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Discussion
2 weeks ago Feb 05, 2026

Introducing Automation Templates

Introducing the Templates subtab under the Automate tab—your new hub for one-click, expert-level automation. We're kicking things off with the highly requested workflow: Upgrade to Windows 11.  We know that transitioning an entire organization to a new Windows OS version can feel like a high-wire act, but we’re here to give you a safety net.  Upgrade to Windows 11 without the complexity OS updates are often slowed down by custom scripting, inconsistent…

Discussion
2 weeks ago Feb 05, 2026

Policies now live for co-managed Windows devices!

We are excited to announce a significant expansion of our Windows management capabilities. Previously, policies were restricted to devices managed solely by Hexnode. With this update, you can now deploy powerful configurations as policies to co-managed Windows devices. What’s New? This enhancement allows for deeper customization and tighter control over your Windows fleet, even when…

Discussion
2 weeks ago Feb 02, 2026

How does the console handle mass actions so fast?

I need a sanity check here. We just migrated our last batch of 5,000 iPads over from our old on-prem system. With the old system, anytime we pushed a policy update to more than 500 devices at once, the console would basically freeze for 10 minutes while it processed the "write" commands. Yesterday, I pushed…

Ideation
2 years ago Jun 25, 2024

Restart Windows machine if it was not restarted in X days

What I'd like is if the user has not restarted their Windows computer in last 2 weeks, they should start getting notifications a day before that their computer will restart on X date at Y time. And if they still don't restart, they should receive a notification 10 minutes before that it will be restarted…

Ideation
2 years ago Dec 08, 2023

Feature request: Enable custom scripts auto-trigger for the new group members.

We're currently trying to create a proper Windows PC onboarding mechanics. During this phase we need to have several applications installed depending on a group membership. Because of the Hexnode limitations we aren't able to properly configure auto-deployment for some applications. Those ones can be installed via ps1 script for sure, but we need to…

Ideation
2 years ago Nov 03, 2023

Disabling Office Macros

My company requires Office Macros are disabled. For Winodws and MacOS, this is not a built in setting in Hexnode policies. I cannot find any Powershell scripts or batch files to run and enable this setting. Can this be built in?

Ideation
3 years ago Mar 27, 2023

Feature Request: Ability to use custom scripts within a policy for Mac/Windows

Hello Hexnode peoples, We are hoping to get a feature request placed to have the ability to use custom scripts within policies to force the installation and configuration of applications. Our use cases revolve around the need to be able to force software for security and other tools be installed on all existing, and new…

Ideation
3 years ago Feb 13, 2023

Windows Group Policy Objects functionality

I think it would be a killer feature for managing Windows systems if you could add Group Policy Objects functionality to Hexnode MDM. It will require major work in the Windows Agent but I think this could really set you apart from the competition. Suggestion on how to implement it: Give the Hexnode admin the…