Mac Admins Podcast

Tim Perfitt is back to talk about animal husbandry and the best new features that are in XCreds 4.0!

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Tim Perfitt - LinkedIn

Links:

https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/xcreds/ https://twocanoes.com/knowledge-base/whats-new-in-xcreds-4-0/ https://store.twocanoes.com/collections/smart-card-readers https://twocanoes.com/products/ios/wireless-mobile-reader/ https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/winclone/

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Most of us will have seen or heard about Fletcher Previn?s presentation at JNUC 2023 around the employee choice program at Cisco, and how the numbers stack up for offering the mac. This presentation, and Fletcher?s previous presentations for IBM were described from the perspective of the executives and decision makers, and you our dear listeners will be all too aware that implementing a successful program such as this requires a lot of effort, enthusiasm and collaboration at an engineering level to deliver the outcomes that the stakeholders want for the users. We thought it would be great to hear about what this program at looked like from the inside, so we are fortunate to have Jacob Davidson and Nicole Nolen from the mac@Cisco team to speak to us.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Jacob Davidson - LinkedIn Nicole Nolen - LinkedIn

Links:

Fletcher?s JNUC presentation https://www.jamf.com/blog/mac-in-the-enterprise-employee-choice/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlocking-power-hybrid-work-5-guiding-principles-from-kelly-jones-8e88e/ https://github.com/macadmins/nudge

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In this episode we meet Kim Trojanowski and hear a little about her experience with SupportApp and finding and working with new tools.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

Kim Trojanowski - LinkedIn

Links:

SupportApp - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp 2021 SupportApp JNUC Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijCmR6gQAM README file - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp/blob/master/README.md SupportApp Channel on Slack - https://macadmins.slack.com/archives/C02JD4WCXLH

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Being a solo admin is great! So is going to a larger team, where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. We interview Jordan Burnette about such a transition in today?s episode.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn

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The team from Workbrew joins us this week to discuss the challenges MacAdmins face with Homebrew at their companies. We discuss ways to cut down on IT busywork while also getting ahead with your engineering and security teams with an uncompromising approach to engineering productivity and security posture. Along the way we?ll touch upon maintaining the Homebrew Open Source Project and their approach to building a business around Open Source.

Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Vanessa Gennarelli, COO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn Mike McQuaid, CTO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn John Britton, CEO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn

Links:

Workbrew https://brew.sh/ https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/30d/ Vanessa?s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Change-Work-Vanessa-Gennarelli/dp/195261662X Git in Practice: Includes 66 Techniques

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When polled, one of the most requested guests was one we?ve had on before, Arek Dreyer. So rather than tell Arek, what we wanted to talk about, we thought we?d hit him up for what he wanted to talk about!

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/p/zRML8gyxFN/ TILLREDA portable induction cooktop, 1 zone white - IKEA Toronto Mac Admins Presentation

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Keychain is one of the best password managers on the market - especially for the money. In this episode, we chat with Cody Thomas about his research into Keychain security, where he was able to find some successes in red teaming, and where his attempts were thwarted!

Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Cody Thomas - LinkedIn

Links:

Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2022 Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2021

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MacAD returns to Brighton in May of 2024! We?re excited to welcome members of the organizing committee, Maxine & Liam join the podcast to talk about this year?s conference, what attendees can expect, and why you should be booking your trip.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Maxine Davenport - LinkedIn Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.macad.uk [email protected]

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Admins face challenges with their own vaults of secrets. How do we secure/share secrets like passwords, but also those that aren?t, like SSH keys, certs, or passkeys? And what about mass deployments and IdP integrations?

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Blake Brandon - LinkedIn

Links:

1Password: https://1password.com/ Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bGNgU-2aBs Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG6ksdavtY SCIM: https://support.1password.com/scim/ https://support.1password.com/mobile-device-management/

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Bravas is a new offering based out of the EU, focused on the small business market. Identity and Device Management together, they?re trying something new for the SMB market.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

Yoann Gini - LinkedIn

Links:

Bravas - https://www.bravas.io/en/ JWT - https://jwt.io/ WebAuthN - https://webauthn.io/ Shared Signals Framework - https://openid.net/wg/sharedsignals/ XKCD Standards - https://xkcd.com/927/ Kotlin Language - https://kotlinlang.org/ ACME - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment SCEP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Certificate_Enrollment_Protocol ACME vs SCEP, from Secure W-2 - https://www.securew2.com/blog/acme-ios-certificate-enrollment

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The world is a collection of not-yet-interconnected endpoints. Today, we?re going to talk to Shyam Bhojwani, Director, Business Technology & Cybersecurity on one of the ways to connect those endpoints!

Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Shyam Bhojwani - LinkedIn

Links:

Workato Systematic Community - Workato

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New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today?s episode we?ll look at evaluating when it?s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn

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Set up iCloud Keychain ? Apple Support (AU) Two-factor authentication for Apple ID User Presence vs User Verification Log into Bitwarden with a passkey

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Aftermath is a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework. We?re here with the main contributors to the project to talk about incident response, security life on macOS in late 2023, and using good tools to help make security better.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

Stuart Ashenbrenner - LinkedIn Matt Benyo - LinkedIn

Links:

Aftermath on Github: https://github.com/jamf/aftermath Jamf post about Aftermath: https://www.jamf.com/blog/aftermath-open-source-incident-response-tool/ Jaron?s Book: https://www.amazon.com/OS-Incident-Response-Scripting-Analysis-ebook/dp/B01FHOHHVS Episode with Jaron from the Jamf Threat Labs Team: https://podcast.macadmins.org/2021/08/09/episode-228-supply-chain-attackery/ https://xkcd.com/2867/ Venator (now retired): https://github.com/richiercyrus/Venator

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A review of the year that was! 2023 was monumental in so many ways ? a huge WWDC, great new hardware, a ton of new management concepts ? and 2024 is full of promise. Tom, Charles, Marcus, and Emily take us through the highlights, and have a few predictions for what 2024 will bring.

Hosts:

Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

Links:

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/12/02/rip-rsr/ https://www.sudoade.com/ddm-software-update-logs/ https://www.macadmins.in/ https://podcast.macadmins.org/2023/07/24/episode-325-karthikeyan-on-being-a-macadmin-in-india/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine Joel?s Talk at MSA: https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4

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Dan Snelson has been in the Apple admin community for a long time and builds lots of great tools to help others. Join us this week to celebrate and learn more about his contributions!

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Dan K. Snelson - Blog

Links:

AppleShare IP Xserve macOS Server Kaseya JNUC 2017 Beta Program Honor Roll swiftDialog #swiftdialog MacAdmins Slack Channel #setup-your-mac MacAdmins Slack Channel MDMAppsDeploy swiftEnrolment Setup Your Mac (1.13.0): Under-the-hood Setup Your Mac with SYM-Helper.app Setup Your Mac: Racing Stripes, Gotchas and "One More Thing" | JNUC 2023 Setup Your Mac: Jamf Pro Policy Validation Actionable messages with Jamf Helper Display Message (0.0.8) via swiftDialog Custom Branded Notifications & Messages with swiftDialog Snippets in Visual Studio Code Jamf Pro LAPS: Retrieving Password via Terminal Brickset.com Sponsoring

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Authentication is a big challenge for any organization - how do you decide who gets into what resource, with what security mechanism, and from what device?

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Joel Rennich - LinkedIn Scott Reed - LinkedIn

Links:

The 1Pass sponsored directory: https://passkeys.directory/ JumpCloud Go: https://jumpcloud.com/support/get-started-jumpcloud-go PKCE Flow: https://oauth.net/2/pkce/ Amazon Verified Access: https://aws.amazon.com/verified-access/

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The Apple Platform Deployment Guide is one of the most impressive and important documents that Apple updates about device management with Apple Devices. This week, we?ll be talking about all the updates with returning guest and friend of the podcast Kevin M. White!

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Kevin M White - LinkedIn

Links:

Account-driven Device Enrollment How Apple separates user data from organization data Enforcing a minimum version of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Return to Service for iPhone and iPad Enforcing Automated Device Enrollment on macOS 14 Automate Apple Configurator processes Passkey Attestation declarative configuration Certificates declarative configuration for Apple devices Manage proprietary in-house apps for Mac computers Apple Watch deployment Service access with Managed Apple IDs Platform Single Sign-on for macOS Joel Rennich?s talk at MacSysAdmin Conn ect Apple devices to 802.1X networks Network relays in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS Relay MDM payload settings for Apple devices Managing 5G Network Slicing super v4

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Shortcuts aren?t just a little Applescript goodness that can be used to make droplets. Although you could do that. Shortcuts can be used to perform fairly complex atomic operations. In this session we?ll look at some of the work Damian Cavanagh has posted to his Github, and the crazy lengths he went to in order to have Shortcuts that work with device management options.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Damian Cavanagh - LinkedIn

Links:

ShortcutsForJamfPro Canvas podcast - Workflow Series Automators podcast - Shortcuts utility apps Actions app GitHub repo

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After thwarting Russian attackers since well before the invasion, the team at MacPaw in Ukraine has a keen eye on emerging security threats. Today's episode is about their new cybersecurity division called Moonlock.

Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

Oleg Stukalenko - LinkedIn

Links:

https://moonlock.com/macos-sonoma-security-and-privacy https://moonlock.com/mac-security-survey-2023

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Fall is that time of the year when we can take stock of the latest Apple releases, measure them against what our expectations were, and see how much tech debt piled up trying to keep up with Apple! We?ll talk through what that looks like from the perspective of an MDM vendor in today?s episode, with Jason Dettbarn, from Addigy.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Jason Dettbarn - LinkedIn

Links:

Mac Admins Podcast Listener Survey Durian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian Inspired - https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507 ASVAB - https://www.officialasvab.com/ Joel?s talk on Platform SSO - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4 Dr. K?s Presentation from MacSysAdmin - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video/Day3Session2.mp4

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?Digital transformation? can mean a lot of things to different people. In this episode we unpack it, look at how it helps drive Apple adoption, and maybe get productive (which doesn?t often seem to be the goal of digital transformation but should be).

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

Ashok Amirthalingam - Mac Admins Slack

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We have had so many wonderful guests on the Mac Admins Podcast, telling us about things they have created, workflows they have implemented or products they have integrated in their environments. It can be overwhelming to look at your own setup and want it to look like all the things you may have heard about here, or read about on slack, or watched someone present about at one of the many Mac Admins conferences around the world. Today we are going to talk about some tips that may help you to implement change.

Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Links:

New Vendor Checklists  Jamf Migrator | App Directory Minnesota DMV software project: Faulty Towers/Neverending Story patterns

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Gene Reich from Point joins the pod this week to tell us all about the 2023 edition of the Jamf Nation User Conference in Austin! 

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Gene Reich - LinkedIn

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Join Tom, Charles, and Emily as they host the Speaker Q&A at MacSysAdmin 2023.

Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Charles Edge - @cedge318 Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

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MacSysAdmin Conference 2023

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Sonoma dropped this weekend, and while this episode will be about a week out, it?s worth talking about something we haven?t really touched on: how vendors define the guidance they give their customers.

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Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple?s new operating systems for 2023, and all the technologies that Mac Admins can look forward to trying out this Fall! Are you ready for Managed Apple IDs that do more for your business? Are you excited for Software Update with deadlines? Let?s dive in.

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Guests:

Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn

Links:

Apple Business Essentials  AppleCare Products - Apple Using Shortcuts on macOS to create powerful multi-step actions for Stream Deck How We BYO @ Jamf, JNUC 2023

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Today?s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach.

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Guests:

Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn

Links:

Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann ? Mac Admins Podcast

Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves

Henry?s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform

Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day)

Terraform && Zentral: Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral https://github.com/zentralopensource/circleci-zentral-osquery-example GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral-santa-rulesets-pipeline

Use OIDC as a provider for AWS: Configuring OpenID Connect in Amazon Web Services - GitHub Docs

Zentral - website Henry Stamerjohann, LinkedIn Éric Falconnier, LinkedIn

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Join our hosts as we discuss all the announcements from Apple's September 2023 Event, Wonderlust.

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Automation is important for all of us, especially a margin business like an MSP. In todays episode we?ll chat with Bobby Hardaway and Ryon Riley of Advisory Solutions to hear about how they automate Jamf infrastructure with GitActions. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

Bobby Hardaway - LinkedIn Ryon Riley - LinkedIn

Links:

GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions Advisory Solutions: https://advisorymsp.com/ Penn State MacAdmins talk on GitHub Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznnSyl9i48 JNUC Session - AutoPKG for Jamf Pro with GitHub Actions JNUC Session - So what's all the fuss about CI/CD? GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin LAPS Endpoints on Jamf: https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-laps-current/page/Local_Administrator_Password_Solution.html HCS LAPS Documentation: https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_LAPS.pdf

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We had a lovely conversation with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson about home automation and specifically HomeKit and the Home App in a previous episode, but we didn?t get to everything. So we decided to have a second one! In this episode we?ll get more into onboarding of devices, Siri voice control, security, automation, and troubleshooting. 

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Tim Pearson - LinkedIn Bob Gendler - LinkedIn Steve Yuroff - LinkedIn

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Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia https://www.bosch-home.com/ https://us.govee.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee https://www.z-wave.com/ https://www.starlinghome.io/

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Today?s episode features Kane Narraway talk through his journeys with ZTNA - what they are, what they do, selection criteria, how they integrate with other tools, and all the fun bits that go into getting a pretty interface to wireguard to work seamlessly in your environment.

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Black Hat Sessions: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/ Defcon Sessions: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html Extensions Manager: https://github.com/krypted/extensionsmanager Google BeyondCorp Zero Trust: https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/ Okta + Jamf Unified Identity Access: https://www.jamf.com/integrations/okta/ https://www.amazon.com/Extrusion-Detection-Security-Monitoring-Intrusions/dp/0321349962

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Today?s guest is Elliot Jordan, Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix, here to talk Escrow Buddy, Recipe Robot, AutoPkgr, and about all the fun projects he?s been involved in over the years!

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Elliot Jordan

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Mike Solin?s Post on Focus Modes: https://mikesolin.com/2023/08/05/finding-balance-while-working-remotely/ Crypt: https://github.com/grahamgilbert/crypt Escrow Buddy: https://github.com/macadmins/escrow-buddy/ Stop prompting users for passwords when re-escrowing FileVault keys: https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/filevault-reissue/  MAOS panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyEYsgz5MI Recipe Robot: https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot  Stethoscope: https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflix-stethoscope-5f3c392368e3 Extraordinary Attorney Woo: https://www.netflix.com/title/81518991 Mr. Robot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/ Utopia (AU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series) The Bear, Season 2: https://www.hulu.com/guides/the-bear Elliot?s site: https://www.elliotjordan.com/  Upcoming JNUC session on Escrow Buddy: https://reg.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2023/home23/page/sessioncatalog/session/1682654671482001Ah7L

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The job of a MacAdmin is a global affair. We?ve done episodes with guests in a number of countries, but wanted to focus on what it?s like in a nation with over 1.4 billion people that?s projected to be the most populous country in the near future.

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Karthikeyan Marappan - LinkedIn

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Many of our listeners will have set up AppleTVs at work. Some might use device management tools to configure one or more AppleTVs in ways that allow them to be used in corporate or education environments. We?ll talk through the nuance of AppleTV management in this episode, with Collin Elliot.

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Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

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Apple TV. 1st generation-2290.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

 

Carousel Digital Signage

 

GitHub - NU-ITS/Exhibit: Exhibit is a managed screensaver App for tvOS.

 

Plex: Stream Movies & TV on the App Store

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Vision Pro could be the next big Apple product to change the way humans interact with computing devices. In this episode, we?ll look at some of the SDKs, sensors, and other technologies that have been in the making for a decade that make this technology possible. We?ll explore successes and failures of competing platforms, and think a little about the Vision Pro in the sense of device management, support, and what we might do with them in offices, which shapes how we might manage and support them. Bryson Tyrrell and Rich Trouton join us to talk through what we want, what we think we?ll get, and how we?ll respond to the ever-changing technology landscape.

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Bryson Tyrrell - @bryson3gps Rich Trouton - @rtrouton

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W Industries VR from 1990s https://collection.maas.museum/object/364729 The Uncanny Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley Oculus for Business: https://business.oculus.com/ Rich?s Recording location: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/building-a-home-office/

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A lot of organizations want to treat device management like we treat code. Check in changes, get a second party to approve the check in, and the change goes live. That second set of eyes on a change provides a proactive approach to the security of changes made. It also helps mitigate small mistakes that can have a substantial impact on how users interact with their technology. We can then string together a collection of workflows to pipeline facts about devices to a SEIM or trigger events in other solutions. This usually involves agents. Yet we need to bootstrap devices into these types of systems, and that means MDM. In today's episode, we?ll discuss these types of workflows with Mike McNeil and JD Strong, from FleetDM.

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Guests:

Mike McNeil - LinkedIn JD Strong - LinkedIn

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Fleet Device Management links:

Fleet Device Management Fleet Documentation - Tables Fleet Documentation - MDM

Open Source Projects:

osquery macadmins/osquery-extension Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog GitHub - macadmins/nudge: A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates. MicroMDM - Mobile Device Management server MDMDirector KMFDDM is an Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) server. It works together with NanoMDM. Pricing | Fleet for osquery

Considering Open Source:

Great talk by @fat: dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty? Why this way? | Fleet handbook

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Early in the podcast, there were plenty of stories of MacAdmins who had contentious relationships with security teams. We hear less and less of that every year. It still happens, but far less. We?ve had guests on to tell us how platform teams can work with infosec, but today we?re joined by a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) to give some tips coming from the other direction.

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It?s that time of the year again, when Apple drops mad-crazy-awesome-sauce updates on us. We?re used to iterative updates that make our lives better. This year we also have new products to manage. No word on whether there will be any management of Vision OS - but we?ll soon be managing Apple Watches. Because see, these are all computers - just like the Vision Pro. In today?s episode we?ll spend far more time talking about hardware, software, and management options. But in the meantime, let?s remind everyone that We often see the first release of Apple products as a bit less than. They can come in more expensive than other products in a given category. Like the iPhone and iPod, it will endure its share of ridicule for its high price and derivative functionality, people will complain about its design and point out its deficiencies. But in a year or five, the rest of the world will catch up to Apple?s vision.

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Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England.

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Joel Rennich Ben Toms

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Every organization has a set of norms they follow. Within those are processes that people go through routinely - and those aren?t often documented at new organizations (be they orgs within other orgs or new companies). There have been systems like Six Sigma for tracking those processes, but like how neurons know what paths to take - those are only one part of the brain. EOS is one of those business operating systems, like the OS of the brain, that is more comprehensive than just processes, but goes far deeper into an org. Today we?re speaking with Lucas Acosta from Foojee about EOS and how that has helped Foojee

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www.lucasacosta.com Lucas Acosta (@lucasaaron) / Twitter Assessments ? Rocket Fuel University Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business (Audible Audio Edition) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Audible Audio Edition): Gino Wickman, Kevin Pierce, Audible Studios: Books Ninety.io cloud-based tool to run EOS

 

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Lingon has been a part of the MacAdmins toolkit for as long as recent memory caused us to make launch items. Sandkorn became useful around the same time that we had to start looking at application sandboxes. In today?s episode, we interview the person behind these: Peter Borg

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Peter Borg

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Rapid Security Response, the iMac turns 25, Apple financials, and? WWDC predictions!

Hosts: Tom Bridge Charles Edge Emily Kausalik-Whittle

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https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/ Rapid Security Response on The IT Hour: The IT Hour | Rapid Security Response updates from Apple 5.5.23 https://scriptingosx.com/2023/05/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2023-05-05/ https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/04/18/RSR.html Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/05/apple-q2-2023-results-94-8b-revenue-better-than-expected/ IBM Flying Cars Commercial https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-announces-ceo-transition-plan-appointing-john-strosahl-as-chief-executive-officer/

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MacAdmins have to manage all kinds of things. We talk a lot about settings and features when it comes to device management. But fonts are one of those things that can be important and in fact a security issue as well. For example, if a drug company uses the wrong font they could face massive penalties from regulators. Employees might send out materials with unlicensed fonts. In today?s episode we?ll talk about what?s involved in font management: how to get the right fonts on the right devices and build sustainable workflows so teams can have access to such an important aspect of computing.

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Glenn Kowalski - LinkedIn

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Chank Fonts! DfontSplitter « Peter Upfold Extensis Trajan (typeface) - Wikipedia

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