Suggestions
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group messaging to select or all devices
The ability to push out alerts or messages to individual, grouped or all devices.
1 voteClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years). Also sending messages to iOS devices in bulk is currently possible.
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Centralized Billing for Multiple Accounts
As an MSP we manage several SimpleMDM accounts. It would be very helpful to receive and pay a single bill for all of these accounts.
6 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years). Also, centralized billing for multiple accounts is available but requires a manual payment plan (instead of self-service). Reach out to our support team and they will route you to an account manager to arrange this.
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Introduce a 'Force Check In' button
Add a button to force all devices to check in. If a device cannot check in after this, then flag it.
This will help identify issues with the installed profile or check in issues.2 votesA "Refresh Inventory" command should do this already. If a device is still not responding (eg. updating the "Last Seen" time), that means there is something preventing the device from receiving MDM commands and/or responding to the MDM server. Apple's MDM protocol does not currently provide a more forceful option, nor is there a way for an MDM to reliably diagnose the reason for a device's inability to respond to a command. For example, if it is a network issue and something is blocking the commands, MDM does not currently get any feedback in order to know the command was blocked by the network.
As it stands, SimpleMDM automatically sends a refresh command to devices hourly. Admins can configure notifications to be sent to them if a device has not checked in for X amount of time.
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Privacy option for iOS devices
In Europe its critical to record information about employees. It would be great if we could setup a MDM group were we can add our employees iOS devices and in this group we don't see the device location (already possible) and also disable the "Apps" tab, which can contain very personal information about installed apps.
4 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years). User Enrollment (BYOD) options may have fulfilled this requirement.
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Add macOS minimum requirements for group rules
iOS allows you to specify a minimum requirements for group rules. The aim is to have privacy profiles go to Mojave’s clients only. At the moment have to split into a separate group. Would be nice to be able to have one group and privacy stuff go to 10.14 only
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Expose md5 and/or Other Checksum(s) of Enterprise Apps in Catalogue
Once an app binary has been uploaded and deployed to devices via MDM it can be hard to find which particular build is actually deployed to the world.
If you may happen to have binaries that share the same BundleID, CFBundleVersion, and CFBundleVersionShortString there is no way to tell which app is actually uploaded. If we could see an md5 checksum or sha1 or sha256 it wold be a nice and easy way to know with confidence which binary was uploaded.
2 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years)
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Setup wireless to allow for open networks
Within the wireless settings, put in an option to allow for connecting to open networks. Would be good for public wireless connections that may need to go thru an acceptance screen or a proxy filter to allow connection. Currently it is only feasible thru a profile manager .config file custom attribute import. Would be nice to have this directly available in wireless security options.
2 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years). This should be possible with existing WiFi profile and/or a custom profile
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refresh multiple devices or groups
i would like to be able to select multiple of all devices and refresh their inventory instead of one by one
33 votesWhile this suggestion has a healthy number of votes, I'd like to better understand the problem this would solve. Devices refresh automatically on an hourly basis. Generally speaking, a manual refresh should not be necessary to apply changes - those should be queued automatically once saved in the UI. If you find yourself resorting to a manual refresh to get a change/update applied, I recommend contacting our support team. if this is still a concern, I'd prefer we solve the root of the problem than require additional steps to ensure that expected changes are applied.
It's been a few years since this post has received any votes/comments, so I'm going to close this for now. Please feel free to submit a new suggestion if there is a specific case where this could help and/or reach out to us if you'd like to discuss further. Thanks!
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Hide Apps in the Catalog (and in the assignment drop downs as well)
I would like to see a feature that would allow me to "Hide" VPP Apps in the catalog, and thereby also hide them in the drop downs when assigning them.
The dilemma that I’m running into is that some apps vendors have issued completely new apps under the same name to replace an old one: For example, GoToMeeting and Sharefile both have “Old” and “New” apps in the system. I would like to hide the old ones in the catalog and the in the dropdowns so that I don’t accidentally assign them.
There are also apps that vendors no longer…
10 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years)
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Add custom UID option to macOS account creation on enrollment
The option to skip Setup Assistant's prompt to create a user and create an admin provided account on enrollment is useful.
I'd like to see, if possible, the option to specify the UID of the account that gets created. We have environment specific needs for a specific UID for the account that isn't 501.
11 votesUnfortunately Apple's MDM spec does not currently provide us the ability to specify the UID of the account that gets created during Automated Enrollment (DEP) / Setup Assistant.
I will close this request for now, but we will continue to monitor Apple updates in case this option is added to the MDM spec at some point.
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SimpleMDM granularity
Hi SimpleMDM Dev Team:
Thank you for allowing this space to share creative thought in the ongoing development of SimpleMDM. May some of my ideas have already been discussed, maybe not-- regardless I trust this will be taken into consideration.
Since the slow death of Apple's Profile Manager has left very little control to us in IT as Admins and Engineers, it would be nice to see SimpleMDM pick up the slack and not just fill in the gap but lead with the innovation of a few things in the macOS platform so that many of us can continue to…
8 votesWe appreciate the kind words and positive feedback! I'm closing this due to inactivity and since this covers many different features in one. There are several quality ideas here - it would be best to have these submitted as separate suggestions with richer details for each request (problem statements, example use-cases, etc). That way they can be voted on individually and it's easier for us to track, gauge impact, and prioritize. Some of these features may already be addressed since the time of the original post, and/or may or may not be as important now due to changes in the Apple ecosystem. Thanks!
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Have a historic log of tracking information?
Would be great if you could search for historic tracking information?
2 votesClosing due to inactivity and lack of clarity. Please feel free to open a new suggestion with additional info if this is still a need!
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Add Support for onboard or installed S/MIME Certificates
It would be awesome if ActiveSync Email Accounts provided by a Provider could allow for either manually installed (onboard) or MDM provided S/MIME certificates.
1 voteClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years)
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Users Forum
It would be good to have a user forum to be able to bounce issues off other users
1 voteClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years) and relevancy. Visit #simplemdm on MacAdmins Slack or #simplemdm on PDQ's Discord.
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Locked onto wifi network
It would be very beneficial for us to have the option to lock our devices onto a particular Wi-Fi network. We have several networks, but only 1 setup with the correct access and printers. If there was a way to lock our devices onto this network only, it would avoid a lot of issues that we have been having.
1 voteClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years) and limitations of Apple's MDM spec. The Restrictions profile does allow preventing connections to other networks not configured via by MDM profile.
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limit streaming downloading only on wifi networks and not on cellular data
limit streaming downloading only on wifi networks and not on cellular data
3 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years). Options are limited within MDM spec but some additional options related to this are available in configurations since time of post.
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I would like to request SMTP support, with authentication.
I would like to request SMTP support, with authentication. It would be nice to get emailed when critical events happen within SimpleMDM’s management interface. Examples, when a certificate is about to expire, or when a device is quarantined.
4 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years). Email notifications have been expanded for things like certificate expiry since request was submitted.
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Force a landscape or portrait mode.
Make it so you can set your devices to show only in portrait or landscape mode.
3 votesApple's MDM protocol does not currently provide a profile to configure/enforce portrait or landscape mode. The only close exception is when using the Single App Lock profile, there is a "Disable device rotation" option.
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Completely lock the device
I'd like the ability to prevent someone using a device for a period. This could be combination of a device lock, along with a passcode change, or some "auto" way to push a device into single app mode with the SimpleMDM app as the only one, with a basic "device is locked until xx" message.
This is just a situation where you want to prevent device use until you re-allow it or a way to stop the device being used for anything until a certain time.
If you could do this as a feature, this would be huge with the…
4 votesThis is already available using the Lost Mode command for Supervised iOS devices.
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Jailbreak detection
Jailbreak detection.
While everything I've read about this says it's not perfect, something would be better than nothing. Thanks.
6 votesClosing due to inactivity (no votes/comments for 5+ years) and limitations of Apple MDM spec. Managed Device Attestation may be of interest here.
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