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Heya awesome Mac admins! I am still relatively new to this whole Jamf thing and looking into setting up Jamf Setup Manager to install our apps before the user reaches the desktop. I am trying to follow guides and getting hung up quite a bit on step 1 of most them, “package Setup Manager”. This is kind of a loaded step. I have tried several ways of doing this. I have packaged the zip, which didn’t work. I have extracted the .zip to the desktop and then packaged, didn’t work. I have tried putting the extracted zip in different folders, then packaging from there with Composer, didn’t work. 

How the heck do I package this thing for deployment? The configuration from Jamf Pro is relatively straightforward, I just need some help making sure the actual files are in the proper places. 

For Jamf Setup Manager, it’s already packaged for you. Just upload this package to distribution point.

https://github.com/jamf/Setup-Manager/releases/download/v1.3/Setup.Manager-1.3-601.pkg

Thank you so much for pointing this out. I guess this was more an issue of “how to use GitHub” as opposed to Jamf. Just downloaded and going to test this afternoon!

If you need some reading material on Jamf Setup Manager:
 

 

All you need to do us upload the pkg to Jamf, make your config profile and put them in the prestage or UIE as your environment needs.

​@mvu offers an excellent answer.  Might want to check out the Jamf Blog about Setup Manager as well:

Setup Manager offers streamlined device enrollment for Mac 

It’s a great time to get into Jamf and managing Apple devices.  Some great tools available and resources as well.

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