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10 min readIf your business is using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or Google Workspace as your identity provider (IdP), then you can use federated authentication to connect your instance with Apple Business Manager. This is a great way to create a consistent, seamless login experience for your employees.
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3 min readOkta’s annual Businesses at Work report provides an in-depth look into the applications that workforces around the world are using to stay productive. More than 17,000 Okta customers were surveyed for this year's study. And in that report, Kandji topped the charts as the #1 fastest growing app, across all categories, with 172% YoY growth in customers.
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4 min readBack in September, Kandji introduced assignment rules. These rules took a core component of Kandji device management—Blueprints—and made them even smarter. We’ve now dramatically expanded the scope of what assignment rules can do and how they’re defined.
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7 min readLike the Mac admins they work with, Kandji’s product engineers have to deal with a lot of everyday computing chores—tracking projects, doing presentations, recording screens, processing text, and so on—in addition to their more specialized technical work. And like anyone who uses a Mac, over time they’ve acquired collections of their own favorite apps and utilities that help them tackle both everyday and specialized tasks more effectively. So we asked Kandji’s team of product engineers: What’s your favorite app, the one tool you wouldn’t want to do your job without? Here’s what they had to say.
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2 min readKandji admins can now set shorter enforcement timeframes for automatically updating apps from the Kandji Auto App catalog. Prior to this latest release, Kandji admins could choose patching deadlines from one week to three months after an app update was released. Now they also have the option of one or two days.
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2 min readToday Kandji is announcing first-in-the-market support for active Declarative Device Management (DDM) for supervised devices. Not only has Kandji enabled DDM, but we also support actively managing configuration declarations—one of the core technologies that powers DDM.
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2 min readWith the release of macOS Ventura, many Apple admins may be wondering about how to defer upgrades to the new OS. As a Mac IT person, you may not want everyone in your organization to upgrade right away. And there are some special considerations to take into account when you’re thinking about upgrading the Mac computers you manage to the latest version of macOS.
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4 min readToday, Kandji is pleased to announce same-day support for Apple’s latest operating system releases: macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16. (iOS 16 and tvOS 16 were released on September 12; Kandji supported all applicable functionality in those releases on the same day, as well.)
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3 min readKandji, today announced its revolutionary new Device Harmony platform, which tears down the wall between enterprise IT and InfoSec teams, so they can truly work together to keep every Apple user secure and productive.
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2 min readBlueprints are the cornerstone of Kandji’s device management platform. They streamline how you organize configurations and software and continually enforce parameters for managed devices. And now, we’ve made Blueprints smarter with assignment rules. These rules determine whether or not a custom app or script library item runs on the devices assigned to a given Blueprint.
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6 min readAt a high level, virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single computer; those multiple instances are called virtual machines, or “VMs” for short. Apple silicon and macOS make virtualization possible on Mac using a combination of hardware and software technologies:
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2 min readLast year, Kandji introduced Passport, which makes the login process easier for end users by letting them sign in to their local device accounts with the same single sign-on credentials they use with their organizations' identity providers (IdPs). In addition to making life easier for users, Passport also improves security for the organization as a whole: By syncing local and IdP credentials, IT teams can be sure they all meet the same safety standards. We’ve now made Passport even more secure, by adding support for multifactor authentication (MFA). This enables admins to enforce login flows that leverage the same MFA factors already configured for their users' IdP accounts.
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4 min readOne common way to authenticate a user’s identity is with username and password credentials. Another, especially in enterprise environments, is with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates (also known simply as digital certificates).
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1 min readFor Apple IT teams whose end-users speak languages other than English, Kandji now supports localized languages in the macOS menu bar item, in the Self Service app (for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS), and in the Kandji Migration Agent.
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3 min readIn Apple device management, automation is everything. The more of your work that you can automate via scripts, APIs, and other tools, the less you have to do manually and the more time you have for other, more strategic projects. Kandji customers now have another powerful automation tool, in the form of Okta Workflows.
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