May ’20 Newsletter

Welcome to your JumpCloud May Newsletter.

Here’s what we’ve been up to:

  • Meet Directory Insights™
  • PowerShell Corner: Dashboard 1.4.1 with Directory Insights
  • Remote macOS® Management with Apple® MDM
  • Webinar: Remote Device & App Management
  • SCIM Identity Management for Slack
  • JumpCloud Mac® App’s Passwordless User Portal Access
  • Splashtop Partnership
  • Other Things You Should Know

Find a more technical breakdown of our recent releases in our May release notes. You can learn more about JumpCloud and connect with a community of IT admins at our weekly Office Hours events or our Slack workspace, JumpCloud Lounge.

Meet Directory Insights

Do you struggle with using multiple tools and custom queries to handle compliance and security needs? Starting June 1, you can do auditing, reporting, and investigating from the same unified JumpCloud platform you use for identity access and device management. Directory Insights is a new event logging feature that delivers near real-time data on user and directory activity making it easy for IT teams to audit, report on, and investigate directory activity from administrators, users, systems, and resources.

Directory Insights will be free to trial from June 1-14. If you want to enable Directory Insights after the free trial period as part of your directory services, email DirectoryInsights@jumpcloud.com.

Directory Insights (pictured above with its Early Access Activity Log) is accessible via the Insights navigation tab in the Admin Portal, as well as the JumpCloud API and the PowerShell Module.

PowerShell Corner: Dashboard 1.4.1 with Directory Insights

Use the newest version of the JumpCloud PowerShell Dashboard to view Directory Insights events! You can also use the Get-JCEvent command to leverage Directory Insights in the PowerShell Module.

Remote macOS Management with Apple MDM

Struggling to manage remote Macs? JumpCloud’s new Apple MDM feature lets you remotely deploy, manage, and secure users’ macOS systems with the ability to enroll Macs in bulk and push lock, restart, shut down, and wipe commands to the machine to protect employees on Macs wherever they are. Apple MDM is included at no extra cost with JumpCloud system management for all (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Blog – JumpCloud authored by Zach DeMeyer. Read the original post at: https://jumpcloud.com/blog/may-20-newsletter

Zach DeMeyer

Zach is a writer and researcher for JumpCloud with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He loves being on the cutting edge of new technology, and when he's not working, he enjoys all things outdoors, making music, and soccer.

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