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
I've seen a lot of scripts managing Microsoft Autoupdate, but for years we have simply blocked the executable named Microsoft AutoUpdate found from the path here (and probably I went through the process of finding it's name through) ps -ef | grep Aut... View more
Wondering if anyone else has looked to use Yo to do their own version of Patch Management notifications to alert users an app needs quit in order to update. The upper management at our University isn't a fan of the time warning and then force quit (w... View more
F5 Networks uses a wonky version string like: $ /usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/BIG-IP Edge Client.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleVersion XXXX.XXXX.XXXX.X We need to get an actual version number, based on K13757: BIG-IP Edge Client version matr... View more
We have an odd behavior effecting DEP enrollment on Jamf Pro 10.1.1. These Macs complete the Setup Assistant as expected based on our PreStage Enrollment settings, however the Jamf agent fails to install. We get the following in jamf.log Enrolling co... View more
Hi folks, I've got a curious problem. My scripts, part of a configuration used at image time, seem to get cut off half way through. I think this is to do with the jamf.app doing an upgrade when the Mac boots for the first time (and seemingly while th... View more
I have a popup that is displayed after a Mac installs updates that require a restart. One of the buttons says Restart. I am using an apple script in a shell script to trigger the restart, but it does not work when it is run from the JSS as I believe ... View more
Hey guys,we've switched to JAMF and unexpectedly have trouble enrolling a couple of pre-10.10 devices. Errors seem to be macOS version specific and occur on multiple devices.After installing quickadd.pkg on 10.9.5 we get following: 1095dev:~ root# ja... View more
We rely on the Software Updates inventory collection to notify our users about OS updates and Self Service policies to apply them. It appears the 10.13.2 Supplement Update (patching Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities) is not being picked up in the usua... View more
Hey all I was thinking of retooling our weekly reboot, Apple update, install jamf cached packages process workflow. Eventually I would like to get creative and use a launch daemon to check for system uptime and after a machine has been on for 7 days ... View more
I finally have time now to continue testing with 10.13 in our environment and have been running into some issues with adding an admin to FileVault and performing an authenticated restart. The console and policy logs show that the account gets created... View more
Hey all,We had some problems recently with our JSS and one of the suggestions was turning off a custom API tie in that one of my colleagues built to see if it was causing issues. Well we fixed the outstanding issues on the JSS but now I'm looking to ... View more
I pulled the 10.13.2 Combo Updater from here, uploaded the package to Jamf Admin, created a policy to cache it, and then another one to install cached once the updater has been cached. This has worked for all prior versions of the OS, like the 10.12.... View more
Hello everyone, We are just starting to roll out our Jamf deployment to the company(~300 Macs), for awhile all new hires have been enrolled but we have a ton of currently in use Macs that are not enrolled. We have DEP hooked up and verified. Is there... View more
Probably this has been asked before, but the combination of keywords keeps pointing me to other topics. Is there a way to wait for the desktop to be ready once the user logs in? Or, in other words, a way to delay a log in policy script long enough so... View more
I am working on distributing managed apps (VPP) for macOS. In this case, the apps are scoped to computers and set to automatically install. The apps are distributing as expected - but I cannot seem to locate the client-side action/command to force a ... View more
Hi everyone, We have 2 JAMF Pro environments that are mirrors of each other – DEV and PROD.Our endpoints or DEP enrolled and FV keys are stored per environment. Without wiping and re-DEPing can anyone advise on an automated workflow to move devices?S... View more
Im trying to figure out a way to setup Google Backup and Sync completely without having to have the client touch it. I'd love a script to auto sign them in and allow Backup and Sync to use their account making it touch free setup. Anyone have even a ... View more
Our production site is currently being hosted by Jamf and, and as a result, we don't have a viable test instance to work with. While we can easily set up a local test instance, jamf can't/doesn't provide database dumps from hosted installs, so we can... View more
Anyone else experiencing this? After we were updated on 11/11/17, my IOS devices seem to have lost contact with the server. Any commands Pushing apps, updating inventory, etc. all are in a Pending state. I've looked at the histories, so far, no devic... View more
Hello fellows, Could anyone share their workflow for using DEP with JAMF Pro please? Below what we'd like to achieve: iMac assigned to Apple DEP JAMF Pro Installation removes ALL setup screens and enrolls the machine in JAMF Pro. Create a local admin... View more
I've been watching the Jamf Pro 10 threads (there's a lot fewer than I thought there would be). I don't have a formal test environment so my own testing is pretty limited. I haven't seen anything that would be production halting. Some performance tee... View more
I updated to JP10 this morning and have been playing with the new Patch Policies and Google Chrome to see how the function. I created a policy to update Google Chrome automatically with a 15 minute delay timeout. After running a sudo jamf policy it p... View more
So upgraded to 101 and it seems that some managed iMacs are no longer triggering login hooks, or getting specific policies. Running JAMF manage says "The JSS is available". On a particular broken device, we renamed com.apple.loginwindow.plist and ran... View more
Hey guys, I hope you can enlighten me: We have a bunch of policies that we want to be applied in order to consider a machine ready for the user, some are configured to run after enrollment, but some others are set for check-in. I am being asked to fi... View more
Hello, I've been tasked to configure our Macs to force LDAP signing in our AD environment. I'm a bit new to this, so bare with me. When I run the command below in Terminal, it says "Settings changed successfully."dsconfigad -packetsign require I plac... View more
We have a script which I'm attempting to run once a week via a launchd task. Launchd appears to be working normally, script launches, but at the end of the script it calls a JSS policy via a custom trigger. This portion of the script appears to be fa... View more
First time poster here so please take it easy. What I am trying to achieve is seemingly simple, in principle, but boy has this given me a headache. What I need to achieve is this: When an LDAP user logs into a system, Safari launches with a specified... View more
We are seeing an issue where clients on 10.12.6 and possibly 10.11.6 are holding on to their lease and keeping their IP address even when on a different buildings network. We have multiple buildings and each has their own IP address ranges. What is n... View more
Hey all,I am installing insight into our labs, however I found that 10.12 requires some extra steps to complete Any ideas how I can script this? Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools View more
Good Day all, I am looking for a way to utilize Jamf to add an additional layer of security to my laptops. I already use Jamf for nearly everything but I am stumped on how to implement my latest project. we have Laptops that have confidential data on... View more