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Jamf Now
What is Jamf Now?
See why 26,500+ companies trust Jamf Now to manage their Apple devices. Jamf Now is a mobile device management solution for Mac, iPad and iPhone devices at work. Our on-demand solution makes tasks like securing company data, distributing apps, enforcing passcodes, and deploying Wi-Fi, simple and affordable, so you can focus on your business instead.
Create your free account and manage your first 3 devices free, forever. After that, add more starting at $2 per month.
Who Uses Jamf Now?
Jamf Now was designed for the MDM needs of small- to medium-sized businesses. Jamf Now can also be used in larger environments that have less complex management needs.
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Reviews of Jamf Now
Great for Small Business Device Management
Comments: I am incredibly happy with this system. I have met the developers, sales people, and other technical support teams while at the JAMF User Conference 2018 in Minneapolis before, and they are just a fantastic, honest, and high quality company. Their products are stable, reliable, and top notch.
Pros:
I love that this software allows you to manage so many aspects of Apple devices. I have been a Jamf Pro admin for years, and when they offered Jamf Now for free for three devices, I was on board immediately. It allows you to set security policies from denying the use of a camera if you are in a sensitive area, to can a personal iCloud account be used on a business device. Setting WiFi profiles is easy, and enrolling the device is simple. This is a great solution for small business, churches, and even families that want to have a higher level of control of their devices than just Apple stock services.
Cons:
After using the full capabilities of a full Jamf Pro system, there are many features that I would like to see integrated into their Now product. Jamf Now is not intended to be as complex and Jamf Pro is, but there a couple of things such as the ability to setup a WiFi profile to support connecting to an enterprise network. Right now you can only setup a PSK network. Not a big deal, but something that would be nice without having to upgrade you plan.
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Jamf Now is a dream!
Pros:
Jamf Now walks you through connecting your Apple Business account with the Jamf Now MDM server. Since this is set up, we can unbox, unwrap, and power on a device that auto-enrolls into the Jamf Now MDM server. There’s no need to plug in and apply settings through Apple Configurator and risk users trying to delete installed profiles. Also- setting up the blueprints for your different devices and levels of access is so simple. It takes seconds to apply updated settings to a device.
Cons:
I’ve had issues using the activation bypass code working correctly on a few devices. Not a huge deal, but annoying at the time. And locking of iPads once someone has turned it off and it’s in lock mode.
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Really poor software and service
Comments: Jamf barely supports this software and it shows. This software's features are
Pros:
The interface is clean, was easy to setup, good email notifications about certificates needing to be rotated.
Cons:
We didn't expect this software to provide a lot of functionality and chose it because it was cheaper than more full featured products (including Jamf's Pro product), but this solution could not even do the bare minimum we purchased it for. It constantly failed to automatically enroll computers though we have confirmation from Apple they were being properly sent by ABM. Computers weren't checking in. Their software was installing corrupt profiles on our computers that weren't removable. Their customer support always provided "wiping the computers" as the best solution to any real issues, which is unreasonable to ask.
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Just Buy It
Comments: My company had little management over 25 iPads. When I was hired as the iPad Admin, I knew that we had to do something to manage the devices and also protect our assets. After comparing several products jamf came out on top. It is easy to use, easy to manage and budget friendly. If you are looking for a solution look no further.
Pros:
Ease of use cost design overall look and feel hands free deployment
Cons:
At the lower tier we are currently enrolled in there aren't many diagnostic options.
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When you want the job to get done - use JamfPro
Comments: When you are going more deeply into scripting, there is almost nothing that cannot being done in macOS
Pros:
I like the way Jamf Pro is connected to a strong community: When you do have an issue or want to get something special being done and you do not know exactly how, Jamf nation is the place to go. Many very helpful and competent Jamf Admins are gathered there and they always know hot to get things done.
Cons:
sometimes it is a little click - choose - click - choose - click and so on...
