Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t... View more
We are new to JSS and were using Profile Manager to manage our Macs before making the switch. In our old Profile Manager setup we had the Finder ‘Connected Servers’ setting to show on the users desktop. We are currently pushing out an Art Share to on... View more
Has anyone successfully gotten silent activation working with Smart Notebook 15 at image time? I've tried baking the site license SN into the package, when deployed to clients, it wasn't activated & had an error. Now I'm packaging the trial version o... View more
User has lost device then found it but we sent remot wipe, it hasn't kicked in yet. how to be sure it will not take effect. thanks View more
Hey guys, We use a personal key only on each Mac, but some Macs haven't been sending the key back to the JSS. We run deferred encryption, and I assume the reason we don't have the key is because they've completed the encryption at home so our JSS was... View more
We have had the GSX integration set up in our JSS for a while but starting using it a little more recently. Easy to get warranty info on mass computers using a group but doesn't seem so easy when you want to quickly find the warranty info on a single... View more
We are going through some heavy security changes here, and one of the requests is to limit internet access when outside the company (not on VPN) I would like to be able to do this via casper instead of using an application like Mcafee. Has anyone had... View more
Disclaimer: I'm not the author, just been poking around with this and think it's pretty neat. http://errorfreeit.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master4 View more
So we are looking to add 4 Mac Minis to serve as caching servers. 1 TB fusion drive or 256 GB flash storage (same price) I'm inclined to go fusion drive to allow for a larger cache. am I right or wrong and why?? I know flash storage is faster but I d... View more
Hello all, Ethan again! Still learning JAMF. I was curious, is there way to run inventory reports that show which applications are pushed to which smart groups? We (currently) are using JAMF to manage iOS devices only, so this request is specific to ... View more
Hi,I work for an MSP that has a school that may be rapidly moving to a 1:1 deployment. We are contracted IT and not in house. What kind of time requirement should I be setting aside for a technician for the initial deployment of 300 iPads and then th... View more
Hi, I recently built a Netboot server to image the computers in my environment. My Netboot image was created using AutoDMG and AutoCasperNBI. I use prestage imaging configurations based on serial number so the imaging process is as automated as possi... View more
Does anyone have any experience with packaging EndNote X7? We created a site installer which seems to work quite well (in the sense of retaining our licence and serial details), but I'm wondering how best to handle updates, and in particular how to d... View more
I'm trying to figure out a way to disable iTunes from launching when pressing the F8 play/pause button. We have hundreds of computers in our school district doing Smarter Balanced testing. The students are figuring out that pressing F8 will launch iT... View more
We have a lot of users that enable printer sharing on our corporate printers. And since they show up faster than the directory listed one, it creates a lot of tickets. i saw a couple JN posts on it and I kind of combined the EA and the disable script... View more
We have a number of applications that still require plugins for Chrome (Java, among others) and would like to have them turned on by default. This is possible by going to chrome://flags and enabling NPAPI plugins, but it would be nice to have a way t... View more
I wanted to check in and see if anyone has replaced a fully built-out Munki system with Casper, and if so, see if there are any tips or any advice on working around what seem to be some major things that would likely make my life much more difficult ... View more
Hi All, Does anyone know how to set 2 default home tabs in Safari? I know there is the manual way, but I am not sure of the syntax to use to get it to work. Below is what I have. Command: defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari HomePage... View more
When authenticating with an AD account that has full admin privileges in the JSS, Casper Imaging becomes unresponsive when clicking Image. Anyone else experiencing this or have a fix?I'd rather not have to make more generic accounts, nice to see who'... View more
Having to relocate back to my home town. Anyone on Portland looking for a Casper Certified Admin with 7 years experience in a fast-past Mac IT enterprise environment? View more
Hi,I've checked on the following page, it has helped me a lot. I have a .bin and .properties file.https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=8001 When i execute the command in the terminal the installations complete. But I get the followi... View more
Hi All, I'm looking for ideas/suggestions on ways to automate application deployment. We're going through a project to implement ServiceNow and discussions about automating software installations has been bought up. My first thought was that we get S... View more
Hi All,I'm looking for a script that can mount network drives and be able to have it displayed on the desktop or even in the sidebar in finder. Using Yosemite 10.10.3 View more
The issue: Several users report (and I've seen with my own eyes) that 10.10.x / all of their open apps crash after returning from sleep mode. The mouse will move around the screen and the users can right click on dock icons, but they cannot force-qui... View more
On Saturday we upgraded our JSS & JDS instances from 9.65 to 9.72. All went well until we realized today that our SUS webadmin page was not accessible. Our JDS instances also have NetSUS installed - purely for the SUS component. This issue appears to... View more
newbie alert! I am trying to set up my first configuration profile but I get a gray disk in the dashboard presentation after I scope it to a smart group that works with policies. The config profile says there are no devices selected to send it to. An... View more
Announcement for those of you using Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion): Acrobat and Reader will be ending support for these operating systems after the next quarterly update, expected in May 2015. For the best and most secure experience of ... View more
I am attempting to install Identity Finder 8.0 via Casper, but the software package is failing to install. I have two policies configured, one policy is to cache the package and then i have a second policy to install the package from cache. The cache... View more
Trying to deploy a licensed version of AirParrot2 and it's showing up on the user machines as unlicensed.I have built both pkg and dmg's of my licensed version using Composer.I have enabled the FEU option on the dmg and no change.From what I believe,... View more
Hello everyone, Followed this guide from Officeformachelp and it went fine. The problem occurs when I try to package the schedule.http://www.officeformachelp.com/outlook/exchange/setup-script/ To begin, I grabbed everything in /HDD/Users/username/Doc... View more
I have a dockutil script that works great, but when I try to add a line for a parameter it gets kind of funky. Currently the script is written as: ConUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | awk '//{print $3 }'` #Remove All Dock Items sudo -u $ConUser dockuti... View more
