Leverage switftDialog and Jamf Pro Policy Script Parameters to easily display engaging end-user messagesIntroductionUsing Bart Reardon’s swiftDialog and Jamf Pro Policy Script Parameters, creating engaging end-user messages is easy.When you really want to get your user’s attention, one of favorite options is --blurscreen, which “will blur the background of the display while dialog is showing.”Continue reading …

I have a configuration profile that adds our VPN configuration. I then have a policy that kicks off this simple bash script. open “/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/vpn.menu” All this does is check the box for "Show VPN status in the menu bar"This is the error that I'm getting.Script result: The files /“/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu and /Extras/vpn.menu” do not exist. When I run the command in the terminal it completes successfully.

We have an app called Spaces Edu loaded on all of our iPads. The app is set to automatically update itself both in Jamf and on the devices. I can see that the version of this app in Jamf is the most current when compared to the information in the App Store. Recently we have discovered that the app is not updating on some of the devices. Most of these devices have stopped communicating with Jamf. I can resolve this but here is the strange part.I discovered one iPad that did not have this app. I assigned it to the Scope and the app loaded to the device. The strange part is that the version of the app that loaded was not the most current and not the version that is in Jamf.Any thoughts would be welcome.

I am working on printer deployments and have a question. I can push the HP or Xerox printer drivers to a machine, however the files are usually in .gz format. This is an issue since Casper wants the PPD file. Is there a more direct way to get the ppd sent to the machine? Do I need to script this, or am I making this harder than it needs to be? Thanks for any help!

How do I re-enroll, using Automated Device Enrollment, a MacBook that was factory reset by a user on being issued a new MacBook. Looking to repurpose the device for another user, but when booting it up it goes through the standard user experience rather than MDM.The device is still listed in Apple Business Manager and associated with the MDM server, and in Jamf Pro in the corresponding PreState Enrollment set-up it is listed as being in Scope. Despite this it doesn't appear to be running the PreStage Enrollment.

Hello there! I'm having an issue where items I set to be available in Jamf Self Service are not appearing. It doesn't seem to matter if it's iOS or macOS apps or policies--I check to make them available in Self Service, and if it's a policy I ensure that the Check In is set to Recurring. They do not populate. I tried the Installation URL from the Self Service tab but it results in an error from JSS: "This item is no longer available." As far as I can tell, it definitely is, but clearly I've got something wrong somewhere and I've hit a wall so I thought I'd ask Jamf Nation for help. Any ideas are much appreciated!

We have a Jamf Pro cloud set up to use entra 365 SSO for authentication. I would like to use the Teacher App to set up classes and students and potentially Apple Classroom - any advice before I get started ? 

Dear Community! We have approximately 30 devices that were previously enrolled into jamf that still trying to communicate with the Jamf server that was shut down one year ago. We are using Mosyle since and some of the devices were obviusly enrolled in jamf first. Does anyone know how to make them stop to communicate? ITs not causing any trouble to be honest but strange after all all configuration profiles were long erased from those devices.  Thank you for your help again! 

I have a use case where I want to apply proxy as localhost i.e. 127.0.0.1:3128 for both http and https but i want a few domains (ex: *.jamfserver.com, *.google.com) to be bypassed from the proxy. I tried this setting manually and it works fine. But when i created a configuration profile and tried to push the  same, Im not seeing the bypass taking effect but all domains are going thru proxy server. PFA screenshots of manual configuration (where bypass domain from proxy worked after a restart) and the configuration profile created on JamfServer which is not bypassing when pushed to target machine.Mac OS under use: Big Sur 11.4Jamf server version: 10.30.3-t1624643096 

I need to re-register a Jamf Cloud (Jamf School) account for use with a two-Factor Authentication app, after a 2FA app backup failed and the binding was lost.I am able to get in using text based 2FA, but I would like to re-enable the app based function.There doesn't appear to be a way to unbind the Jamf login from a previous 2FA app instance?

So, I've gone to Apple School Manager, and searched for the JAMF School Student appIt comes up fine, and says it's for both iOS and macOS. So i've purchased licenses.However, in JAMF the VPP license only appears to come through as an iOS app - there's nothing listed for VPP for macOS devices, and when I add the app manually it tells me that there under the 'Managed Distribution' tab of the app this messageContent not available to assign to computersI'm guessing Apple has changed something with ASM and you can't do what you used to do and only buy licenses for the Mac version, or JAMF isn't recognising that the license is for both.Should I log a support ticket with JAMF?

Hi there, I've been trying to get an extension attribute read to push the the following changes using a policy: /usr/bin/security authorizationdb write system.preferences.network allow /usr/bin/security authorizationdb write system.services.systemconfiguration.network allow /usr/bin/security authorizationdb write com.apple.wifi allow For example how would I read 'system.preferences.network' and report if it is not in 'allow' state? This is to scope a policy that will push the above to devices reporting 'system.preferences.network' to not be in 'allow' state.

Greetings, our company uses Entra ID for IAM. We are trying to get compliant for CMMC and need to use Entra profile credentials to start logging into our macs and need those logins to be traceable. I tried setting up setting up some of the configurations and honestly Ive had to jump from one article to another trying to figure out what needs to be done. Does anyone know of any resources, videos or step by step guides that can help me achieve what I should be doing? We also want to utilize Intune as our MDM platform and use JAMF to trace the identities and their activities on the MACs. any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks  

My apologies if this was covered in another thread - just trying to figure out if there is a quick and easy way to adjust the user icon at login for JAMF Connect. I dont mind setting it as a static Icon - but prefer it to be custom to my company rather than just a silhouette. Thank you in advance! 

Is there a way to disable automatic updates in Evernote through a configuration profile (plist perhaps?) in JAMF?  

In addition to not being able to add objects to our Dashboard, I just discovered that we can no longer create Computer Extensions Attributes that use scripts for the input. When I change the Input Type to Script, I see the text field for typing the script, but I am unable to type or paste into it.   I have found that I can’t even edit existing ones. The text field is not clickable to edit at all. Both of these bugs are pretty serious for us to maintain a healthy workflow. I'm also at the very beginning of a huge software deployment that is going to need dashboard visibility and EAs to ensure proper scoping, but now I can't do either.   

I'm curious if any others using JAMF cloud with the cloud distribution point are seeing issues with uploaded packages, or any size, taking 60 minutes to clear the "availability pending" notice?  This seems to have started with the 11.x updates.  For example, a 200MB chrome package took 60 minutes (almost to the second) as did a 6GB pre-zipped Adobe package.  It's as if the 60 minutes point is an internal timeout where it just gives up and assumes all is well.   The packages work and can be deployed, but I'm also seeing random machines that deploy the package, and others that will return package download errors.   It's as if the package isn't being replicated properly in AWS, and if a client happens to get the wrong backend, it's as if the package doesn't exist. I have a support case open but I'm struggling with the responsiveness of the agent. I get one email per day and that's it. 

Hello Jamf Nation! I am trying to identify the optimal way to deploy PKGs post-Sonoma update. Apple has gotten very liberal with their permissions pop ups, which for a single user is great, but as an organization is such a headache. Is there a setting or plist or something that can be deployed alongside a PKG that suppresses these popups? Apologies if it is a repeat question. I didn't see anything in a search that related.

Hello,I'm actually stuck with a company who has a Jamf Cloud platform and they need to distribute certificates from within their environment. The only point is that they don't want any inbound connections even in DMZ.I checked the options for SCEP and the ADCS Connector for DCOM protocol and all of them need an inbound on port 443.Any ideas how to do this ?Seems like Workspace ONE is able to do this with a connector contacting the server frequently to see if any certificates needs to be distributed but I didn't find anything similar with Jamf...Thank you !

What do Jamf folks think might be the pros/cons of using Account-Driven Device Enrollment vs Prestage Enrollment? I guess in the world of K-12 we are able to manage more in person so Prestage Enrollment works well for us.

I need to setup a few macs on a Windows eco-system. The Macs need to be connected to Active Directory but also the AD user must not be able to sign out of a managed apple id or create a local user account to sign in with their own personal apple id. Has anyone done this with Jamf?

Can someone help me with Figma? I can´t make a PKG file that works, or script. I need step by step tutorial how to do it. Thanks!

Hi all,actually i set the computernames in jamf via api. On inventory update it gets overwritten by the real name of the computer.Can i stop this without forcing the jamf name to the real computer name? In policie settings i only find a way to force the jamf name to be the computer name.Computer itself can be "Adams Macbook". in Jamf it should be/stay "MacBook Pro 12345". 12345 is the id from our hardware database.Greetings FrankGreetings Frank

Hello, I'm trying to figure out a way to deploy Google Drive pre-configured to sync specified folders (Desktop & Documents).  I found some documentation Google provides, but it doesn't have any information on this. Has anyone set this up before?Main goal to use google drive to sync files for users who log in without needing to do much but sign in to google. 

Hi Guyswe connected JAMF connect to Okta but after user enrollment we see the device name its Macbook how we can able rename that to user first and last name base on okta information