Mac Admins Podcast, Episode 37: F/OSS MDMs with Victor Vrantchan and Jesse Peterson
SYNOPSIS
What’s it like to build your own MDM from scratch? Can it be done successfully? The answers, and more, with Victor Vrantchan and Jesse Peterson of the Micro MDM project.
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
OUR GUESTS:
- Victor Vrantchan, Site Reliability Engineer, Kolide in Boston, MA [@wikiwalk]
- Jesse Peterson, Consultant, MacTechs in Seattle, WA
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Jesse Peterson’s Talk on MDM History at Seattle Apple Admins
#mdmdev on Mac Admins Slack
Victor’s Blog Post on Signing up to run your own MDM
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Call For Presenters
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
X World in Sydney, Australia Jun 28-30 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
CMD-D Conference in Santa Clara, CA August 9
Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 17
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26
Meet-ups
Twin Cities MacAdmins May 23rd at Jamf’s offices in Minneapolis. Details at or in the mspmacadmins channel on Slack.
Seattle Apple Admins June 15, 2017 at Offer Up
Mac Admin Monthly June 13th at Google in New York, or online at their website.
East Midlands Apple Admins meet up which will be taking place at Nottingham Trent University on July 12th 2017.
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Mac Admins Podcast, Episode 36: Fleetsmith with Jesse Endahl
SYNOPSIS
What’s it like to re-think Mac management from the ground up? We ask Jesse Endahl, Chief Security Officer and Chief Product Officer for Fleetsmith in a wide-ranging interview.
T-SHIRT!
You can support this podcast by buying one of our awesome spring collection shirts! They bear the logo of this fine podcast in one of three festive colors: grey tri-blend, gold cotton or my favorite, tahitian blue cotton! All t-shirts will be printed by our partners at Cotton Bureau, with proceeds to support the efforts of this fine podcast.
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 Professional [@adamcodega]
OUR GUEST:
- Jesse Endahl, Chief Product Officer & Chief Security Officer, Fleetsmith [@jesseendahl [@fleetsmith
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Proton.B teardown – Thomas Reed
Proton.B teardown – Patrick Wardle, Part 1
Proton.B teardown – Patrick Wardle, Part 2
Behind the Scenes iOS Security
Demystifying the SEP Paper & Demystifying the SEP Presentation PDF
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Call For Presenters
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
X World in Sydney, Australia Jun 28-30 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
CMD-D Conference in Santa Clara, CA August 9
Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 17
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26
Meet-ups
Twin Cities MacAdmins May 23rd at Jamf’s offices in Minneapolis. Details at or in the mspmacadmins channel on Slack.
Mac Admin Monthly June 13th at Google in New York, or online at their website.
Seattle Apple Admins June 15, 2017 at Offer Up
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 35: Into the Past with Chip Pearson
SYNOPSIS
What were the olden days like? We ask Chip Pearson of Jamf Software about what it was like to be in Mac support before any of the tools existed, what it’s like to build tools from a clean slate, and what kind of dungeonmaster he is.
T-SHIRT!
You can support this podcast by buying one of our awesome spring collection shirts! They bear the logo of this fine podcast in one of three festive colors: grey tri-blend, gold cotton or my favorite, tahitian blue cotton! All t-shirts will be printed by our partners at Cotton Bureau, with proceeds to support the efforts of this fine podcast.
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 Professional [@adamcodega]
OUR GUEST:
- Chip Pearson, Chairman of the Board & Founder, Jamf Software [@ChipPearson]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Timbuktu Software
Retrospect Software
1997 Wired Cover: Pray
101 Ways to Fix Apple: Wired, 1997
The macOS Phishing Easy Button – The Dangers of AppleScript
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Call For Presenters
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
X World in Sydney, Australia Jun 28-30 17
PSU Mac Admins in State College, PA July 11-14
Macsysadmin in Gothenburg, Sweden October 3-6 17
JNUC in Minneapolis, MN October 24-26 → CFP: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/23980/jnuc-2017-call-for-presenter-proposals-and-ideas
Meet-ups
Utah Mac Managers Meeting with Jesse Endahl of Fleetsmith – Wed, May, 17th @ 11 AM MDT
Austin Apple Admins with Erik Gomez from Pinterist – May 16th @ HostGator
Leiden, the Netherlands – May 18th – 6 PM
Twin Cities MacAdmins May 23rd at Jamf’s offices in Minneapolis. Details at or in the mspmacadmins channel on Slack.
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 34: Munki + Centrify with Peter Havens
SYNOPSIS
What’s it like to integrate an open-source project into a commercial product? What’s it like for a commercial product to contribute back to the open-source community as a whole? This week, Pepijn, Marcus and Tom sit down with Peter Havens from Centrify to talk about how they’re working with the Munki open-source project to contribute code and to benefit from what the community has helped create. A discussion of malware, MDMs, and new Chrome security options follows.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- 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:
- Peter Havens, Director of Product Management Endpoint Solutions, Centrify [@pehavens]
LINKS & NOTES
Munki integration announcement for version 17.4
Centrify’s PR to the Munki repo
Getting Started with InstallApplication, DEPNotify & SimpleMDM
Erik Gomez announces Pinterest’s collaboration with Airwatch
Erik Gomez’s Presentation at Macbrained
Chrome 62 to mark more HTTP browsing as “unsecured”
Create custom Adobe packages from the Enterprise console
Apple Watch outselling Microsoft Surface?
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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