Mac Admins Podcast

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Episode 410: The 2025 Apple in the Enterprise Report Card Apr 30, 2025

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Jason Snell and Weldon Dodd are back on the Mac Admins Podcast to discuss this year's Apple in the Enterprise Report Card. How did the last year go for Mac Admins with Apple Products? Well, let's find out…

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Jason Snell - @jsnell
Weldon Dodd - LinkedIn

Links:

https://sixcolors.com/

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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 409: What's a VAR for? Apr 22, 2025

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Kevin English and Tom Rice from SHI join the pod this week to talk about Value Added Resellers and their role in the Apple Ecosystem. Ever wonder how the models work for these folks? We're here to tell you.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Tom Rice - LinkedIn
Kevin English - LinkedIn

Links:

https://shi.com/apple
We Got Your Mac: https://www.wegotyourmac.com/listen/
Mac Eval Utility: https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/04/mac-evaluation-utility/

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Episode 408: Turning Frameworks into Functionality Apr 15, 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.

Selina Ali, Senior Product Manager at Addigy is back on the podcast today to talk about what it's like to wrap your head around MDM, DDM, Application Management and other frameworks in order to deliver them as workflows in a device management solution.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Selina Ali - LinkedIn

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Episode 407: A New Conference, Mac Admins India Apr 03, 2025

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India doesn't just have the largest population of any country in the world, it also has a thriving community of Mac Admins who are becoming more and more visible as time goes by. In addition to the popular MacAdmins India, with monthly hangouts and other events, this year we are excited to hear about the upcoming Mac Admins India conference. Karthik and Shyam join us to talk about their experiences being part of organising this community as well as what they have planned for the conference.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Shyam Sundar, Service Manager, Novo Nordisk - LinkedIn
Karthikeyan Marappan, macOS Specialist, European Bioinformatics Institute - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.macadmins.in
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bewithkarthi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-sundar-m9490/
admins@macadmins.in

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Episode 406: An App Catalog in the Cloud, with Root3 Mar 27, 2025

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Root3 is joining us this week to talk about patch management and building a catalog of applications, and their support app.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Jordy Witteman, Apple Principal Consultant, Root3 - LinkedIn
Martin van Diemen, CEO, Root3 - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.root3.nl/en/
https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp
https://appcatalog.cloud/
Hacking with Swift: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/
Swift with Majid: https://swiftwithmajid.com/

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Episode 405: Just Us Mar 19, 2025

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It's just us this week, as we talk through the March beta cycle, the iPhone 16e, what we hope is coming any day for the MacBook Air, and everything else that the cat drug in.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn

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Episode 403: Graham Gilbert on the Path to Staff Engineer Mar 12, 2025

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Career progression in IT can feel a bit unclear at times. Start as a Helpdesk, get to be a CPE, what happens next? How does development actually work? What do most organizations do to tier their people? How do you move up as an individual contributor? We're talking with Graham Gilbert of Airbnb about what it's like to move up toward the rarified air of staff engineer and beyond.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Graham Gilbert - LinkedIn

Links:

Eisenhower Matrix: https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix

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Episode 402: Vulnerability Management with Kandji Mar 05, 2025

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Arek Dreyer from Kandji is back to talk through some updates to Kandji's platform focused on Security, and he's brought a friend, Matt Day. From Vulnerability management on through to Behavior Detection, there's a lot going on in the marketplace today, and Kandji's got some new tools to work with!

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Charles Edge - @cedge318
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
Matt Day - LinkedIn

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Episode 401: Robert Hammen on Making Changes Feb 26, 2025

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Jobs are great, and we're not just talking Steve here. Some of us are even fortunate enough to have a job. In the current economic climate, changing jobs isn't always something that can be planned, so holding onto a job is often our primary concern. But how do we know when we have outgrown our current role? What are some of the signs that it's time to start looking? How do we know if we are jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire? What are some of the strategies that we can use to make sure we advance our career and preserve our sanity?

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Robert Hammen - LinkedIn

Links:

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Episode 400 Feb 21, 2025

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Who doesn't like a nice round number? Much like watching the odometer on the car tick over, we decided to make something special of episode 400, even if it technically might be the 410th episode we recorded… Please allow us to indulge ourselves by having a look back on the almost nine years we have been doing this. We are so humbled y'all are still here!

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