Jamf After Dark
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Device management is complex. Security threats are constant. Apple ecosystems are evolving fast. Who's managing these challenges? What does it actually take? And most importantly, how do you stay ahead?
Welcome to Jamf After Dark, where IT leaders, security professionals and Apple experts tackle the real issues facing organisations today. Join our hosts as they uncover what works, what doesn't, and how to build technology strategies that actually stick.
Hear honest conversations about managing devices at scale, securing endpoints, protecting data, and supporting hybrid workforces. New Jamf features and capabilities. Real stories from IT teams solving actual problems. For IT Admins, Mac admins,directors, security specialists, educators and Apple advocates.
Welcome to Jamf After Dark, where IT leaders, security professionals and Apple experts tackle the real issues facing organisations today. Join our hosts as they uncover what works, what doesn't, and how to build technology strategies that actually stick.
Hear honest conversations about managing devices at scale, securing endpoints, protecting data, and supporting hybrid workforces. New Jamf features and capabilities. Real stories from IT teams solving actual problems. For IT Admins, Mac admins,directors, security specialists, educators and Apple advocates.
Episodes
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Jan 31, 2019 • 27min
Serverless Means Less Servers
Serverless technologies are changing the way many organizations build software. In this episode, the Jamf After Dark hosts Annie Halbert, Max Polski, and Charles Edge discuss the Amazon stack of serverless codeybits with Bryson Tyrrell from the Jamf Cloud team. Learn all about Lambda Lambda Lambda, and how Jamf is leveraging some of these to build better, more scalable software.
Jan 3, 2019 • 31min
Supporting The Impossible
In this Episode Max Polski and Charles Edge interview Staci Wittman, from the Jamf support organization. We talk support cases, cloud opps, and of course Vikings vs Packers! Oh, and Max tries to stump Staci with a SQL query… Will he succeed?
Dec 21, 2018 • 23min
Managed App Config
Managed App Config is a feature of MDM that allows you to configure apps on mobile devices. Join Annie Halbert, Max Polski, and Charles Edge with special guests Connor Temple and James Felton, developers who have worked on Managed App Config in Jamf products and with the AppConfig.org community.
Dec 12, 2018 • 42min
Getting Smart With Jamf Education
The Jamf Education team is responsible for training thousands of Apple Admins every year. In this episode Max Polski and Charles Edge interview Dusty Dorey and Randon Ruggles, some of the Jamfs responsible for our courseware and the delivery of education services. They tell us about what they've been up to and what to expect, as well as how they got into Jamf!
Nov 30, 2018 • 36min
Jumpy McJumpstarts
During JumpStarts we help customers get up to speed on how to use our products, but it goes much deeper and we often end up helpng customers with the full Mac ecosystem. We've heard for years that the Jumpstart helped make Mac deployments successful. Join Max, Annie, Charles and our special guest Kelsey Janetski to hear all about JumpStarts.
Oct 2, 2018 • 33min
macOS 10.14 And The Privacy Preferences Payload
macOS 10.14 brings us Dark Mode and a host of new and interesting features. One of those is the ability for a user to approve what apps have access to various system components. This is an amazing step in the right direction for securing Macs but represents interesting challenges for those of us charged with managing Macs in organizations of any size. In this episode, join Michael Devins, Michael Paul, and hosts Annie Halbert and Charles Edge as we dig into what Privacy Preferences mean and how we are trying to make this new advancement easier for administrators.
Oct 2, 2018 • 27min
How To Have The Best JNUC Ever Ever Ever
The annual Jamf Nation User Conference is coming back to Minneapolis, Minnesota this October 2018. In this podcast episode you get to meet Sasha Grimm, who runs the conference along with cohosts Max Polski and learn how we choose our sessions, what makes JNUC exciting. So join us to talk restaurants, bear hugs, high fives, best practices, all the events at JNUC, and some things you just have to do when you're in Minneapolis!
Sep 25, 2018 • 35min
Newsflash: Joel Rennich Tells Us All About Jamf Connect
Jamf completed the acquisition of Orchard & Grove last week, which brings NoMAD Login into the Jamf family, now called Jamf Connect! In this newsflash, Annie Halbert and Charles Edge interview Joel Rennich, and cover the products, the people, Okta, Smart Cards, what happens to existing NoMAD customers, what happens to the open source project, and a little bit of a sneak peak into what customers can expect in the future.
Sep 18, 2018 • 42min
It's not called Jamf Tomorrow, it's called Jamf Now
Join hosts Annie Halbert, Max Polski and Charles Edge as we interview Tad Johnson, the Product Manager of Jamf Now (and all around good human). In this episode we talk Border Collies. And Jamf Now. Did you know that Jamf Now is available in Standard and Plus? What is Plus? How is the Jamf Now team democratizing IT by keeping device setup and management simple yet providing the powerful features you've grown to know and expect? Can you install a software package with Jamf Now? Yes, we answer all these questions and... talk Border Collies. By the way, Tad is a great person to interview! We recommend doing so whenever you get a chance!
Sep 13, 2018 • 36min
How Jamf is Doing, with CEO Dean Hager
Jamf CEO Dean Hager joins Annie, Max, and Charles to discuss how Jamf is doing. We get the chance to talk about books, business philosophy, public speaking, what of course Jamf. Listen to hear more about what Dean is excited about and of course to answer Annie's question about how she can replace him.
