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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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Using Python?

Who out there is scripting in Python for their Macs? What do you use it for that's better than using Bash for? Anyone move over to Python from Perl? Just curious...  View more

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How to add printers to JSS?

Hello, sorry if this has been discussed somewhere or if there's documentation I missed. I've tried searching but haven't been able to find anything. I am trying to add printers to JSS. Whenever I try to add one, I click browse printers and get a mess...  View more

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Configuration Profiles and Office 2011

I am testing using Configuration Profiles to push out com.microsoft.office.plist to 10.7 Mac. Has anyone tried this? I am trying to suppress the first run for Outlook 2011. So far I see the plist loading on the Mac, but when I go to use Outlook for t...  View more

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Find unauthorized Admins

So... My predecessor had the bright idea give our users permanent admin privileges when they "called the help desk way too much"... Does anyone have a method of searching for admin users that are NOT the admin users that all imaged Macs come with? If...  View more

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Problems with self signed certificates.

Hello,We use jss in an ubuntu x64 server environement with tomcat7 and apr.now the mss url has its certificat and subca and root ca. So a browser can correctly chain the certificats.The problem is now device enrollment. When trying to enroll an iPad ...  View more

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CCA and CMA

Hello again everyone! I will be in Minnesota to obtain my CCA and CMA this January and I have a few questions:1. Is there anything I should focus on before arriving (as far as knowledge) as to not be blindsided when I am there?2. Will there be bacon?...  View more

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Configuring Outlook

I am trying to configure MS Outlook. Every time I run setupOutlook.scpt it get an error and want to run the First Run setup. I then tried pushing out this a script defaults write /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office "14FirstRunSetupC...  View more

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404 error when deploying in-house ebooks

Following the directions located here https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=205, I'm trying to deploy internal .epub files via Casper. I have the .epub file located on the server at /Library/JSS/Tomcat/webapps/inhouse/.epub. When we sel...  View more

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iOS Self Service issue

I'm having some of my teachers say that they cannot access any of the apps that I have placed into self service. It keeps giving them the error message that it cannot connect to my casper server. This is only happening to some of my staff and not all...  View more

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Disable MCX for admin user

I have a MCX that disables the user from using the security, sharing, and users and group system prefrences pane. It works great and they see it grayed out. What I want to do is create a troubleshooting document for our techs if they need to troubles...  View more

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Having problem with script to setwebproxy

I am look for some help with a script I am trying to run that will turn on Airports web proxy, add the domain and port and turn on authentication and the corresponding username/password. I want to have the proxy authentication to happen blind to user...  View more

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Get and Rename Computer Name Interactively

Guys, I am looking for something similar. I already have a rather basic script that returns, ComputerName, LocalHostName, and HostName. Now, I want to add to the script, with interactive function. Enter the "new" ComputerName (which will then also be...  View more

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Get and Rename Computer Name Interactively

Guys, I am looking for something similar. I already have a rather basic script that returns, ComputerName, LocalHostName, and HostName. Now, I want to add to the script, with interactive function. Enter the "new" ComputerName (which will then also be...  View more

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[OT] Outlook email archiving OLM / PST

Got a bit of an off topic question. Does outlook 2011 have a PST equivalent? I see OLM file, but I'm not overly familiar with that file format. Our email department is putting hard limits on mailbox sizes. The Outlook 2007/2010 users setup a PST file...  View more

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Patch Management Ideas

So far the idea is to run updates via this script softwareupdate -i -r at login, one day a week, and give the users about 15 minutes to reboot. Half my users are offsite, so I don't think there's much value in a dedicated software update server at th...  View more

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Changing Shared Name

Hi All, I'm having issues changing a computer's shared name through all Terminal commands I can find online, as well as through Casper. When I change the computer name in the JSS, the change is reverted after an inventory update is given. Does anyone...  View more

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FileVault 2 Lag with Cached Active Directory Accounts

Does anyone have an issue with a 30-45 second lag when trying to log into a FV2 encrypted system with a cached AD account? I'm trying to figure out if its possible to reduce this lag somehow. If the Mac is plugged into the network, we are able to log...  View more

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Help Creating Dock Configuration Profiles

Hi All, Have any of you been successful in Casper 8.62 creating and using configuration profiles in the JSS to manage Docks Applications and Dock Items for OS X 10.8 computers? I go to Management -> Configuration Profiles -> Add Profile -> Create a C...  View more

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Add URL's to Self Service

I would like to add URL's to self service to be on the left hand corner of the page when a user opens self service is there any way I can do this on Casper? Thanks!!Nicholas  View more

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Recon hanging on Finding Extension Attributes

Recently, our 10.8 users have been complaining of computers being stuck at "Checking Policies" and not shutting down. In my investigation, I found that running a recon seems to hang on Finding extension attributes (that's what happens when ssh'd in o...  View more

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