Is anyone setting the "disableMusicStore" setting in com.apple.iTunes.plist? I have this set at the computer level and am noticing the following: If I click on a "View in iTunes" link in Safari then i get a message that states "The iTunes Store is di... View more
We've released a refresh of the AD integration technical document here: http://training.apple.com/pdf/wp_integrating_active_directory_yosemite.pdf. View more
Is anyone else getting ready to run the DRC Insight CDTs? I would like to start a repository of helpful tips on getting these going. First I am looking at the requirements to disable the Auto spell, fill and cap functions. I was looking for these set... View more
To All Sydney Mac Admins, Our next Meeting is scheduled for Thursday 11th of December. We have a booking at 6pm at Hart’s Pub, Corner of Essex & Gloucester St, The Rocks. Any one who has an interest in managing OS X or iOS is very welcome to come. Yo... View more
Just testing policy to enable File Vault 2 on OS X 10.10.1 computers to comply with a security audit and found some strange behaviour. The policy runs with an institutional recovery key and via the management account but with errors even though the p... View more
So I just had a policy give me the "Complete Message" even though it failed. I wasn't expecting this but honestly, the term "Complete Message" doesn't give any notion of success or failure. I just assumed it meant success. Has anyone else seen this b... View more
iPads usually have Model No. at the back of the iPad. Where do I find this number in JSS inventory. View more
I created a policy for deploying Yosemite via Self Service, with one requirement being that the system have 10.6.8 or newer, based on the information from this article: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/ And this link:iTunes.apple.com However t... View more
Hey all. I'm wanting to test feedback I would get from a policy for Verify Startup Disk via Self Service. However every Mac I turn to shows no errors because there are no errors. Does anyone know of a way I can deliberately cause errors on a volume s... View more
I need to install a program (X2Go) via Self Service. That program requires XQuartz. I don't want to bundle the XQuartz program into the policy as users may already have it or may have a later version. Or perhaps this issue isn't a big deal and that's... View more
I just upgraded on of my Apple software update servers from Mavericks to Yosemite. The software update service still says it's running but it doesn't actually work. Anyone have a similar experience or troubleshooting advice? View more
Hi All,I've searched and poked around a bit but can't seem to find any info on this - if you do know of an existing thread, please point me to it! :) Anyway, I have a nice working AAMEE CS6 package that I exclude Acrobat from. It installs and works g... View more
Anyone know where to get, or how to create, a non-interactive Adobe Air installer that doesn't stall on the EULA step when pushed? There do not appear to be any Air installer creation options with AAMEE/Enterprise deployment center that I know of, an... View more
Hot off the press... http://training.apple.com/pdf/tg_osx_tech_deploy_reference.pdf View more
We upgraded to 9.62 to fix our iPad app installation issues when the App store is locked down, that seems to be fixed now. Everything was fine yesterday, but today we are seeing 100% CPU usage and double the amount of memory usage as we normally do. ... View more
Hello, Has anyone else noticed this? I suspect it is an Apple 8.x issue.. If a Mobile Device Configuration Profile has a Restriction of 'Allow installing apps’ = False, then the App Store is hidden from the user. However it is also blocking the abili... View more
Hi All JAMF Masters, I have a question about the major SWU's. My machines seem to pickup all the non-reboot updates easily and apply them but a machine that is on 10.9.2 for instance does not seem to pickup the 10.9.5 update I have enabled from the s... View more
I thought some others might find this information useful. We started having issues with our iPads taking a long time to reconnect to the wireless network after updating to iOS 8. Apple published this document to explain some wireless changes related ... View more
My non-administrative JSS users started getting the above error after upgrading the JSS to 9.62 (from 9.5) My boot disks are running OS 10.9.3 with Casper Imaging 9.3. According to the release notes, 9.62 should be compatible with Casper Imaging 8.6 ... View more
After upgrading to 962 I uploaded a new PKG to the JSS and set it to install at reboot, and added it to my workflow. What I noticed was that when I netbooted a machine, and selected the workflow the PKG I added stays under the first stage of the imag... View more
I have this on and off issue with manage preferences.I work in a school and I set up this policy within manage preferences to restrict the access to a few of the utilities (e.g.terminal, console) I also setup a separate policy to allow access to cert... View more
If I create a configuration profile that has a Login Window payload with Login Prompt set to List of users able to use these computers and untick the Show computer's administrators the login window goes black and I get an intermittant spinning wheel ... View more
I've run into this problem a few times now but unfortunately I can't seem to reproduce it myself. User accounts are all Local. I have a new MacBook I provision, FileVault turned on and I send it to the user. They login and change their password. When... View more
We're looking to expand our JSS to include different, totally separate, teams across our company. I'm in the process of setting up sites for the different teams and was wondering if there was a way to assign our team's multiple buildings to one site. View more
I was considering deploying http://www.smartmontools.org to our company's computers and using that along with an extension attribute or two to get detailed information about the S.M.A.R.T. status on internal drives. It looks relatively painless, but ... View more
HI,I am at JSS 9.6.1We have HP Printers and Canon Copiers. All are available in Self Service, scoped by subnet.The newest driver packages are installed separately on all mac computers. I started pushing out HP 3.0 in Sept.I noticed that some models o... View more
Is anyone else seeing this? We have JSS's on 9.61 authenticating to the same LDAP server without issue. Since bumping 3 x JSS's to 9.62 we can no longer auth with LDAP credentials.... View more
Hey JAMFers, I have been creating reports the last week based on last-check in, and am wondering if anyone has a way, or extension attribute that reports the exact date/time(MM/DD/YYYY at XX:XX am/pm) v.s. showing variables like "About a minute ago" ... View more
Hi All, Just wanted to post about something I crafted to help address a concern for some environments around Screen Sharing, whether using Apple's built in Screen Sharing process, or through Casper Remote. As outlined in this Feature Request (https:/... View more
We are deploying Crashplan and want to be able to keep the data on the server no matter what the client computer does. i.e. We want to limit the users' ability to remove data. The problem we see is that in the Crashplan App, users could go into Setti... View more
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