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iPhone

iPhone slowing down? A simple service may be all that’s needed

There has been speculation for years that Apple has been deliberately slowing down older iPhones when new versions of iOS ship. The conspiracy theorists maintain it’s to get us all to upgrade our phones. Apple announced yesterday that it does

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Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Deployment: We Need To Talk

What do you call it when you, as a Mac Admin, prepare a new or used Mac for a new user (or set of users)? Imaging? Deployment? Provisioning? Any or all of these? Or perhaps, “I don’t call it anything,

Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Block Google Chrome Extensions with a Profile

Hi All. You guessed it, it’s another customer request blog 😛 I had another education customer request us to block the installation of Google Chrome Extensions for their student devices. The little darlings Students had been installing VPN extensions in order

Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Jamf Pro Server / Casper JSS Windows Upgrade Crib Sheet

Hey all. In case you couldn’t guess, I’ve been completing a lot of on-premise Casper JSS / Jamf Pro Server upgrades recently for customer’s using Windows Servers to host their solution. I’m a big fan of little reminders and checklists

Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Running the Jamf Pro Installer MSI in Windows

Aka “It is recommended that you use an account that is a local administrator and run the JSS Installer with elevated permissions” Hey all. This is another thing that I occasionally come across as an eternal consultant and keep forgetting

Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Running the Jamf Pro JSS Database Utility in Windows

Aka “The JSS Database Utility needs to be executed with superuser privileges” Hey all. This is something that I occasionally come across as an eternal consultant and keep forgetting the exact command needed to work around it, so what better

Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Running the Jamf Pro JSS Database Utility in Windows

Aka “The JSS Database Utility needs to be executed with superuser privileges” Hey all. This is something that I occasionally come across as an eternal consultant and keep forgetting the exact command needed to work around it, so what better

Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

MDM Configuration Profile variable Reference – Revision 2017-11-06

Hi All, So this blog may look familiar, that’ll be because it is! I’ve updated my previous version to include new options from Apple (a few changes) and Jamf (actually no changes), and taking the opportunity to add in FileWave

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Advanced Mac OS and iOS Blogs

Workflows for installing macOS

[two_third]Apple has recently been making a few changes that make image deployment of operating systems on Macs more challenging. The following message on the Apple website makes the company’s intentions fairly clear. We started to investigate alternative ways to erase

Events

This Marketer is in Awe

Wow! Doesn’t time fly? With the sights, sounds and smells of London’s O2 still fresh from this year’s MacAD.UK conference, the Early Bird reservations for 2018 went live today. Wow. Already? Of course, I knew it was coming. not least