Hello Everyone, Our next monthly Twin Cities Mac Admins meetup is set for April 23rd from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at JAMF Software in the Grain Exchange building in downtown Minneapolis. This user group is for Mac admins from all industries and experience lev... View more
With the release of Adobe Reader DC and all its cloud integration, we decided to start looking more seriously at FeatureLockdown using /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Reader.plist. The problem I'm having is that there are exactly two examples I can fi... View more
Hi everyone, Excited by the new feature, we are testing today the new possibility of focusing a student device onto just an attention screen. First, we were a little dissapointed to see the Self Service Mobile app has to be installed for that to work... View more
Hey all, If I boot a mac from a NetBoot image and use Casper Imaging to install the InstallESD.dmg, the progress bars moves quickly and the only thing that gets installed on the target drive is /private/. If I boot the same machine from a USBboot dis... View more
My personal Mac is doing my head in!!! I installed the security update 2015-003 and it restarted into a black screen. The Mac itself is working fine, but display wise i can't see anything. I can remote onto it fine by vnc and teamviewer. I presume it... View more
In 10.10.3, the command '/usr/sbin/spctl --disable' no longer sets Gatekeeper to Mac App Store Only, as used in the JAMF script 'Gatekeeper - Mac Store Only' (https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProductFile.html?fid=587). In this new release of O... View more
Hi, Just want to give a heads up. Our MacBooks are configured with a firmware password and are encrypted with FileVault. An upgrade from 10.10.x to 10.10.3 causes startup issues halfway the process. (You'll see the infamous folder with a question mar... View more
Not sure if anyone else is doing this.. but on occasion it would be handy for me to image MacBook Airs over WiFi (no not often) at remote sites where Thunderbolt ethernet adapters seem to disappear. I have no problem getting an OS vanilla autoDMG loa... View more
When a iMac is bound to AD should user accounts be 'Managed Mobile', like the user accounts on a AD bound MacBook pro or MacBook air?I know for the laptops it's so users can login when taking the laptop off the network to take home, not sure if iMacs... View more
Being the masochist that I am, I have already started testing imaging configs based on 10.10.3. As part of our provisioning process, we have an AppleScript-based app that, among other things, runs a command that creates a mobile account on the system... View more
can anyone please confirm if 10.10.3 fixes the stuck at 50% boot issue View more
Hey Guys, does anyone have any experience packing the Xamarin Android Player? Best way of packing the SDK for the users? Once i package the program and deploy to the user if i try to register it though Xamarin Studio i receive the following error whe... View more
This release includes improved performance, bug fixes, and a redesigned Emoji keyboard. Changes include: Improved performance for: App launch App responsiveness Messages Wi-Fi Control Center Safari tabs 3rd-party keyboards Keyboard shortcuts Simplifi... View more
Can anybody help me with renaming macbooks based on first AD user who logs in? after imaging the macbook is named macbook by default. if Jon Doe logs in first can casper rename the computer to JDoe_R_(macaddress)? View more
We have a few seats available for a scheduled four-day CCT training session June 22-26, 2015 in San Antonio, TX. If you have a need and are in the South/Central Texas area or just want an excuse to visit San Antonio find out more, contact raymond.phi... View more
Anyone have a kb page with changes? View more
I have seen the Casper Video on how to deploy an update with various policies using Casper Admin. My question is, with the recent combo update 10.10.3, what OS can I update from? Any e.g. 10.9.X, or must it be 10.10.X Apologies for the newbie questio... View more
Hello, I'm trying to make a change to a configuration profile and push it out to all configured devices, but when I click on distribute to all I get a 506 Error and the message "An error occurred while saving the changes. See JAMFSoftwareServer.log f... View more
I have discovered an issue with our imaging tool. Currently we are running imaging (9.32) on a OS X netboot server. Our JSS version is (9.65). Everything has been fine with the imaging tool so far. However, in the last few days we are seeing an issue... View more
/Library/Application Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper -windowType fs -title "Stop" -description "This computer will not work outside the Library" -icon /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/AlertSto... View more
I recently added 20+ Apps and the Apps are going to be assigned to the same exact group of carts for a school. Is there a way to select multiple apps and scope out to devices/groups without having to click on each single App name--> Edit -->Scope -->... View more
Hi, Just wanted to share this script I finally got to work in our environment where we keep having issues with MAC machines connecting to the internal office Wi-Fi which is managed by Windows AD. The script pretty much cleans up Keychain Access from ... View more
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204490 Best part: Addresses an issue that could cause Macs bound to an Active Directory server to become unresponsive at startup View more
As I mentioned in the meeting last night I would like to look at iBeacons for a few things (right now - sure there are many more ideas). I would like to consider "fencing" the library to keep laptops assigned to the library IN the library. Possible s... View more
Dear All, when I try to use Push Notification Certificate Assistant with my account I receive this error:Your JAMF Nation account has not been validateddespite it was already activated.Could you help me? View more
HiI am working with an asp.net application and want to call som rest services in JAMF. So far I have tested with ...JSSResource/computers just to try to get a list of computers. However, I am not sure about how to configure the url, I have tried a co... View more
At the start of our deployment we used Recon and scanned for machines on our numerous subnets and collected about 3/5th of the machines. They were all added using one of a number of possible local admin accounts, which became their management account... View more
Due to licensing issues with codecs bundled with VLC we need to find an alternative media player, what are others using? From our legal department:"On the webpage it is explained French law, which is the only one to be applicable to VideoLAN. Most pi... View more
Hi- I have been racking my brain for the last couple of days trying to solve this problem. I can't seem to get my image to work and be setup the way I want it to and I cant get past the "The imaging process is finishing installing software screen" He... View more
The MDM profile is missing from all newly imaged MacBook Air computers. I attempted the command: "jamf mdm -verbose" and got this return tsc-80007-mba:~ root# jamf mdm -verboseGetting management framework from the JSS...Enabling MDM... verbose: Attem... View more
