• Introducing Meistertask For Mac

What is MeisterTask? Is an intuitive and collaborative task management solution. Using MeisterTask, users can invite team members to an unlimited number of projects, in which tasks are created and tracked from creation to completion using a variety of in-built collaboration and productivity features. MeisterTask can be used as a stand-alone application or in conjunction with MeisterLabs’ first tool, the leading online mind mapping software, MindMeister. Since launching in 2015, MeisterTask has been listed as a top app by the Apple App Store, the Google Chrome Store, WIRED, Zapier and many more. Why are you doing webinars?

We're holding webinars to help our customers better understand our products and connect with the tools in the most productive way. A webinar is the only format where you can personally connect with a customer, while still presenting in front of a full audience. Our primary use of Livestorm is for running our weekly ‘Introduction to MeisterTask’ webinar, in which we demonstrate the basic functionality of the tool. We also demonstrate how customers can use MeisterTask to boost team productivity by introducing our workflow automations, for example, how to create tasks via email in a number of seconds. The Agenda for this ‘Introduction to MeisterTask’ webinar is as follows:. MeisterTask Overview (15 min).

Workflow Automation (10 min). Adding Tasks via Email (1 min). Tips & Tricks (9 min).

Reports & Statistics (10 min). Questions & Answers (15min) With the ease of delivering a slick and informative webinar with Livestorm, as well as the simple sign up process for webinar attendees, people love to attend the live workshops and our feedback has been amazing. We often will have over 100 attendees, making it a great return of investment in terms of time spent delivering the session.

In addition, we recently used Livestorm as part of an enterprise lead generation campaign, as we invited business leaders in our target vertical to download our expert white paper, before inviting them to attend a webinar on how to turn the white paper’s best practices into action, using MeisterTask. Livestorm was the perfect tool for this as we were able to quickly and simply share the sign-up link within the email we sent out to potential customers, alongside the download link for the white paper. Why did you choose Livestorm? We chose Livestorm for its simplicity and clean user interface.

I had tried several online webinar solutions beforehand and had experienced some issues that were eventually deal breakers for me. With Livestorm, I took the free trial webinar and was convinced. Additionally, Livestorm provide excellent customer support, meaning the two feature requests I did have were quickly dealt with and applied.

Using Livestorm, the software runs so effectively that webinars are a breeze to both run and attend. I would absolutely recommend this software and company to anyone who wants to get into the webinar world. What advice would you give to someone who has never hosted a webinar?

My tips for new webinar users, based on my personal experiences and best practices, would be the following:. Present and talk a little slower than you usually would. Internet connection, lag and streaming speed can all influence your audience's experience. Especially when presenting new information during a webinar, everybody should have enough time to process it. Define and work with a Q&A section to, on the one hand, keep the presentation professional but, on the other hand, help your customers understand how the product applies specifically to their use case. Involve your audience by using live polls and refer to audience members by their provided names when you answer their questions. This way, your webinar will be much more authentic.

Get a professional USB microphone. They start at $100.00 and make a big difference. Record your webinar for your audience. This way they can re-watch it if you missed my first point;-) Audience members can then also share the webinar with their colleagues. How do you promote your webinars? We promote our webinars in a number of ways, via our social media channels (predominantly over Twitter and LinkedIn), within our lead generation email campaigns and via Sales emails for specific product pilots, verticals or more advanced webinars. However, we’ve found the most effective way is by reaching out to all our new users, after a given period of time, to help them get the most of our products.

This works best as our users are still new and engaged with the product and the webinar helps us to bring them up to speed. Upcoming webinars from MeisterLabs.

First published on CloudBlogs on Nov 23, 2015 has always had comprehensive support for managing modern devices (Android, iOS, and Windows) using the MDM framework. As last week, I’m excited to share that we’ve extended our MDM management platform to include support for managing Mac OS X devices. These capabilities are built on the same robust MDM infrastructure used for managing iOS devices. With the introduction of Intune support for Mac OS X, you can now use Intune to manage every major platform through a consistent IT Admin experience. Let’s explore how Intune can help you easily configure, secure, and report on your Mac devices.

Simple Enrollment You can enroll a Mac device in Intune in just a few clicks – using Safari browser, go to the Intune Company Portal website ( ) and click the notification bar to kick off the enrollment process. Any Mac device on OS X 10.9 or later that can connect to the Internet can be enrolled in Intune – no special software or infrastructure required! Just like on iOS, enrolling a Mac device requires installation of a Management Profile. End-users will automatically be prompted to install the profile via the Mac OS X System Preferences app (the Mac equivalent of Settings). After successful enrollment, Mac devices will appear in the Company Portal website alongside the user’s other enrolled devices. Easy configuration You can configure Mac devices to easily connect to your corporate environment with the necessary resource access profiles including:.

Wi-Fi profiles for zero-touch end-user access to wireless networks. VPN profiles to allow Macs to remotely access company resources. Certificate profiles to help secure access to company resources All of these configuration options (and more) are available through a brand new “Mac OS X” policy node we’ve added to the Intune admin console. Can’t find a setting that you need in one of these templates? You can use a Custom Configuration Policy to configure any settings on the Mac device supported by the Apple MDM framework. You can use the tool to export a custom.mobileconfig file and upload it to Intune.

Alternatively, you can consult the to craft your own XML file based on the documented schema. Device-level security Ensuring Macs are compliant with your organization’s security policies can be accomplished using the General Configuration Policy template. This policy includes baseline settings for password requirements and screensaver timeouts. This policy also includes options for defining App Compliance Lists, which allow you to generate reports on Mac devices which have installed apps that may be non-compliant (as defined by the IT Admin).

And lastly, one of the core foundations of device-level security is full-disk encryption. You can use Intune to query the status of disk encryption (File Vault II) on enrolled Mac devices and ensure that company data is encrypted at rest. Reporting and Auditing Intune helps you keep track of all your Mac devices by providing comprehensive hardware and software inventory reporting capabilities. You can go to the Reports workspace to view the new Mac OS X inventory reports available. The Hardware Report provides all the important details about the device and its configuration state, including critical information about the OS X version (to help ensure all your Mac devices have the latest OS patches), the serial number (for auditing and inventory), the last time the device checked-in to Intune, and whether or not File Vault encryption is enabled. The Software Report details all of the apps installed on Mac devices, including the unique app identifier, the exact version number, and the app friendly name. This report can help you confirm the latest software is installed on Mac devices.

What about Hybrid? All the screenshots in this post have described the IT Admin experience for Intune standalone (cloud only) customers. For our customers using System Center Configuration Manager integrated with Intune to manage devices in a hybrid deployment, we’re excited to announce that all these same Mac OS X management features will be available in the upcoming major update to Configuration Manager. Look for the announcement on the.

Once you upgrade to the next version of Configuration Manager, you’ll notice that you now have two options for managing Mac OS X devices – client management and MDM. The client management features remain unchanged from prior versions of Configuration Manager, you can learn more about them. All the new MDM-based Mac management features described in this post can be accessed using the same interface you’re familiar with for managing iOS devices. In the deployment wizard for Configuration Items and Resource Access Profiles, you’ll see a new option to target “ All Mac OS X MDM Clients ” which enables deployment of settings and resources to MDM-enrolled Mac devices.

Introducing Meistertask For Mac

And of course, you can use Resource Explorer to view the hardware and software details of any enrolled Mac device and generate reports based on this inventory data. What’s Next What you see here is just the beginning. This is v1 of Intune support for managing Mac OS X devices through the modern MDM channel. We are committed to leveraging the MDM framework to extend management capabilities for Mac devices. As we’ve seen, there is an industry convergence on managing mobile and modern devices using a standard communication protocol with the platform-provided MDM agent.

Based on our discussions with Apple, it’s been made clear that while legacy client-based management of Macs will continue to serve niche functionality, the future direction of device management for iOS and Mac platforms will come through the evolution of MDM. As we continue to build more management capabilities for Mac devices, we’ll share the latest updates here on this blog. So go ahead and enroll your Mac devices in Intune, and provide feedback directly to the engineering team at our – tell us what additional Mac management capabilities you’d like to see added to the Intune service.

Kieran Gupta, Program Manager Microsoft Intune Device Experiences Team Additional resources:. Follow us on.