Platform SSO for Mac: A Practical Guide for Okta, Google and Microsoft 365 Businesses Most people sign in to their Mac with one password and sign in to their work accounts with another. The two drift apart. Someone changes their cloud password, forgets to change the Mac password, and support tickets follow. Worse, the localContinue reading “Platform SSO for Mac: A Practical Guide for Okta, Google and Microsoft 365 Businesses”
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What Is Infrastructure as Code and Why It Is the Future of Apple Fleet Management
What Is Infrastructure as Code and Why It Is the Future of Apple Fleet Management Ask most businesses how their laptops and Macs get configured and the answer is some version of the same thing. Somebody in IT logs into a management console, clicks through a series of menus, sets up a policy, assigns itContinue reading “What Is Infrastructure as Code and Why It Is the Future of Apple Fleet Management”
Why the 14-Day Patching Window Is No Longer Enough, And What UK Businesses Should Do Instead
Why the 14-Day Patching Window Is No Longer Enough, And What UK Businesses Should Do Instead Whoever wrote the Cyber Essentials 14-day patching requirement wrote it for a different threat landscape. In 2018 it made sense. The average time between a vulnerability being disclosed and attackers actively exploiting it was 756 days. Businesses had overContinue reading “Why the 14-Day Patching Window Is No Longer Enough, And What UK Businesses Should Do Instead”
Zero Touch Deployment for Windows and Mac: A Practical UK Business Guide
Zero Touch Deployment for Windows and Mac: A Practical UK Business Guide A new employee starts on Monday. They are based in Glasgow. Your IT team is in London. The MacBook and the Windows laptop ship directly from the supplier. By Tuesday morning the employee should have both devices configured, enrolled, compliant and ready toContinue reading “Zero Touch Deployment for Windows and Mac: A Practical UK Business Guide”
Bringing Mac into Your Business: How Windows and Mac Work Together
Bringing Mac into Your Business: How Windows and Mac Work Together For years, the assumption in business IT was straightforward: you standardise on Windows, you manage everything through Active Directory, and anything that does not fit gets left at the door. That assumption no longer holds. Across the UK, businesses are running Macs and WindowsContinue reading “Bringing Mac into Your Business: How Windows and Mac Work Together”
Which Is Right Apple MDM for Your UK Business in 2026?
Jamf vs Intune vs Iru (Kandji) vs FleetDM vs Apple Business MDM: Which Is Right for Your UK Business in 2026? Introduction Picture this. Your IT Director sits down to do an Apple MDM comparison. She opens five browser tabs. One for Jamf one for Intune, for something called Iru that used to be calledContinue reading “Which Is Right Apple MDM for Your UK Business in 2026?”
Apple Business: What It Is and What UK Businesses Need to Know
Apple Business: What It Is and What UK Businesses Need to Know Three weeks from now, Apple Business Manager will no longer exist. On March 24 2026, Apple announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that replaces Apple Business Manager, Apple Business Essentials, and Apple Business Connect in one move. It launches on April 14Continue reading “Apple Business: What It Is and What UK Businesses Need to Know”
What Is BYOD? Bring Your Own Device Explained for UK Businesses
What Is BYOD? Bring Your Own Device Explained for UK Businesses BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. It describes any arrangement where employees use personally owned phones, tablets or laptops to access company systems, data or applications. For UK businesses, the question is rarely whether BYOD is happening, it is whether anyone has madeContinue reading “What Is BYOD? Bring Your Own Device Explained for UK Businesses”
What is MDM and DDM? Apple Device Management Explained
What is MDM and DDM? Apple Device Management Explained If you run a business on Apple devices and have started looking into how to manage them properly, you have probably come across the terms MDM and DDM. They sound similar, they are related, but they work in fundamentally different ways. This guide starts from theContinue reading “What is MDM and DDM? Apple Device Management Explained”