My Journey and Vision to Presenting at VMWorld 2018

Hello Virtual Friends! As I sit here on the majestic JetBlue flight to Vegas, I have been pondering what should I write to pass the time as I reflect and prepare for one of the most pivotal moments of my career. I came from humble beginnings that logical should not have me as a key […]

iOS Security Overview

Hello Friends! Security continues to grow and become a more pressing issue every day. I have been working extensively on some security engineering in the mobile space to improve both the security posture of devices, but also improve the delivery of payloads on devices. Sadly, you cannot have one without the other. It’s often difficult […]

Perfecting a Zero-Touch Deployment of MacOS via MDM

We are quickly seeing that convergence of endpoints in the technology space today. No longer is it about SCCM or MDM or the other million acronyms that make normal people cringe. We have quickly entered the world of “Unified Endpoint Management” aka UEM. VMWare has been this clear with their ditching of AirWatch for WorkspaceONE […]

Boxer vs Outlook for iOS: The Match of the Century

Introduction Over the last year or so, I have been going back and forth on what the best mail app is on iOS. For awhile it was Boxer because of terrifying security risks with the Outlook App and then back to Outlook after Boxer decided to stop working properly with notifications. Thanks to the […]

The Life of a Mobility Engineer

Introduction Hi there everyone! This is something that I have been thinking about doing for quite some time. I will be honest with you…this article is going to be part venting, part projecting, and completely honest. Yeah I know the word “honest” twice in one sentence…I suck! The point of this blog post is to […]

Building VMWare Identity Manager OnPrem

Hi everyone! So, who hates OVAs?! ::raises hand:: I’ve been able to work a few back channels and get access to installers for VMWare Identity Manager that are non-OVA running on Windows instances. Here’s the catch, it REALLY sucks to build it. I’m going to document to full process end-to-end to give you a better […]

Are weak QA processes the biggest fail in mobile?

Hi Guys and Gals! I’ve been thinking about QA quite a bit today and I wanted to blog a little bit about it given some of the fails we have seen over the last 24 hours. Many people in the MDM space have had their share of negative feedback for their MDM vendor regardless of […]

Mobile Jon’s 2017 Intune Assessment

Hi Guys, Gals, and Quadrupeds! Once a year for my amazing firm I do an assessment of Intune. I think it’s important to take a long/hard look at things and just because its Microsoft doesn’t mean its overpriced and bad. Honestly, it has come a long way. I will talk about the basic requirements every one […]

Deep Dive into the Mobile Outlook Client

Hi Everyone! As I have written in other blog posts, the frustration of working with an unmanaged aka app-level managed email client can be a real challenge today. The first problem (being fair) is that most of them suck. It’s truly amusing how people after the fact think Good for Enterprise (GFE) was the greatest […]

Can a faceless man use FaceID?

Hi there! Yeah like everyone else in IT I am also a Game of Thrones nerd and that’s okay. I think the sheer amusement of Faceless men and Face ID is an entertaining anecdote. For those of you living in a cave, I’m talking about this guy! So moving on, I wanted to take some […]