Mac Admins Podcast

It's just us this week, and we're talking about AI - Apple Intelligence, "Apple" Intelligence, and Apple "Intelligence" - as we dive into a few key developments. The 26.3 group of releases is upon us, along with new Gemini models coming to Siri, and the hopes of new hardware!
Hosts:
Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Links:

https://kitzy.com/blog/openclaw-security-dangers/ 
https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101 
Restricting the upgrade dialog: https://soundmacguy.org.uk/2026/01/29/suppress-the-upgrade-dialog-for-keynote-numbers-and-pages.html
https://education.apple.com/story/250015008
Sponsors:
Iru

Fleet Device Management

Meter
Primo
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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

Everyone wants to manage devices these days, and not just Macs. Being able to embed device management into the platform you're already building can provide a seamless experience for your users. Open source projects like NanoMDM are free, but the resources required to set them up and maintain them are not. Smplify is a new player on the market who provides the infrastructure to manage devices so you can build MDM directly into your own solution.
Hosts:
Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
Ben Greiner - LinkedIn

Links:

https://www.smplify.com/
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases
https://www.epa.gov/radtown/natural-radioactivity-food
Sponsors:
Iru

Fleet Device Management

Meter
Primo
Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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

Kevin White is here with a bucket of spackle and some know how to make Platform Single Sign On a better experience. Plus, he's got updates for us on Super.
Hosts:
Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
Kevin White - LinkedIn

Links:
https://github.com/Macjutsu/pseudo
https://github.com/Macjutsu/super
https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/password-utility/
Apple BSI (née RSR) https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657
Sponsors:
Iru

Fleet Device Management
Meter
Primo
Watchman Monitoring
If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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

MDM, DDM, VPP, ABM, even MSCP - all the acronyms that help us to manage devices the way that we need to, providing the amazing end-user experiences that the macadmin community is so conscious of. But what do we do when the tools provided by Apple or our device management service don't provide the capabilities we need? That's right, we build it ourselves! Michael Page is going to talk us through Dock Composer, one of these very tools that he has built to solve his own problem and help others solve the same problems in their environments
Hosts:
Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
Michael Page - LinkedIn

Links:
Dock Master https://github.com/Error-freeIT/Dock-Master
https://techion.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master

Dock Composer on the Mac App Store https://apps.apple.com/app/dock-composer/id6751523907
Dockutil - https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil
Docklib - https://github.com/homebysix/docklib
Git Kraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/
Sponsors:
Iru

Fleet Device Management

Meter

Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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

As managing Macs evolves, it's no longer enough to just configure the devices we are responsible for. What happened after we configured them, are they still configured that way, has the user managed to get around the controls we put in place. Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs.
Hosts:
Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
Eric Metzger - LinkedIn

Links:
SIEMply Irresistable - JNUC 2025
Jamf Protect Telemetry Data Model (Free Jamf ID required)
Sponsors:
Iru

Fleet Device Management

Meter

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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