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
Hey all,I just wanted to post my findings for those who didn't already know of the differences in the way you can license the Microsoft Apps for Mac and a big shout out to Paul Bowden for all his work and help understanding this. We had recently swit... View more
Hello all, I believe that this is a simple problem and that it may be already answered in a lot of other topics but unfortunately, all the scripts that I tested didn't solve my problem. I need to deploy a policy to local users only avoiding the manag... View more
Curious if anyone successfully automated deployment of the McAfee Agent MER tool for Mac? We packaged the script and placed it in /private/tmp/ and it is executable: We run a postinstallation script immediately after: The postinstallation script cont... View more
Things I have tried: LaunchAgent The LaunchAgent doesn't have permissions to run the commands in the script. Wasn't sure how to get around this. Policy on Login We use Wifi to authenticate and when the machine attempts to check for login policies, th... View more
Just for a quick background I work in k-12 and we have a 1 to 1 set up in the High school. I am currently setting up my workflow to work on both DEP enrollment and Casper Imaging. We have hundreds of computers not in DEP so we still need to use Caspe... View more
I have a launch daemon and a script created to run after an OS upgrade. Results are that the daemon runs, and the script but only part of the script is executing. Below is a part of the script, the Turn SSH on piece works as I can verify that in the ... View more
Is anyone else successfully editing the "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db" file? I had been doing so in El Cap and Yosemite since that is the Database for the Accessibility list (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Ac... View more
I have a shell script that works fine when I execute it from the command line. (I tested it on 3 different Macs.) But when I try and drag it into Casper Admin, I get It's a very big script (a little over 6MB), but I've uploaded similar large scripts ... View more
We have a volume license for N users, and we have the deployment process ready to go. Including programmatically serializing/activating the software, as well as deactivating the software. The vendor is very helpful and can provide this info if you ne... View more
Here are two scripts can be used to create the extension attribute to check the Parental Control status on Client, take it if you need. I'm not good at coding, but they work. #!/bin/sh find /Library/Managed Preferences/*/ -name "com.apple.familycontr... View more
So is it possible to test, in a script if a machine was enrolled with a specific prestage enrollment? View more
Trying to find a way to measure the mail store size via an extension attribute that could then be viewed in inventory. The mail store is for Apple Mail, not Outlook. The potential complication is that there are several different operating systems in ... View more
We've got multiple versions of some Adobe apps on some of our machines, and we thought it'd be nice to have slightly customized icons (2017 added to the bottom corner of the icon for example). It'd be nice if we can replace the icon with a post-insta... View more
Hi All, I made the following Extension Attribute to collect MAC addresses of devices now that we are living in Dongle Hell. This reports the last MAC address of both built-in and removable devices connected to the machines. To prevent the table from ... View more
Hey all, So I'm trying to build a workflow that we can use to upgrade all of our (compatible) computers to Sierra this summer (while the schools are empty). We have a lot of computers in our district (including bretford carts full of Macbook Airs), s... View more
I am trying to do something rather interesting to help our student body with Garageband. These are non-admin accounts, installing Garageband from VPP in Self Service. I have other scripts to automatically download and install this content but for tho... View more
Duplicate post. Disregard. View more
Greetings, Running into a scenario in our Mac Labs where users are leaving their accounts logged in, requiring the next person to force reboot the computer. I know there's the option to force logout through a configuration profile based on idle time,... View more
I have a policy that updates an application. The package provided by the developer will launch the application into the menubar under OS versions 10.10-10.12 but not for 10.9. I've attempted to write a script that would launch it under 10.9 with my o... View more
When installing a software using terminal, I use this command: sudo sh ~/Desktop/cbdefense_install_unattended.sh -i "/Users/name/Desktop/CbDefense |Install.pkg" -c COMPANY CODE Company code being the access code. It installs perfectly, silent, and th... View more
Hello All,I've gone through the Nation quite a while but I'm still a newbie so sorry for the mistakes early on :). Our problem is that we want to be able to authenticate the wifi with both computer and user certificate. It will authenticate with comp... View more
So I thought it would be good fun if my jamfhelper script would display an icon of the specific Mac model on which the script was running. There are a bunch of places in the OS where these icons are stored, but I’m hitting a brick wall trying to figu... View more
I have a script that has the the following variables ## Get User Name. loggedInUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'` PATH1='/Users/$loggedInUser/path/to/folder/' Then it uses expect to pass the path to a SCP command. When passi... View more
Hi, I'm currently trying to implement a password requirement for Screensaver on Mac OSX, with delay of 5 seconds. This works and changes the setting in system preferences, but require the user to log out or restart to go into effect. I'd like to add ... View more
Does anyone know whether there is a way to determine the currently logged in Self Service user via terminal/bash? I am in the process of developing a script that would map a managed network printer, but in order to do so I also need to provide the Ac... View more
We've been using macmule's method for quite some time, and it's working but it creates a lot of extra junk in our users tab from local accounts mapping to AD names. What's the easiest method of modifying for current best practices (I believe the pyth... View more
Hi there, I've got a number of devices that are showing pending profiles that have been pending for several days now, with no sign of deploying or failing, just stuck in limbo. I've read a few discussions about this and several people have suggested ... View more
Can anyone recommend alternatives to jamfHelper? I need something that can: Present a fullscreen message to the user (like -windowType fs in jamfHelper) Runs in the background so my script can continue doing things while the message is showing Allows... View more
Hello, By using DerFlounders post on upgrading OSX, I've started preparing a package for updating to macOS Sierra for those in our organization who are still on older versions of OSX. I got the following script from the same source but have modified ... View more