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MDM Search Notes

River Oaks Church - Updated July 2023

General:
Our Needs:

  • Printer
  • Remote updates
  • WiFi
  • Mac Health
  • Remote management
  • Time Machine backups
  • Not available on any MDM

Jamf:
Original meeting notes:

  • Virus protection – Costs extra
  • Jamf Protect
    • Automatically deletes viruses
    • Battery/Runtime issues won’t be caused, software is lightweight.
    • Analytics
    • Not “automatically identified”
      • Such as a bunch of screenshots in a short period of time
    • Automatically kicks devices off the network if they were to get a virus
    • Data plan management
    • Policies — Browser does not matter
  • Jamf 100 courses
  • Centralized management
  • Machine learning
  • Groups of deployment
  • Apple Business Manager // apple business essentials
  • $6930/yr 100 devices
  • No personal info stored
  • Remote lock/unlock
  • Supervised w/ Business manager is better than “individually owned”
  • They can help with authentication with PEAP/EAP on RADIUS
  • Apple TV management is nice
  • Smart Groups // Buildings, locations, etc.
  • Configuration profiles based on groups
  • Configuration profiles can control WiFi, airdrop, etc.
  • Can lock devices
  • Remotely disable icloud authentication
  • Printer config on personal computer, copy to Jamf, push out to all devices
  • They do have a trial
  • Meeting on 7/19 went great, need to figure out WiFi certs, Micah figure out printers?

Kandji:
Original meeting notes:

  • OS Updates
  • Custom printer settings
  • $3/iOS/mo, $6/MacOS/mo
  • Mosyle is cheap
  • Jamf is best
  • Quick support responses (1-2 mins)
  • Blueprints?? Library??
  • Apple Business Manager
  • Kanji trial
  • “Newer version of Jamf”
  • Google Workspace
  • Guest WiFi network for check in devices?
  • Printers, copy from test device
  • $10k/yr
  • $5400/yr instead of 10k, 50 mac, 50 ios

Demo Notes:

  • Where the heck are the ipad settings?
  • Changes seem to be pushed out very quickly
  • Failed to install WiFI profile? 7/13/23 2:11 PM
  • Not many management options available for iPad
  • Issues with pushing out WiFi settings from Kandji when a device already knows the network, forgetting messes up Kandji

Mosyle:
General notes:

  • What the heck is this