Hi Folks, I hope you've all had an unforgettable summer holiday, taking the time to disconnect and create special memories with your loved ones. Sooooo, I've stumbled upon something (thanks @james_herbert & Rickie ) that potentially could be a signi...
Apple Business Manager is Apple’s front door for a lot of businesses. It’s an incredibly powerful tool for assigning your devices to your management solution, buying apps for use within your business, and making Managed Apple IDs for your team to use...
Hi everyone,In response to the recent compromise (that I'm sure has impacted all of us) we (Jumpcloud MSP users) performed an investigation to determine if any of our organisations were affected. I'm aware it's extremely unlikely but better safe tha...
Hi Folks, It's been a while and we've finally made it to Friday - TGIF!! I hope everyone is relaxed and ready to ease into the weekend. I've realised that I've posted quite a few pieces on the topic of onboarding, and I've been receiving requests...
Some of our new users are not following the deployment process which means their new Apple laptops don't get the JC agent installed and their computer configured properly. I believe it's because when you first turn on your new device there is no way...
Hi there,Relatively new to JC and working out best practices for managed software with MacOS.We have a secure AWS bucket with public access for files and have verified that the uploaded .pkg files are working but have had no success in getting them i...
Hi Folks, We're right at the finish line for Q2 2023 - time flies! As many of us are sprinting towards our much-needed summer holidays, don't overlook any hidden opportunities that could be game-changers just around the corner. Last time, I explored ...
Hi Folks, It’s been a while (again lol) since last time I posted - I took a beautiful trip to Perth with my family (a long overdue holiday!), followed by a business trip to vibrant / lively Jakarta. Time to “settle down” my thoughts a bit, and embrac...
Hey folks, It's been a while and finally I got a little breathing room to share my Friday joy (again) . Kiosk Mode on Windows - on a large scale? and you looking for a way to do it without paying for Intune? This post will get you covered, please r...
We are seeing growing interest to remove the MacOS "Optimizing Your Mac" notifications.Having Google'd I don't see where this is handled, or what policy it relates to.Any ideas?
Has anyone made this change? it seems like a big one and I'm not sure if it should be done or not.I'm happy with Jumpcloud and it's pretty heavily configured now but I'm not sure if piping everything through Jumpcloud is going to be good. Has anyone ...
I know the subject of this post may seem confusing at first, but rest assured, you will leave with a clear understanding of these concepts (hopefully). Keep calm and read on What are these terms? First thing first - let's clarify AWS IAM and AWS Ide...
Hey Folks, (A massive kudos to my colleague @SamMorganJC for supporting me throughout the process! This post wouldn't have been possible without her invaluable guidance.) Following my post about onboarding users from HRIS to JC, a lot of people have...
Hello Have you heard of Steampipe before? Steampipe allows you to run queries in SQL against various (more than 200) cloud services including AWS, Github, Azure, Slack, and JumpCloud as well - along with many others. All you need (on macOS) is to ins...
Recently @JCDavid used ChatGPT to write a PowerShell script: Using PowerShell to Install a Printer ... using ChatGPT. Have you tried using AI solutions to help you solve a problem recently? Or maybe get past a blank page so you're not starting from s...
Hey folks, Today I wanted to address another topic that I have heard people ask about quite often - network printers and how to deal with them in a business environment! Don’t get me wrong, dealing with the printers can still be a bit challenging (...
I have noticed on one of my server a number of jc processesMy guess is this because of the number of powershell commands I run on my servers and that I don't have the command "exit" at the end of all of them, or could it be something else?
This is a guest post written by Heather Thornburg from Wade Associates Insurance & Risk Management. I asked Heather to put together some tips after an IT Hour a couple of months ago. They shared 8 Best Practices that Insurance Carriers are looking fo...
We require our users to use (the products native) MFA to log into google-workspace and microsoft-office-365, this requires the users personal mobile numebr to be put into thier respective consoles to be used for verifcationatm this mean we are having...
Hello!I'm curious what you all are using as your username schema for employees?Our policy is Legal first name + First letter of last name (Example: John Doe would be johnd@). We won't use a nickname / shortened version (Example: Alexander goes by Ale...
Remember the days of Full/Differential/Incremental?With everyone moving data storage to the cloud, there is little left on any given user's computer. That said, are folks still doing backups? Is that industry basically dead and gone save for those wh...
Hello everybody,I want to set up the SSO for Dynatrace. I am dealing with the error, that the SAML Message is not completely signed.Can someone confirme that JumpCloud is only signing specific parts in the SAML Message?
For organizations that won't delete emails and must archive everything, is there a best practice for outlook email archiving? We're looking at changing up how we manage our archiving. At the moment we're currently just using Microsoft's hosting to ar...
We’ve been having a discussion in my circle about whether or not to give users admin permissions. In my consulting days, I was regularly asked to do that for the owners of my client companies. They wanted to be able to install their own choices of ap...
macOS 13 Ventura is right around the corner. JumpCloud is happy to support macOS Ventura on its release day! We’re very excited for this new release of Apple’s flagship platform OS. We have spent the summer preparing for the release of Ventura, and w...
