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Jamf Nation Hits 300,000 PostsBlog

From a small email distribution list to a formalized community forum, Jamf Nation has served as the premier online resource for Apple management enthusiasts for more than a decade. And recently, in case you missed the news, it hit a milestone - 300,000 posts. Jamf’s founder, and former CEO, Zach Halmstad, not only recognized the desire for customers to share ideas as a way to problem solve, but he also saw their need to connect as humans. So in 2012, he pitched an idea - Jamf Nation.   “Early on we witnessed the huge benefits our customers saw when they could ask each other questions and share their solutions,” Halmstad recalled. “Jamf Nation was the next step for us to ensure customers were successful.”In a 16-slide Keynote, Halmstad pitched his idea to his colleagues at Jamf. He shared the reasons to shift the company’s rapidly growing email distribution list to an online forum, citing communication as a main goal. (Slide from original deck shown below). Fast forward 12 years, a

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Donate to LA Fire Relief with your Jamf Nation Reward BytesBlog

We have added a new reward to Jamf Nation Rewards: the ability to donate using points to Los Angeles County, by supporting organizations providing emergency relief.  Dangerous wildfires, including the destructive Palisades fire, have ravaged Los Angeles County. The wildfires have burned more than 60 square miles and destroyed over 12,000 buildings. More than twenty people have died, dozens more are missing and more than 90,000 people are under evacuation orders.   It is the most destructive fire in LA history.  If you’re interested in a way to help through sending a donation, we have set up a new way you can redeem your Byte reward points to help with the LA wildfire relief.  It only takes 50 points to donate $25! To find out where the donations are heading, check out this page -https://jamf.benevity.org/community/fundraiser/24332  Donations can be made under the reward '$25 Donation to Emergency Relief LA County'. Please reach out to jamfnation@jamf.com s

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API Call Syntax error

Question? Has Jamf changed his Classic API Syntax?  Example: When making a simple get Command using the following syntax  curl -su example:exmaple -H "accept: text/xml" https://example.jamfcloud.com/JSSResource/computers/ I get the following error message:  <title>Status page</title> </head> <body style="font-family: sans-serif;"> <p style="font-size: 1.2em;font-weight: bold;margin: 1em 0px;">Unauthorized</p> <p>The request requires user authentication</p> <p>You can get technical details <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.2">here</a>.<br> Please continue your visit at our <a href="/">home page</a>. </p> </body> </html>%                         However if I just cut and past from the try this out I notice that url now has a bearer token attached to the end. Example cu

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Force logout current macOS User

Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for a smart way to automatically logout logged in macOS users. Situation: School using PSSO, users can work on whatever Mac they want. Most students don't log out properly. No planning on force rebooting the Mac. No planning on login into each Mac using local admin credentials and ending the sessions.   Fast User Switching and AutoLogOutDelay are configured as follows:   sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences MultipleSessionEnabled --bool YES sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.autologout.autoLogoutDelay -int 300   The autoLogoutDelay seems to be completely broken and / or doesn't work at all. All accounts are still logged in despite the delay of 5 minutes - or I just don't geht how it's supposed to work.   Anyway - I've stumbled across this post which seems to be an effective way (need to test it) https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro/force-logout-help-please/m-p/130871#M11

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DDM & Managed Software UpdatesBlog

As you’ve probably heard, Declarative Device Management (or, for less of a mouthful, DDM) is making significant changes to the way in which managed devices go about their business in some key ways - most notably how managed software updates work. We’re going to take a look at this in detail, as it’s been a particularly hot topic in the Apple Admin community over the last couple of years.   What is DDM, anyway? Firstly, it’s not a typo of ‘MDM’! In a nutshell, gone is the notion that the MDM server needs to constantly check-up on how a device is getting on with a certain command it’s been asked to do; instead, the device has much more independence and tells the MDM server when something has been done. This majorly cuts down on the stream of commands issued to devices (particularly when performing remote software updates, which we’ll loop back to shortly) and means that a growing number of attributes, such as OS version, can be updated on the MDM without an inventory update command

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Jamf Pro 11.14.0 Beta Now Available

Hey Jamf Nation! We're excited to announce with Jamf Pro 11.14.0 Beta the compliance benchmarks capability is available for testing. A full version of compliance benchmarks will be available in a future release of Jamf Pro. The Jamf Pro 11.14.0 Beta also features ADCS certificate deployment using SCEP, App Installer support for External URL downloads and more! How to join the beta: Enroll in the Beta Program under Product Feedback at account.jamf.com. Once you enroll you'll receive an invitation to join the Beta Forum, click "Join this group Hub" to gain access. Email beta@jamf.com with questions.The beta program is covered by the Jamf non-disclosure agreement; please do not share any information regarding your testing on any public forum, including the non-beta areas of Jamf Nation. Use the Jamf Nation Beta Forum or contact Jamf via beta@jamf.com with any questions. Thank you to all who participate in this program! 

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Help with Apple TV

So I enrolled a test Apple TV... After I confirmed that it received all of the desired configuration profiles, I sent a wipe command to it. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the screen go black so I then deleted its record from the JSS. With the screen black, the Apple TV sat there with no light on the front of it. After 2 or 3 minutes I got impatient and unplugged it - I thought it would have rebooted after the wipe. When I reconnected the power cable, I see that it has my “Conference Room Display” payload still on it, which means it’s still managed and never got the wipe command from the JSS!The “Conference Room Display” restriction does not allow me to get to the main tvOS screen so I can perform a system reset. To make matters worse, I can’t send any management commands to it because it’s no longer in the JSS! Is there any magic command I can do to this thing to get it back to factory?

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