Item: Jamf Pro
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jamf Pro

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jamf to manage all our Macs and after setup it's quite painless. Just recently used it to deploy an all Mac lab with very specific audio software that had some licensing challenges, Jamf was able to run my scripts and fix all the licensing errors vs. having to run them manually. All our Macs have the same baseline like all our Windows machines so we can give the same experience to each user every time!

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ensures all my apps are deployed
Once you give over the first learning hill and the concepts of where things are at to do things, its all really easy to pick up
Prevents users from ruining their Mac

Cons

The forced paid training, while I get why it's still a pain.
Better device-enrolled management - drop the requirement for the user to approve management.
Better logging of why policies or configuration profiles fail to deploy
NEED to be able to manually redeploy configuration profiles to SINGLE Macs without having to redeploy to the whole group after a failure

Return on Investment

Postive-ish, I spent a long time to get Jamf up and running
Mac users dont complain as much about their dumb printers.

Alternatives Considered

Munki. Didn't want to have to deploy a ton of open tools and lots of code to get it up and going.

Other Software Used

vSphere, HPE Nimble Storage, PRTG Network Monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

If you do not have time for fixing Macs for Windows file shares/printers and AD, Jamf works great at making sure the users do not mess up the Mac so it won't work in the enterprise environment.
Ensuring all Macs have the same base start and "image" (I know imaging is gone).

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