Recently, we were looking at ways to determine the usage of resources (in this case laptop and desktop devices) to provide insights toward utilization. Often, we take an educated guess at how many computers are needed in a classroom or cart of laptops based on class size. This is a decent indicator and ensures there is a device for each …
JSS Restrictions Removal Tool
In our iPad deployment we use Casper as a management tool for restricting our student devices. When student devices come in needing troubleshooting or replacement we need to remove some restrictions from the device to regain access to certain restricted elements of iOS. Right now this required a subset of our staff to login to the JSS and add a …
Tracking App versions in MunkiReport-PHP
There is a new release of MunkiReport-PHP (v2.3.0) with a bunch of new features. One of those is a widget to track and display application versions. Recent updates allowed MunkiReport to include Internet Plug-Ins as as application and report back the version (I’m looking at you Java, Flash and Silverlight.) With this new addition the question may pop up, “How …