FileVault2 is full disk encryption for the Mac. When you use Bushel to set up FileVault2, the recovery keys will be stored. This is handy if you forget the password to the machine and still need to get access. To learn more about FileVault2 head to Apple’s website. For More On How To Setup disk encryption with FileVault2 and Bushel.
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Understanding Apple IDs and MDM
You’ll use this Apple ID for the Volume Purchase Program (VPP) and the Device Enrollment Program (DEP). If this is your first time enrolling in any program on the Apple Deployment Programs website, you can create a new program agent account by following the steps below: For More On Apple IDs and MDM, See The Bushel Blog
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Find Out More About Matt #WeAreBushel
Fun Facts: I have a twin brother (not identical). Growing up, our family got a fishtank after a school project let us take home a fish if it survived. A snail I got with the fish survived until college, including a summer with no fish where we literally let the tank just sit there unused. Find Out More About Matt #WeAreBushel
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Childproof Macs With Bushel And Beyond
At Bushel, we’ve been getting a lot of inquiries into how to use Bushel to childproof a Mac. We really had a target audience of organizationally owned devices when we sat down to write Bushel, but we realize that especially in a small business, devices end up very mixed use. Discover Childproofing Your Macs Here…
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Interview with Chuck Joiner of MacVoices re: Bushel
My third podcast in the last couple of months, this time with Chuck Joiner again, of MacVoices. And we talked a pretty good bit about Bushel and Mobile Device Management. Thanks to Chuck formatting this whole thing pretty awesome and helping bring my explanations to a point where they actually make sense! http://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-15055-charles-edge-jamf-software-discusses-mobile-device-management-bushel/
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The Final Countdown
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Enroll Devices Into Bushel
To manage a device from Bushel, it must first be added to your Bushel. The technical whiz-bang name for that process is Enrollment. We currently provide 3 ways to enroll devices into your Bushel. All three are available on the Enrollment page when you’re logged into Bushel. The first and best way to enroll devices into your Bushel is an Apple program called the Device Enrollment Program, or DEP for short. DEP is a way of tying devices to your Bushel so that they cannot be removed from the device, even if the device is wiped. Other than through DEP, all enrollment into your Bushel is optional on the devices…
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How Does Your Page Rank?
There are a number of services that rank web sites. I find that I check alexa.com here and there. So as you employ various techniques to make your site better, you can check back and see the long term impacts of how these efforts impact your ranking. You can also see demographics of visitors. And you can see geographic data as well. There are other better sites, with far more detailed information such as Google Analytics. But a very top-level, upper level view of how your site is performing is something like Alexa.com. Nice and simple.
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Mass Enroll iOS Devices Into Bushel
When you add a bunch of devices to an MDM, we call it mass enrolling. Adding iPads, iPhones and iPods to your Bushel can be done through Apple Configurator. Apple Configurator automates the enrollment process, but when working with Bushel the enrollment profile has the username and email address, if you’re using email. This means that you would only want to use a mass enrollment option with Bushel if you are not using email, if all of your users will have the same generic email address or if your users will enter their own email information. As mentioned, an enrollment profile automatically adds your devices to your Bushel. To obtain the enrollment profile: Log into your…
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How To View What Payloads Do To Devices
You can see exactly what Bushel, and other MDM platforms do to your OS X devices using the System Information utility. As with all Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that interface with OS X, you can use the About this Mac menu item under the Apple menu at the top of the screen to bring up the System Information utility. When you open this tool, you will see a lot of information that can be derived about your devices. Scroll down the list and click on Profiles. Here, you will see all of the Device and User profiles that have been installed on your computer, the payloads within each profile and…