"brand" my JSS
I saw during one of the demo's at JNUC this year someone had added custom logo's to their JSS icons (not necessarily self service). Was that something they did manually or is there a way to brand my JSS that I'm unaware of? View more
Forum Posts
El Capitan Policies Not Running in JSS 9.81
Hey Everyone, I currently have a ticket opened about this but I figured I'd ask about it as well. For some reason, I cannot run any policies from Self Service while running El Capitan. I get an error in the logs: Mon Oct 19 12:44:15 EUC-13MBP-L13 jam... View more
DEP problems "a profile containing an MDM payload must be removable"
I've been playing with DEP and a teacher ipad with an icloud backup. I could not get the backup to restore and have the ipad in DEP so I gave up on that thought and went to restore it and reenroll manually though the jss enroll site, but now I contin... View more
Start Up Disk Full
I keep getting Mac users that are getting the Start up disk is almost full message. When I look at the Storage tab in About this mac I am seeing around 50 to 80 gb if space being used by "Other". I tried using a program called daisy disc to help find... View more
JNUC 2016 Ideas
Thanks to everyone who came to Minneapolis last week to create the best JNUC ever! While the event is still fresh in everyone's mind, we'd love to hear your ideas for making it even bigger and better next year. Also, thanks again to the presenters wh... View more
IBM @Mac - Why not BigFix?
Having some time to sit and think about the sessions from last week, I'm curious why IBM didn't go with their Bigfix tool that they are pushing? We get asked regularly, when we are going to enroll our Macs into BF, and it's really interesting that IB... View more
IBMs Enrollment Screen Recreated
Hi all, Like many, I wanted my very own enrollment screen like the one IBM showed at the JNUC. I threw something together that works very similarly. This is a native app written in swift. I did try and make it easily editable for anyone to use and cu... View more
wonky errors on user-level configuration profiles
I've been trying to push out some configuration profiles to a freshly imaged mac lab. The only thing in the profile is a few webclips that are supposed to show up on the dock. I'm having this problem at all of our labs but this lab specifically I log... View more
The Walking Dead JSS
I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but apparently the 2nd episode of TWD was all about the "JSS". View more
JavaScript for Automation (JXA) Scripting Support?
Hi all,I was wondering what the level of integration and support of Javascript (JXA, introdcued with Yosemite) for Scripting in Casper is.Everything I have seen so far mostly talks about using bash/shell scripts. Is it possible to use Javascript inst... View more
El Capitan and Self Service
Hi Folks, First off, we have El Capitan being blocked from being installed. I believe laptop users are taking them home and being able to bypass this. I am double checking this later today. With that being said, I have a handful of El Capitan Macs th... View more
newly enrolled 1K's of plugins
Did a brief search, sorry for possible dbl post. New to JAMF and Casper, but each time we enroll a new Mac it shows nearly 200K plugins. Any advise on how to quickly lower this number? Or is this just the beginning of a long process of slowly figurin... View more
Change ComputerName/LocalHostName/HostName to match AD Bind Name
For whatever reason, the ComputerName on all of our macbook airs on campus have been changed to "Macbook Air". Obviously, this has been irritating to the end users and even more irritating to IT. I'm thinking there may be a way to use dscl to read th... View more
Adobe InDesign fails after Update
I know it's not JAMF, but since I want to push out updates I thought I'd ask here... When I run Adobe Update (RUM, or the GUI), I get a message when I try to launch InDesign. "Cannot load Adobe InDesign CC 2014 because it requires version 10.2 or lat... View more
Web Page in Self Service OS
Last year I added some web pages that were displayed as part of self service, homepage, SIS login for student. I removed them to clean it up, much to my surprise the students missed them and just thought self service was broke. I can't remember how t... View more
FV2 Hibernate crashes instead of waking up
I have FV2 enabled on a number of machines. A few of them are working fine. A few of them are "going to sleep" (hibernation mode) and then when the user goes to wake it up, have to hit the power button, log in 2 times, and then get messages that the ... View more
jamfHelper policy error: failed to create global data
Hi All, I am getting the below error in only with OS X 10.11 while executing the policy with jamfhelper. Script result: 2015-10-08 15:06:30.032 jamfHelper[2217:13198] CFPasteboardRef CFPasteboardCreate(CFAllocatorRef, CFStringRef) : failed to create ... View more
Topics for the 1st Mississippi User Group
We would like to get some feedback about topics for our user group. Here are the some that are on the table, but we would LOVE for others to chime in and let us know what to hit first! Effective use of Self Service (Mac OS and iOS)Best practices for ... View more
Issues with self-enrollment OS X when logging in with Admin account
We are seeing some issues with OS X self-enrollment (https://JSSAddress:8443/enroll) when logging in with an admin account. If a standard user logs in, they can download the QuickAdd package without issue. If an administrative user logs in (when you ... View more
test server set up problems
I am trying to set up a test server for trials. I get the JAVA jdk and the mysql database set up but when I go to install the JSS I get this dialog: As I hope you can see, the server app window is visible in the background with 3 green dots on it so ... View more
DEP Groups
I was reading the JNUC VPP and DEP discussion writeup and one thing caught my eye: Is there a way to separate groups of computers in DEP? You can segment the Macs on the DEP portal and the new devices then get assigned to a certain token. This is the... View more
VPP to device instead of userr.
Hi All, As per the title I believe VPP can now be scoped to device as opposed to individuals, I can't seem to locate documentation on how to do it? Does anyone know the steps? Thanks all in advance :) View more
Iboss NonProxy Remote Filter
Hey guys i'm here to let you know there is a way to get Non-Proxy Remote filter back if you are on 10.10 Iboss is an amazing thing but We don't like proxies over here... we found a work around for 10.10 to go back to how it was working in 10.9 the is... View more
Bulk add apps to scope or category
How do I bulk add apps to a scope or category? I would envision that I could simply tick a checkbox for the 20 apps I want and go to 'Assign to scope' or 'Assign to category'. I just can't seem to find the screen, manually entering each app is doing ... View more
CoreTypes.bundle & icons for dialogs, scripts, slides, Self Service & Munki Managed Software Center
Hi All, Awesome, awesome JNUC! (more on that to come). I had a couple of conversations with people about icons to use for scripts, slides, Self Service & Munki Managed Software Centre. Well i've a method i've used for years & assumed everyone else di... View more
Server 5.0.x: apparently command line license agreement works now.
So ... I just installed Server 5.0.x tonight on my Mac Mini running Yosemite (10.10.5). There was a question that came up during JNUC about upgrading Server and having a way to accept the license agreement without going through the GUI. So for shits ... View more
FV2 smart group results
I am confused on why i am receiving different results when I create a smart group to tell me how many computers are encrypted. Here is my criteria and results on 2 test smart groups file vault 2 status IS Boot Partitions Encrypted = 46 File vault 2 E... View more
Find / Email notifications on reboots
Hey All, Just wanted to know if there is an easy way to find machines that reboot at a certain time period without pouring thru logs on each machine I have in a Static Group. Thanks everyone ! View more
NetSuS 3.0.2 help needed with Software update part
So I have a NetSus 3.0.2 setup using VMWare on our server. I want it to talk to the mac mini we use that has 10.10 running Server as a Software Update Server. Currently when I configure machines I use the following command to get them to talk to the ... View more
Scholastic Reading Apps
Hello All, I know this has been discussed elsewhere but the discussions are older and I am wondering if anyone has found a better solution: I am trying to configure 4 Scholastic Reading Apps on iPads. 2 of the Apps (Stage B: Read180 and SRI) accept a... View more
