I have my grade level iPads set up in static groups and profiles applied to these groups. Since we have the app store blocked, I remove the student from the static group with the restrictions applied in order to install apps. If the group is large en... View more
In our inventory scan of our Macs, we have both an IP address and a Reported IP address returned. I'm struggling to work out why there are two and what each address relates to. I can't find any explanation in the Admin Guide so can anyone shed any li... View more
Hi Guys, We're intending to deploy a policy to disable checking of software updates in iTunes. There is a command-line that will do this and I've created a script around this command. The script is shown below: #!/bin/sh # Shell script to disable sof... View more
I have a postscript that is creating symlinks of all the apps in a folder and placing them somewhere else on the system. This is working perfectly, but I was also hoping to change the names slightly. For the sake of simplicity, the first 6 and last 4... View more
Hi, i set update inventory every day for each device and i have set extension attribute (device uptime) that also will be collect during update inventory. I have set policy that will trigger a notification if the device uptime is more than 5days. the... View more
We updated our JSS and casper suite to 9.1 today from 8.71. Everything seemed to go fine but later noticed the server (osx 10.6.8) and the JSS are super slow. Has anyone experienced this? View more
Is there a way—via Apple, shell script, or third party software—where multiple user accounts on a Macintosh computer can be automatically logged in, then out, like in a script. For example, account #1 is logged in, then out, then log into account #2,... View more
If I have a .dmg that I already deployed to fill existing users and fill user templates, but I want it to stop filling user templates how do I stop it from doing that? View more
In our environment of 1900 iPads, we have a local restriction enabled on the device.That restriction prohibits changes to Location Services and Accounts.Our kids were either turning off Location Services or deleting the account - that is why we did w... View more
I had to replace a student's iPad last Thursday, the day IOS7 was released. I came back plugged it into AC 1.3.1, it updated the iPad to IOS7 (ugh), but kept erroring. AC 1.4 came out at 10 PM that evening, no more errors, but no supervision profile ... View more
We recently set up a JSS Server on an Apple Xserve Running OS X 10.8.4 Server and the JSS version is 8.71. The server is connected to Active Directory. The issue we have it that the web console we use becomes unavailable multiple time a day. The serv... View more
I just watched the iOS 7 webinar from JAMF and the AppleTV stuff peeked my interest.The only problem I have - is using Configurator...let me explain why I am fearful... Three years ago when we began our iOS deployment and our Casper 8.1 relationship,... View more
Hi, Is anyone using custom config profiles to populate the "Language and Text" menu in the menu bar? I can get the menu to show up by using the MenuExtras in the following plist com.apple.systemuiserver. I run into a problem when I actually want to g... View more
Has anyone played with the new setup tab in Apple Configurator 1.4? Here is what Apple's support kb says on the topic: A new Setup tab in Prepare, which provides options such as: Enroll multiple unsupervised devices in MDM without tapping each device... View more
I just started playing with dockutil and am encountering an error when attempting to add a url to the dock. The command is: sudo dockutil --add http://someaddresshere.com --label 'Website' --after Downloads The web clip gets added in the appropriate ... View more
Currently we are getting a new machine, wiping it out and reloading our own os and such. I've heard rumors that theoretically it's possible to get a machine, give it to the user and they enroll it. Once that's done it loads the corporate apps that ar... View more
A really useful tool that was demonstrated at MacSysAdmin 2013 (see Greg Neagle's presentation on managing updates) is autopkg: http://autopkg.github.io/autopkg/ I'd like to see if this functionality can be built into Composer, so I've posted a featu... View more
We just recently sub-netted our wireless network and now iOS printing is broken. I am looking for a solution to get us back up and thought I would see if JAMFNation had any recommendations or thoughts. We use Windows Print servers with Papercut to do... View more
So it sounds like we can no longer use apple's tool to deploy 6.1.3 to iPads since they flipped the switch keeping the activation servers from acknowledging earlier systems. Very frustrating since we want to keep the ipads on the same system that all... View more
Apple stated on their website (http://www.apple.com/ios/education/ and http://www.apple.com/ios/business/), that the Supervision profile could be pushed out wirelessly. "IT can now supervise devices over the air enabling additional controls for highl... View more
I've been Eyeing macupdate.com as a central place to see if we need to update applications.Unfortunately they don't offer easily spread sheeted data formats.So I've used Feed43 to create an RSS feed.I soon hope to have it cross referenced (Via Google... View more
Hi all, I'm running into a strange problem while trying to create a new enrollment profile. What I've got:JSS 9.11 (Windows 2008 r2)iPad 3,4 (4th Gen, wi-fi) - iOS 7 (11A465)Apple Configurator 1.4 What happens:After creating a new MDM Profile in the ... View more
Hey guys, I couldn't manage to get the pre-existing extension attribute for DeepFreeze to work in my environment (perhaps my tech base isn't installing it correctly), but here's a quick extension attribute I wrote to get the status of DeepFreeze if i... View more
So we are building our printers using Casper Admin and deploying them via self service. All is working fine, printers install (canon iR advanced series copiers to be exact), print, all of the feature sets show up correctly...Except...When the copier ... View more
Hey all, My colleague and I are pretty new at using Casper Suite to manage Macs. We currently have a Lab of Mac Pros for a Digital Arts classroom on campus where we are using the Casper suite to manage the docks. There is a policy that changes the co... View more
Just thought I would share with you what I heard directly from Apple Support just now. We use Apple Configurator to disable Messages and a few other things. Then we will use iCloud to restore our students old information to their new iPad (in the cas... View more
Our certificate is due for renewal, however our IS director left last week and doesn't appear to have documents what Apple ID was used to create the Push Notification Certificate. If there anyway in Casper to determine this? If not, will there be any... View more
I need to bundle SnagIT, which I did a normal snapshot of and downloaded through the AppStore. When I deployed it to a test box and I go to launch it, the app launches then quits... if I launch it a couple more times it eventually prompts and says "S... View more
Hello, I have several clients that aren't checking into JSS after several days of uptime when I ssh into those individual computers they show that JSS is available when I type jamf checkJSSConnection What is causing this we have been having so many p... View more
Hello Everyone,All of our buildings have secure entries now, and our buildings & grounds department purchased a software called KeepNTrack to scan drivers licenses and do instant criminal background and sex offender checks. The software has worked we... View more
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