Apple DEP and Citrix XenMobile Invalid Profile Error

Background Setting up Apple DEP is relatively straight forward (start here). Once setup, connecting your DEP account to your Citrix XenMobile instance is again, pretty straight forward. The Citrix guide (here) is easy to follow and there are some great “step by step” guides elsewhere on the web – Antonvan Pelt’s is one of my …

Apple Developer Account – Importance of Renewals

The first sign of trouble… … appears when your MDM solution is working fine on Android devices but has stopped working on iOS devices. All the infrastructure is working correctly, servers are healthy, load balancers are up, no recent firewall changes… A quick glance at the Apple Developer portal to check all the certificates and profiles …

Evergreen IT with Apples?

Background When Microsoft announced the release of Windows 10 they stated it would be the last “Windows [Number]” release. There would not be a Windows 11… or 12… etc. Lots of blogs wrote about the switch to (Windows) Software as a Service (SaaS) model. For Windows (10 or otherwise) this makes sense. Hardware vendors release …

Screen Grabs and Office Displays – Part 1

The challenge There are countless tools for producing in-depth analytics and dashboards from complex enterprise systems. Many of these dashboards are presented through a web browser (such as vRealise Operations). These dashboards are critical for command centre operations but also often make good “office displays” showing the activity of a system. The challenge, how do you …

Samsung CCTV – SRD-442 RTSP Streaming

The Samsung SRD-442 is a great hard disk recorder/CCTV system. Now discontinued, these units can be picked up for a good price. There is a mobile app (iPolis) which Samsung have released to interface with these CCTV units from iOS and Android devices. However, the desktop (web) application is somewhat dated. This web application requires …