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Jamf Pro 11.4.0 Beta is now available

Hello Jamf Nation! This release is in support of the Apple Spring release. We have several exciting new features including beta MDM support for Apple Vision Pro, Self Service initial app detection, Support Digital Market Act app restriction, and more...  View more

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Collect Software Update Logs - Report

Hello Folks, I need to collect macOS softwareupdate logs from massive devices. In practical terms, I need the return from “softwareupdate --history” I can create a policy to execute this command, but how/where can I store the data? Is there a way to ...  View more

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macOS Updates

Hi everybody, We're curious as to how everybody manages macOS updates on their estate? We don't currently manage this and are interested to see how everybody else handles this - let us know below. Thanks!  View more

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Auto assign user's department based off title.

Is it possible for me to have my JSS auto assign a user to a department based off of what their title is? I currently have a config where when a user signs into Enterprise Connect it will then recon that Mac to the currently signed in user in Enterpr...  View more

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Jamf Pro 10.7.1 lost Enrollment process

Dear JAMF Nation Comunnity, hope you all are doing great. We have the following issue, after upgrading to version 10.7.1, we have lost the ability to update, connect or recon any of the devices on campus (20000 devices), I am sharing the images of th...  View more

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Collecting User Data

Is there a way to prompt for users to enter some items like their username and room location? We've distributed computers to a number of people and want to ensure they're in the right spots. Thanks for any help.  View more

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Automatic Naming Example - Using API

This is a script that gives a specific prefix for Location, adds Dept, then adds an identifier. It's fairly specific but the bash script for scraping the API response is good to use on anything you want to retrieve from JAMF. I currently have the ide...  View more

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Brew Extension Attribute

Trying to get an EA to report if homebrew is installed so I can scope a GIT update. #!/bin/bash ## Work Area #################### which brew if [ $? = /usr/local/bin/brew ] then echo "brew installed" else echo "brew not installed" fi I only get "brew...  View more

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QuickAdd create failing if not main admin v10.3.1

I'm not sure what I am missing here but I just want to create a new QuickAdd package in Recon.app with my user which is Administrator with Full Access and I'm getting this when hitting the "Create" button. This is a sandbox JSS with GSuite SSO enable...  View more

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QuickAdd Package revocation / deprecation

Hey fellow JAMF-heads! I am wondering if there's a way to deprecate or revoke a certain QuickAdd package so it's not usable anymore to enroll machines. The scenario is that we have users enrolling to test servers (by mistake, hopefully) because they ...  View more

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Recon Disabled Printing

Our school district is running PaperCut MF 17.1.3. We have one primary print server that houses our PaperCut server in our Central Office and then each building has its own secondary print server that talks to that primary server. I recently ran Reco...  View more

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How to find macs on your domain

I am new to Jamf and have been tasked with Wrangling in our Mac architecture here at my company. The question is how do you go about finding them. From out Legacy side that i created i know the subnets and admin usernames for the all the machines. Be...  View more

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Setting the asset tag as the hostname

Playing around with NetInstall and Recon to re-image machines with High Sierra, this works reasonably well but the issue I am stuck with is setting the hostname for the machine (the system we use predates me), with Recon I can specify the asset tag b...  View more

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EA data being blanked out

Running into a new one that I've not encountered before. We use Centrify to bind to AD. I have a fairly simple EA, which basically uses Centrify's "adquery" command to pull the computer's .ou and stick it into the computer record. This allows us to s...  View more

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Drive Capacity not listed !?

We use Jamf Pro 9.101.4 and I noticed that for many machines the 'Drive Capacity MB' empty like this example here: Is this a known issue? This behaviour I found for 70% of our Fleet (mostly 10.12.6, most MacBooks, some iMac) and I cannot see the logi...  View more

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Caches deleted using Recon Quick add

Hi, I am in the process of on-boarding a college into our JAMF Pro instance. I gave the department Admins a Quick-add package to enroll existing Macs. Turns out, they are caching a custom image for their log in screens at /Libraries/Caches. That is g...  View more

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Recon Missing Data

I have a few systems in my deployment where recon will not populate any installed certificates or profiles. This is a very small percentage of systems , but no matter how many times i enroll or run recon on these systems that data is never collected....  View more

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Recon and Joining to Active Directory

Hi everyone! We'd like to start joining our Macs to AD during the initial Recon process. First time setup. Do away with the manual process using Directory Utility. I was wondering what the best way to do this is? I've read so many posts on this, I'm ...  View more

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Lock Mac if not check in X number of days.

Every JAMF environment I've managed, we always have about 10% of the Macs go AWOL. The reasons vary and with a mobile work force things happen. We woud like to have the Mac self-lock if it hasn't checked in to JAMF within X number of days. Our Macs a...  View more

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JSS enrollment is not binding my macs to Active Directory

I have the JSS setup so that when I enroll it in the JSS it also binds the user to AD so that they can login using our domain accounts. We have a mixed windows and Mac environment so we want one login for everything and binding to AD allows us to do ...  View more

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High Sierra Supplemental update breaks recon

Hi!Yesterday apple released a supplemental update in order to fix the password leak for encrypted APFS disks. Around the same time all the High Sierra macs in our environment started failing their recons. Here's what I've noticed: Recon's resulting i...  View more

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