Episode 378: Henry, Allister, & Graham join us on the Mac Admins SOFA
Release Date: 08/27/2024
Episode 382: An API for Harmonized Tariff Codes, with Diamond Assets
Mac Admins Podcast
Device Lifecycle is a massive topic for Mac Admins – what’s the right length? how do you purchase? what devices keep their value? – and we’re excited to have Kris Roesken from Diamond Assets here to tell us how their customers are approaching this interesting subject. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Kris Roesken - Jeremy Egger - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our...
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Episode 381: Enforcing minimum OS with Bushrat Chowdhury
Mac Admins Podcast
Software Updates is a subject that is dear to the heart of all Mac Admins. Traditionally this was a task that we could only perform after devices were enrolled. Beginning with macOS 14, Automated Device Enrollment began to support the requirement of a Minimum OS Version, which allows us to mandate that the device is updated before we allow it to enroll into our device management system. This week, we’ll talk with Bushrat Chowdhury of Jamf about the adaptation of this feature into the product. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Bushrat Chowdhury - Links: Sponsors: ...
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Episode 380: Jamf Setup Manager
Mac Admins Podcast
It seems like it’s onboarding assistants all the way down at the moment. Everyone has embraced the idea of ensuring our users are kept informed about what is going on when their device is being configured, but most of them share one thing in common - they run once the user has arrived at the desktop. Today we are going. to discuss Jamf Setup Manager, which runs before the setup assistant during enrollment. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Mischa van der Bent - Anthony Darlow - Armin Briegel - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac...
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Episode 379: Just Us on 2024 Fall Releases
Mac Admins Podcast
With major Apple platform releases and a live event around the corner, Tom, Marcus, and Emily round up for a look back at Sonoma and iOS 17, an anxiety check on Sequoia and iOS 18, and ponder some of the questions admins are eager to have answered this Septober. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Emily Kausalik-Whittle - Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our named patrons this month include Weldon...
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Episode 378: Henry, Allister, & Graham join us on the Mac Admins SOFA
Mac Admins Podcast
Death, taxes and software updates… We deal with a constant stream of updates: Minor, major, N, N-1, N-2. Why do we even have updates? Because software inherently sucks and bad people find ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that they find, or is it that good people find them and disclose them before the bad people get a chance to use them... If simply applying these software updates wasn’t hard enough, we also need to understand what devices are eligible for which updates, and may have auditing responsibilities to make decisions as to why and how quickly we need to apply them. SOFA is an...
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Episode 377: Rebecca Latimer on Getting Folks to use Stuff
Mac Admins Podcast
Rebecca Latimer join us to tell us everything she’s been up to since Episode 197! We’ll be talking about managing users' expectations, as well as how they participate in your company's IT ecosystem. Also how managing coworkers isn't quite like managing goats. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Rebecca Latimer - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our...
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Episode 376: Family Device Control with Collin Elliott
Mac Admins Podcast
Family Device Control is a hot topic in the world, and we’ve never touched on it. Joining us this week is Collin Elliott to talk about how to manage your kids' devices, and handling co-parenting, as well as all sorts of ways to keep your devices in line. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Collin Elliott - Links: Screen Time: What is Family Sharing? Circle: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins...
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Episode 375: Managing Macs at MSPs with Ross Matsuda
Mac Admins Podcast
Ross Matsuda joins the Podcast from Ntiva, where he manages a ton of Macs in a ton of different systems and ways. This episode is going to cover the challenge of managing Macs at scale, but not from the same platform Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Ross Matsuda - Links: - Ross’ Apple Administration blog Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our named patrons this month...
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Episode 374: MacStadium and Orka, with Chris Chapman
Mac Admins Podcast
Chris Chapman joins us from MacStadium, returning after 200 episodes, to tell us all about Orka Desktop, help us understand VMs that can be defined in code, and how we can all have more performant and better testing environments! Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Emily Kausalik-Whittle - Guests: Chris Chapman, CTO, MacStadium - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our named...
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Episode 373: PSU Mac Admins
Mac Admins Podcast
Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Michael Epping - Pam Lefkowitz - Joshua Miller - Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! 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,...
info_outlineDeath, taxes and software updates… We deal with a constant stream of updates: Minor, major, N, N-1, N-2. Why do we even have updates? Because software inherently sucks and bad people find ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that they find, or is it that good people find them and disclose them before the bad people get a chance to use them... If simply applying these software updates wasn’t hard enough, we also need to understand what devices are eligible for which updates, and may have auditing responsibilities to make decisions as to why and how quickly we need to apply them. SOFA is an open source tool that MacAdmins can use to help with automation, documentation and many other aspects associated with keeping our bloody software up to date
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Henry Stamerjohann, Co-founder, Zentral - LinkedIn
- Graham Pugh, Senior Systems Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn
- Allister Banks, Citizen of Earth - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://github.com/macadmins/sofa
- https://sofa.macadmins.io
- https://github.com/bartreardon/swiftDialog-scripts/tree/main/Update%20Notifications
- https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
- https://docs.vulncheck.com/community/nist-nvd/introduction
- https://grahamrpugh.com/2023/12/06/xprotect-version-check.html
- https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2024/05/03/investigating-unpatched-cves-with-osquery-and-sofa/
- https://github.com/macadmins/nudge
- https://github.com/macadmins/osquery-extension
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