

The Mac Admins Slack workspace currently serves almost 50,000 members, with approximately 5,000 monthly active members. We were honored to be joined by several board members of the Mac Admins foundation including returning guests Tom Bridge and Rich Trouton, and new voice Chris Dawe. Speaking of helping people understand the importance of security, Joe wants to remind listeners about curity (by our supporter Kolide) and the 5 Tenets of Honest Security.Ĭongrats to the Mac Admins Foundation on their successful launch! As Adam Engst says, “People respond better to narrative than nagging.” Wouldn’t it be great if we had stories to share with clients to motivate them to care more about their own online security? Send us your stories! We hope to see some of them in an upcoming TidBITS Content Network article. Could something like that work for phone calls too? How can we help guide clients to evaluate scams accurately?īusiness idea that probably already exists: a website to forward your emails to in order to determine if it’s a scam. Sam shares a personal story about someone near and dear to him being scammed and having funds taken. Joe describes an issue helping a client recover their Microsoft 365 hosted email account when the client-managed admin account was compromised and the recovery email address was changed to a non-existent email address. other options like Fastmail, Rackspace, etc. Jerry brings up email hosts and we discuss Microsoft 365 vs. Joe recaps some of the recent Patreon-only episodes that supporters have enjoyed recently, including Mistakes and Adventures in Billing, Rates & Service Offerings with Tim Pearson of CreativeTechs (mentioned above), an interview with Richard Wingfield of GObytes and Envision Design about productivity, organization, and time management, and an upcoming episode about client frustrations. We discuss the great response to our recent Patreon-only show with Tim Pearson.

Managing Apple updates using MDM is still not a perfect science.įor our “cold open,” listen in on our candid chat about the work that goes into producing a weekly show for nine years, how we share the workload, and what we hope to get back from our community. How do you deal with with marketing campaigns from competitors?
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His general rule of thumb is to update right away when Apple sends notifications. Jerry talks about concerned calls from his clients about Apple vulnerabilities. This year’s exit of Burning Man had major traffic jams. Throw in installation costs and you are looking at close to $1000. The antenna is $600 and activation is $110. On a positive note, Joe really likes the Focus modes available in iOS 16. Along those lines, the Google Photos app asks for access to ALL photos by default.
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What is the best way to share photos amongst iPhone and Android users? A discussion brews about the iPhone SOS feature. During extreme heat, the iPhone display seems to dim brightness. As iCloud is trying to share media, even if it is unable to at the moment, the recipient still receives an alert that the media has been shared with them. He had a PepLink Router but doesn’t have as much of a need for it anymore.

Joe talks about being back on the road and costs/challenges associated with it.
