of Mac Malware on Detection, including a free PDF version. Objective by the Sea is back in October in the Balearics. iOS Security Research is a new area of focus, but there's plenty to talk about. Welcome back, Patrick!

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