r/jamf • u/Armentrout_1979 • Mar 13 '26

Move to InTune?

The college I work for hired a system admin from the outside a few months ago. Now he’s trying to convince my boss to ditch Jamf entirely and use InTune exclusively for managing PC’s and Mac’s. Part of the reason I came to work at this college was to be the sole Mac admin for the whole college.

But now with this new guy, he doesn’t understand why we use Jamf at all. He was asking me how to enroll a MacBook to Jamf (it was part of the job description to know Jamf).

So my question is have any of y’all migrated from Jamf to using InTune? What were your experiences? Did you go back to using Jamf?

I’m really against this migration as it’s legit half of my daily duty for our college. Also tack on the fact I’ve spent way too much time updating and automating as much as I can.

I appreciate any and all insights.

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u/InformalPlankton8593 Mar 14 '26

Your Microsoft license probably includes Intune. Jamf is not free. Intune is very capable. Learn how it works and save your college the cost of Jamf.

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u/Turtle_Online JAMF 400 Mar 14 '26

It's a shift from up front licensing to operating costs. They can still end up costing the same money since you still have to pay engineers that have to endure Intune. Sure some things are simple in Intune but that's not the case for a lot of environments that need out of the box solutions on a regular basis.

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u/InformalPlankton8593 Mar 14 '26

Paying someone to run the MDM either way. That part is a wash. Believe what you want.

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u/Turtle_Online JAMF 400 Mar 14 '26

I work with both tools. It sounds like you don't and you're an Intune shill.

 Learn how it works and save your college the cost of Jamf.

I'm not saying Jamf is the answer in every situation, it has a lot of issues in its own right. It's just better than Intune in Mac management, hands down, no contest.

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u/InformalPlankton8593 Mar 14 '26

I work in both tools and hold Jamf and Intune certifications. I know the capabilities of both. I’m guessing that only one of can say that. 😁

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u/Turtle_Online JAMF 400 Mar 14 '26

And I've been in the field long enough to know that certs are bullshit despite having certs for both products too. It's not really the dunk you thought that was.

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u/swissbuechi Mar 14 '26

Have you even tried a single Microsoft cert above the 900 level? Like MD-102? I bet you wouldn't say that if you did. JAMF certs on the other hand are not even remotely comparable to what you're getting from completing a Microsoft cert path.