Question to you all - MDM for iPhones

[Dael Sutton]

Good afternoon, Techies.

Can I please query the brains trust your preferences for managing iPhones?

We have Jamf, but can't directly manage it (one of our suppliers has to make all the changes on our behalf) so would prefer to try something else we manage directly.

We have inTune and Google Workspace available to us - are any of you using these to manage iDevices and are you happy?

We used to use Meraki, but our subscription expired as we didn't really need it, so we would have to resubscribe if inTune or Google isn't sufficient.

What are you all using and think is great?

Regards,

D.

Dael Sutton
Assistant Network Manager

03 358 8383

Greers Road, Burnside
PO Box 29677 Christchurch 8440
New Zealand

www.burnside.school.nz

[Brad Harris]

https://mosyle.com/

Using free version for a few schools (iPads) enough to lock down and push apps out, once setup fairly easy to use, paid version will give you more automation etc if you have a lot of devices.

Cheers,

Brad.

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[Jonathan Churton]

2 Cents; replaced most of our remaining apple fleet to Windows a couple of years back, and moved from a fully self-hosted Jamf to SimpleMDM. Managing iOS and MacOS has been pretty straightforward with SimpleMDM. Would recommend.

Cheers,

Jonathan.

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[Sam McNeill]

Hi Dael,

we see (and support) many orgs (edu / commercial / Govt) using Intune to manage iPhone and it goes well. Given it's included in M365 A3/E3 it's appealing to a lot of orgs since the licensing is already there.

Jamf Mobile is a great option to include the Jamf Protect endpoint protection and related services if that is a requirement.

I was working with a Govt agency this morning on an iPhone refresh of 300+ iPhone and they're using Apple Business Manager + Intune + EntraID and were weighing up whether to use Managed or Personal Apple Accounts on the phone (general guidance if using ABM+MDM is use Personal Apple Accounts not Managed Apple Accounts).

Cheers

Sam

[Steve Smith - Google for Education NZ]

Mōrena Dale,

Ios MDM is included in workspace for education plus and may do what you need .

The information is here -> help center

As an administrator, you can manage company-owned iPhones and iPads in the Google Admin console alongside other devices you manage there. To do so, you connect Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager with your Google Workspace or Cloud Identity subscription.

How the Apple Device Enrollment integration works

You integrate Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager with your Admin console by providing an authorization key or token to each entity. These tokens allow Google endpoint management to push configuration settings from Admin console to the devices through a mobile device management configuration profile and the Google Device Policy app.

The server token you get from Apple expires annually. You must renew the token for devices to sync work data. However, unlike the Apple push notification certificate, you can renew the token after it expires.