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Discussion
1 week ago May 11, 2026

FileVault not enabled on one macOS device – user locked out without recovery key

Hi everyone,  We’re currently investigating an issue with a macOS device, a MacBook Air M4, where the user is locked out after forgetting their password. We tried recovering access using a FileVault recovery key, but surprisingly, FileVault is showing as disabled, no recovery key is available in Hexnode and device status…

Discussion
3 weeks ago May 01, 2026

MacBook locked by remote lock

Hi everyone, we’re currently locked out of a MacBook after issuing a remote lock from Hexnode. The device is asking for a 6-digit PIN, but the one we set isn’t working. We even tried sending another lock command with a…

Discussion
3 weeks ago May 01, 2026

What's the fastest way to get Basic LAPS running on Macs?

Hey, what's good everyone. I’m trying to get LAPS set up on our Mac fleet because having the exact same local admin password on 200 machines is straight-up giving me anxiety lol. I was poking around the portal and saw there are "Basic" and "Advanced"…

Discussion
3 weeks ago May 01, 2026

Broadcast message

We just discovered a phishing campaign hitting our team. There's a malicious file attached to an email with a "hidden" hyperlink that triggers a script. I need to get a message out to everyone, both Mac and Windows users telling…

Ideation
3 years ago Nov 03, 2023

Disabling Office Macros

My company requires Office Macros are disabled. For Winodws and MacOS, this is not a built in setting in Hexnode policies. I cannot find any Powershell scripts or batch files to run and enable this setting. Can this be built…

Ideation
3 years ago Jun 13, 2023

Allow local user to auto promote/demote

We use tools to allow local user to promote to admin for a short period of time (1h), they must provide reason and this action is sent to our SIEM for monitoring. We use : Privilege (https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges) for macOS MakeMeAdmin…