Mission_Banana6187 t1_j6mym2g wrote
Reply to comment by i_dont_know in Activation Lock is a great feature, but needs a rethink as 2020 Macs are turned into landfill by hugglenugget
But they are all terrible and don’t work half the time.
igooverland t1_j6n8s3u wrote
We manage almost one thousand Macs and haven’t had any issues with Jamf on managing activation lock.
Mission_Banana6187 t1_j6n9mjm wrote
My experience is exclusively with iPads. I've found that it's much easier to include erasing in our offboarding process, or to send proof of purchase to Apple for remote unlock.
igooverland t1_j6n9zxn wrote
We manage iPads and iPhones as well and it also works quite well for us.
Mission_Banana6187 t1_j6ne9s7 wrote
Have you seen any improvement with Jamf over the last couple years? I stopped using any MDM two or three years ago. I just found that I had about a 50% success rate pushing an unlock command to a supervised iPad. Supervision itself wouldn't take sometimes, but that might've been me not keeping my Apple accounts straight. Also things like apps not installing, or the device wigging out when installing apps right after installing the profile. I'd love it if I could go back to using something like Jamf, but with the cost and managing certificates and such it seemed like far more trouble than it was worth.
igooverland t1_j6njmfz wrote
In my two and a half years at this job I recall sending a device back to Apple for unlocking only once, and it was due to human error. They accidentally deleted the device from Jamf before unlocking it.
Our devices come from our vendor already pre-enrolled with Apple DEP. So we just have to boot them and run the new account set-up and after that Jamf takes over and enables all the settings and installs all the apps.
LowJolly7311 t1_j6na2x6 wrote
As an Apple MDM expert, this is a ridiculous statement.
i_dont_know t1_j6n9f6a wrote
I primarily use Mosyle, and I find it works very well. And I work with other companies as an IT consultant that have no major problems with Jamf.
Youvebeeneloned t1_j6olki5 wrote
Bullshit.
Have used Intune, JAMF, Apples own MDM server, and MUNKI... if they "dont work" you are 100000% doing it wrong, which over the last 25 years of IT work with a good 16 years of that being endpoint management with a particular focus on MacOS to AD integration and management... without a doubt it is almost always people who dont know the tools and not the tools not working.
Which is hilarious given how much Apple stupid proofs things like enrollment, offboarding, MDM management etc.
Hell its not like its "new tech" the features that eventually morphed into Activation Lock have existed within the MacOS and iOS since 2012... targeted explicitly towards Enterprise management.
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