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
Might be a quick easy fix, but hoping someone can help. I work at a school and manage 800+ computers (2013 MacBook Air) after adding game emulators, web browsers, and non-apple developer applications to the restricted software list, I'm finding stude... View more
I know about the changes to the desktop background pref in 10.9 as previously discussed here, among other places: http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/mavericks-desktop-background-picture-settings-moved-from-librarypreferencescom-apple-desktop... View more
I installed Office, personalize my preferences, packaged it and deployed it to a few computer. Every user is giving activation message, asking to personalize the products and ask two questions after. When I did the install, it didn't do any of that. ... View more
To those of you trying to stay on top of this. Edit: Link removed due to possible SLA issues. View more
I've looked through the forums for some info on this and so far am not finding anything. We would like to keep Gatekeeper enabled in our environment, however we have come across a few useful applications that are provided from unidentified developers... View more
Hello - We cant use NetBoot in our environment, so we are stuck using a USB boot device to start the Casper Imaging process. This is working okay, at least until we upgrade our JSS server. After that we have to gather all the USB devices to make sure... View more
Has anybody setup a JDS and used it to manage multiple sites? Outside of the initial setup woes, how has it performed? How quickly does it replicate? Does it need a lot of babysitting once up and running? Any gotchas people should be aware of? I'm st... View more
Hi All, Just to note that under 10.9 there appears to be no LaunchD item for Xprotect Update. The updates are delivered via SUS so as long as your using Reposado or Apples SUS and they have the 10.9 sucatalog then you can ignore the updates forever. ... View more
If there are multiple policies being applied by a trigger, sometimes recon is run multiple times. Is there a way to specify, "do this stuff and when all the other triggered stuff is done run one recon to update the inventory on JSS?" View more
More of an FYI and a call out to the group to see if anyone else is seeing the same issues. We have been updating some of our users to newer machines that are shipping direct from Apple with 10.9. The Users current OS is 10.8.5 fully up to date and u... View more
More of an FYI and a call out to the group to see if anyone else is seeing the same issues. We have been updating some of our users to newer machines that are shipping direct from Apple with 10.9. The Users current OS is 10.8.5 fully up to date and u... View more
Hey everyone, we have had an odd ongoing issue for a little while now and it seems to be getting worse lately. Random MacBooks are becoming unmanaged and we have to run the quick add package in order to bring them back under management. These are mac... View more
Hey all:New here to JamF and Apple System administration in general so I apologize in advance for stupid questions. Here is my question: When packaging apps with Composer and say there is a preference that I want to apply to all users but it is a pre... View more
Every since I updated to Casper 9 every time I try to open the JSSDatabaseUtil file I get the following error: "Warning: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.ERROR 2013 (HY000):Lost connection to the Mysql server at 'initial... View more
Every since I updated to Casper 9 every time I try to open the JSSDatabaseUtil file I get the following error: "Warning: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.ERROR 2013 (HY000):Lost connection to the Mysql server at 'initial... View more
Hello everyone! I have recently discovered the best thing in the world for my students and I don't have to get bothered as much asking for updates and so on! Self Service has become a new staple for me to get new things out to my students but I am wo... View more
Hello everyone! I have recently discovered the best thing in the world for my students and I don't have to get bothered as much asking for updates and so on! Self Service has become a new staple for me to get new things out to my students but I am wo... View more
Just wondering if there is a way to convert a file based distro point to a JDS without having to re-replicate all the files that already exist on the distro point back over from the master. This would be very useful for distant locations where there ... View more
Hello,I am trying to create a new Configuration Profile to push out to our student Macs. In this, I want to disable the option for users to change password. When I push out this new configuration profile I see an error when I look at the management h... View more
Hey all: JSS 9.21 We have network segments to set a machine's building, but sometimes we're imaging (Netboot, Casper Imaging) a computer not at the destination office, so it gets the Building it was imaged in, not the Building we want. Anybody dealin... View more
Hi, Found a variant of Minecraft that puts an invisible folder at the root of the local AD users home folder. It creates a folder called ".minecraft". I am not very good at scripts, and I don't want to accidentally screw things up. I know you can do ... View more
With the changes to 10.9's app store lock down and the config profile not working through the JSS/APNS push, is there a way to download the config profile and then bundle it up so it gets installed via the deployment workflow? View more
Took the plunge yesterday and upgraded the server to Mavericks and JSS 8.73. Everything is working except that the backups didn't run last night. I've launched jssDatabaseUtil but it seems it can't verify the database and i get the following error me... View more
Hi All, JSS/Casper Newbie here, I have been tasked to do a Adobe Flash Player update and would like to know what the best practise to import and distribute Adobe Flash Player and it needs to be a scheduled? Thanks SEN73 View more
Hi there, I have just updated to 9.21 this evening and everything looks great, except a select few in-house app updates, which are asking me to update apps which are already up to date... We deploy all of our apps as in-house and the vast majority se... View more
I apologize if this is a duplicate thread...I can't find it anywhere. How do I track down which of my config profiles have failed in 9.2? I see in my Config Profile graphs that some of them have completed, some are pending and some have failed on cli... View more
I've noticed that the Self Service app will hang logout/restart attempts. The app refuses to close unless a Force Close from the finder menu is used. The app doesn't seem to be "Not Responding". It just doesn't close as it should. Anyone else notice ... View more
I have a situation where we purchased a plugin for Sketchup 2013 Pro, however the developer only licenses it individually and not in any sort of network/concurrent fashion. I have 20 licenses I would like to deploy to each machine in a specific lab, ... View more
Hi All, for those of you still using Xserves for your JSS:When upgrading to Casper Suite 9.x.x did you upgrade server to 10.9.0, or to 10.8.5? Are you running other services on that box or other XServes?For my main boxes I've got 2 2009 Xserves, w/ 2... View more
With Mavericks I’ve been getting a “OS X wants to use the ‘Local Items’ keychain” message when a new user logs on: Entering the local Administrator password lets me continue. The problem is that our users are not given the local Admin password. Here ... View more
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