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The Centrify Apple Guys

Every new software developer who works at Centrify attends a one-hour session with a man named Leo.  Leo, Lead Escalation Engineer, a tall man with a big, booming voice, with bigger personality, would tell the new hires.  "You do your jobs - develop new products and features.  But when I come to you for help, YOU DROP EVERYTHING AND HELP ME, BECAUSE I REPRESENT CUSTOMERS."

Leo signifies The Centrify Way better than anybody else.  We don't put the slogan "Customer Comes First" on the wall.  We live it.  When a customer problem needs attention of developers, it takes higher precedence over everything else we do.  Developers engage in both support and pre-sales activities quite a bit.

The heavy focus on supporting customers may sound challenging for developers, but I think it is great.  We learn so much from customers - real-world problems they face, market trend, and so on.

It also makes the work environment special, when people with different perspectives - customers, sales engineers, support engineers, developers - work together closely to achieve a common goal.  This is the kind of thing that makes my Cava or Sapporo taste better in the evening.

The Centrify Way, combined with our serious commitment to testing, is why we have an excellent customer retention rate of 97%.  

So please don't hesitate to tell us your needs and perspectives.  For example, you can post a comment in this blog or send me e-mail.  We will take it seriously.

BLau

Understanding Account Migration on Centrify for Mac OS X.

by Centrify 2 weeks ago - last edited 2 weeks ago

Account Migration (sometimes referred to as Account Mapping) can mean different things for different people and it is easy to confuse when it is necessary and what it's actually used for.

 

On Centrify for Mac, Account Migration can be boiled down to one basic need: Reclaiming ownership of a local home folder.

 

Read on to see the full process in action.

 

 

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BLau

Introducing the New Mac Diagnostic Tool

by Centrify 3 weeks ago - last edited 3 weeks ago

Introducing the new-and-improved Mac Diagnostic Tool - a very easy-to-use app for checking up on the Centrify configuration of a system.

 

It also allows for quickly verifying that group policies have been received, checking up on user attributes and presents a much clearer and simpler debugging flow for support situations.

 

 

 

 

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LMcAndrew

New features in our 1.0.2 Mobile solution.

by ‎09-25-2012 04:02 PM - edited ‎09-25-2012 04:05 PM

We updated our Mobile solution to 1.0.2. We're adding more features every day!

 

Read below for some of the goodies in the latest version.

 

 

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LMcAndrew

Announcing DirectControl Express for Smart Card

by ‎09-25-2012 10:23 AM - edited ‎09-25-2012 10:23 AM

Today we announce the availability of our free DirectControl Express for Smart Card solution.

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LMcAndrew

Updating your Mac Hostname in DNS

by ‎08-23-2012 04:45 PM - edited ‎08-23-2012 04:45 PM

Here's a quick tip on our "addns" command that will keep your Mac hostname updated properly in DNS

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LMcAndrew

10.8 Mountain Lion support available

by ‎07-25-2012 11:01 PM - edited ‎07-20-2012 08:40 AM

Centrify is releasing DirectControl for Mountain Lion. 

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