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Lessons Learned: If I had to build an MSP from scratch, here's how I would do it!

Lessons Learned From 2014 until 2022 I built and ran a series of successful IT consultancies, from a one person solopreneurship (Jon Brown Consulting), to a startup (Mac Gurus) to its more mature and accomplished predecessor (Grove Technologies) where I eventually sold the business and exited the industry. It was a hard path and each step and stage of the companies existence I learned more and more not only about how to run a business, but about myself, and my clients and their needs. More importantly I learned that you...

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Setting up Snipe-IT on Portainer with DietPi

Series Part 1: Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Part 2: Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT Part 3: Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel Part 4: Setting up Snipe-IT on Portainer with DietPi Setting up SNIPE-IT with Portainer Ok so now that we have Portainer up and running, its running securely so now we are ready to setup SNIPE-IT. Here are the steps to add SNIPE via Portainer. The first step is logging into Portainer. Upon logging into Portainer...

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Reviewing Bravas.io - Enrolling using a Zero Touch Workflow!

TL;DR Mention the code JONBROWN when you ask for a demo or start a 30-day trial and enjoy 5% additional off your first year of annual service. What are you waiting for? Sign up for a trial or demo of Bravas.io today! True Secure ZERO Touch Enrollment with Bravas.io We all know that all MDM’s out there can handle ZERO Touch enrollment. At least any of them worth their salt. Bravas.io is great because it handles the concept of ZERO trust in a secure and somewhat different way than normally...

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XCodes Walkthrough and Review

Xcodes Walkthrough and Review Xcodes is an amazing native application that you can use to switch back and forth between different versions of XCode on your Mac. Why would you need this? Some developers need to test beta versions of XCode and manually switching back and forth is a huge pain. You can only have one active version of XCode if your using the CLI and its hard to remember which one you left activated and which versions are actually installed. Thats where XCodes comes into play. Installation v1.X -...

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Reviewing Bravas.io a breakthrough new MDM and IDP for Mac, Windows and iOS!

TL;DR Mention the code JONBROWN when you ask for a demo or start a 30-day trial and enjoy 5% additional off your first year of annual service. What are you waiting for? Sign up for a trial or demo of Bravas.io today! Finally, real secure, onboarding and offboarding, made for the real world! Not just for technicians. So what is this new MDM, IDP, SSO and ZERO-Trust sensation thats sweeping the nation? Well, glad you asked its Bravas.io! Bravas.io aims bring bring all the best parts of the MDM experience,...

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Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel

Series Part 1: Setting up SNIPE-IT with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Part 2: Installing Docker & Portainer on DietPi for Snipe-IT Part 3: Securing Raspberry Pi with Reverse Proxy and or Cloudflare Proxy Tunnel Part 4: Setting up Snipe-IT on Portainer with DietPi Option #1: Reverse Proxy with NGINX-PROXY Ok so I’ve done a lot of research on reverse proxys and they are great at protecting your internal assets but there are some inherent security flaws that you have to live with if you want perfect security. Lets face...

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