On some our of our staff computers, the HD icon is showing up on the desktop looking like a Firefox or Chrome icon. Does anyone know why this would be happening or if there's something we're doing wrong? It doesn't seem to cause any issues but it's t... View more
I wanted to share my configuration XML for those wanting to rollout zoom to IOS and lock it down. I am working through Zoom's documentation here:Using MDM to configure Zoom on iOS The following is the configuration I used: SetSSOURL yourdomain SetEm... View more
I'm using ASM and VPP. I have a number of devices in our environment where they refuse to install applications. Sometimes it's a single app that does not install and sometimes it's all apps for the device. On the Jamf Pro console I will see Install c... View more
We are currently adding our ipads to our cloud instance of Jamf Pro and it is going somewhat smoothly, but I keep running into an warning as the team is going through pre-stage enrollment. It looks like this: 2020-03-18 16:59:58,034 [WARN ] [na-exec-... View more
I have a working test system to add the user images to Apple Classroom, however SSL configuration is new to me and as regards photos of students security is very important.Is a self signed cert on the server hosting the photos secure enough?The photo... View more
Hey folks. I just wanted to toss the question out there and see what you kind folks are doing for you replacement cycle this year. We have already gotten rid of everything Air 2 and below. We are planning on getting rid of some first gen 9.7 Pros and... View more
Here is what I am looking for. I am planning to use Self Service for macOS updates on our teacher computers so that they can run the available update when they have down time and are not in the middle of class. That said, we want to make sure that th... View more
Is there any way to disable Incognito Mode in Chrome on iPads? I really don't see the purpose of Chrome on iPads, if I'm being honest. Safari seems like a much better option. I recently had to disable Private Browsing in Safari on our iPads. I wish t... View more
Is anyone using the "iboss cloud connector 2020" app with the iBoss content filter for off-site iPad filtering? I've tried it for a few weeks with our 11th and 12th grade 1-to-1 students this month, but eventually turned it off because students were ... View more
Does anyone know if NoMAD Login AD is a dead product or are there plans to continue it? I haven't seen any updates to v1.3.0 in several months, if not longer. I'd like to move our Macs over to it but it's not ready for prime time yet. Until then, I'm... View more
Our district is in the process of implementing the use of Apple Classroom for our mobile devices. While I was importing Classes into JAMF from PowerSchool, I screwed it up and imported way more classes than will be using Classroom, and I also apparen... View more
Hey all,I am looking to conduct a survey of what your student device ratios look like. I wanted to get an idea of how technology breaks down per student at each of the various grade levels. I'll be happy to share the results if it helps anyone else o... View more
Hi,I am working on new laptop deployment with DEP, Catalina, trying to reduce clicks and suppress all confusing popups :)I have a Config Profile with third party extensions and team IDs including the only one I have found for HP.I also have the box c... View more
Hey all,Just looking at Catalina and setting a custom login background window picture which has been very easy in the past and helps us quickly identify what machine goes to what building. I'm hopeful Apple would allow this part of the system to be m... View more
Trying to correctly create a profile for Faronics Insight to work properly on 10.14. I tried with the PPPC Utility but it doesn't seem to allow everything that Insight should be allowed to do. Anyone already done the work on this and feel like sharin... View more
Hey All,Not quite JAMF specific, but wondering if anyone has found a workaround to an issue that came up last week. Since then any of our users (as well as peoples personal machines in their homes) who are using Safari and running 10.14.6 are having ... View more
Hey all,I just starting up the shared iPad feature on a new cart and encountering a few issues I wanted to ask about. First of all, once our prestage dep enrollment hits, it reboots the iPad and asks for a student to login which is fine, but then get... View more
The inability to use Classes to assign apps to student iPads seems to be a large shortcoming, but to work around it, has anyone given staff members the right to create or edit Static User Groups? We have a program that rewards the student with and ap... View more
Hello. this may be very simple but havent been able to work out how.We have an event where staff would like to use the student ipads to show photos. The same 10 or so photos on each ipad, is there a way to push these images to the ipads from Jamf ?Th... View more
We are testing Apple Classroom for macOS to use with our one-to-one program. From our initial testing, it doesn't seem like we can set a schedule for the classes and the instructor is able to view screens of student laptops enrolled in their classes ... View more
Background:About 2 years ago our school district went 1:1 with iPads. Only MS and HS students take the iPads home. Daily our IT department receives anywhere from 10-40 calls from either librarians, students, or secretaries asking us to locate the mis... View more
I am aware of how to configure the R180u software using the following SiteIDh1xxxxxxx In JAMF but FasttMath does'nt look for a Site ID it looks for a URL so I'm tried the following but it's not working.. SAMURLhttps://h1xxxxxxx.education.scholastic.... View more
Working with a teacher right now who administers a Mac lab at their high school. Currently in a panic because the students home folders appear to be gone. Hoping someone can give us a nod in the right direction on this. The setup pre-Catalina:- Mac O... View more
Is there a way to force users to use their MAIDs on supervised devices? Something happened to our student iPads and it is asking them all to re-authenticate. The issue is, we have their ability to modify accounts disabled to force them into their MAI... View more
I have a dream that a class will start with a laptop cart being rolled into a classroom, the students will all grab a machine and be automatically signed in with a generic local "student" user account, and the teacher will take out their iPad and ope... View more
I am attempting to renew our Push Notification Certificate. I am following the steps provided but when I put in the Jamf Nation credentials I get a message that the account has not been validated. I have searched in our previous employees emails for ... View more
It’s the beginning of the summer and I still feel like I have all the time in the world before school starts again so I’m willing to give the whole DEP/ConfigProfiles/Policies route a shot before desperately tinkering with DeployStudio. My biggest he... View more
Does anyone know where I can get an updated version of the Office 2016 preferences script for the newest version of Office version 16.24? Office 2016 does not work with new version. Much appreciated. View more
We're considering picking up a handful of Apple TVs for next year and trying to decide between the 3rd and 4th gen models. It looks like a used 3rd gen model can be had for around $100 which is a significant enough discount from the $150 4th gen mode... View more
So I'm so uncertain in regards to what I'm doing, I went through the trouble of creating a throw-away account so I won't get in trouble! I'm doing the IT stuff for a very small private K-12 school. To say that every penny counts is an understatement.... View more