This has always been a bullet proof, plugin free, remote control solution. For these tasks, I like to use TeamViewer’s extremely handy ‘Quick Support’ system. The customer was running Mac OS 10.14 Mojave, and wanted a bit of a ‘share and learn’. Today I made what was supposed to be a straight forward pre-sales call. On that intro-backdrop, let’s jump to the inspiration for this blog. Unbox that directive, Mac-heads!!!! TeamViewer on Mac OS Mojave: you do… I view! Just like us PC users, the Mac user no longer gets the luxury of Local Admin. Newsflash! There is no special opt-out for the Mac User! In terms of security compliance, it is most definitely NOT a case of ‘Thinking Different’. Security conscious organisationsations know that to pass audit, everyone needs to adhere to ‘ The principle of least privilege’. Whether you or running Windows or Mac, there are still standards of security frameworks to comply with such as UK Government ‘Cyber Essentials or ISO 27001. The problem is though, today, when it comes to network security, it’s no longer OK to say “ Let’s just leave the Macs” anymore. Users of the sleek silver slithers may feel like they work on their own little islands, but for the IT staff managing them, these islands are no paradise, more like purgatory! Security auditors: they don’t do ‘different’ Your typical ‘Windows educated IT staff still views the workplace Mac with a general sense of ‘dis-location, with a tinge of envy’. That said, Macs are still very much in the minority. It’s no longer the case of there being ‘just one annoying guy’ either. Today, at FastTrack Software, I am regularly supporting customers that run Mac OS. When Windows 10 arrived, I was relieved to go back to ‘Bill’s best OS yet. The Mac OS user experience had become not a whole lot that ‘Different’ from that of a PC. No viruses or malware, lightning fast start-up times, rock solid reliability, no pre-loaded bloat-ware and no late night quarterly Windows re-installs.Ī decade of mass-consumerisation later (with a proliferation of iClouds and Garage Bands etc), MacOS lost its sleekness. I admit, back in 2005, I was the one in our office that decided to ‘ Think Different’ and be ‘ the annoying guy with the Mac.’ It wasn’t about computer snobbery (honest), for me, ‘ Different’ meant cutting through the daily PC treacle, getting stuff done.
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