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barrycudaNew Contributor
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Autopkgr and JamfPatchUpdate stopped working

I have Autopkgr setup to automatically update Jamf applications like Chrome, Firefox...etc  using the Jampatchuploader process by Graham Pugh.  This has been working fine for a year or so and now I noticed it quit working.  I updated all the repos and have the latest version of Autopkgr.  Example:  The process downloads the latest version of Chrome, uploads it to the patch repository and links the new package to the patch policy.   Everything works except the last part I am getting this error ERROR: Couldn't find patch softwaretitle with name 'Google Chrome'I validated that this is the correct name of the policy and I used the Swagger UI to check the API directly.  It returns the exact same name and the correct ID.Hopefully someone has an idea about what is happening.

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thomastsangNew Contributor
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Jamf School will not auto update iPad Apps.

We found few apps in Jamf School Apps->Update have new version.But it seems not automatic push update version to iPad. I need manuallyclick "Update all devices" in each Apps.

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MaxxShearey
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Run plugin update app without admin permission

Hey All,I am trying to find a way to have one of out users be able to update his plugins without us needing to scope the make me an admin script onto his machine all of the time. I made a script to run the plugin manager app as admin then kill it after 10 minutes for security, but wanted to see if there is a better way to do this. Here is what I have  #!/bin/bash# Run the app as administratorsudo open -a "/System/Applications/MyApp.app"# Shutdown the app after 10 minutessleep 10mpkill myapp

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jain_zeel
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Jamf Protect Deployment

Having issue with enrolling jamf protect to device

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AndyPine
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Apple School Manager

Hi,At the college where I work, we have helped out a music college who have to relocate by offering the use of a couple of rooms for their students, which means they will be using our Macs, specifically for Logic Pro. This, in itself is not a problem, the issue is we don't have enough Logic Pro licenses to cover their students & our own. They do have their own licenses in ASM, so my question is this:I know we cannot transfer licenses from ASM to another but if I added our JAMF mdm to their ASM then transferred the Logic Pro licenses to our MDM, would that work or is there another way of tranferring licenses?TIA Andy 

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waltnercNew Contributor
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iOS: How do I enforce Configure DNS as Automatic, not Manual

Had a student this week figure out that if they look at the more information of the connected Wi-Fi that they could change the Configure DNS from Automatic to Manual and then provide a new DNS IP.  Which then jailbreaks our content filter.Any suggestions on how to enforce the Automatic setting of Configure DNS? There should be no reason for any of my students or staff to need to Manually configure this.

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jamfloverNew Contributor
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Switch User Not Showing Up

Hi,We have a local admin account which is hidden upon enrollment. Before we used to get the option to "switch user" and login to that. For some reason, for the past month we are only getting that option on some laptops. Is this due to some sort of OS update? Is there any other way to reset or delete local account password to get into the computer? I'm also looking at my local admin account which is hidden on each computer, the "enable user for filevault 2" is not selected. I did not set this up, this was previously setup by the old sys admin and I am taking over the organization now. Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks in advance! 

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CbsnjNew Contributor
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User sync

Hi all!I got a question from someone who couldn't sync their Jamf School users to Apple School Manager. Looking in his Jamf School portal, I saw the following error 'The user ** cannot be synched because the user was created manually in Jamf School or from an SIS'. Is it not possible to sync/upload Jamf created users from Jamf to ASM? Or am I missing something in the configuration or does it need to be done in a different way?Thanks :)

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JB35New Contributor
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iPadOS: Enable iCloud sync w/ Freeform when users cant edit accounts

Our students are logged into managed Apple IDs on their iPads. They also have "Modifying account settings" restricted so they cannot edit accounts. This grays out the iCloud settings so they can't change anything once it's set.Teachers are looking to use shared Freeform files. When students get a link to an iCloud-synced Freeform file, it requires them to have iCloud sync enabled for Freeform. Some do and some don't (not sure why). The ones that don't can't turn it on and just keep getting messages saying they need to turn it on.Is there a less invasive way to enable iCloud sync with Freeform on iPads? My best option at the moment is to disable that restriction for a period of time and have staff go in and check but that's a pain but I haven't been able to come up with a better way.

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slama
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Visual Studio Code with VEX robotics extension

I was trying to deploy the Visual Studio Code with the VEX robotics extension through JAMF policies. I can deploy the Visual Studio Code; however, I need to download the VEX extension manually. Any idea if we can deploy both together?

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mlevContributor
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The MUT Open Source (and more)

Facebook memories says it has been two years since MUT hit the App Store as version 2.1.0--which happened roughly a year after I began work on it. I thought it was a good time to look back on the last three years of development. Pardon the lengthy post. The MUT is now open source The MUT can be found on GitHub here: https://github.com/mike-levenick/mut Open source is something that I have had planned for MUT for a very long time; however, I was hesitant to do so, because I was embarrassed. I have no formal programming training. I graduated from UWEC with a business degree, and began scripting because I enjoyed it. The MUT was my project to learn how to create an "actual program" instead of just scripts. It was created by watching YouTube videos, copy and pasting from Stack Overflow, using Google to resolve error messages that came up, and piecing it together a bit at a time. The source code is ugly. I know there are folks smarter and more proficient than I, and if I open source

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how to disable two factor authenticator for jamf school

Hello,I'm encountering an issue where Jamf School is not accepting my two-factor authentication code. Only my Jamf account is allowing me to log in. Is there a way to disable the two-factor authenticator without needing the code?Thank you.

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igrathenNew Contributor
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Chrome: User-Level Management

Hey everyone,I know this is a long shot but I figured I would ask!There has been some talk about some nearing districts being able to lock student's down to specific domain logins in Chrome. I know there is the whole "managed browser with a token" structure but in our testing, this was not successful in blocking any kind of secondary account access in Chrome.Has anyone had any luck using these Google Policies on iOS?https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7572556?hl=en#zippy=https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=RestrictSigninToPatternI know they only mention Windows and Mac but I figured I would reach out to see if anyone has an app configuration that is working for this purpose!I appreciate you all!

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sanfordbanksNew Contributor
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Temporary User Promotion - Doesn't work when using Okta as IdP

While testing the Temporary User Promotion feature I noticed that nothing happens when clicking the option in the menu bar. I have various attributes set as far as UserPromotionRole, UserPromotionReason, UserPromotionChoices. Any thoughts? Running on JC 2.37.0.  com.jamf.connect plist<dict><key>Appearance</key><dict><key>MenubarIcon</key><string>********************</string><key>MenubarIconDark</key><string>*******************</string><key>ShowWelcomeWindow</key><false/></dict><key>CustomMenuItems</key><dict><key>getsoftware</key><string>Self Service</string></dict><key>HiddenMenuItems</key><array><string>preferences</string><string>quit</string></array><key>IdPSettings</key><dict><key>OktaAuthServer</key><string>***************<

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KapilNew Contributor
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Cyberark EPM Agent installation on macOS

Hi All, I have created the CyberArk config profile with below info and it got installed successfully. 1) Approved kernel extension with bundle id: DF8U2CCCD8 2) PPPC with the following: Identifier: com.cyberark.CyberArkEPMEndpointSecurityExtensionCode Requirement:anchor apple generic and identifier "com.cyberark.CyberArkEPMEndpointSecurityExtension" and (certificate leaf[field.1.2.840.113635.100.6.1.9] / exists / or certificate 1[field.1.2.840.113635.100.6.2.6] / exists / and certificate leaf[field.1.2.840.113635.100.6.1.13] / exists / and certificate leaf[subject.OU] = DF8U2CCCD8)Service:SystemPolicyAllFiles = Allow 3) System Extensions:It will not work with the Team ID only. In my testing you must add the system extension for this to work.Team ID: DF8U2CCCD8Allowed System Ext: com.cyberark.CyberArkEPMEndpointSecurityExtension I was executing the installer via below cmd as a script:sudo /private/tmp/Install CyberArk EPM.app/Contents/MacOS/CyberArkEPMInstaller -configuration /priv

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ImAMicrosoftGuyContributor
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Declarative Management Stuck Pending Issue

Hello All,I'm not entirely sure what it is used for, but the DeclarativeManagement command is stuck pending for a lot of our MacBooks.  I am seeing this issue during enrollment, and also in computers that have already been enrolled.  It looks like this is a new Jamf command?During enrollment, the computers grab their profiles.  Sometimes (and I don't know why it's only sometimes) the DeclarativeManagement command will come up during the profile installation part of enrollment.  I noticed that when this happens, on the computer you see "Waiting for management server" and it will be stuck like this forever.  If you cancel the DeclarativeManagement, the enrollment immediately continues.  For the computers that have already been enrolled, DelcarativeManagement is randomly appearing in the pending commands.  But since it gets stuck, it is also preventing other commands from completing.  I need to cancel the DeclarativeManagement command and then

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howie_isaacksEsteemed Contributor
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How to grep a profile named with more than one word?

I am working on a remediation policy for Self Service that will trigger the uninstall and then reinstall of a profile. Doing this is easy to do. I created a smart group then excluded the smart group from the profile I was testing with. Once the policy causes the Mac to be added to the smart group, the profile gets removed. When the Mac is removed from the smart group the profile is installed again. But there's a problem... I wanted to have a step that would verify the the profile did get reinstalled. To do that, I used this command: profiles show -o stdout | grep "ProfileDisplayName = "ProfileName"" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/[[:punct:]]//g') When I was testing this on my own Mac and a test Mac, I was testing removing a profile we have for Zoom. The profile is simply named "Zoom". The command above works perfectly for a profile named with just one word. If the profile is named something like "Zoom Profile" the command will output "no such file or directory". I have tried

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RBaZNew Contributor
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Block manual DNS option

Hello everyone,We're having problems with students changing the DNS configuration to access forbidden sites.Is it possible to block the Manual DNS option in JAMF Pro? See screenshot belowThank you in advance for your help.

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ganidranContributor
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Computer skipping user creation setup?

What would cause a brand new computer to skip user creation right after an internet network is chosen? We have a few recent computers that went out and some of the computers in that shipment, seemingly upon choosing a network, enrolls the computer and the management user then goes straight to the login screen. Mind you that other computers from the same shipment worked/enrolled normally.

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AJPintoLegendary Contributor
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MacOS Sequoia Weekly Screen Recording notifications

I don't usually discuss beta stuff in public channels, but this new "feature" is already being discussed publicly so I figured we should be good. macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps - 9to5Mac   Is it just me, or has Apple gone way past crossing the line of security notifications that they used to criticize Windows Vista over with UAC? Get a Mac - Vista Vs Mac - Security - New Mac Add (youtube.com)

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SteveS1433
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Company no longer in Business. Need to remove jamf from Ipad, but Jamf profile no longer active.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

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thatmacNew Contributor
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Cannot AirDrop to Mac's

Hello! We are running macOS 14.6.1 on a fleet of iMac's and Macbook Pros. The Mac's can AirDrop to other devices (EG it can see my phone and sends files successfully to it) but the Mac itself doesn't appear to AirDrop too. (So I cannot AirDrop from my phone to the Mac). We've different various devices (Managed and non managed) and the Mac doesn't appear as an AirDrop destination of any of them. These devices are new so we can't test with other versions of macOS (So we don't know if it's a new thing or always been like this!). The Mac's are all MDM managed and we have tried being on the same WiFi network (And also not being on the same WiFi network). They have WiFi and Bluetooth enabled. We tried the solution here but it didn't make any difference (We checked, the command does the value correctly). Has anyone else seen this or have any ideas on how to fix it?! Thank you in advance 

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KalpeshwNew Contributor
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Setup Microsoft edge favorites

I am trying to setup managed favorites in Microsoft edge. can someone share a working plist for managed browsers in edge?My basic requirement is to have few URLs in managed favorites and then few URLs in folders structure something like this:url-Microsoft.comurl-Intune.microsoft.comJamf(folder)            url-id.jamf.com             url-jamfcloud.comInternal(folder)            url-abc.com Appreciate your help in advanced.

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bvondeylenContributor
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Jamf School API Documentation not correct

Looking at the Jamf School API documentation, I have found it to be 'lacking'.Example:Devices - List DevicesGEThttps://api.zuludesk.com/devices This is incorrectIt should behttps://api.zuludesk.com/api/devices It would also help if they gave an example curl command like Jamf Pro API documentation has.

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falvesNew Contributor
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JAMF School API - App Catalog

I am trying to retrieve the scope of apps, including the catalog and associated scopes/groups for my instance, but so far, I have been unable to fetch the app information as outlined in the API documentation at api.zuludesk.com. According to the documentation, the GET URL provided is as follows:https://{yourDomain}.jamfcloud.com/apps/:idthe response would include the serial number of the devices but I am only getting the following:","vendor":"Mathematics Rockx Pty Ltd","price":0,"isDeleted":false,"isDeviceAssignable":true,"is32BitOnly":false,"isCustomB2B":false,"deviceFamilies":["iphone","ipad","ipod"],"isTvOSCompatible":false,"isMacOsCompatible":false,"autoGrant":true,"autoRevoke":true,"totalLicenses":149,"usedLicenses":0,"availableLicenses":149,"isVppV2":false} #Script for testing purposes, retrive app ID#30 #Headers Authorization not included for security ------Python scriptAPP_DETAIL_URL = 'https://xxxx..jamfcloud.com/api/apps/30' # Headers for the GET request headers = { 'User-Ag

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