Bristol City Schools Transform How Their Devices are Managed by Moving from SCCM to Intune

“Intune has changed absolutely everything. We’re finally where we want to be.” Bristol City Schools wanted to find a more efficient way to manage their 4,000 student devices Bristol City Schools had long been using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage their fleet of Windows laptops and Chrome Books for faculty and students. However, it was not going well. Their Sys Admin found that SCCM was unreliable in delivering what they needed to ensure the secure and productive use [...]

January 20th, 2022|

The Anatomy of a Cyber-Attack

It is no secret that the rate of cyber-attacks has escalated considerably in the past year. In fact, according to Reuters, cybercrime as a whole has risen 500% since the beginning of the pandemic. Cybercriminals are successful at breaching environments because they use various methods to carry out attacks. Many of the methods show cleverness, [...]

January 4th, 2022|

Dropping the Pager: How Modern Device Management Supports Healthcare

In 2017 CCHDB approached Mobile Mentor to assist them with moving beyond their legacy pager system. CCDHB wanted to use smartphones to access a clinical paging system that leverages modern communication and cloud technology.

December 17th, 2021|

Watercare Migrates Fleet of Shared iPads from JAMF to Intune

Watercare is a company that embraces technology to aid in supplying water services to the 1.7 million people in Auckland. In early 2020 the group was working to modernise their entire IT environment. A component to this project was to effectively enrol a fleet of shared iPads into an efficient and manageable MDM platform.

November 17th, 2021|

T&G Global Leverages the Modern Work Assessment and Endpoint Management Health Check for Surface Device Rollout

T&G Global needed to ensure their group was operating at a high level of efficiency while maintaining a high level of security to address increased cyber threats in recent months.

November 16th, 2021|

Using Identity and Endpoint Management to build a Foundation for Zero Trust

Evolving risks in the current cyber landscape have companies everywhere searching for an effective strategy to secure company data. Employees and devices work outside the office, on home and public Wi-Fi, sometimes on personal devices. Traditional IT security is no longer fit for purpose. IT leaders need to switch to a new paradigm: [...]

September 23rd, 2021|

With help from Mobile Mentor, a Nashville hospice’s devices become lifelines

Alive enlisted Mobile Mentor, which helps organizations secure and optimize devices for remote workforces.

September 3rd, 2021|

Configuring Chrome Homepage Settings with Intune

Have you ever been ready for an important meeting or presentation only to discover that the casting feature from your device isn’t working? Me too. It’s incredibly frustrating and counterproductive. Failing to get screen casting working correctly can even make you appear ill-prepared to present. As it stands, I’ve encountered casting issues several times [...]

September 3rd, 2021|

Vanderbilt University Medical Center successfully deploys BYOD program

VUMC has made significant investments in its technology stack in recent years and embraced Microsoft 365 to secure and empower 33,000 clinicians and staff.

August 31st, 2021|