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Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta is now available!

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

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"Other" Username and Terminal Dock Icon when Enrolling

Hi,When we enroll our computers to Casper, some of them (seemingly random which ones) will add the "Other" username to the login screen and the Terminal icon to the Dock. In our Configuration Profile for the Login Window, the "Show Other..." option u...  View more

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JSS on DMZ, failed installs

For those of you with the JSS on the DMZ, how are you handling the policies that fail if a machine is not on the network (and therefore not able to mount the internal servers). We have about 200 subnets and about 50-60 buildings setup, but when a mac...  View more

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Installation of JDS 9.61 results in broken JDS

Ok, after a few hours of scratching my head, it looks like the installer for JDS 9.61 Linux is somewhat broken, at least on RHEL.First, the /usr/local/jds/conf/apache_aliases.conf is empty after installation. That seems to be wrong and the contents o...  View more

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Run a script

Hi, For a department I need to run the Wirelurker script i found in this topic: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=12494 This is a python script. I need to download the script via a curl -O command, and then run it with python. Lo...  View more

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Leverage VPP through Self-Service?

I have a of question regarding VPP and self service. We're using self service to deploy a lot of the applications to our users but I've noticed that this seems to be an either or scenario when it comes to using VPP. If I deploy apps with VPP through ...  View more

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Self Service App on iOS 8

Wondering if anyone else is having issues deploying the Self Service app via Casper using the managed app configuration? I am currently testing deployment via the following method: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=370 When the app ...  View more

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Restoring Prod DB to Test server, with VPP tokens

Hello, This summer I learned how to duplicate my production DB in a test environment for the purpose of testing configurations and software upgrades. I made the following Note to Self: AFTER EVERY DB RESTORE FROM LIVE CHANGE: JSS URL (Global Manageme...  View more

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DEP QuickAdd failed to download

Hello - I'm running into an issue with a Yosemite client that is successfully enrolling with the JSS via a PreStage DEP enrollment. The client successfully enrolls and the MDM profile gets installed, but I am receiving the following error - "DEP Quic...  View more

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Admin Users in your Environment?

Hello fellow JAMF users! I have a non-technical question for you. Any of you folks in an environment where you have a special development crew whose basic needs and daily duties fall outside of the rules and policies meant to protect the the rest of ...  View more

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Disabled iPad with WiFi turned off

Student set a passcode and turned off WiFi. The device is supervised and running iOS 8.1. When it is plugged into a computer, iTunes will not connect to it until the passcode has been entered. I'm open to wiping it, but not sure how to make that happ...  View more

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Student with Xcode

I have a student that we installed Xcode on his computer so he could work on some coding on his own. When he tries to run a project, he gets an error saying he doesn't have permissions to run Browser. Is this something I just have to allow in my appl...  View more

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[ANN] MacDMV Admins Meetup - Nov 13, 2014

We have another MacDMV scheduled for this Thursday, November 13th 2014 located at: Greenfield Belser1818 N Street NW, Suite 110Washington DC 20036 We’ll be talking about Yosemite, iOS 8 and their respective improvements and challenges, as well as dep...  View more

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Login Screen Resolution

Does anyone know how to change/set the login screen resolution? I need to scale it to 720p but it boots up in 1080i and then logs in to 720p. I googled for a bit but I couldn't find anything. Tried changing it in guest and root too. reset Pram a coup...  View more

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How locked down do you make your student Macs?

Hi all, We have been setting up Macs in schools for some time and have traditionally set the "lockdown" options requested by the customer (we're a pro services company). There are a lot of settings being pushed around such as fixed docks, fixed deskt...  View more

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Agenda - DC User Group

Got a couple ideas from the NYC user groups agenda: - Show us your Self Service (great way of sharing tips/tricks)- Show us your custom extension attribute (this was the most popular part of the discussion)- Discussion around FileVault- How are you h...  View more

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What's your AutoPkgr workflow?

I've got autopkgr up and running in my environment and am working out best practices. Once the packages have been uploaded and tested, what's the next step in your workflow? We'd like our users to grab new software from Self Service - are you changin...  View more

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Chrome Managed Preferences

I have imported the Managed Preference Manifest for Google Chrome into managed preferences in JSS, added some settings (AuthServerWhitelist, AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist) and scoped the Preference for a test machine. When I log into the Mac with a ...  View more

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pre-partitioning scripts

is there anyone that could help with a preinstall script that would erase the HD and create three partitions, one Macintosh HD, one Recovery HD and a DATA, I would like the Recovery to be 1GB the DATA to be either 400GB or <75% depending on the size ...  View more

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Speeding up Netboot Image

Hi, I created a really small basic image with only a few apps on it for a Netboot, so that I can use that for Casper Imaging. I then used system image utility to make it a netboot image. The image size was only 9GB but after making it a netboot image...  View more

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Web Help Desk discovery connection with JSS 9.61

Quick question: Anyone out there in JSS land using Web Help Desk with a Casper 9 discovery connection? If so are you seeing errors after upgrading to JSS 9.61? Looks like there is an issues as JSS 9.61 switched SSL 3.0 for TLS (from the release note ...  View more

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Offline notification

Hi everyone, We are deploying Caspersuite for mobile devices and Macs. We would like to let self-service available outside network for Mobile devices but not for Macs.As we store packages on SMB share, it already does not work for Macs, but there is ...  View more

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Mass populate Extension Attribute

Our JSS has an extension attribute called "Computer Role" that is populated manually using a drop down menu. Is there a way that I can populate this such as how I can use jamf recon -room "104" to populate the room field?  View more

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Forcing MacBooks to one network

We have MacBook airs in our high school. There is a profile that allows them to join our student network. We also have a guest network, and now many students were joining that. I didn't set the network preference to require an admin password to join ...  View more

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NetBoot/SUS Appliance - Updating The Appliance

Is there a way to update an already-deployed NetSUS appliance? Is it as simple as running the installer for the 3.0.2 version on an appliance running 3.0.1? Also, is it recommended to use apt to upgrade the OS and other packages, etc. periodically? I...  View more

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Directory Services

What is everyone using for directory services? Right now my company has OD running, but nothing bound to it. We have a mix of workstations OSX and Windows, but are mostly a OSX shop. Is the standard deployment AD&OD for everyone? If I just bind to OD...  View more

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