When it comes to the development of apps for the iOS platform whether you are part of a development team or responsible for end-user experience, these seven tips will help improve your iOS enterprise app development planning. These are practical tips that we’ve learned through developing highly specialised apps over the last five years. You […]
VMware has taken headline sponsorship of the Mac Administrator and Developer Conference, running from 20th-21st February at the VUE entertainment complex Leicester Square, London. The event draws together the best Mac admins and developers from across Europe and features a speaker panel comprising experts from across the globe, including many of the world’s foremost experts […]
Over the next few weeks, you’ll see quite a few changes to the way we present and offer our training courses online; for classroom courses, on-site training, events and online training too. In the meantime, we need to update you with announcements from Apple relating to its certification courses and exams. Retiring macOS Sierra courses […]
The writing has been on the wall for macOS Server app for a long time. With the introduction of High Sierra, many of the Server features have found their way into the client version but in spring 2018 macOS Server is having a major overall to focus more on management of computers and devices. A number of […]
Working in the higher education sector, where your financial years have to be planned out pretty far in advance, the good thing with Apple’s recent policy change around announcing new hardware is that it allows you to budget for it for testing purposes. So, when Apple’s new flagship machine for professionals, the iMac Pro, was […]
Want to write a technical book to share your knowledge with the Mac community? Armin Briegel has done just this. He’s authored two books on macOS which he self-published on iBooks. We caught up with him just before Christmas 2017 to ask him about his experience and to share tips with aspiring authors. You can […]
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 indeed have algorithms that affect a phone’s speed according to the capability of its battery. […]
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, I just do it”? Yes, we Mac Admins and DevOps are really good at getting […]
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 to try to by-pass the local proxy filtering. These didn’t actually work still (mini fist […]
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 so I wrote a short ‘crib-sheet’ style note I use as I complete each one. […]