Episode 442: Just Us on 2025
Mac Admins Podcast
It’s the End of the Year Special! We’re here to break down the 2025 year with all the goods and bads! 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 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...
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Episode 441: Device lifecycle management and buyback with Rippling
Mac Admins Podcast
Welcome to the podcast, Rippling IT, who are working on a novel solution for full lifecycle management related to the devices that their platform enables. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Selina Ali - Guests: Zaafir Kherani - 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...
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Episode 440: Making your own tools
Mac Admins Podcast
Neil Johnson’s been building some incredible tools for Mac Admins of late, and we wanted to sit down with him and talking through Apple Policy Explorer and some others. What’s it like building tools these days, where do you start? Who is the right audience to design for? We’ll dive deep on his process here this week, as well as talk about what’s going on at Microsoft. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Neil Johnson, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast,...
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Episode 439: The history and present of SOTI
Mac Admins Podcast
SOTI is one of the Ur-management platforms, being one of the very first Android EMM tools on the market. How Android Management works is a unique experience to the Apple management ecosystem. We’re here to learn more about SOTI the company, as well as what they’re doing in the Apple Ecosystem. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Selina Ali - Guests: Mikhail Ishkanov, SOTI, Senior Director Product Strategy and Sales Enablement Youssef Mohamed, SOTI, Product Manager Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the...
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Episode 438: Running a medical school on Apple
Mac Admins Podcast
What’s it like managing Apple Devices in a medical school? Brian Atkinson of the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine joins us this week to take us through the challenges of running their whole environment on Apple products. From Macs to tablets to even the Vision Pro! Let’s dive in and take a look. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Brian Atkinson - 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 437: Mac Automation in 2025
Mac Admins Podcast
Automating our work load is a given in IT, and there are a lot of tools out there to help you accomplish streamlined workflows and reclaim time back in your day. Something the Mac Admin Community excels at is its open source mindset and providing tools to others to lend a helping hand. In today’s episode we won't be focusing on a specific automation or a tool set, but the stories and problems behind them - and how these problems were solved by a member of our community - Dave- welcome to the podcast! Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Dave Siederer - ...
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Episode 436: Float like a Jellyfish, sting like a Bee
Mac Admins Podcast
Kandji has announced a new name, and some new products, and they are now Iru! Weldon Dodd joins us to talk about their move toward Identity, Cross-Platform Device Management, Security, and Compliance products. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Weldon Dodd - Links: They’re good rectangles: 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 435: Platform SSO (Okta's Version)
Mac Admins Podcast
Apple announced Platform Single Sign-on at the setup assistant in macOS 26, and it’s been a race for Identity Providers and Device Management Services to wrap their heads around the changes and implement it. Okta recently released their implementation and we are joined by Arki and Dan to talk about what this changes, what was involved in getting it to work, and what is still to come. We are also going to discuss how Platform Single Sign-on is just a small part of what is required for a securing your users. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Arki Krowczynski,...
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Episode 434: Learning New Lore with Kitzy
Mac Admins Podcast
Working at the same place for a long time can have some amazing benefits. Every conversation, meeting, or ticket solved is another person you met, another piece of knowledge you have that you didn’t have before and another piece of the huge puzzle that is slowly getting assembled inside your brain. Institutional knowledge can be an amazing thing, and we all love that person we work with who seems to have been there right from the beginning and just.knows.stuff. But does having too many puzzle pieces assembled in your mind prevent you from getting overly curious, for fear of tipping...
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Episode 433: Managing iOS is easy, right?
Mac Admins Podcast
Alexandre Morin joins the podcast to talk all about iOS Management - ADUE, ADDE, ADE, BYOD, there’s too many acronyms to mention. All of this is a known, totally easy piece of cake, right? There’s no challenges here. Oh, but what about cellular? eSIM? Different use-cases? dedicated devices locked into single app usage? It’s not so straight forward, is it? Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Alexandre Morin - Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac...
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Alexandre Morin joins the podcast to talk all about iOS Management - ADUE, ADDE, ADE, BYOD, there’s too many acronyms to mention. All of this is a known, totally easy piece of cake, right? There’s no challenges here.
Oh, but what about cellular? eSIM? Different use-cases? dedicated devices locked into single app usage? It’s not so straight forward, is it?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
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Alexandre Morin - LinkedIn
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