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Disabling Hotspot on managed iPhone

I was wanting to see if this is possible before I sign up for JAMF NOW for my home devices. Are you able to use JAMF NOW to turn off the Hotspot feature on a managed iPhone? So, for example, I have a person that I have restricted access to certain si...  View more

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MacOS Sonoma

Hey all,I’ve downloaded a installer for macOS 14 from apple and I’ve tested it by packaging it via composer and building it as a .pkg and .dmg and deploying it via a policy in self service. But it doesn’t work it just spins and states this item faile...  View more

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How do I add custom fonts to Google Docs?

Upload the custom font to your Google Drive by opening Google Drive, clicking the “New” button, and selecting “File Upload.” Choose the font file from your computer to upload it to Google Drive. Once the font is uploaded, right-click on the font file...  View more

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User Tracking by Device

We just switched to JAMF Now from Apple Business Essentials. In ABE the users signed in with a managed Apple ID, which allowed me to centrally view which employee was assigned to each device in ABM. In JAMF Now, all I can see is the list of iPad devi...  View more

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Jamf Now: Jamf Protect Dashboard?

We manage 5 devices for our small business via Jamf Now. All of the devices are supervised and have no issues. We went into our Blueprint > Security and enabled the Jamf Protect function. I can see Jamf Connect is running in settings of all of the ta...  View more

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Allowing Simple Numeric Passcode on macOS

Bear with me on this, but I am considering allowing 6 digit number passcode for macOS login. My threat assessment is similar to that of an iPhone, that has a 4 digit passcode protecting the device, which essentially has access to all the same company...  View more

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JAMF Remote Alternatives

We used to use JAMF Remote at our place and been avoiding an update as JAMF Remote was deprecated. One of the reason we used this was for reiamging the Mac's but can no longer do this so what other ways do people achieve this?  View more

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API access - Storage section not expanding

I am importing data from jamf into ServiceNow using the REST API (not using the graph connector because we are not licensed for it) and for some reason the Storage Section is not expanding so I can add those fields, other ones like userandlocation an...  View more

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Outgrowing Jamf Now

Hi,Curious for recommendations for our fleet of ~50 Mac devices.We're currently using Jamf Now which is great for enforcing basic security policies, but we are staring to outgrow it. Specifically in terms of what we are looking for:Support for Apple ...  View more

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Jamf Now - questions about this with Intune

I need to manage 2 macs, our Windows devices are in Azure / Intune. I'm looking at Jamf as I've heard its the best solution for macs.We only have 2 devices and a small business so was looking to use Jamf Now but have a few queries on this setup... Do...  View more

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Dock settings

Hello right now I have the dock set via config profile. The users are able to add items just two things are unremovable. I want to switch to dock utility instead of config profile. The question is can I run a script to backup what their current dock ...  View more

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Profiles not being pushed to iPads

Hi all,Long time lurker, first-time poster. Hope everyone is doing well :DI've got this really weird issue with our config profiles and I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction.It started around a week ago, I noticed that apps were...  View more

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Issues with Removing "dangerous" App

This is probably a dumb question but I have not been able to find an answer.I was requested to remove an App which was purchased by a 3rd party and converted to a "dangerous" app. I am able to get the Bundle ID for the App but not the Name (IE: App N...  View more

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Computer rename script

Hi all.Anyone have a quick shell script to rename computers by looking up the serial in a CSV file? Figure it should be easy to install a CSV on the computer and then run a script to rename?Of is there another easier way to do this? Why? I duplicated...  View more

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SSO for Apps?

Maybe this is not possible with Jamf Now and might be with Jamf Pro. Is there a way to automatically log my users into multiple apps at the deployment stage?For example, If a user has a YouTube Kids account and a Disney+ account. Can I set up a profi...  View more

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Profiles not being pushed to iPads

Hi all,Long time lurker, first-time poster. Hope everyone is doing well :DI've got this really weird issue with our config profiles and I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction.It started around a week ago, I noticed that apps were...  View more

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Why Jamf?

What is your opinion of Jamf? Do you like it? Do you hate it? What is its biggest weakness? Where does it excel? Who does Apple like most between Intune, Airwatch, and Tanium? How do end users benefit from Jamf over other support options? Pros and Co...  View more

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Best Way To Push Contacts To iPhones

Newbie MDM user here. Signed up for Jamf Now and have 6 iPhone 14's being managed for work. The iPhones are not signed into an iCloud account. What is the best/easiest way to push a managed list of contacts to the phones?  View more

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