Automated device enrollment has transformed app testing and now saves significant setup time
What is our primary use case?
Jamf School serves as my MDM solution for managing iOS device testing and enterprise app development. It has been instrumental in helping me push internal builds, manage app configurations, Wi-Fi, and certificate profiles to test devices without manual setup.
For the payments SDK's flow, particularly Apple Pay and app switch scenarios, Jamf School has helped me validate how apps behave on supervised and managed devices where restrictions, VPN certificates, or app policies may affect the flow. This has been especially useful in testing certificate-based authentication, zero-touch device provisioning, and remote app updates.
I am using it directly in my project and interact with the public cloud-hosted environments for the APIs and tokenization services. As a developer, this helps me validate that the SDK communicates with the cloud-hosted backend. I am currently using it in the cloud-hosted environment only, but in my private project.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Jamf School offers are the enterprise restrictions, device wipe and re-enrollment scenarios, and app development at scale.
In my daily work, Jamf School has reduced the manual, repetitive device setup. Instead of configuring Wi-Fi certificates, VPN, app installs, and restrictions manually on every iPhone, the device is auto-enrolled with predefined policies. This has saved quality assurance and developer setup time, improved consistency across test devices, and helped reduce customer enterprise issues faster.
I find that the certificate profile updates, device trust, and VPN profile validation are a great combination.
What needs improvement?
I do not currently have a scale in which I have measured these parts, but I can tell you it has really saved a significant quantity of hours with onboarding speed and regression efficiency. I can say that Jamf School has achieved 70 to 90% time savings through automated enrollment and Wi-Fi certificates, which represents 90% less time on provisioning and ongoing device management.
If I provide a comparison, before Jamf School, manual device setup per device included app install time of three to five minutes, test enrollments of five minutes, and certificates altogether taking 20 minutes. After Jamf School, with automated policy and environment, the overall process can be completed in three to five minutes. I believe the speed is quite perfect. I do not think there is currently any improvement needed for this aspect. If I use it further in three to four months, I will be able to tell whether any improvement is required.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Jamf School for the past two months.
How are customer service and support?
I think the documentation is also quite clear.
What other advice do I have?
I have used Jamf School in my current personal projects, not for my organization.
As I mentioned, it has really reduced the manual setup time and has enabled faster regression testing. Now, quality assurance and developer setup require less time because they can all auto-enroll in the predefined policies.
It has truly helped me. The amount of time it has reduced, for example, while I was making payments in iOS apps for Apple Pay, Venmo app switch certificate, or in enterprise restriction scenarios, Jamf School has reduced the time needed to prepare edge case devices, which directly improves the turnaround and issue reproduction speed.
I work extensively with the public cloud-hosted APIs and environments, so it involves my daily network. From my organization, if I check, my company basically uses the Microsoft enterprise infrastructure, which is likely the Microsoft Azure part.
Jamf and keeping you sane.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to keep track of devices and to I update them l at the comfort of your desk is great! Jamf does this and more!
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes there are moments of updates not pushing but be patient and it'll happen
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track of devices is also a way for me to keep track of inventory.
Perfect for schools
What do you like best about the product?
It's so simple to setup and use. The power that it gives teachers to manage their classroom is game changing!
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are a little limited but nothing that is a deal breaker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps us manage our Apple devices. It empowers teacher to take control of the devices in their classroom.
Best way to manage 1:1 project iPad in a school
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and infinite management capabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
The only drawback is the 'slowness' of services at the start of the new school year, as the servers are in very high demand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to manage a fleet of over 1,200 iPads with great ease.
Jamf School is a time saver
What do you like best about the product?
Jamf School has allowed me to be able to focus more on being future thinking instead of constantly living in the now. I can use device groups and profiles to have a set it and move on to other things attitude at work. The customer service that you recieve is by far top notch as well. They actually do take the time to help you get to the root of the problem, and want you to be successful at your job.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that Jamf School had a built in remote control option that we use like they have in Jamf Pro. If I had this option the team of 5 of us for a 37 building district would be able to be more efficient on a daily basis. Sometimes just being able to get the issue resolved quicker for the end user can make or break the day!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have had a lot of trouble creating in-house applications and having customer service work with me on learning Composer has really helped! This helps me help the end users the most.
Jamf School is a great MDM
What do you like best about the product?
I love that you can locate the location of lost iPads and also push out apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downside is Jamf parent and also sometimes slow with the apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jamf school is great and has helped teachers a lot with their classrooms and being abke to view their students.
Perpetual device licenses was the killer feature for us!
What do you like best about the product?
Device licensing is great and the scripts lets us do just about anything that's not built in.
What do you dislike about the product?
Amount of memory not included in device inventory.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Management at low cost
Management Simplified.
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is intuitive and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a slight learning curve when moving from JAMF Pro.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily set time constraints to disallow apps during school hours.
Powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Fully integrated with Apple ecosystem and constantly updated
What do you dislike about the product?
The system to control websites allowed or not it's very simple
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's perfect for schools and you can control all devices with one centre
Jamf is a great, quick, easy to use MDM
What do you like best about the product?
Speed of push commands is very fast and the user interface is excellent
What do you dislike about the product?
Inability to delete apps from a single device when the app is pushed to a group
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed the ability to manage multiple customer deployments with a single username and password.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
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