Category: Best practice
Best practice advice for your technology and business.
Outsourcing Part 3: How the numbers stack up
It’s all about the money! Or is it? In my last two blogs I went into the details of why a company would decide to outsource and some of the factors to take into account. It is really important that you understand the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing (and there are both) before embarking on […]
Outsourcing Part 2: How Outsourcing Jobs Can Work
What to look out for when outsourcing jobs. In my last blog I went into the details of why a company would decide to outsource. It is really important that you understand the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing (and there are both) before embarking on a program to bring in other companies to help run […]
Outsourcing Part 1: Why Outsource Technology?
What are the pros and cons of outsourcing? What to look out for? In this first blog of three, I look at why companies outsource technology. In future blogs I’ll cover off other areas like human, finance and strategic outsourcing, but technology is a good place to start. Before I do that, I’d like to […]
Want to write a book? Armin Briegel Talks Self Publishing macOS and iBooks
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 […]
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 way to document it then via an externally accessible blog :p Background So, what am […]
Best practices in 2015: Managing settings in Mac OS X & iOS
To continue our best practices series for 2015, this time around I’d like to describe the methods for settings management. This is focusing on the central management of settings for the Mac OS such as the login window layout, and for installed applications such as Microsoft Word or GarageBand although also includes iOS. Why manage […]