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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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Static Groups by Class Enrollment

We began a 1:1 iPad program this year. One of our biggest hurdles was scoping apps, ebooks, and configuration profiles based on a student’s enrollment in a particular class. We initially attempted to create smart groups based off of configuration pro...  View more

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External JSS and regional considerations

Hi-So we've got two DPs thus far. Folks in one location use one DP, folks in another location use the other. Pretty simple. We're looking to add a JSS in the DMZ to handle management of machines off the internal network and also set us up for potenti...  View more

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ML App Store Software Updates?

With the release of the Software updates only feature on the app store, i'd like to roll that script out to the 10.8.x systems we have (tried on a 10.7.5 and the app store now crashes after a couple seconds, so apparently it wasn't working in that). ...  View more

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jamf enroll during imaging - not actually enrolling

So I'm futzing around with Casper Imaging and the firstRun script that it creates and have run into some frustration with Configuration Profiles and enrolling on OS X client. My test lab is at JSS 8.6 and OS X 10.8.1. There are two scenarios: I speci...  View more

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Crazy slow time machine backups

We have our users use a backup disk at home and we are finding that with 10.7.5 users are having crazy slow backup time (lockups even) when trying to backup to their backup drives. If we disable spotlight a 9MB backup takes seconds. If we enable spot...  View more

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Self Service...Faster response time?

Hey guys, I am looking for what I can do in a large user environment (5,000+ iOS )to make Self Service load faster on iOS devices. Getting some complaints that its loading way to slow and frankly I would agree with them. -Details-JSS 8.6.1 running on...  View more

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Casper Suite 8.62 is out

Hello everyone! We have posted Casper Suite 8.62. There was a performance issue that some people ran into with VPP codes for mobile devices that needed to be addressed. Here is the change from the release notes: Fixed an issue that caused the JSS to ...  View more

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Extension Attribute returning no results...

I've written an extension attribute to pull a list of the search domains set for all of the Wi-Fi, AirPort, or Ethernet connections on a system. It works perfect if I run it from the command line, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why it's n...  View more

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configuration profile and finder

I ma looking to beable to manage finder preference as well as Security & privacy with Configuration Profile. I tried uploading a the finder.plist that I had configured and did not seem to set any settings being set. How is it best to go about setting...  View more

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Screen Sharing

I have a request from a department to have some sort of screen sharing ability on some remote machines. Security's requirement is that it authenticates against AD/LDAP. Since the internal VNC doesn't do that, I was thinking screen sharing. but it onl...  View more

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Access for assistive devices

I need to turn on access for assistive devices and prevent the user from turning it off. I can turn it on with: touch /private/var/db.AccessibilityAPIEnabled But the user can turn it off. I have tried setting the system immutable flag: sudo chflags s...  View more

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Access for assistive devices

I need to turn on access for assistive devices and prevent the user from turning it off. I can turn it on with: touch /private/var/db.AccessibilityAPIEnabled But the user can turn it off. I have tried setting the system immutable flag: sudo chflags s...  View more

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Firefox Trust Certificates

I need to install some trust certificates on our deployed computers. I started a Composer snapshot, installed the certificates in Keychain Access and in Firefox, then I stopped the snapshot. When I test deploy this package it doesn't seem to install ...  View more

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Deploying VM Fusion 5

I don't know if anyone has tried this but i've come up with some issues once i've deployed the pkgs created in Composer. The users are prompted with error messages related to missing extensions. There seems to be a few threads related. http://communi...  View more

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802.1x Wireless disconnecting in Mountain Lion

We are still testing Mountain Lion before allowing installation across our environment and wireless config continues to give us trouble. We have WPA2 Enterprise security, and we use 802.1x network authentication via TLS (certificate based authenticat...  View more

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Casper Imaging quit unexpectedly 8.61

Via Net boot (10.7.5), running Casper imaging on a new computer, which is not in the Jamf database, once passed authorising the software to run you get "Casper Imaging quit unexpectedly" message. Ironically this doesn't stop the process from running ...  View more

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JAMF Binary Crashing?

Hi all, I keep seeing this in my Console (and other machine's) and wondering why? Thanks in advance! -p@ Process: jamf [306]Path: /usr/sbin/jamfIdentifier: jamfVersion: ??? (???)Code Type: X86 (Native)Parent Process: sh [97] Date/Time: 2012-09-27 14:...  View more

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setting clients to use the JAMF SUS appliance

I have tried searching through JAMF Nation and I'm getting confused as to exactly how to point clients to the JAMF SUS appliance. I have put the DNS entry of the SUS into settings/servers/Software Update Servers and then set up a self service policy ...  View more

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API - PUT Extension Attributes

I'd like to be able to write data to a couple of Extension Attributes via the API. It doesn't seem to support those fields. Is that true and if so, how have you done it? Here is a clip of the XML I'm sending to the JSS for a computer record: In Se...  View more

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