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API - Provide clear documentation about API timeout response object and headers
In the Sync Profiles API documentation here - https://api.simplemdm.com/#sync-profiles - there is a note indicating this specific endpoint is rate limited to 1 request per 30 seconds, and the header 'X-RateLimit-Reset' can be checked to see when the limit will be reset.
Can you please include specific examples in the documentation for this particular endpoint that demonstrate what the response headers will look like.
Additionally, for all API endpoints that have a rate limit, please indicate how the API will respond if the rate limit is hit and whether there will be a header 'X-RateLimit-Reset' value that indicates when that…
3 votes -
Add Reporting Tool
It'd be great to have a reporting tool in the GUI. This way I can easily look up a specific app and see what version is installed on multiple/all devices. I know there is an API tool but having something in the GUI would be great.
1 vote -
Integrate Google’s Santa project into SimpleMDM?
The clue is in the name SimpleMDM - your product makes the difficult parts of managing your Mac devices simple - setting up and managing Munki could be challenging, and now the easy to use implementation you’ve provided is a great fit for lots of organisations.
Can you apply the same magic to Google Santa please?
https://github.com/google/santa
Here’s the use case. In our organisation, end users run with administrator access. This empowers them to do all the things they need to do to be productive, and ensures IT isn't a bottleneck…
…but - with great power comes great responsibility. There’s…
3 votes -
Allow setting device naming schemes per enrollment
We use the device naming template under Settings -> General. This works great for our macOS and iOS devices that come in through manual enrollment and ADE as our template contains the serial number attribute, but fails when User Enrolled devices are named because that attribute isn't available. It would be useful to allow us to set a different device naming scheme per enrollment, or at least to set a backup or some sort of logic should one of the attributes be null.
20 votes -
Custom Configuration Profiles API - Download the profile as a JSON object, not a text object
Currently it looks like the download method for the custom configuration profiles API returns the profile being downloaded as a text object not a JSON object.
The preferred (at least for me) response object that should be returned is a JSON object in keeping with all other responses.
3 votes -
Apps & Media > Assignment UI redesign
The user interface for the Apps & Media > Assignment area of SimpleMDM is rather clunky for viewing and adding assignment groups, etc.
For example, after creating an assignment group to allocate profiles to, picking/selecting a profile is a pain as you have to know the name of a profile in order for it to appear in the list of app/media/profiles that can be added to the group. This is most painful when there are more than three profiles that can be selected (in my particular case there are over twenty profiles that can possibly be selected).
This part of…
3 votes -
Report on profile status - pending, installed, failed
SimpleMDM currently only surfaces profile assignment in the main profiles UI. To see the status of a specific profile on a device an admin must navigate to a device record. What information isn't readily available is the status of a profile. Even if it's assigned to 100 devices, there's no way to tell how many of those devices the profile successfully installed.
Specifically asking...
- Add three columns to the view at/profiles
in the UI - installed, pending, failed.
- In the profiles and custom profiles API endpoints include data about these status as well.The major driver behind…
11 votes -
Route SSO-only users to their account-specific SSO
When our SSO-only users go to a SimpleMDM bookmark in their browser, they get routed to the email/password login page. Since SSO login (via SAML) requires an organization-specific sign-in page, they don't know where to go to sign in.
A suggestion that I hope would help here would be to route a user whose account is SSO-only to their organization's SAML login page so that they can complete their sign-in flow. This could either be letting them enter their email on the existing login page or having a button on the page for "Log in via SSO" so they could…
4 votes -
Introduce source IP based allow listing
While complex username/password + TOTP requirement is a standard and solid security requirement for administrative access to the SimpleMDM controls, it could be made even stronger with the addition of IP allow listing. I would love to have +1 layer of opt-in friction between the internet at large and a tool has the ability to brick all of my organization's laptops simultaneously.
If implemented, I'd request that a minimum of 2, preferably 3 remote sources be required before the service could be enabled: this will provide small businesses with redundancy for the event that they change ISPs and cannot bring…1 vote -
add the ability to deploy individual files/folders to macOS
I would like the ability to deploy individual files or folders to our Mac devices.
Sometimes an app has an additional config file that needs deployed to make it work. We also use PDQ Connect in our environment, and that allows for us to can create packages that contain .msi, .exe, or PowerShell or CMD scripts, then also have the option to attach additional files to use in the package (see screenshot).
Also, there are times where we may just need to send a file/folder to all devices. Something else besides an app, profile, or script. A simple option to…
7 votes -
Support for defined build numbers in DDM software update
It's fantastic that we can get started with DDM software updates... however, I think the protocol does allow for us to push a specific build number.
This is handy for testing - as I've got a device enrolled in the beta that I'd love to push specific build numbers too, to try out the functionality - without having to reach for DFU mode on a long suffering test system.
Going forward, it would be fantastic to nudge/enforce specific build numbers for beta testers, so we can ensure testers are all on latest betas where appropriate.
Thanks :)
2 votes -
Use a SAN instead of CN when managing certificate renewal
Currently if an admin wants SimpleMDM to manage the renewal of their SCEP certificates, SimpleMDM bulldozes the CN and replaces it entirely. This is problematic for workflows that require specific values to be in a CN and not a SAN. If possible, please use a SAN to insert any necessary tracking values. Intune is doing this with success (see the blue box at the top of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/certificates-profile-scep).
2 votes -
Enrollment Setting - Unassign Profiles at Re-Enrollment
We heavily utilize individually assigned profiles for Macs. There are also a few default profiles assigned via group. When a new out-of-box Mac is being enrolled for the first time only those default profiles are installed (around 5). Profiles are installed quickly and reliably. Later on during provisioning our configuration management tool handles installing other required per device profiles.
However, when a Mac from stock is being re-enrolled to be used by another person, every previously assigned profile is installed at setup assistant. Since in my case those individually assigned profiles are usually per user, team, department, etc. and no…
8 votes -
Make logging more detailed for MDM commands
While I appreciate how detailed SimpleMDM logs can be, especially with raw responses from MDM, sometimes they need to provide more detail. For example, when sending an OS update command the log only contains...
"Log Details
Full ID E7B0DBE9-A7C1-4EC8-8CB8-BFA4AB990C59
Created At 2023-08-17 3:34 PM
Namespace device
Type os.update.idle
Level info
Device redacted
UDID F405AA51-FF04-4B71-900F-9C09F0515398
Serial Number redactedMetadata
{
"update_version": "13.5.1"
}
"With OS updates in particular, it's useful to know what mode was used as well. 'downloadonly', 'notifyonly', 'installasap', or 'forceupdate' are all options, but there's no associated data. For some basic commands like…
9 votes -
Improve API docs with examples for each endpoint
SimpleMDM's API documentation (https://api.simplemdm.com/) is inconsistent in what information is included per endpoint. For example, https://api.simplemdm.com/#custom-configuration-profiles shows the response body for a GET call, but the POST (create) section has no usage information. It's up to the user to intuit from other endpoints the format in which those arguments should be.
https://api.simplemdm.com/#custom-attributes shows how to set a value for a device, but not create a new custom attribute globally.
We (the customer) end up making assumptions about API formats which are usually true, but only able to confirm through guessing. It would help to ensure the official docs…
10 votes -
WatchOS management support
We would like to deploy a fleet of Apple watches and would like to get support to manage these via DDM
3 votes -
Auto-admin password complexity settings
For the auto-admin password generation done by SimpleMDM, it'd be preferable to be able to manage the level of password complexity when the password is generated. Environments can have different password policy rules that all accounts, including MDM generated, need to abide by. The Dude abides.
Password storage apps like 1Password and Keeper offer, at minimum, password length, use of numbers, and use of special characters. See attached.
9 votes -
Allow users to see the ipad locations on a map but nothing else
Allow users to see the ipad locations on a map but nothing else. Just users who want to see real-time location of all the ipads. But don't let them manage the ipads, change settings, etc.
1 vote -
Allow before/after (un)installation script overrides for shared apps
This would enable one to benefit from shared auto-updating apps while applying useful improvements such as
/Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/Docker --unattended --install-privileged-components
.5 votes -
Allow for export of all config profiles
Currently you can only export the XML for custom config profiles. I am requesting that we are able to export the XML for all configuration profiles.
1 vote
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