Background:
We have customer requirements that do not allow our users to have admin privileges on their local accounts. This means they are not able to install/remove app’s. Being a Mac shop we rely on a MDM/pkg manager to install the apps for the users. In our case we use a pkg manager called Munki but Jamf, SimpleMDM, and Kandji would be other examples.
Our Problem:
After a user installs the Asana desktop app they will be asking to also install a “Helper” app. Because our users do not have privileges to approve the install of the helper app it turns into a ticket frenzy. We will see tickets blow up with “Asana needs admin to finish the install” and we do not have a good way to deal with this.
Solution(s):
Dont include the helper app. We have automated the patching of your software via Autopkg(r). We would prefer it if you simply did not try and automate the updating of your own app and just allow our systems to do it for the user. You may also want to support the Mac Admin communities by creating and maintaining your own Asana Autopkg recipe (GitHub - autopkg/autopkg: Automating packaging and software distribution on macOS.).
2nd option. Use a pkg that would install both the app and your helper app with a single install. You could also build the pkg to allow us to strip the helper app out if we chose to do so.
I am pretty sure we are not the only company that does not allow admin rights to its users. I and pretty sure there are a number of us out there.
Thanks