Mac Admins Podcast

Automation is important for all of us, especially a margin business like an MSP. In todays episode we’ll chat with Bobby Hardaway and Ryon Riley of Advisory Solutions to hear about how they automate Jamf infrastructure with GitActions. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Bobby Hardaway - LinkedIn Ryon Riley - LinkedIn Links: GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions Advisory Solutions: https://advisorymsp.com/ Penn State MacAdmins talk on GitHub Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznnSyl9i48 JNUC Session - AutoPKG for Jamf Pro with GitHub Actions JNUC Session - So what's all the fuss about CI/CD? GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin LAPS Endpoints on Jamf: https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-laps-current/page/Local_Administrator_Password_Solution.html HCS LAPS Documentation: https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_LAPS.pdf Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson  

We had a lovely conversation with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson about home automation and specifically HomeKit and the Home App in a previous episode, but we didn’t get to everything. So we decided to have a second one! In this episode we’ll get more into onboarding of devices, Siri voice control, security, automation, and troubleshooting.  Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Tim Pearson - LinkedIn Bob Gendler - LinkedIn Steve Yuroff - LinkedIn Links: Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia https://www.bosch-home.com/ https://us.govee.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee https://www.z-wave.com/ https://www.starlinghome.io/ Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson  

The podcast discusses topics such as the transition from break-fix consultant to MSP, the importance of the channel in the Apple MSP market, the benefits of SimpleMDM for device management, transitioning to an MSP-only business model, the similarities and differences between Windows and Apple, the importance of automation in IT management, opinions on managed Apple IDs, exploring the conference scene for MSPs, rollback features comparison between Mac and Windows, and casual conversation and jokes.

Today’s episode features Kane Narraway talk through his journeys with ZTNA - what they are, what they do, selection criteria, how they integrate with other tools, and all the fun bits that go into getting a pretty interface to wireguard to work seamlessly in your environment. Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Kane Narraway - LinkedIn Links: Black Hat Sessions: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/ Defcon Sessions: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html Extensions Manager: https://github.com/krypted/extensionsmanager Google BeyondCorp Zero Trust: https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/ Okta + Jamf Unified Identity Access: https://www.jamf.com/integrations/okta/ https://www.amazon.com/Extrusion-Detection-Security-Monitoring-Intrusions/dp/0321349962 Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide SimpleMDM Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson  

Today’s guest is Elliot Jordan, Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix, here to talk Escrow Buddy, Recipe Robot, AutoPkgr, and about all the fun projects he’s been involved in over the years! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Elliot Jordan Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Links: Mike Solin’s Post on Focus Modes: https://mikesolin.com/2023/08/05/finding-balance-while-working-remotely/ Crypt: https://github.com/grahamgilbert/crypt Escrow Buddy: https://github.com/macadmins/escrow-buddy/ Stop prompting users for passwords when re-escrowing FileVault keys: https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/filevault-reissue/  MAOS panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyEYsgz5MI Recipe Robot: https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot  Stethoscope: https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflix-stethoscope-5f3c392368e3 Extraordinary Attorney Woo: https://www.netflix.com/title/81518991 Mr. Robot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/ Utopia (AU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series) The Bear, Season 2: https://www.hulu.com/guides/the-bear Elliot’s site: https://www.elliotjordan.com/  Upcoming JNUC session on Escrow Buddy: https://reg.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2023/home23/page/sessioncatalog/session/1682654671482001Ah7L Sponsors: Kandji Kolide SimpleMDM Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson  

The job of a MacAdmin is a global affair. We’ve done episodes with guests in a number of countries, but wanted to focus on what it’s like in a nation with over 1.4 billion people that’s projected to be the most populous country in the near future. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Karthikeyan Marappan - LinkedIn Sponsors: Kandji SimpleMDM Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson  

Many of our listeners will have set up AppleTVs at work. Some might use device management tools to configure one or more AppleTVs in ways that allow them to be used in corporate or education environments. We’ll talk through the nuance of AppleTV management in this episode, with Collin Elliot. Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Collin Elliott - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Apple TV. 1st generation-2290.jpg - Wikimedia Commons   Carousel Digital Signage   GitHub - NU-ITS/Exhibit: Exhibit is a managed screensaver App for tvOS.   Plex: Stream Movies & TV on the App Store Sponsors: Kandji Kolide SimpleMDM Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson