Mac Admins Podcast

The ACES conference enters its 12th year this spring with a May event in Minneapolis. Targeted at those people who manage Macs as consultants and at managed service providers, this year's conference has a bunch of new events. Here to tell us all about it is conference founder and longtime Mac Admin Justin Esgar. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Justin Esgar - LinkedIn Links: https://acesconf.com/ https://nemaa.org/art-a-whirl/ https://acesconf.com/edward-esgar-scholarship/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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 Weins

iOS security is an important topic that we don't talk about nearly enough. The current moment is driving a lot of people to understand it better, though! Let's dive in on iOS Security! We wanted to talk about iOS security. There's been a lot of conversations lately about how our personal devices can sell us out, and how attackers can come after your mobile devices, both personal and corporate. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Patrick Wardle - LinkedIn Links: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/personal-safety/ips2aad835e1/1.0/web/1.0  https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/  https://www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-get-into-wapo-reporters-iphone-because-it-had-lockdown-mode-enabled/  Kung Fury- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring t

There are some people in the workplace that you know you can always count on to have an answer for a really obscure question or a tool to point you in the right direction for finding those esoteric bits of knowledge. Someone where every time you talk to them they absolutely blow your mind with some new piece of information or fun new tool in the workplace. Today's guest is one of those people- someone whose every response prompts immediate note taking and bookmarking because some day - we'll need those obscure facts while troubleshooting a problem and they will have it. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Mark Buffington - LinkedIn Links: https://developer.jamf.com/jamf-pro/docs/test-apps-with-managedapp-and-blueprints https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/deploying-apps-with-declarative-management https://xyproblem.info/  https://github.com/ninxsoft/LowProfile  https://concepts.jamf.com/  https://en.wikiped

It was March 2016 when the first episode of the Mac Admins Podcast dropped, lead by the theme song that Adam Codega composed the first time he opened garage band. Hard to believe it! What's changed since 2016? What's the same? What do we think will be the same in 2036 if we're still doing this? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn James Smith - LinkedIn Links: https://isimagingdead.com/ https://podcast.macadmins.org/2019/08/13/episode-133-sunburst-and-luminary-with-don-eyles/ https://podcast.macadmins.org/2018/02/21/episode-70-tim-perfitt-twocanoes-software/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon D

This April 30th, Mac Admins Europe launches for the first time in Leiden, Netherlands. Mischa van der Bent is here to tell us all about why this event exists, what to expect at the very first instance, and how the world is changing for Mac Admins. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Mischa van der Bent - LinkedIn Armin Briegel - LinkedIn Links: https://macadmins-eu.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitterballen https://github.com/Jamf-Concepts/setup-checklist https://modernismweek.com/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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, St

JR Rasberry and Adam Solove on ICEOut.tech Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: JR Rasberry - LinkedIn Adam Solove - LinkedIn Links: https://www.404media.co/marc-benioff-jokes-ice-is-watching-salesforce-employees-who-traveled-to-the-u-s/ Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (https://www.ilcm.org/) and Unidos MN (https://unidos-mn.org/). Both orgs are providing critical support to low-income immigrants in MN https://www.mnmad.org/ Minnesota Mutual Aid directory  https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ - local gofundmes and mutual aid Stand by Me x The People United https://bsky.app/profile/taylordahlin.com/post/3mdeijmip522z Singing Resistance : https://linktr.ee/singingresistance  Cameron McCloud (Artist): https://www.instagram.com/cureforparanoia/# Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more informat

Liam Donnelly from Jigsaw24 joins us to talk about MacAD 2026! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn Links: https://www.macad.uk/ https://www.jigsaw24.com/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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  

PKI can be a real adventure, from dealing with minting certificates, to their whole lifecycle, all the way down to who trusts what and why. We're here this week with Smallstep's CEO Mike Malone to talk about device attestation, their latest projects, and everything about how we learn to better trust each other when we can, and what to do when we can't. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Mike Malone - LinkedIn Links: https://smallstep.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/07/30/3124136/0/en/Smallstep-and-Jamf-Partner-to-Deliver-Hardware-Backed-Device-Identity-for-Enterprise-Managed-Apple-Fleets.html Apple JNUC 2025 Presentation on Apple Platform Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wj2Oc-LUMQ https://smallstep.com/product/ai-and-mcp/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko_Wilcox-O%27Hearn Sponsors: Iru Fleet Devi

It's just us this week, and we're talking about AI - Apple Intelligence, "Apple" Intelligence, and Apple "Intelligence" - as we dive into a few key developments. The 26.3 group of releases is upon us, along with new Gemini models coming to Siri, and the hopes of new hardware! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links: https://kitzy.com/blog/openclaw-security-dangers/  https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101  Restricting the upgrade dialog: https://soundmacguy.org.uk/2026/01/29/suppress-the-upgrade-dialog-for-keynote-numbers-and-pages.html https://education.apple.com/story/250015008 Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon D

Everyone wants to manage devices these days, and not just Macs. Being able to embed device management into the platform you're already building can provide a seamless experience for your users. Open source projects like NanoMDM are free, but the resources required to set them up and maintain them are not. Smplify is a new player on the market who provides the infrastructure to manage devices so you can build MDM directly into your own solution. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Ben Greiner - LinkedIn Links: https://www.smplify.com/ https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-food Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon

Kevin White is here with a bucket of spackle and some know how to make Platform Single Sign On a better experience. Plus, he's got updates for us on Super. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Kevin White - LinkedIn Links: https://github.com/Macjutsu/pseudo https://github.com/Macjutsu/super https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/password-utility/ Apple BSI (née RSR) https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657 Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Primo Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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

MDM, DDM, VPP, ABM, even MSCP - all the acronyms that help us to manage devices the way that we need to, providing the amazing end-user experiences that the macadmin community is so conscious of. But what do we do when the tools provided by Apple or our device management service don't provide the capabilities we need? That's right, we build it ourselves! Michael Page is going to talk us through Dock Composer, one of these very tools that he has built to solve his own problem and help others solve the same problems in their environments Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Michael Page - LinkedIn Links: Dock Master https://github.com/Error-freeIT/Dock-Master https://techion.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master Dock Composer on the Mac App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/dock-composer/id6751523907 Dockutil - https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil Docklib - https://github.com/homebysix/docklib Git Kraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/ Sp

As managing Macs evolves, it's no longer enough to just configure the devices we are responsible for. What happened after we configured them, are they still configured that way, has the user managed to get around the controls we put in place. Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Eric Metzger - LinkedIn Links: SIEMply Irresistable - JNUC 2025 Jamf Protect Telemetry Data Model (Free Jamf ID required) Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin

2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twin-cities-mac-admins-meetup-ddm-with-selina-ali-mark-buffington-tickets-1978292003637?aff=oddtdtcreator https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/ Sponsors: Iru https://fleetdm.com/?utm_campaign=macadmins_podcast Meter Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The

2026 has begun. Lets look forwards and no backwards and talk about what we have in hope for the year. What are we hoping to see from a hardware perspective? What are we hanging out for at WWDC this year? What predictions do we have for our favourite community projects, conferences, vendors and integrations? What do we resolve to do more, of, less of or to just keep doing? Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Anna Mentzer-Hernández - LinkedIn Links: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twin-cities-mac-admins-meetup-ddm-with-selina-ali-mark-buffington-tickets-1978292003637?aff=oddtdtcreator  https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Meter Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @Ma

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 - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links: https://macadminmusings.com/blog/2025/12/14/stop-working-before-everything-is-finished/ Sponsors: Iru 1Password Backblaze Meter Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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  

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 - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Zaafir Kherani - LinkedIn Sponsors: Iru 1Password Backblaze Meter Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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  

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 - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Neil Johnson, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft - LinkedIn Links: https://appledevicepolicy.tools/policy-explorer https://appledevicepolicy.tools/microsoft-apps https://code.visualstudio.com/ Sponsors: Iru 1Password Meter Backblaze Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named p

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 - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Mikhail Ishkanov, SOTI, Senior Director Product Strategy and Sales Enablement Youssef Mohamed, SOTI, Product Manager Sponsors: Iru 1Password Meter   Backblaze Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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 Bark

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 - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Brian Atkinson - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Meter Backblaze Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! 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 P