Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
Right now I'm packaging up the serial.csv via composer and uploading it to jamf admin used to rename the machine before binding to active directory. Is there a way to automate downloading the file from Office365 to the machine to help simplify the st... View more
Hello, Any one have any ideas on this one?I need to check to see if the mac had a fresh install or whether the os was installed over the top of another. Thanks View more
Hello, Any one have any ideas on this one?I need to check to see if the mac had a fresh install or whether the os was installed over the top of another. Thanks View more
Hello Everyone, Our next Twin Cities Mac Admins meetup is set for Thursday, February 21, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at CBX in downtown Minneapolis. Our presenter will be Tim Perfitt, CEO of Twocanoes Software. Twocanoes is well-known for its products such a... View more
All,Hi I'm a total JAMF newbie with a questions about MacOS configuration. I manage a bunch of Macbooks. There are some configuration/policy items that we're going to want all of them to have. Some of these configurations include:- Binding to the dir... View more
Hey folks. So we re-image all of our lab machines here every summer, and until now that's been a manual process where the techs will visit each machine, format all partitions, install the latest version of OSX and then name the Mac correctly so it dr... View more
HiCan you clear up some questions with regard DEP, please? We currently use DEP for all of our IOS devices. It works really well for them. However, the MDM we use is not JAMF, it covers all of our mobile devices - IOS, Android and Windows. This serve... View more
We are getting ready to retire a large portion of our MacBook fleet and then sell them. Has anyone found a way to allow the user to click a button in Self Service and then wipe the drive entirely? I don't want to reinstall the OS. What process have o... View more
Hi there,I made a workflow to clean install Mojave and Silently install Mojave through Self Service. Now I trying to create an admin account and connect the cleanly installed machines to our Wifi after the reboot. We don't have DEP. I searched for a ... View more
Been working on downloading macOS from the App Store using VPP. That part seems to work just fine. This way I'll have the most current macOS installer.Next, There a way to trigger a Configuration Profile from the App Store App install that has a scri... View more
So as part of our enrollment process, we change the dock using dockutil. With our DEP machines, we also "Create an additional local administrator account" (UID 501) However, if I log out of the account that a typical employee would create/use (UID 50... View more
Hi! I decided to test using the Inventory Preload option on to PreStage enrollment of one computer. I got the CSV file completed and uploaded it successfully and it shows up as the Active data. After doing the PreStage enrollment (no previous record ... View more
Hi, About last week, we have started seeing a weird issue where at the initial login after hard drive wipe/OS re-install, DEP enrollment, the Username/Password fields are simply missing (see attachment). Has anybody seen this? Some times those fields... View more
We have discovered that the latest batch of Macbook Pro's we have received in from our supplier (2018 spec) no longer permit us to boot to external media and replace the factory install of Mojave (10.14.1) with a 10.13.4 disk image [that literally is... View more
Hey all, when a script is used to execute policies.... example.... /blahblah/jamf policy -id #### /blahblah/jamf policy -id #### /blahblah/jamf policy -id #### Does each policy finish 100% before it executes the next? Also, I see people mentioning th... View more
Hi All, I know this has been spoken about before but I cant seem to get it to work. I am basically trying to have the update done through Self Service (user initiated). I am setting up the 2 policies...1 to install the Mojave pkg and 1 to trigger the... View more
Hi Everyone, I'll need to do some more testing to confirm this, but was there any changes to the way it handles mounts of network drives using a script that you all are aware of? On 10.14.1: our script would use a credentials.sh file as the source, t... View more
I need a little bit help understanding what I'm missing in what I believe are 2 different scenarios in relation to Mojave and PPPC. I provide 4 examples below...2 are what I believe are script approvals...that I need to figure out how to create and 2... View more
One of our newer machines was mistakenly downgraded using a 10.12.6 base image made by AutoDMG. This replaced the Recovery_HD partition and the machine would not boot into recovery mode or into Internet recovery mode. The recovery partition is being ... View more
My current environment requires a local admin account before the network user account is created. They had been doing it manually with a local admin and a mobile managed account based on the AD user. I LOVE the idea of NoMad Login / Jamf Connect - ho... View more
We've started getting machines with the T2 chip, so our old reimaging approach isn't going to work anymore. I've written up a quick script that should make things easier for us, but I could use a second set of eyes to see if there's anything I forgot... View more
I'm trying to get imaging working for the new T2 Chip machines. I know apple is trying to move away from imaging, but I don't see the sense in manually reinstalling the OS every time we want to start a machine over from scratch plus installing all th... View more
Hello,Does anyone know of a way to automate the firmware password removal during a Netboot Install of the macOS? I have a script that we have available in Self Service to be able to remove the firmware password using an Expect script. And it works gr... View more
Hello Nation members - I am wanting to implement the JAMF Helper now that some of my load has lightened at work, and I can properly focus on JAMF. Our workflow goes as such: We get the machine from DEP, Local user is added, Service Desk runs installa... View more
Just finished listening to episode 102 of the Mac Admins Podcast. The guest, Armin Briegel mentioned a handy app named Erase & Install. The app is a wrapper around the startosinstall command. It's very user friendly and can detect a macOS installer a... View more
I have what I would guess is a simple problem, I am trying to apply an order of importance for the various tasks related to a DEP build. The issue I am having is that I cannot find a way to force the configuration profile we made to allow kernel exte... View more
Hey everyone, Im a DEP noob so please forgive me. I have just started doing our staff and student computers via DEP and presage enrollments but i have no idea on how i should be naming these computers or even how to differentiate between staff and st... View more
Hi everyone. Trying to write a script that deletes all partitions off the internal drive of an older MacBook Air running 10.12.6 then creates an APFS container with a new volume title "Macintosh HD". Here's what I have but it doesn't seem to be worki... View more
OK, so I feel like I am going around in circles here and nothing I have come across seems to replicate the same issues I am having - all slight variations. So the back-story:We have a number of labs to re-image at the start of each year. Due to softw... View more
Hi, we've been copying the bookmarks.plist file located in ~/Library/Safari/ along with FEU FUT in order to set up Safari Bookmarks and had success until macOS Mojave. When we run this policy in Safari, not only does it not copy over the bookmarks, b... View more