Best Practices

All posts with the Best Practices tag

Discussion
4 days ago Jan 13, 2026

Revert policy association

Hi team, A policy was assigned accidentally to a bunch of devices. Can we undo this action quickly? Additionally, I would like to know the technician who made that policy assignment. Is that possible?

Discussion
4 weeks ago Dec 20, 2025

Is there a way to batch-edit or import large policies?

Hey everyone, I’m dealing with a pretty large policy in Hexnode, lots of configurations, restrictions, and conditions bundled together. Making changes directly in the console has started to feel a bit risky. One wrong click and something breaks. I was wondering if there’s any way to define or edit a policy offline using some sort…

Discussion
3 months ago Oct 27, 2025

Self-Service Management -is it worth it?

Hey peeps, I’ve been having a burning question lately about self-service management. I’ve heard the term come up in my circles quite a lot of times and am thinking about adopting it into our company’s ecosystem. Giving users the freedom to solve their issues seems like a good idea, but I have doubts about whether it's just a hype train. I don’t want to make any decisions that I may regret in the future. Any thoughts on…

Discussion
3 months ago Oct 13, 2025

Does CarPlay really need Bluetooth? And is wired more reliable?

Hey everyone, I’ve been seeing mixed opinions about wireless CarPlay, especially around connectivity issues. Recently my CarPlay kept working even after I turned off Bluetooth on my iPhone, which confused me. So now I’m wondering: Does CarPlay actually need Bluetooth at all? Was that just a glitch? And overall, is wired CarPlay still the more…

Discussion
5 months ago Aug 23, 2025

Looking for best ways to deploy business apps on iPads

Hey, I’ve hit a wall. We’re trying to roll out about 25 business apps to our on-field sales team devices through Hexnode. Everything looks fine at first, but halfway through, a bunch of devices choke up during deployment. The network slows, installs hang, and then I get messages from the team saying half their apps…

Ideation
11 months ago Feb 11, 2025

Disk encryption option for Linux (debian/ubuntu)

Our developers mainly use MacOS. However, there are a few that would like to run linux. We have certain policies in our organization that describe the requirements that need to be met inorder to use in this case operating systems. A big one is making sure that de disks are encrypted and the encryption key…

Ideation
1 year ago Sep 16, 2024

Platform SSO for macOS on Hexnode MDM with Google Workspace

Hello Hexnode Team, It's been a pleasure to be Hexnode customer and I'm currently using Hexnode on a daily basis to manage our MacOS devices in our environment. I have been noticed that Microsoft has released a preview of platform SSO on MacOS for Intune & EntraID. I was wondering if Hexnode is having a…