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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

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

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Disable iCloud Prompt from first login

Every year we re-image the student laptops. Some of the young students that use laptops. When we click on the User account that these young students the iCloud Prompt pops up. I know there are scripts out there to do this. We even used it in the past...  View more

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Firefox and company certs (again)

I have completely given up on trying to use CCK2 to configure Firefox. The directions are vague and the author admits that it doesn't work with the Mac version any more. The major problem is that we have company CAs that are already imported into the...  View more

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Enterprise Connect Login Item

Hi Guys, Has anyone found a way to add EC into the user Login Items? I have managed to get these to work locally on my machine to add EC to the login items but as soon as I run it through ARD to a remote machine (figured if I cannot get it to work wi...  View more

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Can't run add login item via Casper Remote

I'm having trouble pushing a script with Casper Remote. We are trying to add OneDrive added to the list of login items for all of our students. The script I'm using works perfect if I run it locally through terminal. When I run it with Casper Remote ...  View more

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Changing Firefox preferecnes

I have been racking my brain for a while now trying to change a string in the firefox prefs.js file using a script. Has anyone done this and successfully modified the file? The problem I am having is getting the script to find the default profile dir...  View more

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New to everything JAMF-Apple-Scripts-HELP

Hi all.(first time post, Life long admirer of your work)Could Anyone HELP As you could possibly tell we are new to all of the above.We have El'capitan macs which we are integrating with our AD (not Set up for apple in the schema) using Casper suite w...  View more

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Re issuing FV 2 Key issues

I have a policy that will reissue the FileVault 2 key and then record it in our JSS, using a script from another jamfnation post. It works perfectly well except for one point. Part of the script requires the user to input their password in order to u...  View more

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Outlook 2016 - disable auto correct across the board

Been getting requests for a quick way to disable all auto-correct in Outlook 2016. Tried this but it doesn't work: #!/bin/sh over500=`dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 > 500 { print $1 }'` # Outlook for u in $over500 ; do /usr/bin/defaults write ...  View more

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Set Master Password via Script

Any suggestions on how to script/automate the process of setting a OS X Master Password? Im not setting it for FDE (We dont use FileVault). Rather, Im setting a Master Password so that end-users dont try and set one (and then forget it etc).  View more

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Activating Sibelius 8

Hi, Im looking for a terminal command that I can use to activate a stand alone version of Sibelius 8. I want to include it as a post install script, otherwise the user, who doesn't have admin permissions or the key, would need to enter it (or I would...  View more

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Best Practice for Escaping Pathnames: "" or \ ?

Just curious: Are you a backslasher or a quoter? Example: Quotes:if [[ -f "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/com.apple.file.plist" ]]; then rm -f "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/com.apple.file.plist"fi OR Backslashes:if [[ -f /Volu...  View more

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Migrating from 2 Domains to 1 Need script help

Hi all,So we are currently moving from 2 domains to one, where each had different username. What I'm looking to do is script the move so it renames the existing user folder to what the new login will be. So Essentially, Unbind from old domain, delete...  View more

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Applescript times out around 5 minutes

Goal: I want to have a script that will restart a system, if no user is logged in, or prompt a logged in user that their computer is going to be restarted in 30 minutes, and give them an option to postpone that restart. I found the following script (...  View more

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Remote management not working after imaging?

I tried using Apple Remote Desktop to make a Client Installer and then created a script to run kickstart in order to enable my ability to remotely manage my Mac's via ARD. It does manage to apply all the settings properly, but then does not allow me ...  View more

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Best way to run GUI AppleScript at login?

We've got a GUI AppleScript which we want to run at login as the user who is logging in. It has to be saved as an .app as the AppleScript progress bar functionality does not work otherwise. Currently we've got a policy set to trigger on login with a ...  View more

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Help with a naming script-

Hey everyone! I am working on a workflow for my company's zero-touch setup. I have 4 scripts that I am testing out and it is failing on the last one. Script 1- Create a folder on root of drive called "NAME", chmod 777 to that folder, then- have an in...  View more

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Script fails ... sometimes

I have a script that removes admin rights, which I run as part of a policy. However, it seems to fail about 1/2 the time (and works fine the other half). Executing Policy Remove Admin Running script Remove Admin... Script exit code: 64 Script result:...  View more

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Sub-topics of interest

Hello everyone, I am Sean Harper and will be the presenter of this session. I am just trying to get a feel for any related topics that people may be looking for more information on during this presentation. Knowing these areas of interest will help t...  View more

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