Apple’s increased commitment to mobile device management (MDM) is becoming more evident with every new release of its operating systems. With an ever-expanding set of management features that continue to … Read More
How to create Managed Apple ID accounts
Managed Apple IDs are special, school-created and school-owned, accounts that provide enhanced access to Apple services. These IDs are available to all schools, colleges, or universities that are enrolled with … Read More
Adobe Suite deployment packages now resolved on macOS Catalina
Introduction In a previous post, we outlined the challenges faced when trying to deploy Adobe software and macOS Catalina (10.15). Last week, a little more than seven months since the … Read More
datajar.mobi – Updates to our service
Introduction In response to requests by our customers, we have been busy making some amendments to our datajar.mobi macOS offering. Given the current situation, we have held back on making … Read More
Apple Enterprise: Shared iPad for Business
Introduction The concept of shared iPad in education has been around for quite some time, but with the release of iPadOS 13.4, Shared iPad for business is now available. This … Read More
Challenges with Adobe deployment compatibility and macOS Catalina
Update: This is now resolved, see this post for more info Introduction Here at dataJAR, we deploy a large variety of software titles as part of our day to day work, … Read More
Apple’s single sign-on extension for macOS
History Historically, macOS has had a number of solutions in providing single sign-on (SSO) for users to access an organisation’s services. These have included: Apple’s Active Directory plug-in to allow … Read More
The new normal; an Apple admin’s guide to employee onboarding
The landscape of the corporate workspace has been altered many times over the last few decades. The rows of private offices (the best ones usually came with a view) gradually … Read More
5 ways to securely manage your Apple devices working remotely
As a result of the global spread of COVID-19, we are experiencing perhaps the most significant change to how we work in our lifetimes. All around the world, employees are … Read More
Google has released an update to patch a critical security vulnerability in Chrome
This was patched in version 80.0.3987.122. If you are on our Managed Service platform datajar.mobi, this update has been tested and released to all customers with immediate effect, leveraging our … Read More