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
IT pros will be able to delay Apple updates for 90 days with iOS 11.3, macOS 10.13.4 YAY! View more
We have some software that we want users specifically request by calling/mailing our helpdesk, and then our helpdesk can assign the software to the users computer. Is static groups the best route for this? For example a user wants SPSS 24. Sends a ti... View more
Im trying to wrap my head around the best way of patching software outside Patch Management, with the familiar testing > production workflow. Example: I have a static group called Install Endnote x8. Static group is scoped to a policy called Install ... View more
Is there away and I have been reading some of the KB's and all and can't quite find the answer, Is there a way to update or do a mass update through the JSS in the Jamf dashboard or global? View more
As an FYI - we have Apple auto-updating and they released the specter/meltdown fixes. I've started getting a few people bringing me machines that are now crashing on boot up after installing, incl rebuilds that ran the updates. Anybody else seeing si... View more
Anybody worked with Jamf's patch management and the Office 2016 definitions? Jamf has them all separated, and I figured I would just pick Outlook and assign the current suite to it. Any problems doing it that way? View more
We rely on the Software Updates inventory collection to notify our users about OS updates and Self Service policies to apply them. It appears the 10.13.2 Supplement Update (patching Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities) is not being picked up in the usua... View more
Hey all I was thinking of retooling our weekly reboot, Apple update, install jamf cached packages process workflow. Eventually I would like to get creative and use a launch daemon to check for system uptime and after a machine has been on for 7 days ... View more
I have a simple softwareupdate payload policy with a sudo reboot command that works wonderfully. Only question - many of my users log out completely and just let the mac sit on login window. Will my policies still run? I have them set to run at night... View more
Hi Folks, Does anyone know how to suppress the macOS notifications when enabling automatic updates? Per screenshot. We had to enable security updates on our workstations and ever since we did, users are also receiving the macOS High Sierra prompt to ... View more
We have a few DEP enrolled Computers in our JSS and I wanted to take advantage of the Remote Commands available to run through the OS upgrades from 10.13.0 to 10.13.2. After completing the "Download and Install Updates" button it is marked as complet... View more
Hi All, With the updates released by Apple yesterday. I am trying to run a search to get a list of employees that have updated installed the updates. Does anyone have any recommendations of what would be the best way to get this report? (Example: Saf... View more
Trying to understand the difference between the two methods. When I deploy the Software Update payload, it seems to work fine, installing any generic software update from apple. How is using "Files and Processes" and then execute command "softwareupd... View more
I know this has been talked about often on this forum but I am running into consistent issues upgrading our computers to ElCapitan from the versions previous. I have tried several methods but nothing discussed seems to be working. Today I followed th... View more
We have over 1,200+ apps in our VPP available to our staff and students, some of the apps are important to keep up to date (ie Schoology). When I do a "Search Inventory" on Mobile Device Applications and search for Schoology, I see 14 versions of Sch... View more
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can elucidate on the subject of Apple Software Update 10.13 Caching Servers JSS. I have a number of 10.13.2 Mac Mini's enabled with Content Caching. If I point my clients to Apple's Software Update Service via a JPS Co... View more
I am having some strange intermittent errors installing applications and deleting files in High Sierra. When installing some but not all Apps I often get an error which includes the text: "An unexpected error occured while moving files to thier final... View more
I have installed and I am running NetSUS 4.2.1 running on a Ubuntu 16.04 VM. It is downloading updates, I can edit settings and the catalogs and I have two catalogs defined. I can access a catalog via a URL like http://sus.example.com/content/catalog... View more
Good evening (or morning...or afternoon) fellow Jamfers. I have a question that, in my 8 years of Caspering, I have not been asked before. I'm debating as to whether or not it deserves some sort of trophy or other recognition. Anyway, I guess we have... View more
I pulled the 10.13.2 Combo Updater from here, uploaded the package to Jamf Admin, created a policy to cache it, and then another one to install cached once the updater has been cached. This has worked for all prior versions of the OS, like the 10.12.... View more
We have not upgraded any of our Sierra machines to High Sierra yet but Apple finally started shipping macbooks with High Sierra and now we're trying to install safeguard 8.0.3 on our first HS machine and we're getting an error after we drag the clien... View more
We have purchased licenses for Xcode 9.2 through VPP and pushed the app down to a lab of MacBooks. When it comes time for them to move on to the next lesson plan/task it is prompting for administrative credentials to install it. Is there an automated... View more
I am in the process of setting up a netsus server in our environment. I have installed netsus and synced all updates to my server but I do not see any updates for xcode. I only see command line tools updates for xcode. Does anyone know where or how x... View more
Hi folks, Anyone use Caching Server instead of regular SWUS? We currently run SWUS service for Sierra clients on Server app 5.2 over OS X 10.11.6 on an XServe (not kidding, see image). This setup has worked well for us since the OS X Leopard days. Ho... View more
I have 4.2.1 installed and I am unable to get updates to be seen by my machines. my suscatalog http://server/content/catalogs/index_CMC.sucatalog doesn't have the updates listed as enabled in the branch. When I search the XML file returned by that ad... View more
Has sombody the same Problem.On shared iPads the Update from IOS 10.3 FAILs.All devices are Stuck in Recovery Mode.Only System Restore bring them back to live. It only happens on shared iPads 2017 with IOS 10.3. It does not matter if the update is ro... View more
Another thing I worked on today as a little personal project.Again, stolen adapted from Joe Farage's Firefox update script, this does the same thing but for the ESR (Extended Support Release) edition, as we're more of an ESR shop.Unfortunately, ESR i... View more
Just wanted to share something I got working today in my Friday afternoon Google Time.This is stolen "adapted" from Joe Farage's Reader updating script, but designed to update Acrobat Pro DC. #!/bin/sh ################################################... View more
I am a fairly new Jamf guy, recently coming from a full Munki environment for over 7 years. With Munki you could configure (on 10.9.x and above) to automatically install without user interaction any pending Apple Software Updates that did not require... View more
I recently discovered that the 27.0.0.170 Flash update crashes every time I access vSphere's web interface. This is acknowledged in this article. Please beware if you are in a vSphere environment. I had to downgrade Flash to the previous version in o... View more