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JAMF policy that seems completely useless but is applied to all computers

  • September 22, 2025
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Looking at a JAMF instance that  has this policy that runs once a day on recurring checkin. (scoped to ALL 4K+ macs)

it’s just a files and processes: softwareupdate -ad --verbose

I feel this policy is totally unnecessary. OS X caches updates BY DEFAULT. 

I’m watching this in real time on a workstation using jamf policy -verbose and it’s just sitting there doing nothing but burning up bandwidth cycles and preventing software install policies that the customers actually want from ever running. 

 

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ktrojano
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  • Jamf Heroes
  • September 22, 2025

I would agree that the policy seems unnecessary. There are other ways to force an OS update if needed.