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At this year’s JNUC 2021, we announced App Installers; a streamlined way to deploy and update Mac applications, removing the tedious tasks of sourcing, deploying and maintaining non-Mac App Store titles
 
This month, we launched a private beta with select customers to gather initial feedback on the new workflow. All customers can expect to see App Installers in the Jamf Beta Program early next year. Any interested customer can sign up for the Jamf Beta Program here.
 
Once generally available, App Installers will be included with cloud-hosted Jamf Pro, Business Plan, and Enterprise Plan subscriptions. We are very excited to make this new workflow available and we cannot wait to hear your feedback.

Great news!


Awesome, really looking forward to this!


Great ! Finally should i say 🙂  !! Will spare a lot of time !!


One can hope!  I'd love to see something done as well to beef up OS updates/upgrades.  This is so long overdue!

Thanks @jamf11 for working on this.  Looking forward to seeing it in action.


No on-prem option? Really? death by a thousand cuts... 


Hey @JustinC,

is there any docu for beta customer on the usage?

Best Regards

Konstantin


Can't wait for this.  I'd gobble it up if it were available.  Hungry and juicy.  This sure sounds like a AAA grade cutlet.  MMmmmm!

 


Hey @JustinC,

is there any docu for beta customer on the usage?

Best Regards

Konstantin


Hi @user-eZxmRKlCMh 

There is a guide that is accessible to the private beta customers (it was published in the App Installers private beta forum). As App Installers moves to being more publicly accessible, there will be documentation available at that time.


Hi @user-eZxmRKlCMh 

There is a guide that is accessible to the private beta customers (it was published in the App Installers private beta forum). As App Installers moves to being more publicly accessible, there will be documentation available at that time.


How can we signup for this beta? @JustinC 


Hi @user-eZxmRKlCMh 

There is a guide that is accessible to the private beta customers (it was published in the App Installers private beta forum). As App Installers moves to being more publicly accessible, there will be documentation available at that time.


I'd be all over this beta but it sounds like we'll have to wait until early 2022 for a public beta.

 


Can we get a beta for this now? @JustinC 


Hi @user-eZxmRKlCMh 

There is a guide that is accessible to the private beta customers (it was published in the App Installers private beta forum). As App Installers moves to being more publicly accessible, there will be documentation available at that time.


Hey @JustinC,

I have the beta but I cant find this guide... I have access to this here: https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro-10-35-0-beta/gh-p/jamfpro10350

So where should I look :D?

Best


Hey @JustinC,

I have the beta but I cant find this guide... I have access to this here: https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro-10-35-0-beta/gh-p/jamfpro10350

So where should I look :D?

Best


The private App Installers beta group was seperate to the standard Jamf Pro beta forum and the guide was published in the seperate forum. We are still making further changes to App Installers and hope to be able to open the feature up in a public beta in the near future.


The private App Installers beta group was seperate to the standard Jamf Pro beta forum and the guide was published in the seperate forum. We are still making further changes to App Installers and hope to be able to open the feature up in a public beta in the near future.


Hey Justin, appreciate the update! Really looking forward to the future of patching with Jamf Pro. Question about the public beta of "App Installers", will it be coupled with a future Jamf Pro beta release or be its own separate beta release?


Still excited for this.  Hope it comes soon.

 


@JustinC How can we get into this beta really need this for my clients?


@JustinC How can we get into this beta really need this for my clients?


Hi @KyleEricson. We are just wrapping up the current dev cycle and hope to make it available as a public beta very shortly. I will provide an update in the next week or so as we get the dates finalized. I appreciate everyone's interest and patience with this.


Hi everyone. Please join the JAMF Pro 10.37 Beta program to get your first look at App Installers.

You can enrol in the 10.37 beta here https://account.jamf.com/pre-release/beta-program


Hey @JustinC,

thanks! Where can we find some more informations? We have the BETA 10.37 but I cant find it.

Best Konstantin


Hey @JustinC,

thanks! Where can we find some more informations? We have the BETA 10.37 but I cant find it.

Best Konstantin


Hi @user-eZxmRKlCMh 

There is a seperate section in the 10.37 beta documentation specific to App Installers. This will walk you through how to use this feature.
 
 

I don't understand why this isn't being implemented into the Patch Management section where we can control who gets what version of the app (Early Adopters vs All). With this new App Installers, you have a choice of all clients or all servers. This should have been combined in one location, 


Hi everyone. Please join the JAMF Pro 10.37 Beta program to get your first look at App Installers.

You can enrol in the 10.37 beta here https://account.jamf.com/pre-release/beta-program


Hey Justin, I installed 10.37 in my on-prem dev environment and everything seems to be working with the enabled Cloud Services Connection. However, I am getting mixed signals about this being available for on-prem customers once it leaves the "preview" phase. Do you know if this will be available to on-prem environments? If not, I think we need to get a feature request going as this would be extremely useful (I'm sure) to us who have on-prem environments.


I don't understand why this isn't being implemented into the Patch Management section where we can control who gets what version of the app (Early Adopters vs All). With this new App Installers, you have a choice of all clients or all servers. This should have been combined in one location, 


I think since it uses management commands (like VPP) as opposed to the binary, it shares the section with Mac App Store apps. This probably makes the most sense since they work in the same way.


Curious as to why they require smart groups only?


I don't understand why this isn't being implemented into the Patch Management section where we can control who gets what version of the app (Early Adopters vs All). With this new App Installers, you have a choice of all clients or all servers. This should have been combined in one location, 


Hi @andrewsp@joelsenders is correct. App Installers uses MDM instead of the Jamf Binary so the underlying behaviour is constrained by what we are able to do with MDM commands. There are a number of other significant architecture differences with App Installers, the packages not being hosted on a customer distribution point as one example, that prevent us from just combining the two feature areas into one. There will be more control over the deployment behaviour in a future release of App Installers.