I was at a school ipad handout event today where we saw about 10% of our iPads fail to enroll via DEP. The ipad serial numbers appear in the JSS pre-stage enrollment list. In the DEP portal, they are assigned to the server. We did use Configurator 2 ... View more
Hi all Has anyone had any luck configuring the com.apple.sidebarlists plist in El Capitan? In previous versions of OS X I would drop a pre-configured plist in the User Template folder. That appears to be working for other plists (such as the dock) ev... View more
Hello, I was wondering if MDM/APN send requests built up over time in the JSS. Whether it be an re-trying request for a computer that has aged out or "cruft" from a server crash. I'm curious because my JAMF logs have a lot of "Unable to create push n... View more
Stumbled upon a way to use animated icons within the Self Service app - Simply use an animated PNG file (APNG format). Looks like support has been around since iOS 8 and OS X 10.10. Have not tested this in Self Service for iOS. This seems pretty harm... View more
Does anyone know how to package and deploy Garageband In app Video tutorials and if there is a requirement? OSX 10.10.5JSS 7.3 Garageband 10.1.0 Cheers, Kevin View more
We are struggling with students installing weird configuration profiles that break the communication between iPads and JAMF. Any ideas? View more
Hi, I've logged a support ticket about this but thought it worth mentioning here in case anyone else has had a similar issue or was checking for potential issues before proceeding with their upgrade. I upgraded my JSS to v9.81 this morning and all se... View more
Hi,I am new for Apple ID Creating Script.I was able to run Batch Apple ID Creator for my school (about 3000 accounts)I like to know how to run Apple ID verification script with Gmail.Did anybody have some good tutorial on how to run Apple ID verifica... View more
I'm embarassed to say, not sure how to have this "Check SIP status" EA to only proceed if OS version is 10.11*. #!/bin/sh if [ -e /usr/bin/csrutil ]; then echo "`csrutil status | awk '{ print $5 }' | sed 's/.$//'`" else echo "NotElCapitan" fi Proceed... View more
We use an open network that we turn on during deployments to allow new machines to contact Apple's activation servers. I've run into several iPads that are on IOS 9.x that are unable to even see that network but are able to see and connect to our sec... View more
Hello I see no computers in config profile..Any idea why? policy and managed Prefs both have scopes with all machines v. 9.8 OS: 10.10.5 thanks View more
PSA to all Hosted JSS Users - JAMF updates "shared instances" automatically on the Saturday following the latest release. This happens between 6am and 12pm Central Time. "Dedicated instances" (which typically for 500+ device count instances) are upgr... View more
Has anyone been able to succesfully block the OneDrive for Business app? I've tried numerous combinations of file name / process name and can't for the life of me get it to work. app is: OneDrive for Business.appProcess is: "OneDrive for Business" id... View more
Is there a way to run the sudo command in a Shell script but have it ask for the password in a GUI window similar to the one attached? View more
So we are playing around with using Configurator 2 (now available in the App store) to configure some of our iPads. One quirk we ran into is the server URL you use to set up your MDM in Configurator 2. We discovered you need to use the URL: https://j... View more
I'm seeing an odd issue that if I run sudo jamf recon when connecting through our DMZ webapp, a new extension attribute I create doesn't get checked (I can see which ones its checking by using "-verbose"). I would have figured that the extension attr... View more
Anyone seeing issues with new Mac Pro's and OS 10.11. Getting the "Yosemite Boot Hang" progress bar thing. Does not happen with any install of of 10.10.5, either manually or using Casper Imaging. This looks like the AMD video card issue / symptoms, w... View more
One of the common methods that I've used to package up some software is to add them as resources in a package and call them via a postinstall script. I don't do this super often but sometimes I do this because it ensures that I can run that one insta... View more
Saw this post and thought I'd share it here. Maybe it will help. How to hide the MAS banner for 10.11 View more
Server 5 supports the caching of encrypted iCloud user data "acceleration" as well as OS X and iOS updates, recovery images, App Store data, etc. See https://help.apple.com/deployment/osx/#/apdf8639b597 Is there a way to disable the caching of iCloud... View more
Hi, Does anyone have a way to block El Capitan installing if it's downloaded from the App Store without blocking the app store itself? I've created a restricted software policy which looks for 'Install OS X El Capitan' as an exact match and assigned ... View more
for my 10.10 upgrade I had a disable setup assistant pkg in the first boot pkg. Would that still be needed or is there a newer better faster stronger practice to use now? View more
We started a pilot of FV, it's not on a lot of machines, but it is on some. What changes would I need to be aware of for the SS upgrade workflows? The users do not have rights to security & privacy, so any decrypt would need to be handled by policy..... View more
Does anyone have the workflow on how to pull back managed apps from multiple users at one time and a separate workflow on individual users too. View more
FYI we just ran into an issue with our upgrade from 9.8 to 9.81. With 9.81 there is an attempt to add an index to jss_access_logs for the timestamp_epoch column. The thing is that our database already had that index and thus failed out when the JSS s... View more
Nice change in the 10.11 builds. Images used for custom login screens no longer need to be messed with. Of course the install of 10.11 blew out the /Library/Caches folder, but the good news is that if you need/want a custom login window, they look go... View more
How does the Management Account get created and applied during Casper Imaging, there must be a QuickAdd.pkg that gets created and is possibly hidden somewhere, because I am not adding it in the Casper Imaging Config. Every Mac I am imaging with Caspe... View more
I normally modify a few things in the Core Services directory when prepping a new build config, such as persistent apps and Captive Network Assistant...Looks like in 10.11 that directory is completely off-limits. I can't even make changes manually wh... View more
We are having an issue with the upgrade on our student MacBooks. I've followed the technical paper on "Deploying OS X v10.7 or Later with the Casper Suite": dragged the Install app to Casper Admin, Cache the app, Install Cached. However, when the com... View more
We upgraded our JSS to v9.81 (from 9.61) and that appears to have gone according to plan. We have a question, though, on Step #3 about modifying the server.xml file on a windows server for "Ciphers for Tomcat HTTPS Connections". https://jamfnation.ja... View more
