Episode 410: The 2025 Apple in the Enterprise Report Card
Release Date: 04/30/2025
Mac Admins Podcast
Apple's back to talk about the 26 release cycle, new APIs and plenty of great work that we can get excited about. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Jeremy Butcher - Links: Swift Connect 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,...
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Apple’s released a gaggle of new hardware today. What’s on the release list? What do we make of the new models? Let’s dive in and figure it out. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - 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...
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Marcus and (sorry)James live from X World in Melbourne Hosts: Marcus Ransom - James Smith - Guests: Tony Gray - James White - Robert Hammen - Phill Wade - 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, Dan Barker,...
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Alex Confer from Risotto joins the pod this week to discuss IT career development and what it’s like to move to the world of startups. The conversation also touches on how to evaluate what AI is good for in 2025 including what’s practical, what’s not, and how to put things together. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Alex Confer - Links: The Katering Show - Hot Wet Rice Form follows function - Alex on the Mac Admins slack - @aconfer Avoiding brainrot and keeping mental friction: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the...
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Apple Silicon provides so many different opportunities with virtualisation, but many of us still miss the intel days when we could snapshot and use serial numbers to automate device enrollment. Tools like Tart provide opportunities to build workflows that allow us to configure and enhance the way we virtualise macOS. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Rob Potvin, Senior Consulting Engineer, Jamf - Links: MacADUK presentation Rob’s Blog - Tart - Virtual Buddy - Bushel - Orka - Anka - UTM - Great resource for VMs Sponsors: ...
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The MacAdmins Community has a long, vibrant history of solving problems together usually through open source projects that become essential tools in our workflows. Whatever challenge you’re facing, chances are there’s already a project, or a group of passionate people, tackling something similar. But with so many options, the path forward isn’t always clear. Do you adopt an existing open source tool? Invest in a polished, commercial solution? Or roll up your sleeves and build something totally new? Today we’re diving into one admins journey into this struggle, and their path as they...
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Arek and Matt joined us in March of 2025 to talk about Vulnerability Management, and they’re back to share their progress, as well as a look at the future. Then we’ll dive in on the week’s news. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Selina Ali - Guests: Arek Dreyer - Matt Day - Links: Release notes - Support article - The Failure Mode of Clever - 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 !...
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Macs are safe - they don’t get malware. We used to hear this all the time and whilst Apple has done a wonderful job of building a secure by design operating system, there are still threats out there we need to protect ourselves against. It’s also no surprise that macOS is not Windows. And it’s further and further away from behaving like UNIX these days. So how do we know what to look for, and where to even go looking for it? Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs joins us to talk about his new book: Threat Hunting macOS - Mastering endpoint security Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - ...
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We’re live at the MacAdmins Conference at Penn State, talking about the week’s events, the state of the community, and what it’s like being at this very special conference. We’ve got great guests, and a good chance to have a wonderful conversation. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Guests: Erin Merchant - Greg Neagle - Jacob Burley - 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...
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We’re at Beta 3 and at least a third of the way through the beta season. How are things going, what have we discovered so far and what are we still looking to find out? There are also plenty of other things happening in the Mac Admin community - lets talk through some of those things and get excited for what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do before! Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - 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...
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