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Company cell phone policy template: usage, privacy, security, damage, and return rules A company cell phone policy is a document that sets the rules for how employees use mobile phones for work, whether the phone is company-issued or an employee’s personal device. A clear policy protects the organization’s data, sets fair expectations... By Dragos Brudiu Aug 31, 2026

Declarative Device Management: What Apple’s new MDM model changes for IT Declarative device management (DDM) is Apple’s modern approach to managing devices, in which each device enforces its own policy autonomously instead of waiting for commands from a management server. It is a structural change to how Mobile Device Management (MDM)... By Vlad Bodea Aug 28, 2026

Best Rugged Tablets for Field, Warehouse, and Utility Teams in 2026 The best rugged tablet for a team is rarely the one with the highest drop rating on the spec sheet. For a single worker, ruggedness alone might decide it. For an organization deploying rugged tablets across a field crew, a... By savellabteam Aug 26, 2026

Managed Apple Accounts: When you need them, their limits, and how they work A Managed Apple Account is an Apple account owned and controlled by an organization, created through Apple Business Manager rather than by an individual. It lets a business give employees an Apple identity tied to corporate credentials, with the organization... By Vlad Bodea Aug 24, 2026

Best Smartphone for Business in 2026: What IT teams should buy for work and company-issued fleets The best smartphone for business is rarely the one that wins the camera comparison. For an individual buyer, the spec sheet decides. For an organization issuing phones to a team of ten, a hundred, or a thousand, the decision turns... By Victor Antiu Aug 19, 2026

Windows LAPS and MDM: How Local Admin Password Management Works Windows LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) is a built-in Windows feature that automatically manages and rotates the password for a local administrator account and backs it up to a central directory controlled by the IT team. It solves a specific... By Laura Ciurea Aug 17, 2026

Best Rugged Smartphones for Business Fleets in 2026: what IT teams should buy The best rugged smartphone for a business is not always the one with the highest drop rating or the thickest armor. For a single field worker, the spec sheet decides. For an organization equipping a team of ten, a hundred,... By Ionut Soare Aug 12, 2026

Best tablets for business fleets in 2026: what IT teams should buy The best tablet for business is rarely the one with the highest benchmark score. For a team buying a single device, the spec sheet is the deciding factor. For an organization deploying ten, a hundred, or a thousand tablets, the... By Radu Scarlat Aug 10, 2026

Windows Autopilot vs Traditional Imaging: Which Provisioning Model should IT use? Windows PC provisioning in 2026 is a three-model decision, not a two-model decision. The first model is Windows Autopilot classic, which has been Microsoft’s zero-touch enrollment story since 2017. The second is Windows Autopilot device preparation, a re-architected next-generation approach... By Vlad Bodea Jul 31, 2026

12 MDM Security Policies that Actually Reduce Risk Mobile Device Management (MDM) exposes hundreds of enforceable settings across the four major operating systems. A well-configured MDM console can push dozens of policies to every managed device. But not all of those policies actually reduce risk. Some prevent real... By Radu Scarlat Jul 29, 2026

Apple Business Manager and MDM: How Automated Device Enrollment Works Apple Business Manager and an MDM sit on either side of every corporate Apple deployment. Apple Business Manager is the free portal that ties your organization to Apple: it holds the devices you own, the app licenses you buy, and... By Vlad Bodea Jul 27, 2026

MDM Compliance Reporting: What Auditors Actually Need from Device Management The typical MDM console shows dozens of dashboards. The typical auditor asks for a handful of specific artifacts. When those two do not match, the audit slows, the requests for information grow longer, and the exceptions are written into the... By Radu Scarlat Jul 24, 2026

Rugged device management mistakes that break field, warehouse, and utility operations Rugged device deployments break in predictable ways. The failures are almost never hardware surprises because rugged devices are engineered to withstand the abuse they take. The failures come from management decisions made months earlier: the wrong MDM chosen without OEM... By Radu Scarlat Jul 22, 2026

Enterprise App Store Best Practices for IT teams managing Device Fleets An enterprise app store is the curated catalog IT uses to publish approved apps to a managed device fleet. It runs through the Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform and the operating system’s own enterprise app-distribution mechanism, not through a public... By Radu Scarlat Jul 20, 2026

What MDM remote control can and cannot do across Android, Windows, iOS, and macOS MDM remote control means what an IT admin can do on a managed device from the admin console, without physically holding the device. That capability sounds uniform, but in practice it is deeply asymmetric across operating systems. Windows and macOS... By Vlad Bodea Jul 18, 2026

Device Lifecycle Management for Mobile Fleets: From Procurement to Retirement Every device an organization manages passes through the same six stages: planning, procurement, preparation, in-service management, refresh or repair, and retirement. The stages sound sequential and mostly are, but they overlap in practice, and each one has its own operational... By Vlad Bodea Jul 15, 2026

Mac device management: what changes when you manage macOS with MDM macOS was built consumer-first. Every Mac ships ready for one person to own, set up, and control it completely. Enterprise management sits atop that consumer foundation through Apple’s Mobile Device Management (MDM) framework, so managing a Mac is meaningfully different... By Victor Antiu Jun 29, 2026

Linux device management: why traditional MDM often falls short Linux device management does not work the way device management works on Apple or Android hardware, and pretending otherwise leads teams to the wrong tools. Apple builds a Mobile Device Management (MDM) protocol directly into macOS and iOS. Google builds... By Victor Antiu Jun 26, 2026

Windows device management: What MDM can replace and what it cannot Windows device management has two parallel lineages, and choosing between them is the central decision for any IT team managing Windows 10 or Windows 11 fleets. The legacy lineage uses Active Directory domain join, Group Policy, and Configuration Manager (formerly... By Victor Antiu Jun 24, 2026

Android Enterprise MDM: what it is and how enrollment works Android Enterprise is Google’s framework for managing Android devices in organizations. It is not an MDM product you buy from Google. It is the set of APIs, management modes, and enrollment methods that Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors build on... By Daniel Gherghescu Jun 22, 2026

Choosing an MDM for Apple Device Management in 2026: what IT teams need to know The rules for managing Apple devices changed in 2026. In March 2026, Apple announced Apple Business, a single free platform at business.apple.com that consolidated Apple Business Manager, Apple Business Essentials, and Apple Business Connect, with availability beginning April 14, 2026.... By savellabteam Jun 17, 2026

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