Patrick Wardle’s a busy guy, and 2025 is no exception! No Starch Press just published volume two of the Art of Mac Malware on Detection, including a free PDF version. Objective by the Sea is back in October in the Balearics. iOS Security Research is a new area of focus, but there’s plenty to talk about. Welcome back, Patrick! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @t…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into just a single legal story and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The four main stories are President Trump's continuing tariff chaos, Apple's Q2 2025 earnings, a bad month for Apple's App Store business model, and …

Jason Snell and Weldon Dodd are back on the Mac Admins Podcast to discuss this year’s Apple in the Enterprise Report Card. How did the last year go for Mac Admins with Apple Products? Well, let’s find out… Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Jason Snell - @jsnell Weldon Dodd - LinkedIn Links: https:…

Kevin English and Tom Rice from SHI join the pod this week to talk about Value Added Resellers and their role in the Apple Ecosystem. Ever wonder how the models work for these folks? We’re here to tell you. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Tom Rice - LinkedIn Kevin English - LinkedIn Links: https…

With WWDC announced for June 9 through 12 this year, we’re all looking forward to whatever new device management capabilities we get to see. Toss a coin to your MDM vendors (o' valley of plenty) for they are the ones that need to turn these wonderful new frameworks and features into something that we as Mac Admins can integrate into the workflows w…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into the regulatory and legal stories, a little Apple HR news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The three main stories are President Trump's (not-)reciprocal tariffs, a big shakeup in the Apple Intelligence and Si…

India doesn’t just have the largest population of any country in the world, it also has a thriving community of Mac Admins who are becoming more and more visible as time goes by. In addition to the popular MacAdmins India, with monthly hangouts and other events, this year we are excited to hear about the upcoming Mac Admins India conference. Karthi…

Root3 is joining us this week to talk about patch management and building a catalog of applications, and their support app. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Jordy Witteman, Apple Principal Consultant, Root3 - LinkedIn Martin van Diemen, CEO, Root3 - LinkedIn Links: https://www.root3.nl/en/ https:…

It’s just us this week, as we talk through the March beta cycle, the iPhone 16e, what we hope is coming any day for the MacBook Air, and everything else that the cat drug in. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn Links: https://www.macadmins.org/news/2025/3/14/mac-admins-foundation-…

Career progression in IT can feel a bit unclear at times. Start as a Helpdesk, get to be a CPE, what happens next? How does development actually work? What do most organizations do to tier their people? How do you move up as an individual contributor? We’re talking with Graham Gilbert of Airbnb about what it’s like to move up toward the rarified ai…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into the regulatory and legal stories, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The four main stories are Apple's first full month under President Trump's second tenure, the UK's attempt to secretly back-door iCloud, load…

Arek Dreyer from Kandji is back to talk through some updates to Kandji’s platform focused on Security, and he’s brought a friend, Matt Day. From Vulnerability management on through to Behavior Detection, there’s a lot going on in the marketplace today, and Kandji’s got some new tools to work with! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Cha…

Jobs are great, and we’re not just talking Steve here. Some of us are even fortunate enough to have a job. In the current economic climate, changing jobs isn’t always something that can be planned, so holding onto a job is often our primary concern. But how do we know when we have outgrown our current role? What are some of the signs that it’s time…

Who doesn’t like a nice round number? Much like watching the odometer on the car tick over, we decided to make something special of episode 400, even if it technically might be the 410th episode we recorded… Please allow us to indulge ourselves by having a look back on the almost nine years we have been doing this. We are so humbled y’all are still…

Matt from Omnissa joins the Mac Admins team to talk about Omnissa’s latest developments for Workspace ONE, and life after the Broadcom divestment. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Matt Coppinger - LinkedIn Links: 2406 release Notes Microsoft - Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO Sponsors: K…

Apple has done a great job of providing first-party applications to achieve pretty much anything you would want to do using their devices. From iMovie to Final Cut Pro, contentious changes to the Photos app, and the productivity tools like Pages, Numbers, and the awesome power of Keynote. Despite this, we generally need to provide much more than th…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into the regulatory and legal stories, a little HR news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The three main stories are President Trump's impact on Apple, the latest OS point-releases, and Apple's Q1 2025 earnings ca…

The team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they’ve gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They’re with us today to talk about SBOMs - Software Bill of Materials - and security in your work environments. Patching remains a really integral part of doing Mac Admin work right, and this critical concept is one we’re g…

Andrew Orrison from CrashPlan joins the pod to talk about a couple topics: how they’ve moved to be their own organization from being part of Code42, and how they use the Mac Admins Slack as a way to support the community. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Andrew Orrison - LinkedIn Links: Mac Admin…

Ari from iMazing joins the podcast to talk about iMazing Profile Editor, a tool near and dear to Mac Admins for its wide understanding of the MDM Specification and ability to create signed profiles easily for distribution in the MDM of your choice. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Becky Scott - LinkedIn Guests: Ari Leviatan - LinkedI…

Collin Elliott is back to talk to more about controlling the family devices in your midst. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Becky Scott - LinkedIn Guests: Collin Elliott - LinkedIn Links: Episode 376: https://podcast.macadmins.org/2024/08/14/episode-376-family-device-control-with-collin-elliott/ https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/a…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into the regulatory and legal stories, a little HR news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The three main stories are conflict mineral complaints filed against Apple, the latest OS point-releases, and the continued…

Lets look back on 2024 and remember the year that was. There will be lots of laughing, maybe some eye rolling. Probably also some tears. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom James Smith - LinkedIn Links: Management profile settings and OS upgrade implications | Der Flounder Episode 359: Mac@Cisco – A Mac Adm…

Entra ID is the current inheritor of the mantle of Active Directory. No, don’t be afraid, we’re not going to do any binding on this show. We’re going to give you the brass tacks for what Microsoft is using Entra for, how Mac Admins should think about it, and how it fits into the modern world for Mac Admins. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.…

This year, the Mac Admins Foundation is hosting a fundraising drive to build the future of the organization and shore up the financial future of the foundation. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Guests: John Mahlman - LinkedIn Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn Erin Merchant - LinkedIn Chris Dawe - LinkedIn Links: https://www.macadmins.org/ h…

Patrick Wardle from DoubleYou and the Objective See Foundation joins us to talk about their recent event in Kyiv, as well as everything Mac Security, along with Mikhail, his collaborator at DoubleYou. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Patrick Wardle - LinkedIn Mikhail Sosonkin - LinkedIn Links: Ar…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into a big serving of regulatory stories, a handful legal story, just one piece of HR news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The three main stories are a new security feature that appeared unannounced in iOS 18.1,…

Santa’s got new digs up at North Pole Security! Join us as we talk with Russell and Pete from North Pole about what Santa’s move means, how it’s developing in the future, and what’s coming next for this powerful Mac Security Tool. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Pete Markowsky , North Pole Secur…

Who loves VPNs? Folks in the network security team, please put your hands down - we weren’t asking you… Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way that we could offer privacy and protection out there in that wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the internet? Wouldn’t it be even better if it was baked into the operating system so each vendor wasn…

Do you find that life is like trying to understand code without comments? Many of us are discovering later in life that there is a word that explains why the unwritten rules of life just don’t seem to make sense. Rowan Quigley recently presented at JNUC in Nashville around how workplaces can embrace Neurodiversity, catering for neurodivergent folks…

The show starts with some quick followup on a few recently covered and long-running stories before diving into a pair of regulatory stories, one legal story, quite a lot of HR & acquisition news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The four main stories are the refreshed iPad mini, the launch of Apple Intelligence, the n…

With JNUC and Macsysadmin last week, conference season is behind us for 2025. Tom and Marcus look back on the conference year that was and discuss how to get the most out of these awesome events Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Jim Rispin - Care & Feeding of your IT Professional https://jc0b.compu…

Jeremy Butcher returns to the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about this Fall’s releases of new operating systems, a bit on Apple Intelligence, and how Mac Admins should be preparing for these latest releases. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo Guests: Jeremy Butcher - LinkedI…

Join Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024 Hosts: Tom Bridge - @[email protected] Sponsors: Kandji 1Password Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're …

The show starts with some quick followup on a few long-running stories covered in recent months before diving into some regulatory stories, a few legal stories, a little HR news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The three main stories are Apple's "It's Glow Time" event, the release of the latest OSes, and repairabilit…

Beth Johnson’s talk at MacAdmins this year was all about bringing Compliance routines to her organization, and we wanted to spend some time getting her to share more about the process, the tools, and most importantly, the philosophy behind her efforts. And we’ll get into her incredibly beautiful slides, also. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinterne…

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Gue…

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 en…

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 Manage…

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 - @[email protected] Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Emily Kau…

This solo show starts with a quick followup from recent months before diving into just a few regulatory stories, one quick legal story, quite a bit of HR news, and some highlights from Apple's services and original content. The four main stories are the impact of Google being judge an illegal search monopoly on Apple, Apple's assault on Patreon, Ap…