Blog Archive

Iru Team

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2 min read

Menu Bar App Now Makes Installing, Updating Software Easier

We’ve updated the Kandji menu bar app to make it more useful for users and admins alike. The new interface gives end-users easier access to the Kandji Self Service app and provides a clearer view and better control of software updates. It also gives admins greater confidence that those updates will happen in a timely fashion.

Product Update April 26, 2023

Iru Team

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3 min read

Kandji Announces Endpoint Detection & Response

Kandji today announced the general availability of Kandji Endpoint Detection & Response. With this launch, Kandji is continuing to empower enterprise IT and security teams to keep every Apple user secure and productive using connected intelligence and automation.

Product Update April 24, 2023

Alexandre Morin

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2 min read

Kandji Expands Support for Declarative Device Management

Kandji now uses Declarative Device Management (DDM) status reports to track operating system versions and iOS app installations.

Product Update April 6, 2023

Iru Team

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7 min read

Binding to Active Directory: Consider the Alternatives

Not too long ago, binding Mac computers to Active Directory (or other directory services) was standard practice in Apple device management. At the time, keeping domain and certificate services onsite was the only option, and binding was just a part of that system.

Recent News March 30, 2023

Arek Dreyer

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1 min read

Kandji Passport Now Supports Google Workspace as Identity Provider

Passport now supports Google Workspace. That means you can give your Mac users a login experience that feels native to their Mac yet leverages their Google credentials. They get more secure logins, with just one password to remember.

Product Update March 7, 2023

Iru Team

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10 min read

Federated Authentication in Apple Business Manager

If 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.

Recent News March 2, 2023

Iru Team

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3 min read

Okta Report: Kandji Is the Fastest Growing Business App

Okta’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.

Recent News February 15, 2023

Arek Dreyer

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2 min read

Bookmarks Let Admins Share Links in Kandji Self Service

We’ve added a new Bookmarks Library Item that lets you give your users easy access to your organization’s resources. You do so by configuring that Library Item with links to your organization’s resources. Those links are then available in the Self Service app on Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices.

Product Update February 9, 2023

Steven Vogt

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5 min read

Why Self-Service Is the Smart Way to Do IT

In the old days, IT was very top-down: Users had to call the IT department for help with everything from a busted keyboard to installing a new version of Word. In time, an admin would physically go to the employee’s desk to solve a problem. But that was then. In recent years, IT has become much more democratized. The modern admin knows that the best way to help users is often to let them help themselves.

Recent News January 20, 2023

Liam Williams

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1 min read

Kandji Support Expands to 24 Hours a Day

Kandji is excited to announce an important update to our standard support hours, which will now provide Kandji customers across the globe even more access to the Kandji Support team.

Product Update January 17, 2023

Iru Team

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4 min read

New Assignment Rules Make Kandji Blueprints Smarter

Back 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.

Product Update December 22, 2022

Patrick Gallagher

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6 min read

Provisioning and Deployment: What They Are, How They Differ

Provisioning and deployment: A lot of the time, people who work in or around IT use the two terms interchangeably. But they don’t mean the same thing.

Recent News December 20, 2022

Alexandre Morin

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4 min read

Lost Mode: Track Missing Devices, Protect User Privacy

Organizations that manage iPhone and iPad fleets need a scalable, centrally-managed way to track lost devices, but they don’t want to compromise their users’ privacy. Kandji’s new Lost Mode gives them a way to accomplish both goals.

Product Update December 14, 2022

Iru Team

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7 min read

Kandji Product Engineers: The Apps We're Grateful For

Like 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.

Recent News November 23, 2022

Iru Team

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2 min read

Enable Faster Mac Software Updates with Auto Apps

Kandji 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.

Product Update November 21, 2022