I have an aging fleet of Macbook Pros (mid 2012) that have developed a problem since upgrading to 10.11 El Capitan. The computer will try to boot and power on, but never get to the gray screen, it stays at the black screen. The fan runs, the computer... View more
I was wondering if there is a script out there I could utilise, to list the file contents ofthe users /library/LaunchDaemons /library/LaunchAgents /library/StartupItems So that I can keep the startup items of users devices to a minimum, I hope to col... View more
Hello everyone, This is my first post in the jamf nation so bear with me. I've created a package of CS5 with my serial key using AAMEE 2.1 and have no issues installing this standalone. Whenever I upload it to the JSS using Casper admin (9.92) it aut... View more
I am reconfiguring management of mobile apps for next school year - and I see "Prevent backup of app data" - I'm not having any luck finding what this does?? Can anyone tell me? View more
We've got a JSS managing a few dozen Macs which is great but we've still got about sixty Windows machines in need of management. I've got Recon.exe on them so I'm at least getting inventory but I'm coming to terms with the fact I likely won't be in a... View more
Just wondering what everyone else is doing for their images for student computers next year? Are you sticking with Yosemite or are you going to El Capitan? We are looking to move to El Capitan and just want to know what kind of issues we are going to... View more
There is a cheating service for membean users that logs minutes on the site automatically. Needless to say, the faculty here are not pleased about this. I have found the most popular culprit in the chrome store (Smart membean) and blocked it via chro... View more
Please join us for one of the four Casper Suite 9.9 and iOS 9.3 in Education briefings and discussion sessions, with Apple and JAMF Software. These sessions are designed for current Casper Suite users as well as those looking to implement Apple techn... View more
The school I work at broadcasts 3 SSID's. I do not have control over the SSID's as they are managed centrally. The SSID's connect using 802.1x PEAP and any student can authenticate to them using their username and password. Is it possible to stop stu... View more
Would we be able to stop the users from uninstalling profiles and force the devices to stay Supervised and Managed in the presence or iOS9.3 and Casper Suite9.9. View more
Hi, This might be a repeat question, but here's my story. I'm fairly new to this MDM for Edu using iPads. Our school has a cart of iPad 2's that I believe where bought from an outside vendor some time ago. I'm currently using Apple Config 2 to "manag... View more
https://school.apple.com Those of you who work in education will be chomping at the bit to enroll in this. Have fun! View more
This past year we've had a couple issues where students have been acquiring the password for our on-campus "Resident" wireless network. We don't want students on this network, as we configure time limitations on our primary production network to prev... View more
I made no conscious effort to make this happen. It started to appear so now I want to know more about what I did to make it happen and how I can take advantage of it in the future. Thanks. View more
Has anyone had any experience trying this? Initial tests on one iPad (from iOS 9.2), then a group of five iPads (from iOS 9.0.2) were promising. All devices updated with no user interaction. The update generally happened within 1 hour of sending the ... View more
A few days ago a bunch of my staff Macbooks that are OSX 10.10.5 now have the "Require Password [X Minutes} after sleep or screen saver begins" setting greyed out. When unlocked it stays grey and states that the preference is being managed by the adm... View more
I'm looking for the best way to have MBAs read two .csv files from an SMB share. We are deploying LanSchool which will read dynamically created class lists. My problem is that if I map that share, everything works as intended, but whenever a teacher ... View more
Hello. As we are considering Apple Education leasing options, it seems that we've narrowed it down to the Fair Market Value Lease and the $1 Purchase Option Lease. While we are leaning towards FMV for our context, I wanted to ask if anyone uses the $... View more
Hello Fellow JAMF Nationers, I'm curious what firewall K-12 schools are using out there? We are in the process of looking at replacing our firewall appliance and am curious what others use, with their pros and cons. Thanks in advance! View more
HI, I'm fairly new to iPad management so apologies in advance if this is a easy question/scenario. I've got 3 teachers who had gotten supervised 16 GB iPad Mini 2 devices in a pilot rollout we made using Casper this past Fall. They are using them lik... View more
Just read this article . All sounds very promising. Especially the apple ID management. View more
Does anyone know if there are tools available at the command line that would allow the Migration Assistant process to be automated by scripting? Thanks. View more
Good afternoon, I'd like to talk with other K-12 Casper admins in regards to ipads and app distribution.Looking for ones that use DEP and app deployment through Casper. Thank you and please leave your contact info or email me directly at: roallen@roc... View more