Moving devices from JAMF Pro to Meraki Systems Manager

We are currently in the process of moving from Jamf Pro to Jamf School, which does involve completely rebuilding everything. This does allow us to have a fresh look at different settings and restrictions to see if they are still doing what we want them to do. In Jamf Pro there is a button to download any given configuration profile, which I guess could be useful? Moving forwards, it's probably more helpful to recreate them in the Meraki interface as you can then more easily edit them in future.

We too are moving from Jamf Pro to JAMF School, and had to rebuild everything from the ground up. We then had to "touch" each device and reset it in the case of iPads, or at least delete software installed from Jamf Pro so JAMF School could install it instead for our Macs.

It was a huge job, however, we are saving tens of thousands per year, so it's worth it.

If I had to do it over again, I should have also considered Mosyle. In fact over the years I still might move all of our stuff over to them, as feature for feature they are hard to beat.

We had Jamf for about 4 years, then we switched to Mosyle for the last 3 and I really liked the simplicity of it. Our district decided they wanted to go with Jamf again, but it failed miserably after a month, so we are going back to Mosyle. But I'm using the time to clean up things that I did wrong in Mosyle to kind of start fresh with the new set of eyes.

And Mosyle is a lot cheaper.

In our district of 5 schools, my site is the only iPad 1:1 program. And for the last 3 years we have been using Mosyle, which has worked perfectly for our site, and since I am running it while teaching full time, I find the simplicity nice.

Two months ago, we tried to migrate to Jamf, but after two months of trying to work with Jamf to resolve issues we were having, we are moving back to Mosyle.

I wish there was a perfect system. It seems with MDMs, that each has great things about them, and if we could just combine all the great features, we’d have an amazing product.

so I will be starting to move devices out of Jamf to Mosyle, I’ll let you know how it goes.

We've been using Lightspeed for years and have been pretty happy with it.

As Brian Phillips stated, there's nothing perfect out there, though!

HI Erk

for profiles you can download them locally then upload them as custom profiles, pretty much they are xml files they should work on any platform

i would however test them with configurator just to make sure

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