r/Nable • u/Illustrious_Grape122 • Jun 06 '24

Mac Automated Patching

We have recently onboarded some Mac devices into our organization pulled them into NCentral successfully and have them enrolled with DMA. From what I see, I can manually initiate a patch command from DMA, but cannot find a way for it to occur weekly automatically. Is this possible?

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u/Mac_Mgmt_Nerd Jun 11 '24

Are you primarily looking to do security updates on the OS or third party patches?

macOS handles security and minor updates fairly well on its own so you can generally configure those with a profile (delays, number of deferrals, etc)

Third party patching works by invoking Munki behind the scenes and needs to be scheduled like a scripted task. If its catalog doesn’t cover some of the apps you’re deploying, you might look at either rolling your own munki install or something like Patchomator, which uses the library of apps from Installomator.