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3 min readKandji 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.
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2 min readKandji now uses Declarative Device Management (DDM) status reports to track operating system versions and iOS app installations.
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7 min readNot 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.
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1 min readPassport 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.
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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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2 min readWe’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.
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5 min readIn 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.
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1 min readKandji 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.
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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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6 min readProvisioning 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.
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4 min readOrganizations 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.
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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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5 min readFor years now, many Mac apps have been installing components that launch automatically at login and/or that run in the background. It’s always been hard for users to keep track of these surreptitious bits of software that were running on their computers. With macOS Ventura, Apple has made it easier for users to see and control their login and background items. But Apple is giving Mac admins some say in the matter, as well.
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