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.
James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
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
Penn State Macadmins Conference – Call for Proposals open!
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James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
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.
Start Your Passwords with a Slash
Phishing graphs & stats (PDF)
Penn State Macadmins Conference – Call for Proposals open!
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James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]
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.
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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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.
MacADUK – Registration open!
Penn State Macadmins Conference – Call for Proposals open!
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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.
Office Insider builds
MacAdmins.Software Page
The A-Team at APEX
MacADUK – Registration open!
Penn State Macadmins Conference – Call for Proposals open!
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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.
MacADUK Conference Home
Speakers at 2017 MacADUK
Amsys
Amsys Training
MacADUK – Registration open!
Penn State Macadmins Conference – Call for Proposals open!
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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.
MacADUK – Registration open!
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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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MacADUK – Registration open!
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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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Show notes at http://podcast.macadmins.org
Show notes at http://podcast.macadmins.org
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