Another article for CBS, this one I’m just getting around to, before spring is officially gone! Enjoy! Do you use Apple devices at your small business? Is everything as centralized and organized as you want it to be? Maybe things are great and you just want to make them a little bit better. Regardless of your situation, spring is the perfect time to assess what you have, what’s working, what isn’t, and to clean out some of the clutter so that you can focus on efficiency moving into the rest of the year. Here are some top spring-cleaning tips you can implement to help make the most of your Mac,…
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Discounts On A Couple Of My Latest Books
<shameless self promotion> Springer digital is running the two latest titles I wrote for them: Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide (Third Edition) and Enterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X (Third Edition) in a special Kindle promotion on Amazon until May 31st, 2016. For a limited time, the ebooks will be priced at $18.99 in US, Canadian, and Australian markets, and 10.99GBP in UK. Th books are available at http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Administrators-Guide-CHARLES-EDGE/dp/1484217055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460471210&sr=8-1&keywords=9781484217054 for the Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide and http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Mac-Security-OS-Third-ebook/dp/B016PXSH8W/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1460471152&sr=8-1&keywords=Enterprise+Mac+Security%3A+Mac+OS+X+%28Third+Edition%29 for Enterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X. We are also extending the sale of these iOs titles through the iBooks/iTunes platform also, so stay tuned! 🙂 </shameless self promotion>
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Migrating Objects From Active Directory To Apple School Manager
Apple School Manager is a portal used to create classes, import students, manage Managed Apple IDs, and link all these things together. You can use a Student Information System (SIS) to create these classes, import students, etc. But, only if you have a SIS with an API that Apple links to. If you don’t, you’ll need to import data using csv files. And you’ll need to import four csv files: Classes, Instructors, Staff, and of course Students. Many schools will already have this data in Active Directory or another LDAP-based solution. Here, we’ll look at getting the information out of Active Directory and into csv. The LDIFDE utility exports and imports objects from…
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My first article in Entrepreneur: Business Lessons Learned From Superheroes
My first article on Entrepreneur is out! This is a piece on lessons about running a business that I learned from… Superheroes. So continuing the overarching theme of linking business, technology, and what we in those realms are actually interested in! These articles evolve once they go to the publisher, which is fun for me to watch as well. Anyway, I hope you enjoy. As usual, a sample, and a photo (many of these are for my own library, btw). “Batman v Superman” set a record in late March for the biggest superhero movie international opening ever (negative reviews aside, as parodied in the “Sad Affleck” video that’s closing in on 20 million hits as…
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My Huffington Post Article: From Dungeon Master to SCRUM Master
My latest post on Huffington Post is “From Dungeon Master to Scrum Master: 15 Software Development Lessons from Dungeons and Dragons” and is a bit of a revamp of my D&D article from here, but geared towards SCRUM mastering and managing Software Development teams. You may find it fun and kitschy or you may find it dumb. I’m kinda’ ok with both (I’m learning that I can’t make all the people happy all the time). A sampling of that article: I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in about the 5th or 6th grade. I didn’t get good at it for a while, but once I did, I didn’t play much longer…
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MacAdmins Podcast, Episode II
Trying our best to get better, like if you were to watch Star Wars Episodes I through VI, the MacAdmins podcast now has an Episode II. No Jar Jar, but I’m there, so close enough! Find it at http://podcast.macadmins.org/2016/04/04/episode-2-in-depth-with-ios-9-3/
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MacDevOps 2016
MacDevOps 2016: f you’re interested in the scripting side of the Apple world and can make it from June 20th to 21st, this might just be the conference for you. At MacDevOps, you’ll see “Speakers from across North America and Europe will be presenting on a number of topics related to Mac administration and deployment.” This would be things like contributing to open source projects, packaging Django web apps to look like native Mac apps, osquery, Munki security, imagr, autopkg, ansible, git, and jenkins. Basically, automating the things: DevOps. And for Macs. Or Appley things. For now. And… Lots of fun people will be there. including the convergence of friends from…
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Article on Content Strategy on Huffington Post
I’ve been thinking a lot about content strategy and the why and when of how articles are posted. I’ll keep writing whatever I want, whenever, often times based on what I happen to be working on at that moment. In other words, I actually have no content strategy for krypted, and I don’t feel the need to implement one. But at least I explored it, thought about it, and got a few notes down for friends who do want one, or are thinking about it. That article went up on Huffington Post yesterday at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-edge/the-importance-of-having-_2_b_9563304.html. A snippet of the article: Search engine optimization (SEO) involves strategies and techniques that, when used properly,…
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10 IT Considerations For Your Small Business
I wrote an article for CBSPulse called “10 IT Resolutions To Consider For Your Small Business”: Every company at some point needs to harness its technology. These days, a good Internet connection and some smart choices will have any company humming along with tools that help the business. But it’s also important to reevaluate your strategy from time to time to ensure that you are making the most from your processes and investments. As 2016 continues to speed along, now is great time to step back to identify what’s working and what can be done better. The following are ten resolutions for small businesses to consider as you look for…
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Virtual Strategy Magazine Article On Security Breaches And Their Impact On Small Businesses
The title of this one ended up a bit more FUDy than I’d prefer, but the content’s mostly what I provided. With the rise of SMB-friendly backup solutions like CrashPlan, Carbonite, Mozy, and Backblaze, small businesses will choose to back up their systems with alternatives to expensive tape libraries, software to drive those libraries, and countless hours spent restoring files. As more cloud-based security attacks happen, businesses will realize that having a solid backup is one of the most important aspects to device security. Read more: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2016/02/03/executive-viewpoint-2016-prediction-bushel-major-security-breaches-will-change-how-small-?page=0,1#ixzz3zGet80fK Oh, and in case anyone (Mosen/Dials) is bothered by the fact that I’m reblogging articles I do above and beyond what I do on…