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John Wetter joins the pod to talk through moving from the technical side to doing more and more with policies, budgeting, and governance. These lessons in schools aren’t as far off the lessons in enterprise companies as you might think! Guest: John Wetter, Technical Services Manager, Hopkins Public Schools, Hopkins, MN Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge7…
Patch management is one of the most time consuming aspects of any admin. There have been a number of projects that have sought to make this easier for admins. Some of the earliest tools we used to admin devices such as Filewave’s File Sets were replaced with the package format at many a shop when we moved to PackageMaker and the early Casper Suite.…
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Episode 202: What’s Going On In the World Of The Apple Admin?
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Apple is a bit of a lifestyle brand. We’ve found that over the years our customers as consultants and users as engineers ask us more questions about the consumer ecosystem and company news than most any other gig in IT. So today we’re going to get caught up on the latest news coming out of Cupertino (and beyond). Music Remix: Graham Pugh - @GrahamR…
In this episode, Joel Rennich joins to explain what went into NoMAD 2, why it happened, and what that means for the future of Jamf Connect. Guest: Joel Rennich, Jamf - @mactroll Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: NoMAD 2 Joel on Twitter Carthage Sponsors: VMWare Workspace One Halp Watchman …
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Episode 200: Rosetta 2 And All The Things
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Johnny Brown joins the MacAdmins podcast to talk about a common first step in getting the M1 and Rosetta into an environment, the splash screen. In this case, depnotify. We’ll go through the process and look at how that impacts the rest of the deployment. Guest: Johnny Brown, Apple Administrator, Kennesaw State University Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbrid…
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Episode 199: Richard Glaser Talks Radmind, MacOSLabs, and how the more things change, the more they kinda' stay the same
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Richard Glaser has been in the Apple management space as long as anyone. His work on radmind helped shape the direction many management platforms took and he (and the excellent team he works with) continue to make lives better for MacAdmins everywhere. Guest: Richard Glaser, Assistant Head for Client Platform Services, University of Utah Hosts: Mar…
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Episode 198: Honest Security with Jason Meller
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Jason Meller of Kolide joins the pod to talk about why good security looks like good medicine: informed consent, two-way streets, and transparency of action. Check out honest.security for more on this emerging trend. Guest: Jason Meller, CEO, Kolide Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: Honest…
Guest: Rebecca Latimer, IT Technician, Hibbing Public Schools Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Sponsors: VMWare Workspace One 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 Admin…
The final episode of the year is just with your loving hosts bringing you their thoughts from the year. We bounced between the M1 processor to Big Sur to the latest and greatest iOS.
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Episode 195: Getting Ready for the M1 with Erik Schwiebert
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Apple changed everything when they announced this summer that they were moving to the ARM architecture. Microsoft has adapted Microsoft Office to be built natively for the M1 using Apple’s tools since WWDC this summer, and Erik Schwiebert is here to talk about the challenges they faced! Guest: Erik Schwiebert, Microsoft, Office NEXT Team Hosts: Tom…
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Episode 194: Better Support with Bots, with Frankie White of Slack
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This week, Frankie White joins the pod to discuss supporting users, bots, and IT tooling with Tom, Marcus, & Charles. Guest: Frankie White, Business Technology Operations Lead, Slack Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're inte…
This week, Collins joins the pod to discuss Extension Attributes, Scripts, and providing a white-glove experience for employees with Marcus & Charles. Guest: Collins, IT Manager, Reverb Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 ponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring th…
Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guest: Matt Wilson, Solutions Architect, Insight Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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 Twit…
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Episode 191: Being Happle at EveryWorld 2020
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 James Smith - @smithjw Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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 …
Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guest: Duncan McCracken from Jamf (formerly at Mondada) Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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 …
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Episode 189: VMworld and the future!
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guest: Naveen Pitchandi & John Richards from VMWare Links: New options announced at VMworld More on those new features More on Freestyle Orchestrator Freestyle Tutorial MDM Director Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're inter…
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Episode 188: Remotely Supporting The Platform
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guest: Donna Sanclemente, Princeton University Links: Alectrona Migrator Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the …
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Episode 187: Macsysadmin: The Show Must Go On
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: MacSysAdmin The Big Banana - Coffs Harbour Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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 Ad…
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Episode 186: Adobe Packaging in 2020 with Daz Wallace
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: Adobe CCP Recipes dataJAR - Adobe 2020 Jamf Acquires Mondada Adobe Suite Deployment Daz Wallace's Blog Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmi…
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Episode 185: The MSP Toolchain with Ryan Grimes
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7497916?hl=en http://Myitindy.com Sponsors: Halp Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more informatio…
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Episode 184: Swift Apps with Nindi Gill
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: Low Profile SwiftUI Everyone Can Code Develop in Swift Hacking With Swift SwiftLint Boardies Swift Bash Runner Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please emai…
Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: RSK Group Georgia Tennessee Football Rivalry Osborne Brothers - Rocky Top Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more info…
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Episode 182: DetectX With Phil Stokes
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Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: SentinelOne Blog Sqwarq DetectX Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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 @MacAdmPod…
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Episode 181: Security Updates with Patrick Wardle
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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…
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Episode 180: Macs in Education: A Headache of Everest Proportions
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Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Charles Edge - @cedge318 Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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!…
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Episode 179: The Thermal Envelope and Device Enrollment
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Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon 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…
Synopsis: A roundtable episode discussing fork-ups of the past with Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom James Smith - @smithjw Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please …
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Episode 177: Munki in an MDM Cloud, with Taylor Boyko
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Synopsis: Taylor Boyko joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss what's new with SimpleMDM. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for …
Synopsis: David Kingsbury joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss the challenges of stadium-wide IT. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Workspace One Mac Business Solutions Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmi…
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Episode 175: Life After An App Catalog
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Synopsis: Caleb Coy joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss Fleetsmith, app packaging, & Battlestar Galactica. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Graham’s terraform munki Autopkg Installomater Set Condition One - A Battlestar Galactica Fancast Sponsors: SetApp for Teams Workspace One Patreo…
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Episode 174: It Slices, It Dices, It Makes Thousands of Julienned Fries
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Synopsis: Tim Perfitt joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss the latest features In Mac Deploy Stick 3, WWDC 2020, & the future of Mac and iOS Management. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Mac Deploy Stick Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested …
Synopsis: Anna Mentzer joins Tom, Marcus, & Charles to discuss what a Sales Engineer actually does, what it’s like to work for a vendor you love, and the BLM movement. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Afro-Futurism The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreo…
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Episode 172: You Have 60 Seconds to Comply
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Synopsis: Allen, Bob, & Dan join the pod to discuss the new macOS Security Compliance Project and all the acronyms with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: macOS Security Compliance Project USGCB - United States Government Configuration Baseline CNSSI - Committee on N…
SYNOPSIS: Tom, Charles and Marcus talk about Day One of WWDC 2020! YOUR HOSTS: Tom Bridge, Partner, Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge777] Charles Edge, Tinkerer [@cedge318] Marcus Ransom, Technical Delivery Manager, CompNow [@marcusransom] LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES Apple Developer Site Kexts on Apple Silicon Big Sur Capable Macs Business & Enterprise Sessi…
Synopsis: Weldon Dodd join the pod to discuss Kandji, MDM, & Training with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more…
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Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann
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Synopsis: Henry Stamerjohann join the pod to discuss Zentral and IDent with Tom & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about…
Synopsis: Eric Boyd join the pod to discuss the creation of Jamf's Virtual Visits and implementing it at UC San Diego Health with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Links: Jamf Virtual Visits Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested…
Synopsis: Samira join the pod to discuss Jamf's Virtual Visits with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Links: Jamf Virtual Visits Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@ma…
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Episode 167: Rapid adoption of remote learning
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Synopsis: Tania and Amanda join the pod to talk about facilitating remote learning in schools at the click of a finger with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Pod…
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Episode 166: Of Rubber Chickens with Bill Smith
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Synopsis: Bill Smith joins the pod to discuss Rubber Chickens, Travel, Microsoft Office, and Macs with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Links: TalkingMoose on GitHub RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman…
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Episode 165: Catalina Adoption with Eric Holtam
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Synopsis: Eric Holtam joins the pod to discuss Catalina Adoption, softwareupdate, Bootstrap Tokens, & MDM Testing with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Links: OSXBYTES Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Kolide SetApp for Teams Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac…
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Episode 164: Dogcow or GTFO with Allister Banks
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Synopsis: Allister Banks joins the pod to discuss the Stalk Market, moving to Japan, wrangling code, and tabs vs. spaces with Tom & Charles. Links: Cakebread NGRP B4WK Code Wranglin Looking less silly on GitHub Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Sponsors: Halp Kolide Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsori…
Synopsis: Tom Larkin joins the pod to discuss managing an existing environment of devices, collecting all the logs, and warehousing it in Snowflake with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Sponsors: Halp Kolide Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring t…
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Episode 162: Security Research With Ed Marczak From Duo Security
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Synopsis: Ed Marczak joins the pod to discuss the ever-changing world of security research with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Zoom Blog Post Patrick Wardle’s Twitter The Idea Factory Duo Labs Blog Software Engineering at Google The Lesson Tom: The City We Became…
Synopsis: Chad Swarthout & Becky Tiffany joins the pod to discuss a first of its kind virtual summit, bringing together global tech leadership to address the operational, security, and financial impact of COVID-19 with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Futureproof I…
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Episode 160: Jason Dettbarn from Addigy
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Synopsis: Jason Dettbarn from Addigy joins the pod to discuss Apple Device Management for IT Pros, MSP tools, and MDM Live with Tom, Charles, & Marcus. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Addigy 3 Min Video Overview of Addigy NEW Smart Software - Released Public Production 2 weeks ago (inspe…
Synopsis: Erin Merchant joins the pod to discuss remote work, consulting, and vendors with Tom & Charles Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Links: AirTable IT Kit Podcast Making Big Decisions With Scoring Rubrics Sponsors: Halp Kolide Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please…
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Episode 158: Bradley Chambers and Apple @ Work
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Synopsis: Bradley Chambers from 9to5Mac joins Tom and Marcus to talk about the new Apple at Work podcast Your Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Links: Apple @ Work Podcast Sponsors: Halp Kolide Patreon Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for mo…
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Episode 156: Tania Dastres from Seek
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