Configurations

All posts with the Configurations tag

Discussion
3 weeks ago Nov 14, 2025

Can Hexnode auto-fill device serial number + token into an enterprise app?

Hey everyone, We’re currently using another UEM solution for our Android fleet, and one thing we’ve been struggling with is auto-login for an enterprise app. The app requires two values during installation: the device serial number, and An application token provided by our dev team. Our current UEM can’t inject these values the way we…

Discussion
1 month ago Oct 23, 2025

Self Service for Windows is on the way 

Standard users, meet privilege (with limits). We’re bringing Self Service device management to Windows, giving standard account users a secure and controlled way to temporarily elevate privileges for specific administrative tasks. Users get the access they need while IT admins keeps full control. Users can request short-term admin access directly from the Hexnode UEM app. IT admins…

Discussion
1 month ago Oct 20, 2025
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Prevent team members from clicking “Shutdown” by mistake Solved

Guys, In our office, some team members have a talent for accidentally clicking “Shutdown” or “Restart” from the Start menu right in the middle of important tasks like rendering design projects or crunching large files. One minute everything is running smoothly, the next, someone’s Windows device is taking an unplanned nap! We don’t want to…

Discussion
2 months ago Oct 03, 2025

Disable AI assisted chat in iTerm2

Hello, I have macOS devices enrolled in Hexnode UEM, and we are using iTerm2 instead of the default Terminal app (the domain is com.googlecode.iterm2). All devices currently have AI-assisted chat enabled, but due to security reasons, we want to disable AI assist in iTerm2. We have over 100 macOS devices, so we hope to achieve…

Discussion
3 months ago Sep 05, 2025

Introducing Self Service device management for macOS

Hexnode now introduces Self Service device management for macOS, empowering standard account users to temporarily elevate their privileges when administrative actions are needed, all while keeping IT in control. Whether it’s installing applications, updating configurations, or tweaking system files, users with standard accounts can now request short-term admin access directly from the Hexnode UEM app.…

Discussion
3 months ago Aug 21, 2025

Compliance management in Hexnode

Hey Community, I’m an IT admin and new to Hexnode. I am currently exploring how to configure devices so that their compliance status can be determined based on some conditions. I’ve noticed that it could be configured through the Policies section in Hexnode UEM. If I could just get a bit of insight on it…thanks in advance!

Discussion
9 months ago Mar 14, 2025

Turning off hand gesture video reactions on Macs

Hey! We're managing our Macs using Hexnode UEM and need to disable hand gesture video reactions (such as thumbs up triggering an emoji or two fingers launching fireworks) during meetings. Manually turning off these settings on each device is quite tedious. Is there a script or configuration profile we can deploy via Hexnode to disable…

Discussion
9 months ago Mar 11, 2025

Somebody left the Windows open, now the Deploy Custom Configuration is in

While Hexnode UEM has always made device management simple, this new update will bring even more flexibility and control over your device settings! We’re excited to bring Deploy Custom Configuration, a renowned feature of Hexnode UEM for Apple devices, to Windows! With OMA-URI (Open Mobile Alliance Uniform Resource Identifier), you can configure device settings beyond…

Ideation
1 month ago Oct 29, 2025

View policy version history

Policies are aware of their version but it's not possible to compare two different versions to understand what was changed. Please add a support to compare two versions of a policy and compare two policies for differences.

Ideation
10 months ago Feb 11, 2025

Disk encryption option for Linux (debian/ubuntu)

Our developers mainly use MacOS. However, there are a few that would like to run linux. We have certain policies in our organization that describe the requirements that need to be met inorder to use in this case operating systems. A big one is making sure that de disks are encrypted and the encryption key…

Ideation
1 year ago Oct 15, 2024

Policies

I think it would be extremely useful if in the criterias of Policies you could add the "Type" identifier in Hardware Info. Like this I could seperate iPhones from iPads