Category: MDS
What’s New in MDS 4.0
June 8, 2021Apple Silicon support With the release of macOS Big Sur 11.2, third-party utilities are now able to run in the M1 recovery mode. MDS can …
MDS 5 Administrator Guide
June 7, 2021Overview MDS is a macOS application that creates the resources needed to automate the install of macOS and initial software packages. Recent Macs do not …
MDM Device Info Users List
September 23, 2020Change Password will only change the selected user account password if the Mac has been enrolled via Device Enrollment and the user account was created …
MDM Profile User Account Guide
September 23, 2020MDM only supports creating a single user via the initial profile. You can create additional users as part of an MDS workflow. If you create …
Troubleshooting Deployment Enrollment (DEP) for macOS by Viewing the Activation Record
May 29, 2020Deployment Enrollment is part of Apple Business Manager and Apple School manager and provides a way for Macs (and iOS devices) to get some initial …
MDS Admin Guide
May 27, 2020Note: This unmaintained guide is for an unsupported version of MDS on our website for archival purposes. To view the most recent MDS Admin Guide, …
Configure MDS Automaton
May 27, 2020This is an older version of the Configuration document. For the latest version, please visit https://twocanoes.com/mds-setup. The MDS Automaton automates the keyboard presses needed to …
Deploying macOS and Windows 10 Using Winclone Pro and MDS
May 27, 2020Note: Please use MDS 1.5 or later and Winclone Pro 7.3.3 or later. MDS is a free, efficient way to deploy macOS, packages, and scripts …
MDS 2: ASR Imaging and MDM / DEP Deployment
May 27, 2020MDS 2 add in some big new features. ASR imaging reduces macOS install times from 22 minutes to less than 2 minutes. MDS 2 also …
Creating and Importing MDM Push Certificates into MDS
May 27, 2020In order to manage Macs with MDM, MDS requires an Apple-signed Push Notification Certificate to talk with the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS). There are …