So whats the "correct" way to manage an office full of macs in 2018?
* Centralized password management
* Preload software (chrome, firefox, java) and settings
* Enterprise CA
* Schedule OS updates
* Centralized password management
* Preload software (chrome, firefox, java) and settings
* Enterprise CA
* Schedule OS updates
As to pre-installed software, not sure. I always just installed brew, and did what I needed myself. CA was already on the box and scheduled OS updates were, lets just say very rare. (don't do it yourself, it can break the authentication software integration).
You then add a couple of more components to get some more enterprise features: Munki for software distribution (free and open source), Chef or Puppet for configuration management (both free and open source) and osquery for monitoring and visibility (free and open source).
* https://meraki.cisco.com/solutions/mobile-device-management
I've used these two before and they work quite well.
Not using Macs, it would seem.
Pretty much every other option looks better.
Disclosure: Jumpcloud employee. My email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.