The team talks about the year that was in 2016, from the Apple/FBI dustup, through to a review of conferences that happened, to the release of the iPhone 7/7 Plus and the MacBook Pro with TouchBar. We give our rants and raves of the whole year in this video/audio podcast.
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Erik Gomez joins the gang to talk about testing the new Touch Bar MacBook Pro, finding new preference settings, and the state of the Mac as a whole.
Activation for TouchBar Macs, Part One
Activation for TouchBar Macs, Part Two
Preferences for the TouchBar
This Week in Frogorland: Using python to determine the status of SIP on the Mac, without using csrutil and nvram.
How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists – Mark Gurman for Bloomberg
Cables, Adapters, Devices for the Brave New Mac World
Tools Erik mentioned:
* strings (from cli tools)
* fs_usage
* ripgrep
* Apple Debug profiles and YUCKY UNIX scripts
* Hopper
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We sit down to talk managing a fleet of 80,000+ Macs with a team of 9 with Clay Caviness, a Site Reliability Engineer at Google about his work on their Mac Management Team. A lively discussion about 10.12.2, firmware updates, and DMA Hacking ensued, and a good time was had by all. Discussion of Super Mario Run rounds out the episode.
Macops team GitHub
Santa
Google Rapid Response
We Fixed The Glitch
Only fix for published DMA attack against FV2 keys
FV2 Key Recovery
PCI Leech Tool
csrutil clear and enabling SIP with Munki
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A talk with Tim Sutton on Adobe Creative Cloud packaging, including some discussion of new packaging techniques focused around Creative Cloud Packager and Autopkg. After that, we break into the new MacBook Pro with TouchBar, that both Emily and Pepijn are using as their daily drivers.
Import antigravity
CCP Recipes for Autopkg Test Repo (Use at your own risk, no warranty, if you break it you own both pieces)
Adobe Installation and Licensing blog
CCP CLI automation support:
TouchBar Macs, Imaging & Control:
* Managing the TouchBar Strip
* New Activation for TouchBar Macs
* Offline Activation Methods for TouchBar Macs
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Greg Neagle, Primary Contributor to Autopkg, [@gregneagle]
Autopkg 0.7/1.0 adds a few changes that you should be aware of, including additional trust settings. We discuss the new features and how you should prepare.
Recipe Auditing, Security & Maintenance from autopkg-discuss
Response from Elliot Jordan
Response from Greg Neagle with audit verb
Autopkg Trust
How Not To Do Bad Things With Autopkg
Video of HNTDBTWA from MacDevOpsYVR
How Munki Decides What Needs To Be Installed
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### MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 13.5: Live at JNUC
#### Your Hosts:
* Marcus Ransom, Consulting Apple Engineer, [[@marcusransom](https://twitter.com/marcusransom)]
* Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at [Krypted.com](http://www.krypted.com) [[@cedge318](https://twitter.com/cedge318)]
* Adam Codega, Adam Codega, IT Operations Leader, Upserve [[@adamcodega](https://twitter.com/adamcodega)]
* Jason Miller, Mac Operations Team, Thumbtack [[@jasonkmiller](https://twitter.com/jasonkmiller)]
#### Guest Hosts:
Ben Toms, Datajar LTD, [[@macmule](https://twitter.com/macmule)]
#### Synopsis
The gang gathers to discuss the state of Mac Management live at JNUC
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Listen to our Apple keynote recap recorded live. Since it's live, please excuse the audio quality and unedited conversation and enjoy.
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 7: WWDC Roundtable
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 6: Dreyer, Rhymes with Slayer
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 5: SSO & Puppies, Two Tales of Adoption
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 4: Developers, Developers, Developers
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Our hosts talk about experience, training and certification, as well as laying out their origin stories, and unique paths toward sysadmin life, from help desk to company owner, from grad student assistant to management track. Together, they fight crime.
Show notes at podcast.macadmins.org
We take longer than usual to discuss the new management changes in iOS 9.3
Your Hosts:
* Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC, @tbridge
* Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services, JAMF Software, Proprietor of Krypted.com, @cedge318
* Marcus Ransom, Lead Apple Technician at RMIT, @marcusransom
* Pepijn Bruienne, Mac Development and Operation Specialist Senior at University of Michigan, @bruienne
Show notes at podcast.macadmins.org
Apple Blacklists Own Ethernet Driver
Making Google Work at the Login Window
Google KB: Changing primary domains
The Penn State University Mac Admins Conference Organizing Committee:
A lively discussion with Tom and Adam ensues with the wonderful people in charge of this year’s Penn State University Mac Admins Conference, running 27-30 June 2016 in State College, PA.
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