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Otherwise, you won't be able to assign the licenses gotten via VPP.
#MACOS CATALINA UPGRADE MAC OS#
!!!!Warning, this will reboot your system after the policy has executed, so be wise and revise your policy execution attributes as needed!!!!įirst, make sure you go and 'purchase' (they are free) Mac OS Catalina licenses through 'VPP' (or whatever they're calling it today).Īfter your receive the email confirmation and Jamf Pro syncs with VPP, make sure that when you're reviewing the OS within 'Mac App Store Apps' and setting up scope, you're NOT selecting 'Site' under General tab but on the actual 'Scope' tab. Why use this approach, you ask? Because it beats the hell out of packaging something that is ready to be deployed, it's easy, don't take no space from deployment share and I had none fail.
#MACOS CATALINA UPGRADE HOW TO#
So, I've looked at the 'whitepaper' on how to install/ upgrade to Catalina but it seems one of the easiest ones for MDM infrastructure has been omitted.The 'Mac App Store Apps' approach. So, let's start sharing ideas and experiences for the upcoming months !įirst, I want to say, the utilization of the 'Download and Install' through Management command for single computer or 'Action' via the search for multiple, didn't work for me.
#MACOS CATALINA UPGRADE INSTALL#
Now the Software Update pane gets an 1 icon and will give you the option to download and install the upgrade. The thing i already noticed is that in the past new macOS version were available in the Mac App store. We all know that "modulair" imaging is dead for a while, but to be honest for our older mac fleet that is not DEP registered and not having an T2 chip i still used Jamf Imaging and creating DMG's with AutoDMG for bringing that Mac's alive.īut assuming with the new read-only Macintosh HD partition this really will be painful. Prestage enrollments works fine for now, The Jamf binary not works 100% but that is logical. Activation Lock has been added to T2 Macs.macOS is now on a separate partition that is read-only.
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Like the previous discussion i created on Jamf Nation about upgrade paths to Mojave back in september, i thought lets start a new fresh thread for sharing macOS Catalina installing & upgrade ideas and experiences.īecause there are already some real changes like