Hi all,
I'm a JAMF newbie (and to any kind of Mac administration). I recently completed an engagement with JAMF to assist in setting up JAMF Pro, but JAMF connect was out of scope for the statement of work. The professional services engineer did a great job of explaining what next steps I should need to take to get JAMF connect setup.
To get to the point: I created a configuration policy for both JAMF connect and JAMF connect login, targeted to our test Mac - then deployed the JAMF connect app to the Mac but it does not seem to be taking the settings needed to work. The JAMF connect app is also not auto-launching when the system restarts.
To get into more detail:
I used the JAMF connect configurator to finish setting up the Entra login details. Everything tested successfully. Per the engineer's suggestion, rather than saving the mobile config file, he suggested it's better to save the XML data from the configurator, ten create a configuration policy per each XML. I did this by going to "Application & Custom settings" - Upload and pasted the XML data into the PLIST window.
I wasn’t sure what to put in the Preference domain, but after some googling I think I found that the Login should be going to com.jamf.connect.login and the menu bar should be using the preference domain of com.jamf.connect, so I used those.
I scoped these configuration policies to my test MAC. I then added the JAMF connect application via the MAC apps and had it pushed to the Mac Mini.
However, when I launch the JAMF connect app, none of the settings from the XML are present. It’s like it doesn’t know to apply the settings to the JAMF connect app and the Connect app needs to be setup still. Also, the JAMF connect app isn't auto launching on reboot. I have to manually launch it and log out.
Should I have downloaded JAMF connect pkg file and modified it inside of the composer application to assign our configuration and push that out as a custom package? Or did I use the wrong preference domains in the configuration policy setting?
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could point me towards any KB that might help me out here. Thank you for reading.