Casey Liss

And the...

The only downside is when you already have the machines pre-existing, like I do here, everyone said, like, in order to enroll them into this kind of management, you need to wipe them and you need physical access.

So it would be a process of, you know, I would like, you know, go, you know, go to the data center one day.

bring a big cup of coffee you know keep it below the mac minis john um and and and just go through like one by one all right reset this one reset this you know just take take them down one by one reset them wipe them put them in put them in the thing um but the before this announcement of apple business which happened you know yesterday the day before um yesterday before this announcement

There was the second part of it, which was, okay, Apple Business Manager would have the component of registering the serial numbers, associating them to a business that had an MDM thing.

But then what everyone else did was have their own MDM providers through companies like Jamf, former sponsor of the show a long time ago.

This is what most big businesses do, is they have one of these MDM apps that...

The problem with those from my use case, and they provide a huge amount of functionality because usually it's not only providing the basics of MDM configuration and stuff like that, but they also usually have additional services they layer on top of it, like security packages, stuff like that.

The problem is that all of those MDMs, or at least most of them,

you're paying something like six, $12 per Mac per month.

And, you know, again, you have 48 Mac minis that literally don't have users.

That's not a great selling proposition for me.

Like I,

All of the features of these MDMs that do user security management, making sure your users have good passwords and making sure they don't browse weird things on the internet, that's all stuff that businesses do need for their computers, but I don't need for these computers.

These computers have no user.

They run one app.

You've seen it now.

It's a very simple arrangement.

And what I'm doing right now to keep them up to date is

their their software i don't really keep up to date yet because that hasn't really had a need yet i guess i'll get there and that's that's why i'm looking at something like like an mdm mainly for os updates but there's one other software package that i use on them that's pretty important casey you're gonna love this it's tailscale also former sponsor maybe current sponsor i don't know um