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In the beginning, there were just a few Macs at an organization, so IT was able to manage the credentials of Mac users manually. But today, 72 percent of enterprise users prefer Macs. What was once a small problem has scaled. While some IT admins have … Continue reading Sync macOS Passwords with AD
On October 7, 2019, Apple® released their latest operating system, Catalina™. While many users are eager to run the newest version of macOS® on their Macbooks®, IT admins know that there is reason for caution. Zero day security vul… Continue reading How to Prevent Users from Upgrading to macOS® Catalina™
IT admins with macOS® systems know this problem all too well: How do they sync an Active Directory® (AD) password with an Apple® machine and then writeback macOS passwords to AD? This has been a vexing problem for most IT admins that onc… Continue reading Writeback macOS Passwords to Active Directory
Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the best ways IT organizations provide security for their systems. Unfortunately, many organizations/OS providers are more concerned about adding MFA to applications rather than systems. That’s a … Continue reading macOS Catalina Multi-factor Authentication
Is it possible to extend Office 365™ identities to macOS®? As modern IT organizations often leverage both platforms in various capacities, having a single authoritative identity store for both would be useful. Of course, the challenge is tha… Continue reading Extend Office 365™ Identities to macOS®
There’s a lot of noise in the marketplace about cloud identity management solutions. With organizations making the leap to the cloud with Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365, and other solutions, an Identity-as-a-Service solution is a perfect compl… Continue reading Can You Bind Macs with Azure Active Directory?
We are now around halfway between the announcement of macOS® 10.15, Catalina™, and its upcoming release in the fall. IT admins everywhere have been experimenting with the beta version of Catalina, but until the OS actually ships, it’s … Continue reading macOS® Catalina™ Okta® Integration
Centrify provided one of the most critical IT management tools for heterogeneous computing environments with their Centrify Express® for Mac® product. This product enabled IT admins to integrate Macs with Microsoft® Active Directory®… Continue reading Centrify® Mac Express® Alternative
JumpCloud® Policies are one of the many useful features that are available with Directory-as-a-Service®. Policies are analogous to the popular group policy object (GPO) feature from Microsoft® Active Directory®, except they can be u… Continue reading Top Three System Policies You Need On Your Macs®
As IT organizations look to connect their non-Windows® resources to Microsoft® Active Directory®, one question comes up quite often: what is Centrify®? In web searches targeted at discovering a way to extend AD, Centrify comes up qu… Continue reading What is Centrify®?