MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 33: Armin Briegel
SYNOPSIS
After a roundtable on Punycode, SSL Certificates, and the AppleSeed Program, the team talks to Armin Briegel, freelance consultant and author of Packaging for Apple Administrators and Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
OUR GUEST:
- Armin Briegel, Freelance Consultant and Author [@scriptingosx]
LINKS & NOTES
Punycode Phishing Attacks in the News
Insert Graphic On Certificate Common Name here.
Packaging for Apple Administrators – Armin Briegel
Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles for Apple Administrators – Armin Briegel
How not to bad things with autopkg
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Conference Sites
Aces Conference in Phoenix, AZ May 31 – June 1
MacDevOps:YVR in Vancouver, Canada Jun 4-6 17
MacDeployment in Calgary, Canada Jun 8-9 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26
Meet-ups
Mac DMV – May 3rd @ Apple Reston
Melbourne Apple Admins – May 4th @ CultureAmp
Mac Admins Monthly – May 9th @ Google New York
Utah Mac Managers Meeting with Jesse Endahl of Fleetsmith – Wed, May, 17th @ 11 AM MDT
Austin Apple Admins – Week of May 15th, looking for speakers, please contact Dr. Emily Kausalik, @emily on Slack.
Leiden, the Netherlands – May 18th – 6 PM
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 32: iOS 10.3 and Classroom 2.0 with Fraser Speirs
SYNOPSIS
This week we welcome iOS Admin/Luminary Fraser Speirs to the pod to talk about the new iOS Admin features in iOS 10.3, Classroom 2.0 with ad-hoc classes, and the future of iOS for admin uses.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
- Adam Codega, IT Administrator [@adamcodega]
OUR GUEST:
- Fraser Speirs, Apple Distinguished Educator & Head of Secondary, Cedars School. [@fraserspeirs]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Blog: Speirs.org
Regular podcasts: Canvas & Out of School
iOS 10.3
- New restrictions
- Limit Wifi to specified networks
- New OS update rules
- No longer requires supervision and DEP, just supervision
- New MDM commands – InstallASAP – starts to nag the user
- Apple Classroom Built In
- MDM-enabled Lost Mode can play sounds
Apple Classroom 2.0
- No longer requires MDM support or supervision on pupil devices
- Ad-hoc handshaking
- Pupils can refuse screen and Airplay control or locking control.
- The notion of a “current class”
- Appears as AirPlay target
- Manual groups in the class also appear
Thoughts on iOS 11
Neil Cybart: The Mac is Turning Into Apple’s Achilles’ Heel
- The world is moving past the Mac whether iOS is ready or not.
- iPad urgently needs to accommodate some proportion of “pro” users
- Article notes that 70% of the Mac user base rarely/never touch a “pro app”.
- These people should be on iOS already.
Future of Workflow?
Whither Sal Soghoian?
Canvas 22: Workflow: The Basics
Canvas 23: Workflow: Variables & Built-In Actions
Canvas 24: Workflow: Third Party Actions
Canvas 25: Workflow: Web APIs
Canvas 26: Workflow: Advanced Workflow Programming
Canvas 27: Workflow: Advance Workflow Programming Part II
Canvas 29: Workflow: Magic Variables
Next steps of Swift Playgrounds
- API expansion already happening (MapKit)
- Aggressively tracking language standard
- Authoring on iOS enhanced in last update (author multi page Playgrounds)
- Needs a UI builder?
- Multi-file project support
- Look to Pythonista
TapTyping – typing trainer suite – Flairify LLC
Theft & Loss Recovery
Theft & Loss Recovery for iOS Users
- Encrypted iCloud Backups after iOS 10 are awesome.
- Lost Mode for MDM-capable devices is great (as long as they have cellular or know a lot of Wi-Fi networks)
- Building a trusted system requires that you need not just one great password, but a couple good ones.
- (I always know my Apple ID password, login password, and 2FA Backup passwords, the rest I leave to Keychain)
- Can a password-less future get here soon enough?
1:1 Program History:
The iPad Project: How It’s Going
The iPad Project: Day One
The iPad Project Day Two
The iPad Project Day Six: The Hamiltonian Cycle
The iPad Project: The Night Before Christmas
The iPad Project: What Kind Of Day Has It Been?
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Call for Presenters
X World – 29 30 June (CFP open until 24th April)
Conference Sites
Aces Conference in Phoenix, AZ May 31 – June 1
MacDevOps:YVR in Vancouver, Canada Jun 4-6 17
MacDeployment in Calgary, Canada Jun 8-9 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26
Meet-ups
Boston’s Spring Meet-up – 19th April
Philly Apple Admins
London Apple Admins @ Sony Music – 20th April
Schiedam, the Netherlands – Dutch Macadmin meetup – April 20, 1:30-4:30
Melbourne Apple Admins – May 4th @ CultureAmp –
Leiden, the Netherlands – May 18th – 6 PM
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 31: So That’s Why We Have Slack, with Caleb Coy
SYNOPSIS
A sitdown with Caleb Coy of Blurb to talk about where the Mac Admins Slack came from, what it’s like to move between positions, and a digression into what it’s like to use Fleetsmith as an admin. Some conversation about Mac Pros ensues.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
OUR GUEST:
- Caleb Coy, IT Manager at Blurb, Inc [@calebmicah]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
iOS 10.3.1 Release Notes
Project Zero
TouchBar Macs need to talk to Apple at Activation
New Mac Pro articles:
Paczkowski
Gruber
Ulanoff
Full transcript at Tech Crunch
ATP
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Call for Presenters
X World – 29 30 June (CFP open until 24th April)
Conference Sites
Aces Conference in Phoenix, AZ May 31 – June 1
MacDevOps:YVR in Vancouver, Canada Jun 4-6 17
MacDeployment in Calgary, Canada Jun 8-9 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26
Meet-ups
Boston’s Spring Meet-up – 19th April
London Apple Admins @ Sony Music – 20th April
Schiedam, the Netherlands – Dutch Macadmin meetup – April 20, 1:30-4:30
Melbourne Apple Admins – May 4th @ CultureAmp –
Leiden, the Netherlands – May 18th – 6 PM
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 30: It’s Not Just Sharks In Puddles
SYNOPSIS
Updates, Updates, Updates! Everything got updated this week, and we’re here to talk about all of it.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Der Flounder: Third Party Installer Packages May Not Be Installable by the 10.12.4 OS Installer
Recovery Mode Behavior Changes
Tethered Caching of iOS Assets from macOS 10.12.4
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Call for Presenters
X World – 29 30 June (CFP open until 24th April)
Conference Sites
Aces Conference in Phoenix, AZ May 31 – June 1
MacDevOps:YVR in Vancouver, Canada Jun 4-6 17
MacDeployment in Calgary, Canada Jun 8-9 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26
Meet-ups
DFW Mac Admin meet-up – 13th April
Boston’s Spring Meet-up – 19th April
London Apple Admins @ Sony Music – 20th April
Schiedam, the Netherlands – Dutch Macadmin meetup – April 20, 1:30-4:30
Melbourne Apple Admins – May 4th @ CultureAmp –
Leiden, the Netherlands – May 18th – 6 PM
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