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From Tee Time to Uptime: A True Cyber Resilience Story

In this 90-second customer case study, Mehdi Salehi from Golfbreaks shares the operational and security gains his team saw with N-central. Highlights include about 20% annual cost savings, around 20 minutes saved per end-user support session, a 90% increase in third-party patch coverage, and about 70% improvement in server OS update coverage. Watch the short video to see how automation and a central pane of glass helped reduce the burden on the team and deliver greater peace of mind.

A New Approach to Mac Patch Management

Managing macOS patching shouldn’t mean juggling tools, chasing failures, or leaving endpoints exposed. In this webinar, N‑able experts share a new approach to Mac patch management that brings visibility, consistency, and control into a single workflow. Join our product and engineering specialists as they walk through how modern patching is evolving beyond isolated updates into a unified endpoint remediation strategy. You’ll see how patching and vulnerability management are being brought closer together, helping you detect risks, prioritise actions, and remediate with confidence.

DNS Monitoring for MSPs: A Complete Setup Guide

If you run an MSP, this is the call that ages you. The fix is almost always small. A record was edited at the registrar. A vendor changed an MX target. A new tool added a TXT record and pushed SPF over the lookup limit. None of that should reach a client. With the right monitoring, none of it does. Here is a real one. A 40-person law firm renews their EV certificate. The vendor needs a CAA record cleaned up.

How a PSA Ticketing System Works (and How to Run One That Scales)

The ticket queue is where a managed service provider's profit either leaks or holds. Every minute a tech spends hunting for context, re-keying time, or chasing a status update is margin you don't get back. The PSA ticketing system is the tool your team touches more than any other, so it's worth understanding how it works before you blame the team for a slow queue.

Feature Focus: Cove + HaloPSA Integration Walkthrough

Cove 26.5 delivers the Cove + HaloPSA integration. With this integration, all backup failures detected in Cove will auto-create tickets in your HaloPSA environment, eliminating the need for manual checks or email-based workarounds. In this video, we walk through how to set up the integration and outline how this integration improves technician efficiency.