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
I know you used to be able to run a simple rm -r (user)/.Trash command to empty the trash, but that doesn't seem to be the case in El Capitan and newer - you're supposed to drag all the files in the Trash to the terminal window and then run the comma... View more
PRE-READ DISCLAIMER2017-03-16 - There's been a lot of discussion regarding this post pertaining to security - and rightfully so! That being said, I can not gauge or assign a value to your own internal risk assessment methodology. In other words, I ta... View more
We have 900 MacBook Airs, running 10.11.6, in a 1:1 environment. We are preparing to do state testing on them after spring break. During trials, we found out that students used VoiceOver and Text-to-Speech to read the test questions to them. Unless t... View more
I'm trying to figure out how I can run a script from Self Service as the user who is triggering it. By default, the scripts are being run as root (or the service account, I think). For background, it's a script to re-direct screenshots from being sav... View more
Hi All, I'm working on a script to remove content from the documents, downloads, desktop, and trash from a specific user. We have training laptops that we would like to refresh periodically. The first draft of my script is well intentioned, but it do... View more
The GoalWe have a number of Mid 2012 MacBook Pros still in production that have the known hard drive flex cable issue for which Apple has a Quality Program for replacement. To better determine machines that need this cable replaced, I was trying to c... View more
I know there are several older threads on this topic, but after reading them all and even trying some of the suggestions, I'm still not getting what I need. Maybe some of you will have other suggestions. Here's the issue:Our middle school students al... View more
With our designers and video team I constantly find running the fontbook validator and removing invalid fonts to be very helpful in improving mac performance. I know there is a ftxvalidator app from the apple developer site here: https://developer.ap... View more
I am new to running scripts with JAMF so I am sure I am missing something about the following: I created this is the script to both update the ARD client to 3.9 and restart the agent: #!/bin/sh softwareupdate -i 'RemoteDesktopClient-3.9.0' /System/Li... View more
Recently we became aware of a known Adobe Fuse issue (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2131616) that's causing the application to fail to launch. Apparently the only work around at the moment is uninstalling and reinstalling the application entirely. ... View more
Hi Everyone, I am working on a policy to remove SentinelOne security software by simply using rm -rf to rip out the files, because the deactivation process from the product's console is time consuming and unreliable. I have a very basic sh script to ... View more
Here is a script that i use to rename computers remotely via Jamf. Many computers were not following our standard naming convention, such as computers named "Admin MacBook Pro", etc.. #!/bin/sh serial=`/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | /... View more
I have followed the instructions from TrendMicro to install the TM package for mass deployment. I made a package that places the .plist and a package that installs WFBS I attempted to use Packages.app to merge them into one package and used a post fl... View more
Let me start off by saying we lock down the Sharing System Preference pane and disable file sharing. However, I don't like the idea of having the Mac's default public folders enabled for users. I'd like to think I'm not that much of a scripting n00b,... View more
I know of a cert that will be expiring on macs in the enviroment . The cert is user based and is called "username" only I have an extension attribute which works beautifully, however it's only showing me a result from another cert called "username@so... View more
We have the Internet Accounts system preference pane disabled, but our users are still able to add accounts to Internet Accounts. I think this is being done via Safari because IIRC, it will ask you if you want to add a supported account when you sign... View more
Hi everyone! Hope someone can help: I want to write a script to disable the EFI password. I could use the jamf binary, I know, but I want the script to work even on machines without the jamf binary. I wanted to ask, how can I perform a command and se... View more
Hi - We're getting ready to convert our Exchange users from on-site Exchange (2010) to Office 365 email over the next few months. We've migrated about 200 users so far, and most of the complaints we got from Mac users were about the server re-configs... View more
I have a profile that was deleted from my JSS, but the devices that were associated with that profile, weren't un-scoped first. Now I need to remove the profile from the devices. Any suggestions on how to remove it? View more
We had a MacBook Air grow legs last week, and are trying to track it down. We enabled DEP and jamf was already installed. The new "owner" has updated from El Cap to Sierra and added a user account. The device is still checking in with our JSS. I am l... View more
I saw mention of this on slack today - so wrote an EA that would see if any of the fleet had the two files present. It's rather rough and doesn't do the checksum if the files are there, however could be used to identify any macs for further investiga... View more
is there a scripted way to delete a private key in the system keychain? in the security help pages i found the find-key command (usr/bin/security/find-key) but i can't see a delete-key command. when i delete the generated certificate, the certificate... View more
Hello, I am trying to follow this guide from JAMF: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s398/sh/bec8a262-e33d-4ad9-80fa-05b939db6d8d/f4ca396a63caa510 I am using the script noted here: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s398/sh/bec8a262-e33d-4ad9-80fa-05b939db6... View more
I have a simple SMB mapped drive script that points to a network folder. # Mount the network home mount_script=`/usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null << EOT # tell application "Finder" # activate mount volume "smb://servername/folder/" # end tell EOT` Under... View more
So it appears that in order to run an AppleScript that manipulates a dialog box, from JAMF, one must set jamfAgent up in "Allow apps below to control your computer". This would need to be done programmatically since it's not set up on any of our Mac'... View more
Wanted to put this here in case it helps anyone. To reboot at next start up only, we came up with a PKG that included these three items: The Launch Daemon loads at startup, and is set to root:wheel and 644 as per Apple, and triggers a script: Lab... View more
I've started rolling out Sierra to our Java developers in very small doses for testing and yesterday I was alerted that new installs of Spectacle wasn't working. I dug into it and discovered that the tccutil.py script that sets the Accessibility sett... View more
Where a vendor (in this case Microsoft) decides to shift gears between CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString...and your management tool can't shift gears to keep up, or decides for you whether to use CFBundleVersion or CFBundleShortVersionSt... View more
Hello, I'm looking for some assistance with filling in the Active Directory computer object descriptions for our macOS devices. We're trying to do it via the ldapmodify command as per the script below and it works when we run it through Self Service ... View more
Hi everybody! Hope someone can help... At the moment I'm working on a "First-Setup-Script" to perform some basic steps on a new Mac. This works, more or less, how it should. Except of the notifications. After every finished step, I want to show a sma... View more