Michael Covington, Jamf vice president for portfolio strategy, last year noted the importance of this move. Pointing to DDM improvements at the time, he said: “Of course, the big announcement for those IT professionals responsible for managing devices is Apple’s improvements to Declarative Device Management. The new Software Update workflows demonstrate Apple’s commitment to iterating on the enhanced protocol….”
In this year’s biggest move toward that future, Apple’s new operating system software updates can now be managed entirely using DDM, replacing MDM profiles for software update restrictions, settings, and software update commands and queries.
A short summary of improvements for Apple admins
Of course, DDM is only one facet of device management, and while there are some unique differences between Mac and i-device platforms, Apple peppered the releases with new device management features:
