• That Workplace Tech Guy Awards 2024
    I spend the majority of my work life talking about, evaluating, deploying, integrating, and generally using SaaS products. Tens a week. Hundreds a year. As someone who works at a Fintech these are vital tools to us and we need to choose the right combination to ensure our IT, and Continue Reading
  • The CUPS Vulnerability: What You Need to Know
    A serious vulnerability in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) affects UNIX systems, allowing remote exploitation through cups-browsed, which listens on UDP port 631 without verifying packet sources. This critical issue can lead to command execution and system control. Mitigation involves disabling cups-browsed, updating systems, and blocking UDP port 631.
  • Is Data killing Innovation?
    The overuse of data in various fields, such as sports, music, and workplace technology, often leads to safe but generic solutions, stifling innovation. In football and the NBA, data-driven strategies have changed playing styles, while in music, it has led to less originality. Similarly, in workplace tech, companies may rely too much on tried and tested methods at the expense of creativity.
  • How to fix the Crowdstrike issue
    It’s been quite the day with Crowdstrike seemingly releasing an update that bricks a subset of Windows devices. This has caused chaos across the world with services from airlines, banks, TV channels, and more grinding to a halt. I’ll put a full writeup together when we better understand what happened Continue Reading
  • WWDC Apple Device Management Roundup
    A fairly quiet WWDC in terms of Apple Device Management updates this year but a few new features none the less. Check out my roundup below. Background Task Management: Securely install and manage scripts and executables via MDM in macOS Sequoia. Managed Apple Accounts: Simplified adoption and management without needing Continue Reading
  • Security PSA: Windows Recall could be the worst release in Microsoft’s history
    The more details that emerge about Windows Recall the more I’m staggered by Microsoft’s decision making. As a reminder, Recall is a tool that takes snapshots of everything you do on your computer so you can look back and find something if you’ve lost it. These snapshots include anything shown Continue Reading
  • Quick Tip: Turning off Windows AI features in InTune
    Microsoft has decided to turn on Copilot+ Recall by default on InTune managed Copilot+ PCs. Recall is a screen-recording feature that records everything you do on your Windows 11 computer. It does not blur or hide financial, personal, or any other sensitive information on screen as part of the recordings. Continue Reading
  • My Experience of AI
    What is AI? There are many definitions flying around for Artificial Intelligence (AI) right now but the best one I’ve found is this: The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. The Continue Reading
  • How easy is it to migrate between macOS MDMs in 2024?
    Migrations of the past Historically many Apple admins have done everything in their power to avoid Mobile Device Management migrations. It’s been a painful process not only for the admins but for the people using the devices. For the admins; months of planning and testing, and engineering a specific solution Continue Reading
  • IT Professionals as Dungeons & Dragons Classes
    WPT Resources – People – Part 2 In my ‘WPT Resources’ series I’ll be talking about the key resources for a modern Workplace Tech or IT team. We’ll look at People, Technology, Time, and Money, and the interplay between them. This article will look at the types of people that Continue Reading
  • The Value of People
    WPT Resources – People – Part 1 In my ‘WPT Resources’ series I’ll be talking about the key resources for a modern Workplace Tech or IT team. We’ll look at People, Technology, Time, and Money, and the interplay between them. This article will look at the role and value of Continue Reading
  • My story so far
    Getting IT wrong I got my first computer when I was 10 and almost immediately broke it. It was an Amstrad that ran Windows 3.1 and a few games like Commander Keen and Pong. That is until I ran out of disk space for games and decided to just delete Continue Reading
  • Workplace what?
    A long time ago at a JAMF course not that far away… Lets get the obvious question out of the way; what is Workplace Technology? Well, to explain that I’ll have to take you back to a JAMF training course I was on in London in around 2015. I got Continue Reading