Mac Admins Podcast

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Episode 399: Omnissa in 2025 Feb 13, 2025

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Matt from Omnissa joins the Mac Admins team to talk about Omnissa's latest developments for Workspace ONE, and life after the Broadcom divestment.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Matt Coppinger - 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 398: App Installers and Jamf Pro Feb 05, 2025

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Apple has done a great job of providing first-party applications to achieve pretty much anything you would want to do using their devices. From iMovie to Final Cut Pro, contentious changes to the Photos app, and the productivity tools like Pages, Numbers, and the awesome power of Keynote. Despite this, we generally need to provide much more than this to our users, installing applications from many different vendors with wildly varying approaches to installation, configuration and updates. There are almost as many approaches to managing the installation and patching of third-party software as there are vendors, and today we are going to speak to Adam Derrick from Jamf, and Dave Goldberg from Horizon BCBS about using Jamf App Installers in production.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Adam Derrick, SE @ Jamf
Dave Goldberg, Horizon BCBS of NJ

Links:

#JNUC 2024: Save Time with #Jamf App Installers - A Modern Approach to App Management
Software Titles - Jamf App Catalog
Release Notes - Jamf App Catalog
Feature Requests - jamf.it/featurerequest

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Episode 397: Software Bill of Materials with Workbrew Jan 29, 2025

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The team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they've gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They're with us today to talk about SBOMs - Software Bill of Materials - and security in your work environments. Patching remains a really integral part of doing Mac Admin work right, and this critical concept is one we're going deep on.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

John Britton, Workbrew - LinkedIn
Mike McQuaid, Workbrew - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
https://workbrew.com/macadmins
PSU MacAdmins workbrew sessions (Marcus to add)
- https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-psu-2024-session-homebrew-balancing-the-needs-of-it-security-and-engineering-teams-at-scale
- https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-conference-2024-session-workbrew-a-deep-dive-into-the-enterprise-software-delivery-platform
pcpartpicker.com
- https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mikemcquaid/saved/#view=7gjtWZ Mike's PC :D
https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile Mike's Brewfile
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Homebrew Bundle/Brewfiles

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Episode 396: CrashPlan's Andrew Orrison talks Backup Jan 25, 2025

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Andrew Orrison from CrashPlan joins the pod to talk about a couple topics: how they've moved to be their own organization from being part of Code42, and how they use the Mac Admins Slack as a way to support the community.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Andrew Orrison - LinkedIn

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Episode 395: iMazing is Amazing Jan 15, 2025

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Ari from iMazing joins the podcast to talk about iMazing Profile Editor, a tool near and dear to Mac Admins for its wide understanding of the MDM Specification and ability to create signed profiles easily for distribution in the MDM of your choice.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Becky Scott - LinkedIn

Guests:

Ari Leviatan - LinkedIn

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Episode 394: Family Device Control, Part 2 Jan 06, 2025

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Collin Elliott is back to talk to more about controlling the family devices in your midst.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Becky Scott - LinkedIn

Guests:

Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

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Episode 393: Good bye and good riddance 2024 Dec 31, 2024

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Lets look back on 2024 and remember the year that was. There will be lots of laughing, maybe some eye rolling. Probably also some tears.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
James Smith - LinkedIn

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Episode 392: Michael & Mark on Entra ID Dec 17, 2024

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Entra ID is the current inheritor of the mantle of Active Directory. No, don't be afraid, we're not going to do any binding on this show. We're going to give you the brass tacks for what Microsoft is using Entra for, how Mac Admins should think about it, and how it fits into the modern world for Mac Admins.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

Michael Epping, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft – LinkedIn
Mark Morowczynski, Principal Security Researcher, Microsoft – LinkedIn

Links:

Extending the AD schema (pay attention to the date) https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/attachments/20101123/6d648bd4/attachment.pdf
Password Guide: https://aka.ms/PasswordlessGuide

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Episode 391: Mac Admins Foundation Dec 04, 2024

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This year, the Mac Admins Foundation is hosting a fundraising drive to build the future of the organization and shore up the financial future of the foundation.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social

Guests:

John Mahlman - LinkedIn
Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn
Erin Merchant - LinkedIn
Chris Dawe - LinkedIn

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Episode 390: Patrick Wardle on Objective for the We, DoubleYou, & More Dec 02, 2024

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Patrick Wardle from DoubleYou and the Objective See Foundation joins us to talk about their recent event in Kyiv, as well as everything Mac Security, along with Mikhail, his collaborator at DoubleYou.

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