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0 pointsjeffbee23d ago0 comments

Just think about the overall platform. How does MacOS update? It interrupts the user with demands, requires an administrator's password under some circumstances, and takes 20-30 minutes. Now consider how ChromeOS updates: silently and instantly.

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jungturk22d ago

When deployed as a managed device, the OS updates overnight while there's no active user session.

jeffbeeOP22d ago

I wonder why no enterprise where I've worked is aware of this fact, including technically sophisticated ones from Dropbox to Goldman Sachs. When I asked my favorite LLM whether Jamf Pro—which I should stress does not come in the box with MacOS—is capable of this level of zero-touch OS updates, it responded affirmatively then spent 95% of the rest of the response telling me about well-known workarounds for when such updates hang.

jungturk22d ago

Because a technically-sophisticated enterprise generally wouldn't pick Jamf unless they were an exclusive Apple house - they'd consider something like VMware's Workspace One (now Omnissa) that works across windows, mac, and linux.

And no need to ask an LLM - we can read the doc and notice there are 6 different deployment methods that work (out of the box) for the built-in MacOS MDM, several of which allow transparent, mandatory updates to user environments without requiring user interaction.

https://docs.omnissa.com/bundle/macOS-Device-ManagementVSaaS...

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jungturk22d ago

When deployed as a managed device, the OS updates overnight while there's no active user session.

jeffbeeOP22d ago

jungturk22d ago

https://docs.omnissa.com/bundle/macOS-Device-ManagementVSaaS...

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