Admins who have worked with non-Mac Apple devices for a long time are already familiar with IPSW (iPod software) files. IPSWs are the OS installers for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and other variations in the iDevice family.

One of the most common questions on the MacAdmins Slack #lightspeed channel is, “How do I install the Relay smart agent on Macs?” Lightspeed provides a little guidance and a decent overview, and that works most of the time, except when it doesn’t.

Two months into the beta cycle, Big Sur is still not education ready. Today marks the release of beta 5 and Apple has not implemented a way for standard users to enable screen recording.

While working to enroll 1,000+ Macs to prep for the start of school, we found a large number were failing to get an enrollment configuration during Setup Assistant. There were three distinct ways the process failed.

There are times when you may want to only allow local account logins, but also bind to a directory service like AD. Though mobile accounts are a thing of the past and should be avoided, binding in your environment could still have a place.