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This article is based off of the presentation at JNUC given by @tommypatzius , @Jordy-Thery and @glennu Our session at this year’s JNUC 2025 was designed to present a list of helpful tools available to Mac Admins of all skill levels and backgrounds. We know that everyone’s experience with Apple device management is different, so we’ve pulled together a collection of tools that are approachable, practical, and, in many cases, free. Many of them have a low learning curve, making them accessible whether you’re brand new to managing Macs or have years of experience. Our goal is that everyone walks away with at least one new tip, trick, or tool they didn’t know before. To make things clear and easy to follow, we’ve divided the tools into categories by function: Apple apps, Jamf tools, maintenance, setup & customization, notifications & support, and inspection tools. We took a closer look at a few specific highlights—Jamf Helper Constructor, Self Service+, and IBM Data Shift—before moving
So as of recently, our iPad 5th Gens are not able to enroll after factory reset to 16.7.12. We’ve had to do factory resets on iPads that are out of space. Our 6th and higher version iPad’s (17.7.10 / 18.7.1) appear to fine at the moment. Jamf Pro still claims to be supporting iPadOS 16, where JamfNow supports a minimum of 17.x. Has documentation not been updated regarding iPadOS 16? Not sure where to go at this point as we have a plethora of 5th Gen iPads still in our school environment.
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Thank you @JoannaB for getting this group created! I am excited to see this group get up and running. I will make sure and invite all my co-workers!
How do we configure a computer smart group to show which computers have Touch ID configured/enrolled for locking/unlock? I’ve tried ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to help configure a computer extension to no avail.
Hi, Has anyone yet figured a way to write an extension attribute to report whether a device is TouchID capable or not? bioutil does not seem to give any indication of capability regardless whether it's run on a TouchID capable device or not. There doesn't seem to be anything returned by system_profiler to indicate. Struggling to find anything that could be leveraged... CheersDan
I figured this would be helpful here. We use it to remotely grab logs from a Mac. Throw the script in a check-in policy and assign a computer to it. At next check-in, you will have their logs. This script will output the network quality. It then uses the API Role/Client 'Computer Attachments' (Update Computers, Read Computers, Create Computers) to pull the JAMF Computer ID using Mac serial number. It then runs sysdiagnose to create logs. It will then upload the logs to the Attachments section in the JSS portal. I set access token time to 300 because the file it uploads can be 400MB. Logs can be then downloaded from JAMF - Computers - Computer - Attachments. #!/bin/zsh --no-rcs ## AUTHOR: Joshua Clark## DATE: 09/06/2025## PURPOSE: This script uses the API Role/Client 'Computer Attachments'## to pull the computer id using Mac serial number. It then runs## sysdiagnose to create logs. It will then upload the logs to the Attachments## section in the JSS portal. ## NOTE: Client ID and secret
I’m unsure if this effects iPadOS 26.0 as I have just pushed out iPadOS 26.0.1 to devices this week. We have a Single App Mode profile for TD Snap (though app doesn’t really matter). After the device is rebooted it looks like on the home screen you can’t unlock the device. Swiping up just shows “No older notifications” but does not unlock the phone and take it to the Single App locked mode to TD Snap. Has anyone else experienced this? This iPad is on iPadOS 26.0.1. Didn’t have this issue prior to the update.
Jamf School currently assigns users and devices based on the following premises: Each user is assigned a username, which Jamf School treats as a unique identifier. Devices are linked to users via this username. However, there is a design flaw in the current implementation: It is possible to create new users with an already existing username, either manually or via CSV import. Jamf School does not issue a warning or automatically adjust the username (e.g., by appending a number). The original user is silently deleted, and a new user with the same username is created. All devices previously assigned to the original user are now assigned to the new user. This behavior occurs across the entire Jamf School instance, including across different locations. Jamf School should enforce globally unique usernames across all locations.Since location managers can only view users within their own location, they cannot verify whether a username already exists elsewhere. Therefore, Jamf should implement
Hello guys, i am affected by the MS latest security patch Microsoft Active Directory Strong Certificate Mapping Requirements. My devices cant connect to wifi via certificates after the latest patch. My devices are not in domain, also users are local , so when i tried the objectsid Extension attribute it didnt work even though i have cloud idp as azure connected and i guess its because users are local. Do anyone have any idea how to tackle this :) Can we use UPN or some other attribute for macbbos that uses local user account and not in domain?
I had a few devices upgrade to iOS 26 and the homescreen layout is not working….has anyone ran into an issue with this?
Hi So i’m working in school where we are setting up Apple Tvs we wanted make slideshow, although github is a good shout it is too public to use, is there any private websites that follow GDPR that could be a good recommendation? I was thinking about sharepoint, but not sure if that would work
I have a custom script that I use to upload an ipa file to an in-house Jamf Pro mobile device app. I am using the endpoint: {URL}/JSSResource/fileuploads/mobiledeviceapplicationsipa/id/{app_id}?FORCE_IPA_UPLOAD=true The file does get added to the app in Jamf correctly, however the upload will stop at 99.9% or 100% and just hang until my timeout limit has been reached. So the script throws a timeout error. I have a check for a timeout and then check to see if the file exists in Jamf after, but this feels like a weird workaround. Am I doing something wrong? Why is Jamf not responding with a success 201 after my POST?
Does anyone have any SwiftDialog progress bar .sh examples they’re using during PreStage enrollment to enhance the end-user experience? I’m working on improving our setup workflow and would love to see how others have implemented theirs.
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