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All posts with the macOS tag

Discussion
1 week ago

How do you organize your Hexnode policies for different platforms?

Hey everyone! I’ve been wondering, what’s the best way to set up policies for different platforms? Should I keep one policy for all Macs and one for all Windows devices, or split them up into smaller ones like general configuration, Hexnode Access, app deployments, etc.? Curious what’s working for you all.

Discussion
2 weeks ago

Self-Service Management -is it worth it?

Hey peeps, I’ve been having a burning question lately about self-service management. I’ve heard the term come up in my circles quite a lot of times and am thinking about adopting it into our company’s ecosystem. Giving users the freedom to solve their issues seems like a good idea, but I have doubts about whether it's just a hype train. I don’t want to make any decisions that I may regret in the future. Any thoughts on…

Discussion
2 weeks ago

Bonjour Multicast restriction on macOS devices

Hi everyone, I recently came across a new restriction option called Bonjour Multicast under the macOS restrictions section. It appears to be disabled by default. Here’s what I noticed - one of our existing policies seems to have been updated automatically with this restriction set to “Disabled,” which ended up blocking certain features that our…

Discussion
3 weeks ago

Secure your macOS devices with Firmware & Recovery Lock password remote actions

Ever worried about unauthorized users accessing macOS devices through recovery mode or booting from external drives? Hexnode now makes it easy to enforce hardware-level security across all your devices. With the new Firmware/Recovery Lock Remote Actions, IT admins can: Set Firmware/Recovery Lock Password: Remotely configure passwords on Intel-based (firmware) or Apple silicon (recovery lock) macOS…

Ideation
2 years ago

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 (https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin) for Windows Now that you added local users management on Hexnode, offering a similar…

Ideation
3 years ago

Add Admin user with functionality like Microsoft LAPS

I have been a long-time user of Microsoft LAPS and would like to have similar functionality in Hexnode across different operating systems. Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a function that prevents using the same administrative passwords across different endpoints/devices. It regularly changes the passwords and enables management software to retrieve the correct password for…

Ideation
3 years ago

Slack Integration

Dear Team, A slack integration could be really useful for generating alerts. All alerts and notifications can be easily notified to a channel or an IT admin.Saves the time to check emails or Hexnode dashboard. Cheers Ceetus