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Now displaying: June, 2018
Jun 29, 2018

SYNOPSIS:

Bryson Tyrrell of Jamf joins us to talk about ODST, Amazon S3 and Lambda, the practices of good documentation, and what exactly a good birthday gift is!

YOUR HOSTS:

Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf Software [@cedge318]
Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]

GUESTS:

  • Bryson Tyrrell, Jamf Software

PRESENTING SPONSOR: VMWARE WORKSPACE ONE

VMware Workspace ONE empowers you with full macOS lifecycle management. Get past the hassles of legacy imaging with faster modern onboarding. Easily deliver all your native Mac app packages as well as SaaS and virtual Windows apps, and empower users with one-click single sign on. Stay on top of your security needs with complete encryption management and rich conditional access. The recognized industry leading unified endpoint management solution is your one stop for all Apple devices and apps. Learn more at www.workspaceone.com

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LINKS & NOTES

ODST at Github
PatchServer at Github
Patch Starter Script
Boto3 Docs

Bryson’s Talk at MacADUK

Sphinx

Flask

MDM Features in macOS 10.14 and iOS 12

ABM is now a released product

 

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast is sponsored this week by Spoke

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PATREON SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Jonathan Spiva, Graham Gilbert, William Smith, Justin Holt and Dan Collings. Thanks everyone!

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Conference Sites


Penn State University Mac Admins in State College, PA July 10th-13th
MacSysdamin in Göteborg, Sweden, October 2-5, 2018
Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25, 2018
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA, November 6-9, 2018

Meetups

Houston Apple Admins will meet at Conservatory in Downtown Houston on June 27th at 6pm

MacDeployment Meetup will meet at 1013 17th Ave SW in Calgary on July 25th at 6:30pm

London Apple Admins will meet at Go Cardless on July 26th at 1830

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Jun 19, 2018

SYNOPSIS:

Per Olofsson joins the pod to talk how he became a Mac admin at University Gothenburg, what exactly computational linguistics is, testing Mojave against the backdrop of labs, and DEP and Lab computing as a whole. Plus: video games, and that one time Per wrote an assembler.

YOUR HOSTS:

Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf Software [@cedge318]
Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]

GUESTS:

  • Per Olofsson, IT Infrastructure Specialist, University of Gothenburg [@magervalp]

PRESENTING SPONSOR: VMWARE WORKSPACE ONE

VMware Workspace ONE empowers you with full macOS lifecycle management. Get past the hassles of legacy imaging with faster modern onboarding. Easily deliver all your native Mac app packages as well as SaaS and virtual Windows apps, and empower users with one-click single sign on. Stay on top of your security needs with complete encryption management and rich conditional access. The recognized industry leading unified endpoint management solution is your one stop for all Apple devices and apps. Learn more at www.workspaceone.com

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LINKS & NOTES

Per’s Github
AutoDMG
CreateUserPkg

Updated AD Account Migration Script from Rich

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast is sponsored this week by Spoke

Click through for a free 30-day trial of Spoke!

PATREON SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Jonathan Spiva, Graham Gilbert, William Smith, Justin Holt and Dan Collings. Thanks everyone!

COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING

Conference Sites


X World in Sydney Australia, June 27-29, 2018
Penn State University Mac Admins in State College, PA July 10th-13th
MacSysdamin in Göteborg, Sweden, October 2-5, 2018
Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25, 2018
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA, November 6-9, 2018

Meetups

Franken Macadmins will meet at Crazy Nate’s West Coast Mexican at Kirchenstrasse 38 in Nuremburg, Germany on June 20th at 630pm

Austin Apple Admins will meet at the Perry Castañeda Library on the campus of University of Texas on June 20th at 630pm

Greater Philadelphia Mac Admins will meet on June 21st at the Walnut Street Apple Store in Philadelphia.

Seattle Apple Admins will meet at Chef Software at 6pm on June 21st

Houston Apple Admins will meet at Conservatory in Downtown Houston on June 27th at 6pm

MacDeployment Meetup will meet at 1013 17th Ave SW in Calgary on July 25th at 6:30pm

London Apple Admins will meet at Go Cardless on July 26th at 1830

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Jun 9, 2018

SYNOPSIS:

Live at Mac Dev Ops! Dana Campbell of Slack, Joel Rennich of Orchard & Grove, and Mat X of the Mac Dev Ops YVR conference join Tom Bridge and Diana Birsan to look at what we know so far about macOS Mojave.

YOUR HOSTS:

GUESTS:

  • Dana Campbell, Global IT Manager, Slack [@danajc]
  • Mat X, Mac Dev Ops YVR [@MacDevOpsYVR]
  • Joel Rennich, Chief Instigator at Orchard & Grove [@mactroll]

PRESENTING SPONSOR: VMWARE WORKSPACE ONE

VMware Workspace ONE empowers you with full macOS lifecycle management. Get past the hassles of legacy imaging with faster modern onboarding. Easily deliver all your native Mac app packages as well as SaaS and virtual Windows apps, and empower users with one-click single sign on. Stay on top of your security needs with complete encryption management and rich conditional access. The recognized industry leading unified endpoint management solution is your one stop for all Apple devices and apps. Learn more at www.workspaceone.com

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LINKS & NOTES

WebKit’s new Tracking Prevention 2.0

Good running Google Doc here with Q&A onsite thanks to Sergio

WWDC Platform State of the Union

Your Apps and the Future of macOS Security

What’s new in Managing Apple Devices

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast is sponsored this week by Spoke

Click through for a free 30-day trial of Spoke!

PATREON SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include William Smith, Jonathan Spiva, Graham Gilbert, Justin Holt and Dan Collings. Thanks everyone!

COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING

Conference Sites


X World in Sydney Australia, June 27-29, 2018 — Tickets now on sale!
Penn State University Mac Admins in State College, PA July 10th-13th
MacSysdamin in Göteborg, Sweden, October 2-5, 2018
Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25, 2018
MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, CA, November 6-9, 2018

Meetups

Austin Apple Admins will meet on June 20th at Perry–Castañeda Library at the University of Texas at 6:30pm

Look for a location announcement for the Apple Admins of Seattle meetup for Thursday, June 21. Ask in the #cascadia channel for more details.

MacDMV will meet next in July, Time and date TBD, ask @tbridge for more information.

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Jun 2, 2018

SYNOPSIS:

WWDC starts this week! Our roundtable is focused on Apple’s 2018 Worldwide Developers Conference, and what Apple might be releasing for macOS, iOS and more.

YOUR HOSTS:

  • Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
  • James Smith, IT Administrator, Culture Amp [@smithjw]
  • Marcus Ransom, Senior Apple Systems Engineer, CompNow [@marcusransom]
  • Charles Edge, Director of Marketplace, Jamf Software [@cedge318]

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SPONSOR

The Mac Admins Podcast is sponsored this week by Spoke and Uptycs

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Learn more about the NEW Mac EDR Dashboard at Uptycs

LINKS & NOTES

WWDC 2018 Site

PATREON SPONSORS

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd of Rewind Technology, William Smith, Jonathan Spiva and Graham Gilbert. Thanks everyone!

COMMUNITY CALENDAR, SPONSORED BY WATCHMAN MONITORING

Conference Sites


MacDevOps YVR in Vancouver, June 7-8, 2018 — NOW WITH 20% DISCOUNT!
X World in Sydney Australia, June 27-29, 2018 — Tickets now on sale!
Penn State University Mac Admins in State College, PA July 10th-13th

Meetups

#thenetherlands will meet at SAP office in Den Bosch (Netherlands) on June 8th, 2018 at 2pm

Austin Apple Admins will meet on June 20th at Perry–Castañeda Library at the University of Texas at 6:30pm

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Give Us Five Stars!

SPONSOR MAC ADMINS PODCAST!

If you’re interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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