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1 month ago

Turn off natural scrolling on Macs

Hey there! I'm an IT admin managing a bunch of Macs using Hexnode. We've decided to turn off the Natural scrolling option on all our Macs, I carried it out using some terminal commands. The command worked fine on one machine, but when I tried to roll it out to the rest of our fleet…

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1 month ago

Trouble re-adding removed mobile accounts

Hey, I’m working on a script to clean up some of our employees’ mobile accounts from our AD-bound machines. The machines are set to create mobile accounts at login with no confirmation, and all our employee usernames have a “.” in them (like Mathew.Cooper). Here's what I've got so far: It works for removing the…

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3 months ago
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How to set the default homepage on Safari? Solved

Hi,  I'm looking to set the default homepage on Safari so that our website automatically opens whenever the browser is launched. Is there a specific process or set of steps to achieve this? Any guidance on how to do it would be greatly appreciated.

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3 months ago

Renaming domain-joined laptops in Active Directory

Hey!  I need to rename some domain-joined Windows laptops. These laptops have corresponding computer accounts in Active Directory and are organized into specific Organizational Units (OUs) based on office locations. Additionally, some laptops are connected to the domain through VPN linked with the existing names. Is there a way to rename my devices without causing…

Discussion
4 months ago

Download files without browser

Hello! Our organization has recently implemented app whitelisting on our Macs to make them dedicated for specific tasks. This has improved security and made things smoother, but we are facing an issue with users needing to download specific files. Allowing general browser access for downloading files is not feasible due to security concerns. So, we're…

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1 year ago

Reset password on Windows

Hello everyone, we have a need to remotely reset passwords on Windows devices. Since it's common for users to forget their password credentials, we require a solution that allows password resets without causing any disruptions to our users. Is there a solution available for this requirement?

Ideation
2 years ago

Associate a custom script to a policy

Associate a custom script to a policy This feature would greatly help in many situations, instead of going to manage > Devices and selecting the computers to run a custom script to machines in masses, it would be nice if we could create a policy that has a section where you can include the operation…