Was messing around with this script this morning, since we have an similar script that needs some updates. I changed the AD check portion, because if the machine is unbound then it returns "Fail" as the test status - I think this is a bit confusing, since it's not a "Fail" so much as it doesn't really matter so I set up an extra loop to set status to "N/A" if the machine is not bound, as opposed to a legit failed connection:

#!/bin/sh



# Test Active Directory binding

runCommand=$( /usr/bin/dscl "/Active Directory/your_domain_here/All Domains" read /Users )



if [ "$AD" = "Yes" ]; then

    if [ "$runCommand" = "name: dsRecTypeStandard:Users" ]; then

        testAD="Test Active Directory Connection: Success"

    else

        testAD="Test Active Directory Connection: Fail"   

    fi

else

    testAD="Test Active Directory Connection: N/A"

fi

@talkingmoose

Great! that has sorted it. I did change the domain name, but it was not correct. now all showing correctly.

Many thanks for all your help, very much appreciated.

Disregard figured it out Was trying to figure out a way that the information that is within the window can be automatically copied over to a text document on the users computer. Still learning a lot in the scripting world and didn't know if anyone could help with this as my searches have come up with null.

@dan-snelson I've tried to add your Enterprise Connect script above, however, I'm not able to get it working. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The weird thing is when I click on Self-Service Icon it doesn't appear to run. There's no output window, no nothing. If I take out the Enterprise Connect part it works fine by pulling in all other information into the output window.

I did try the Password script that @sdunbar had suggested. That works, however, the # of days before my password expires doesn't match what Enterprise Connect tells me when I login to multiple Macs.

Any ideas? I'm using a login account that doesn't have admin rights. I did implement the Anyconnect VPN IP address script. That works perfectly.

Big shout out to everyone on this page. I went through all the feedback everyone has provided and I've setup one that works for my environment. I just have some last minute touches to do.

I clicked on the links in the article to get the script and got a 404, went to the GitHub and did not see it.

@swhps - might want to put up what link isn't working as there's a ton of info in this thread...

The one in the blog jamf published "Build a Computer Information script for your Help Desk"

https://github.com/jamfprofessionalservices/Jamf-Scripts/blob/master/Computer%20Information.bash

I saw in slack they are updating it soon.

Until the blog post gets fixed, here's a direct link:

https://github.com/talkingmoose/Jamf-Scripts/blob/master/Computer%20Information.bash

We're going to be using this script in our environment, but I've run into the following issue:

"If fast user switching is enabled, and two persons are logged onto a computer, and the script is run by the second person that logged onto the computer, the results are displayed on the first user's screen and not the screen of the person that ran the script."

Found the answer to my question here:
https://scriptingosx.com/2018/04/demystifying-root-on-macos-part-3-root-and-scripting/

Hi all, looking to do something "related" to this. We have clients without any sort of LDAP, and I need to pull into the JSS user info such as:
Name
Email
Location
Phone
Using the ARD fields 1-4, we can pull that into inventory. What I'd like to be able to do is have a popup (AppleScript? Bash?) to query them for the four fields as opposed to them opening System Preferences/Sharing and filling in if possible.
This allows for filling, but I'm not sure how to utilize that to do the task of automating the fills.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -computerinfo -set1 -1 "value for field 1" -set2 -2 "value for field 2"

Newby here... I know this is an old post but had a question about opening an Outlook message and populating the Computer Information in the body of the message. I get a message 'file does not exist' for all text in the log. The only change to Bill's script is putting in 'com.microsoft.outlook' to call Outlook. Does anyone have an idea how this can get imported into the body of the message correctly?

Hopefully to explain better, I tested it in Terminal and confirmed. As seen below, 'displayInfo' has a space in it, thus throws the same error as the script (because the body of the Computer information has spaces). If I put displayInfo="qwerty%2012345", it works fine. The message opens up and populates with qwerty 12345. I also needed a %20 for the Subject as seen below.

Here is my test commands from terminal, which basically is the same as what Bill's script is calling.

displayInfo="qwerty 12345"

/usr/bin/open -b com.microsoft.outlook "mailto:test@somedomain.com?subject=Computer%20Information&body=$displayInfo"

The file /Users/'MyName'/mailto:test@somedomain.com?subject=Computer%20Information&body=qwerty 12345 does not exist.

@DMH2000 The -b com.microsoft.outlook in your script causes the open command to call Outlook telling it to open the file named by the quoted data, not handle the mailto: URL that data actually represents. To make Outlook be the default mailto: handler, run the MailToOutlook package on your Macs to and remove the -b com.microsoft.outlook from your script

Just would like to know, if the mailto still working on newest os system, whatever I tried the mail to, it gives error message with file does not exist.
I can use the following script to trigger Apple mail , thanks @Andrina and @rderewianko

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/osascript -e "

    tell application "Mail"

    set theContent to ("${displayInfo}")

    set theEmail to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"Computer Information ($serialNumber)", content:theContent}

    tell theEmail

        make new recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"shanghai.it.help@nyu.edu"}

    end tell            

    end tell"

but to simplify the script, the mailto seems better.

Also is there a way to trigger web gmail to send the information?

@sdagley I have done that and still fails with 'message with file does not exist' as @rc156 states. I think it is an HTML issue, as I had to add %20 to get 'subject=Computer%20 Information' to complete to that point..

@DMH2000 It sounds like you're still doing something that's launching Outlook directly rather than invoking it as the mailto: handler. The following works as expected for me on macOS Catalina with Outlook set as the default mailto: handler:

/usr/bin/open "mailto:test@somedomain.com?subject=Computer Information&body=Some random text for the body of a message"

If you copy and paste that line into Terminal on your system what happens?

@sdagley The file /Users/My.Name/mailto:test@somedomain.com?subject=Computer Information&body=Some random text for the body of a message does not exist. I should mention this is on Big Sur, but don't think that is the issue.

When I put type in /usr/bin/open "mailto:test@somedomain.com?subject=Computer%20Information&body=Some%20random%20message" a new message opens...

@DMH2000 Why your Mac thinks it needs to open a file with the contents of the mailto: URL is the mystery that needs to be solved. What does a simple /usr/bin/open "mailto:" do? It should open Outlook with a mail compose window.

@sdagley. It opens a message window. As I edited the message above:
When I put type in /usr/bin/open "mailto:test@somedomain.com?subject=Computer%20Information&body=Some%20random%20message" a new message opens...

Hi,

I did some testing with the email thing as well.

And lo and behold. My conclusion, which could be incorrect of course, is that once i started to specify things, like this:

#!/bin/sh# 

email computer information to help desk

    currentUser=$( stat -f "%Su" /dev/console )

    computerName=$( /usr/sbin/scutil --get ComputerName )

    /usr/bin/open -b com.microsoft.outlook "mailto:$supportEmail?subject=Computer%20Information%20$computerName"

It seemed to pick up the info.

@fredrik.virding So why do you have to put %20 there? Also if you use the full Computer Information in the body it fails because it isn't formatted as HTML.... I really don't know the resolution, I even tried to make Outlook default message as Plain Text, but that didn't help either.

@DMH2000

To be honest, i have no clue why it acts like it does. Perhaps someone can help me clarify.

My personal thought is that it seems the script acts as two separate things. The first compiles and shows the info accordingly in the pop-up, whilst the email one is not able to read that info.

Im working on some more testing to see what can be done.

Here are the bones of something I tried to do a few years back and got close, but not quite there. It doesn't run in BS, but at the time - macOS 10.13/10.14 it did. Since I suck at code, it was a journey and when I had it almost working, the clients decided they didn't care about who owned what ¯_(ツ)_/¯

#!/bin/bash



jamfHelper="/Library/Application Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper"



description="Attention: the JAMF team do not have a complete record of who uses this Mac.



We need to know who you are so as to send you instructions on how to enable Encryption and AV.



Please email me@company.com using the 'Send Email' button below.  Everything will be populated for you."



button1="Send Email"

#button2="Send Email"

logo="/Library/Application Support/company/company.png"

serial_number='Serial Number'=$(ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F'"' '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/{print $4}')

currentuser='Current User'=$(python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or  None])n0]; username = eusername,""]3username in  u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + "

");')

ComputerName='Computer Name'=$(scutil --get ComputerName)

## location=Location=$(curl https://ipapi.co/timezone)



if 
i ${osvers} -lt 7 ]]; then

    userChoice=$("$jamfHelper" -windowType hud -description "$description" -button1 "$button1" -icon "$logo")

    if   "$userChoice" == "0" ]; then sleep 10

        open -b com.microsoft.outlook "mailto:me@company.com?subject=Mac Info for Company&body=$serial_number



$currentuser

$ComputerName



Just click 'Send' now.  Thank you!"



    else

        exit 0

        fi



fi

@scottb I tried your script using SelfService but getting this error "Just click 'Send' now. Thank you! does not exist."

Just chiming in since there is still activity on this topic… The Support App by Root3 (NL) was recently added to the Jamf Marketplace and it's seriously awesome. Definitely worth checking out if you're wanting a way to display helpful data to your users, and it's customizable with a configuration profile.

Support App on the Jamf Marketplace (Support App on GitHub)

hey that looks great, thanks @emily !