An update on App Installers

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!

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 

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 

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.

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?

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

Hi @user-eZxmRKlCMh 

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, 

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 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?

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.