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📸 Focus
Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise: A 2024 report card
This is our fourth year doing the survey. Over the last few weeks, we took the temperature of 128 admins, roughly half of whom report that they manage more than a thousand devices.
The year-over-year changes are minor. But, since this is the fourth Enterprise report, some trends are emerging. As always the comments are quite interesting. (Some of my not so humble opinions make an appearance, too.)
📰 News and Opinion
Why did I get a Vision Pro?
after 2 months of daily use […] I can confidently say it was worth every penny I spent
Ritual vs Reaction
It’s easy to slip into reactive behavior, doing things as you think of them or when some external stimulus prompts you to handle it. This is fine for unimportant tasks, but lots of little reactive tasks will add to tremendous chaos in your life if you aren’t careful. If you struggle with too much chaos, try turning some of your tasks into rituals and see what it can do for you.
⚙️ Apple Updates
- Apple School Manager: Welcome, Document revision history
- Apple Business Manager: Welcome, Document revision history
- Apple Business Essentials: Welcome, Document revision history
🔐 Security and Privacy
Should you share your location with your partner?
Location sharing is becoming the norm between romantic partners—50% of people valued location sharing in their relationships, according to recent research from Malwarebytes—and plenty of couples have found ways to track one another’s location, with consent, in a respectful and transparent way.
But, as a cybersecurity, privacy, and identity protection company, Malwarebytes is concerned with risk, and location sharing carries significant risks within many types of relationships.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
How to make use of the Jamf Compliance Editor along with JumpCloud
Did you know that you can use generated Compliance Baselines from Jamf's Compliance Editor in JumpCloud?
Cisco Secure Client + Umbrella: Part 2 - MDM Profiles
let's look at the MDM profiles needed to support Cisco Secure Client with the Umbrella module.
Changes to Microsoft AutoUpdate's Required Data Notice
Version 4.70 of Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac, released this week, brought an unexpected change to the Required Data Notice dialog.
Add Devices to Apple Business Manager Using Apple Configurator
The Mac version of Apple Configurator can be used to configure iPhone and iPad devices and add them to Apple Business Manager.
🤖 Scripting and Automation
cantscript/SchoolAssembly (GitHub)
Jamf School focused App Deployment / Onboarding tool for macOS, controlled with a Config Profile. Give visual feedback to Admins and End Users when building a device
♻️ Updates and Releases
🎧 Listen
Tim Perfitt on XCreds 4.0
Tim Perfitt is back to talk about animal husbandry and the best new features that are in XCreds 4.0!
Configuration Profile surgery
Ari Leviatan from iMazing about their suite of tools designed to give hands-on power to an iOS and macOS admin.
🎈Just for Fun
iPad Air and macOS Tiger Wallpapers
Today I am adding two more colours to the mix. Mixing the recently released iPad Air Gradient with this macOS Tiger created a combo too gorgeous not to release. The second wallpaper borrows a gradient Apple used on the iPad Air during a Valentine's promotion and looks fabulous across your devices. Enjoy!