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The warranty dashboard Apple doesn’t provide… yet

Download ABM Warranty Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager are excellent systems of record. They tell you exactly what devices you own, who they’re assigned to, and how they’re enrolled. For inventory, they are authoritative. For risk, they are silent. What neither platform shows you is which devices are quietly becoming liabilities. Warranty expiration is not surfaced. AppleCare+ status is not prioritized. Devices that are weeks away from falling out of coverage look exactly the same as devices that are fully protected. Unless you manually click into individual records,...

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Why Apple Fleet Risk Isn’t a Security Problem—Until It Is

Security and risk are often treated as interchangeable concepts in modern IT environments, but they are not the same discipline. Security focuses on controls, enforcement, and prevention. Risk management, by contrast, is concerned with likelihood, impact, and consequence across operational, financial, and organizational domains. Frameworks such as those published by NIST make this distinction explicit: risk assessment is not a technical exercise, but a business one. Technology informs risk decisions, but it does not define them. Many technicians and administrators are exposed to risk primarily through mitigation techniques — hardening...

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ABM Warranty 0.3.1

Blog Series Introducing ABM Warranty for macOS ABM Warranty 0.2.0 ABM Warranty 0.3.1 Download ABM Warranty 0.3.1 The 0.3.x release series for ABM Warranty is about tightening guarantees. Where earlier releases focused on surfacing data and making long-running operations observable, 0.3.x focuses on ensuring that what you see is complete, consistent, and safe to trust—particularly as the app is used in larger, slower, and more varied environments. Version 0.3.0 introduced several foundational changes, while 0.3.1 follows shortly behind as a maintenance release that reinforces those foundations with important fixes and...

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ABM Warranty 0.2.0

Blog Series Introducing ABM Warranty for macOS ABM Warranty 0.2.0 ABM Warranty 0.3.1 ABM Warranty 0.2.0 is a feature release focused on visibility, safety, and scale. This version does not change what ABM Warranty is meant to be, but it significantly improves how the app behaves under real-world conditions—large device counts, API throttling, long-running imports, and the kinds of failure modes Apple IT admins actually encounter. This release was all about making the system observable, predictable, and recoverable. Download ABM Warranty 0.2.0 Logging The logging window in ABM Warranty 0.2.0...

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Running a Beta Program: Lessons Learned

Shipping software in isolation is comforting. You control the inputs, the environment, and the narrative you tell yourself about how things work. The moment you invite other people in—especially people who don’t share your assumptions—you lose that comfort. You also gain something far more valuable. Running a public beta for ABM Warranty through Apple’s TestFlight program forced me to confront that tradeoff head-on, and it fundamentally changed how quickly and confidently the app matured. The motivation for opening a beta was simple: ABM Warranty was solving a problem I knew...

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The Day I Unmanaged a Mac Into a Corner

There are a few kinds of mistakes you make as a Mac admin. There are the ones that cost you time, the ones that cost you sleep, and then there are the ones that leave you staring at a perfectly good laptop thinking, “How did I possibly make this less manageable by touching it?” This one started the way a lot of “quick wins” start: with confidence. I needed to wipe a Mac via Jamf. I issued the command, I saw what I expected to see, and I moved on...

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