Pushing Printers to Macbooks over JSS
Which is the best way to push printers out over JSS to Macbooks? View more
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How often does JSS query AD
What i'm wondering is how often does JSS query LDAP? We are having users transfer schools a lot but JSS takes days or longer sometimes to update that users INFO to the new School location we have set in our AD attributes that JSS looks at. There for ... View more
SMB share profile keeps failing
Hi We use a configuration profile to mount some SMB shares for each user, which has so far worked fine. However, these profiles are starting to fail. On one machine, the profile will work fine for one user but will then fail for a different user on t... View more
FileVault2 ?
Hi Folks In my new environment we have Macs that have been FV2 with individual keys that are stored in a separate CRM database (Annoying!!), why they did this I do not know. These Macs are 10.10 and above which are now enrolled into casper, so now fi... View more
dockutil policy error, not sure why ???
I copied (select line 1 to last line 678 and copy) the dockutil.py from here https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil/blob/master/scripts/dockutil put it in textwrangler, called int dockutil.py and placed it in /usr/local/bin (El Capitan), dragged it in... View more
Pushing a configuration to a Mac
Hi folks, We have been using Casper Imaging for older machines, and this works fine. Imaging uses a configuration that installs a load of PKGs and runs a load of scripts. Note I'm talking about Computer Management > Configurations and NOT Configurati... View more
Mount Drive Policy - How can i force it to run when it fails?
Hi all, I have a few policies that run when a user logs on to mount various shared drives that sit on the windows environment. Sometimes these fail and flushing the policy sometimes doesn't work. How would you suggest that i run the script to get the... View more
how to apply mobileconfig for config profile
i am testing Dock Master (http://errorfreeit.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master) and it created a mobile config from the site. When I create a new configuration profile in JSS how do I apply the mobile config? do I use the custom settings payload and ... View more
APNS Communication
Hi Guys, I've setup a JSS on Ubuntu 14.04 as a bit of a home lab system. All seems to work fine apart from the communication to APNS:- Unable to create a push notification certificate through the JAMF nation wizard. When I log in it boots be back to ... View more
Restrict iMessage on iPad to JSS members only
Is it possible to restrict iMessage so that users can only message other members of the same JSS? (Much like the way GAFE student accounts can only email other members of the same domain.) View more
Does DEP require the JSS be accessible on the internet?
We are enrolled in DEP and have a pre-stage set which gets us to the Configuration Available prompt. However, when clicking Next we get an error stating "Unable to configure your mac an error occurred while obtaining automatic configuration settings.... View more
TRIM Force Script
Has anyone wrote a script that enables TRIM Force for 3rd Party SSD's using sudo trimforce enable? View more
Appareils wipés mais toujours présents dans All Mobile device
Bonjour, Pour la fin d'année scolaire, j'ai wipé la totalité d'un groupe d'ipads en One2One de nos élèves de secondes. Pourtant, ils apparaissent toujours dans "All Mobile devices" avec les infos d'identification élève, mais plus dans le "smart mobil... View more
Advanced Computer Search not displaying Assets
The Admin Guide doesn't say anything about Assets in advanced computer searches. I need to run a report on all the applications being used in our environment, and Applications does show up as a display option under Assets. But when I view the advance... View more
issues with DEP/MDM profile deployment
Anyone have any ideas on the below ? dont think it's a cert issues as we're on a hosted JSS any thoughts/advice welcome? Actions from policy log: Executing Policy Enable MDM Running script Enable MDM... Script exit code: 6 Script result: Getting mana... View more
JSS API not updating with new searches
I have several saved searches that are working when logged into Casper, but when I use the API to access them, they time out and give zero output. If I create a new search then it doesnt show up when loading the .../JSSResource/advancedmobiledevicese... View more
Screen Saver set to specific static image?
I know there's no good built in way to do this in Casper, and googling isn't turning up anything particularly helpful. I've been mandated to make a static image as every Mac's screen saver. Yes, I know. Completely defeats the purpose of having a scre... View more
Need help with criteria to find computers without version 20
I am trying to create a Smart group criteria that lists computers not installed with version 20 of a certain application. Computers can have previous versions of this software installed, such as 17, 18, 19. I have a computer that has version 18 and 2... View more
Safe to enroll distribution points in JSS?
I work for a school district, and we're thinking about placing a distribution point in every building to lessen network load (approx. 25 buildings). JSS doesn't seem to have a great way to manage distribution points (e.g. checking uptime, network sta... View more
Mass Delete Using Serial Number List?
Hello, We are in the process of selling many of out 8th grade MacBooks to the students. We are marking them sold in our cataloging system and have run the removeframework (along with many other tasks), but we never figured out how to script deleting ... View more
Tomcat Memory Allocation, Alternatives?
Is there another way to up Tomcats’ memory in Windows other than using tomcat7w.exe? We’re running our JSS on Windows 2012 R2, and our DB is MySQL on a separate Linux server. I’d like to up Tomcat’s memory via the JSS, but when I try and use C:Progra... View more
Advice on Profile Exclusions
All of my managed Macs have a login window Profile that prevents automatic login. End result: Everyone must authenticate at the OS X login window with AD (or cahched) credentials. Typical IT privacy/secuirty policy etc. I deployed a new home/remote o... View more
Time to upgrade?
This Fall we will be significantly increasing our device load on the current JSS server. Right now it is a 4x core Xeon with 8GB RAM. Runs fine but has had some 'slowness' issues this past school year. DB is local. This Fall we will be hitting 6K iPa... View more
Homebrew potentially breaking JAMF binary
So as part of the homebrew installation process it advises that you may need to perform the following if you're on El Cap sudo chown $(whoami):admin /usr/local && sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local user/ Obviously with the JAMF binary being loc... View more