Mac Admins Podcast

Mac Admins Podcast LLC
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A rotating panel of Mac admins and consultants are joined by members of the Mac admin community to discuss the latest news, issues, and challenges of managing Apple devices. New episodes weekly. Join the community at macadmins.org.

  1. 2d ago

    Episode 476: Chris Lo on Recruiting and Jobs

    Chris Lo was a Mac Admin for a long time before he started a recruiting practice. We're here to talk with him about the state of the job market, how AI has changed things for better and worse, and how to think about your next move. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Chris Lo - LinkedIn Links: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/08/27/a-record-number-of-crop-art-is-on-display-at-the-minnesota-state-fair  https://www.insidertechtalent.com/ Why some Mac Admins thrive (and others burn out) | Chris Lo AI and IT Staffing, or How to Blow Up a Hiring Pipeline | Erin Merchant dueling banjos ukulele tutorial www.insidertechtalent.com www.linkedin.com/in/chris-lo-itt Why some Mac Admins thrive (and others burn out) | Chris Lo The Apple IT career blueprint - building a future-proof career - Chris Lo Chris Lo - The 2nd Essence (Guitar Playthrough) https://youtu.be/KriBBPMSRdA?si=xeqJj8YIvxXklQKp Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management 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

    Episode 476: Chris Lo on Recruiting and Jobs

  2. Sep 2

    Episode 475: Live at X World 2026

    Live at X World in Melbourne, James and Marcus are joined by some of the other attendees and speakers. Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom James Smith - LinkedIn Guests: Kitzy - LinkedIn Andy Rana - LinkedIn Daniel MacLaughlin - LinkedIn Sammy Myers - LinkedIn Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management 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

    Episode 475: Live at X World 2026

  3. Aug 26

    Episode 474: You'll Always Have Air, But There Might Be a Bomb

    Arek's back with us! We're going to be talking about life, the universe, and everything. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn Links: https://www.givesendgo.com/support-for-dave-shepps-family https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/podcasts/openais-two-week-pause-jill-lepore-on-the-threat-of-the-artificial-state-train-of-thought.html Finch https://lakes.grace.edu/ponds-vs-lakes-whats-the-difference/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/which-has-more-lakes-minnesota-or-wisconsin/  https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-what-makes-a-lake-a-lake/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Workbrew 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

    Episode 474: You'll Always Have Air, But There Might Be a Bomb

  4. Aug 5

    Erin Merchant on IT Hiring in the age of AI

    The world is changing, often violently, and maybe not for the better? The move toward LLMs and artificial intelligence is definitely doing a number on the profession and this week, we're talking with Erin Merchant from Risotto about her 2026 Mac AD talk on the state of hiring and jobs in the IT industry. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Erin Merchant - LinkedIn Links: Erin's Talk at Mac AD: AI and IT Staffing, or How to Blow Up a Hiring Pipeline | Erin Merchant Puddles Pity Party: Party Sad Clown Stuns Crowd with Sia's Chandelier - America's Got Talent 2017 Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Workbrew 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

  5. Jul 28

    Episode 472: Just Us

    This week, it's just us hosts! We're catching up on everything that's come down the pike during beta season: new payloads, new DDM functionality, and bugs of course. We'll also talk about how Siri might be good now, how everything's more expensive, and more. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Links: X World - https://xworld.au/index.php PSU Mac Admins https://www.youtube.com/@MacAdmins/videos Arek's Talk: Platform SSO State of the Union – Arek Dreyer https://mashable.com/tech/dell-xps-13-announcement-computex-macbook-neo-alternative https://x.com/Ahmadansari2233/status/2050105084382740919 Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Workbrew 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

    Episode 472: Just Us

  6. Jul 22

    Episode 471: Mac Admins LATAM

    Anyone who has spent any time in our Apple world knows that the Mac Admins Community is a unique and special place for us to collectively celebrate our wins, mourn our lows, and help each other out when we are faced with a tricky problem. Within that community there are user groups that are all over the world - these are community run and led by volunteers focussed on fostering a sense of togetherness near and far. For this episode we wanted to highlight one of the community user groups and welcome Juan and Cesar to tell us more about Mac Admins Latin America. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Juan Taveras, IT Leader - LinkedIn Cesar Santana, Sys Admin, Karat - LinkedIn Links: https://macadmins-latam.org/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Workbrew 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

    Episode 471: Mac Admins LATAM

  7. Jul 17

    Episode 470: What identity does an Agent have?

    A few weeks back, we talked with Jamf about identifying hallmarks of AI Use on device. However, on-device AI use is only part of the story these days. We welcome back Joel Rennich from JumpCloud to talk about what agent identity looks like in July of 2026. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Joel Rennich - LinkedIn Matt Slocum - LinkedIn Links: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-klrc-aiagent-auth-00.html  https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/wimse/documents/ https://spiffe.io/ https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe https://oauth.net/2/dpop/ RFC-8693 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8693 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8693.html https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/10/2006-throwback-took-down-telstra-national-phone-networ https://www.slate.auto/en Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Workbrew 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

    Episode 470: What identity does an Agent have?

  8. Jul 11

    PSSO Updates with Okta

    Platform Single Sign-on comes in several different flavours, and each of them offers a different user experience, and solves for Identity Security in a different way. Password Sync, Secure Enclave, and don't forget Smart Card (can anyone who manages them ever forget Smart Card?). There are very strict delineations between features available for one type, and not for another.  How do we work out what method is appropriate for our use case, and what settings we should be attempting to configure? Arki and Dan from Okta are back again today to discuss what the current PSSO landscape looks like Hosts:   Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Selina Ali - LinkedIn Guests: Arki Krowczynski Dan Hefley - LinkedIn Links: Okta Blog: https://www.okta.com/blog/product-innovation/okta-platform-sso-macos-secure-enclave/ Arki's Blog: https://blog.iamarki.ai/step-by-step-deploying-platform-sso-with-secure-enclave-support/ Sponsors: Iru Fleet Device Management Workbrew 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

    PSSO Updates with Okta
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A rotating panel of Mac admins and consultants are joined by members of the Mac admin community to discuss the latest news, issues, and challenges of managing Apple devices. New episodes weekly. Join the community at macadmins.org.

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  • Creator
    Mac Admins Podcast LLC
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    105
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    ©2016-2022 Mac Admins Podcast LLC
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