How do you update itunes on a imac free#

If you combine it with Composer from JAMF software, the makers of Casper, you can have a pretty good package deployment solution, for a small business, or for a few Macs for around $200.00 total.Īgain, all these should work depending on your criteria, but if you have any additional questions, feel free to ask. You can use Apple Remote Desktop, it's a good light duty package installation program/remote viewing software. If you just need something to blast out packages, and some other light duties, and nothing more.

Which leads me to the third cheapest option. If you have the funds, and time, it is the product I would pick over everything else. I don't think we would be able to manage the amount of computers we have without it.

How do you update itunes on a imac full#

(IMHO) It can be pricey, but is worth it if you want full package/configuration control over your Macs. Due to the amount of computers, reliability, and additional features needed, we moved to Casper.Īs far as ease of use, flexibility, and it just works mentality, Casper is the standard which everything else should be compared to. I hope so, I think it would be a great option for a lot of people. Haven't used the latest version, so it might be improved over what I used. Definitely, not for a novice, or someone that needs a solution up quickly. I had to edit files to get them to install, and sometimes trick Munki into thinking I was installing a newer version than I actually was. I had high hopes for Munki, open source, did what we wanted it to, however it took a lot of time to get it perfected. To give a little insight, here is what I found. Every option mentioned can do the job, it just depends on your requirements.

How do you update itunes on a imac install#

I used a lot of different methods to install packages, and manage those computers. I work for a K-12 school district with about 2500 Macs, and a one to one program for the upper grade levels. (or maybe not, just depends on budget, time, amount of computers, and quality of product) I agree that Munki, and Casper are great solutions, but they might be over kill for what your needs are.

How do you update itunes on a imac windows#

Sales stressed that they could manage Windows as well, even tried that with our managment, but we already had SCCM so that didn't work out well.

So JAMF met every need and demonstrated they understood basic and advanced security, and the ability to issue certs via the Enterprise CA worked.Ībsolute met some of the needs and some could be scripted and done with extension attributes, but security was an afterthought, and one of the most critical bits of needed functionality didn't work. On the flip side, JAMF has role based access by default, protects and audits access to things like recovery keys, could produce the reports we needed with a simple saved search. Also because it was scripting, any Absolute admin would have access to FileVault recovery keys. I expressed myself as calmly as possible explaining why we were dropping them from consideration.Ībsolute required scripting for doing a number of things JAMF does out of the box, like setting up FileVault. That ended it for me, because no, you can't compromise my enterprise PKI over a bug in your software. Functionally bugged, Absolute support wanted me to compromise our Enterprise Certificate Authority by loading the CA's private key into Absolute. I had it working perfectly in Apple Profile Manager as a proof of concept. At the time, it would not issue certificates to Macs for 802.1x authentication.