SYNOPSIS
SimpleMDM’s Taylor Boyko joins us to talk about the ever-growing world of Mobile Device Management, what it was like to start an MDM back in 2011, and the future of the Mac and iOS as part of the MDM world. A discussion of current events occurs to follow.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
GUESTS
- Taylor Boyko, Owner, SimpleMDM
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LINKS & NOTES
SimpleMDM API
SimpleMDM API Library for Python
iPad Pro Reviews:
* Ars Technica
* iMore
* MacStories
* Daring Fireball
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Conference Sites
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
Sydney Mac Admins Meetup on Wednesday 28th June in conjunction with X World – venue TBC.
MacDMV Meetup on Wednesday 28th June at Denizens Brewing Company in Silver Spring.
East Midlands Apple Admins meet up which will be taking place at Nottingham Trent University on July 12th 2017.
Mac Admin Monthly will meet at Google in NYC on July 11th at 4:30pm. Also available by Google Hangout!
Milwaukee Area Macadmins – New macadmins group starting! Initial meetup July 12 Marquette University
Utah Mac Managers will meet on July 19th.
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SYNOPSIS
He’s been mentioned more than anyone else who’s never been on, so it’s past time we got Mosen on the Podcast to talk about MDMs, workflows, his origin story, and more. Some news discussion follows, roping in issues from WWDC and beyond.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
-
James Smith, Editor & Mixer, [@smithjw]
GUESTS
- Mosen, Mac Admin Extraordinaire, [@mosen]
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LINKS & NOTES
Mosen’s Github Account
Profile Docs
CCP Recipes
Homekit Spec
iMac Pro RAM is replaceable
Podcast stats update
Troublshooting MDM Client
APFS Notes from WWDC
Rich Trouton’s WWDC Notes
JAMF’s Blog on MDM Changes in iOS 11/macOS 10.13
Todd Stablefeldt Video from WWDC
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Conference Sites
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
Boston Macadmins 22nd June at Broad Institute 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA
Sydney Mac Admins Meetup on Wednesday 28th June in conjunction with X World – venue TBC.
MacDMV 28 June at Denizens Brewing in Silver Spring, MD
East Midlands Apple Admins meet up which will be taking place at Nottingham Trent University on July 12th 2017.
Milwaukee Area Macadmins – New macadmins group starting! Initial meetup July 12 Marquette University
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SYNOPSIS
After the first day of MacDevOps YVR and WWDC, Tom and Pepijn sit down with Clay Caviness, Graham Gilbert and Joel Rennich, and Marcus and Charles join by video conference, to talk about the keynote, and the first day of MacDevOps.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
GUESTS
- Clay Caviness, Site Reliability Engineer at Google [@salajander]
- Graham Gilbert, Systems Engineer at Airbnb [@grahamgilbert]
- Joel Rennich, General Manager at Trusource Labs (for now) [@mactroll]
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LINKS & NOTES
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Conference Sites
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
Seattle Apple Admins June 15, 2017 at Offer Up
Mac Admin Monthly June 13th at Google in New York, or online at their website.
Austin Apple Admins is hosting a happy hour to celebrate the group’s second anniversary on June 14th.
Boston Macadmins 22nd June at Broad Institute 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA
East Midlands Apple Admins meet up which will be taking place at Nottingham Trent University on July 12th 2017.
Milwaukee Area Macadmins – New Macadmins group starting! Initial meetup July 12 Marquette University
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SYNOPSIS
Ahead of Monday’s WWDC Keynote, the team talks about predictions and wish lists for the Apple platforms we all know and love. A discussion of the relative merits and vitamin payloads of breakfast drinks also 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]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
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Conference Sites
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
Denver Macadmins WWDC Viewing Event – June 5th @ Rewind Technology
Seattle Apple Admins June 15, 2017 at Offer Up
Mac Admin Monthly June 13th at Google in New York, or online at their website.
Austin Apple Admins is hosting a happy hour to celebrate the group’s second anniversary on June 14th.
Boston Macadmins 22nd June at Broad Institute 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA
East Midlands Apple Admins meet up which will be taking place at Nottingham Trent University on July 12th 2017.
Milwaukee Area Macadmins – New Macadmins group starting! Initial meetup July 12 Marquette University
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Episode 29: Just Us Chickens
SYNOPSIS
With no guests this week, the team talks about Wikileaks and Security, as well as the new iOS Security Guide, some new hardware options, and the best nail polish to use on the screws of your machines to make tampering evident.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
LINKS & NOTES
Ransom Threat for 200M iCloud Accounts
macOS Logging Subsystems In A Gist
Fuzzy Coat nail polish as anti-tamper measure
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Episode 28: Canadian Conferences, DEP + InstallApplication = Great MDM Options
SYNOPSIS
In our first two-segment show, the Mac Admins Podcast talks with the organizers of MacDevOps YVR and MacDeploy to showcase two upcoming conferences in Western Canada this summer, as well as Erik Gomez of Pinterest about a new integration between Apple’s Device Enrollment Program and Chef, Puppet or Munki made possible by a popular MDM vendor you may have heard of.
In between, we launch the Community Calendar! Got an event we should announce on the show? Email us at podcast@macadmins.org.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
GUEST:
Anthony Reimer, Organizing Committee for MacDeployment Conference, [@MacDeploy]
Mat X, Conference Organizer, MacDevOpsYVR [@MacDevOpsYVR]
Erik Gomez, IT Client Platform Engineer, Pinterest, [@Contains_ENG]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Brian Warsing’s managedmac Puppet plugin
Joe Chilcote’s MacDevOpsYVR Talk on Contributing to Open Source
The Chic Geek – Calgary, Canada
Open Source vs Commercial Software Steel Cage Death Match
Custom DEP Part One
Custom DEP Part Two
Custom DEP Part Three
Custom DEP Part Four
MDM documentation on InstallApplication: Apple’s MDM Docs
From Erik, to do this in vfuse:
vfuse -i something.dmg -s “C00A00ZVXXXX” –hw-model “MacBookAir5,2” (Added as of December 2016 to vfuse)
From Charles, to do this without vfuse pop these into your vmx:
serialNumber.reflectHost = “FALSE”
serialNumber = “C00A00ZVXXXX” (replace serial number with your DEP enabled Mac’s SN)
hw.model.reflectHost = “FALSE”
hw.model = “MacBookAir5,2” (replace with proper hardware identifier)
smbios.reflectHost = “FALSE”
Come work at Pinterest:
IT System Engineer – Core Applications
Security Engineer – Information Security
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Calls for Presenters
X World – 29-30 June (open until 24th April)
PSU Mac Admins – Open til 4/4/17
Community Meetups
MacDMV – Lightning Talks on 29 March in Washington, DC
MacBrained – Onboarding in a Culture First Environment @ New Relic in San Francisco, CA
Conference Sites
MacDevOps:YVR in Vancouver, Canada | June 4-6, 2017
MacDeployment in Calgary, Canada | June 8-9 2017
JNUC 2017 in Minneapolis Minnesota | October 24-26 2017
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 27: Graham Gilbert, Writing & Contributing to Open Source
SYNOPSIS
The Panel talks with Graham Gilbert, former consultant, now in-house systems engineer at Airbnb in San Francisco about writing and contributing to Open Source, amongst other things.
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]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
-
James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
GUEST:
- Graham Gilbert, Systems Engineer, Airbnb [@grahamgilbert]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Graham’s Projects:
Sal
Crypt2
Crypt-Server
Imagr
Who Were You, DenverCoder9? What Did You See?
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 26: Conference Talks, with Nadyne Richmond and John Welch
SYNOPSIS
The Panel talks with longtime conference committee planners John Welch (MacIT/Macworld Expo) and Nadyne Richmond (MacIT/Macworld Expo/MacTech) about proposing good conference talks, preparing those talks, and everything conference-related.
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Adam Codega, IT Operations Leader at Upserve, [@adamcodega
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
-
James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
GUEST:
- Nadyne Richmond, Senior Manager of User Experience, Genentech [@nadyne]
- John Welch, Assistant Director for Technical Service at the Northwest Regional Datacenter at FSU, [@bynkii]
LISTEN!
LINKS & NOTES
Documentation Talk: Take Vacations Using this One Weird Trick – Documentation! by Vanessa White and Rich Trouton
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 25: You Can’t Spell Function Without Fun, with John Kitzmiller
SYNOPSIS
John Kitzmiller joins the podcast to talk about the MacAdmins.org Slack instance and how it came to be, as well as his excellent guitar collection, how to correctly say GIF, and why the only stickers you put on your laptop should be over the screws on the underside.
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]
-
James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
GUEST:
- John Kitzmiller, Fastly, JohnKitzmiller.com, [@JohnKitzmiller]
LINKS & NOTES
The Apple Community Has Standards for Malware
Agile Deployment for Macs, from MacADUK 2016
This MacBook Came Back From China With Half Its Screws Missing
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 24: Physical, Digital & Emotional Security, with Scott Piper
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]
-
James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
GUEST:
- Scott Piper, Director of Security for Colorado-based security company, SummitRoute.com, [@summitroute]
LISTEN!
SYNOPSIS
The gang talks with Scott Piper about security of all types, and where we’re all heading, security-wise. Is Anti-Virus a good idea? What should we actually be doing to make ourselves more secure? Some prognostication about WWDC occurs.
LINKS & NOTES
Start Your Passwords with a Slash
Phishing graphs & stats (PDF)
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK
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
-
James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
GUEST:
- Henry Stamerjohann, Apfelwerk GmbH & Zentral
- Éric Falconnier, Zentral
- Richard Purves, Senior Mac Consultant at REDACTED
SYNOPSIS
A live episode taped at Mac AD UK in London, with guests Richard Purves (returning), Henry Stamerjohann & Éric Falconnier joining Tom, Pepijn and Charles to talk about the MacADUK conference.
LINKS & NOTES
Charles Edge: MDM
Tom Bridge: Munki Mistakes Made Right
Pepijn Bruienne:
Henry Stamerjohann & Éric Falconnier: Zentral
Richard Purves: SmartCard Authentication
Mac Admins Podcast, Episode 12 with Richard Purves
Apfelwerk — consultants, apple trainers, MSP and JAMF reseller/integrator
Zentral Basic Information
Zentral Project code
Zentral Project wiki
Zentral Project deployment
OSquery – endpoint visibility
Santa – binary whitelisting/blacklisting and monitoring
ELK Stack (now the Elastic Stack) + Beats
Log management platform, a collection of open-source products + logshipping with beats
Elastic Search
Kibana
Beats
Logstash
Vector ClockAn algorithm for generating a partial ordering of events in a distributed system and detecting causality violations.
Nagios – IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Icinga – Computer system and network monitoring application.
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 22: Joel Rennich, Trusource Labs
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot Inc., [@emilyooo]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
GUEST:
- Joel Rennich, General Manager, Trusource Labs [@mactroll
SYNOPSIS
Joel Rennich returns to the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about NoMAD, upcoming features of the nascent 1.1 release, and what the future holds for authentication on the Mac. In addition, the group discusses the current featureset of the betas in macOS, iOS and tvOS.
Joel’s dog briefly guests.
LINKS & NOTES
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 21: Paul Bowden, Microsoft APEX
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, Retailmenot [@emilyooo]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
GUEST:
- Paul Bowden, Principal Engineer, Office for Mac, Microsoft [@mrexchange]
LISTEN!
SYNOPSIS
Paul Bowden is the Principal Engineer for the Office for Mac group, as part of the Microsoft Apple Productivity Experience Group (APEX). He talks with our hosts about how Microsoft works with Mac Sysadmins in Slack, his history with Microsoft, what it’s like to work at Microsoft, and where Office for Mac is going.
And a little bit about pigs and goats.
LINKS & NOTES
Office Insider builds
MacAdmins.Software Page
The A-Team at APEX
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 20: David Acland, Mac Admins & Developers Conference UK
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
GUEST:
- David Acland, Technical Director at Amsys, Conference Manager at Mac Admins & Developers Conference, UK
SYNOPSIS
The Mac Admins & Developers Conference UK is just a few weeks away, and the Mac Admins Podcast sits down with their Conference Manager, David Acland to talk about what’s happening at this year’s event.
LINKS & NOTES
MacADUK Conference Home
Speakers at 2017 MacADUK
Amsys
Amsys Training
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 19: The Year in Review
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
- Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
- Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
- Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
WATCH!
LISTEN!
SYNOPSIS
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.
LINKS & NOTES
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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 18: Hardware Hacking in the New Era
YOUR HOSTS:
- Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
- Adam Codega, IT Operations Leader at Upserve [@adamcodega]
- 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]
GUEST HOSTS:
- Erik Gomez, Client Platform Engineer at Pinterest[@contains_eng]
LISTEN!
SYNOPSIS
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.
LINKS & NOTES
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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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 17: A Precise, But Not Accurate Number
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]
GUEST HOSTS:
- Clay Caviness, Site Reliability Engineer at Google [@salajander]
SYNOPSIS
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.
LINKS & NOTES
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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