u/Kcamyo

We deploy an app via a Jamf Policy (pkg) that runs once a computer enrolls. Problem: the app updates constantly, so our uploaded package goes stale fast, and re-uploading a new pkg every release isn't sustainable.

Jamf's auto-patching (App Installers) would keep it current, but it also auto-updates the app across our whole fleet, which we don't want. We want to control update timing ourselves.

What we need:

1. At enrollment, always install whatever's currently the latest version, no manually maintained package.
2. After that, no self-updating in the background. We push updates ourselves, on our own schedule.

We've tried pointing installs at the vendor's "always current" download URL, disabling the built-in auto-updater via a config profile, and scripting our own update-push (mixed reliability so far, now looking at Installomator for that part).

Is this the standard approach or is there a cleaner way orgs handle this in Jamf?

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