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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J...  View more

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Tomcat security

In order to manage iOS devices outside the internal network, we must open up port 8443. This also means outside attackers could possibly attempt to break in to the JSS admin console. Either through a dictionary attack, or maybe a zero-day Tomcat vuln...  View more

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Cached credentials and Kerberos ticket at login

I'm using AD with mobile accounts and Forced local home directories and experienced that if I login to the computer as soon after it boots up to login prompt, it will use cached credentials instead of authentication to the network. This will cause no...  View more

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Hi to everyone at the Frankfurt RUC!!

Just want to say hi to everyone. Was great meeting JAMF users from Germany. And thanks to JAMF for hosting this event. Was great! Hope the JAMF guys had a good time at the Adolf Wagner, it's a great place. If any of you are ever in Munich send me an ...  View more

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Netboot not working

Hi guys,I have tried netbooting a few MAC today and it suddenly stopped working. I have usedsudo bless --netboot --server bsdp://IPaddress. I also tried to push out a policy. The policy logs says it is successful. I tried press N or Option key at res...  View more

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GSX URLs/ports?

Our Casper server sits behind a nice Blue Coat proxy server which is keeping Casper from talking to Apple's GSX service to retrieve purchase and warranty info. Issue seems to be that our proxy requires authentication which I cannot do from within Cas...  View more

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Chrome Management Manifest

Has anyone been able to import the manifest for Google Chrome into the JSS? I have pulled out the file that is two "/contents/resources"'s deep, and i can view the file, and it looks like a well-formed plist. The problem is, every time i try to uploa...  View more

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Feedback please on MCX, Lion Profiles, OD vs JSS

We're finally going to be moving to Lion over the next several months and will have a big batch of Lion systems coming on campus in early August. Historically, we've done MCX with OD and all at the computer/computer group level. With Configuration Pr...  View more

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Software Update Problems

Hello, I have been crafting an Apple Software Update policy this week and have run into a few issues. I am running a reposado master with cascaded slaves for remote sites. I have set the update servers in the JSS for the various network segments. I h...  View more

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Display notification including a URL

Can anyone give advice on how to display a dialog/notification to users which includes a clickable URL? displayMessage and jamfHelper are not working out for me, unless I'm not using the right syntax or formatting. AppleScript? thanks,Darrin  View more

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Network Share Script Error

I am getting an error when I try to run the network share Script from the resource kit. If anybody can let me know where to look for the problem I would appreciate it. Script Result: /private/tmp/mountNetworkSharebelen.sh: line 1: syntax error near u...  View more

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Apple Software Update server Certificate expiration

"Mac OS X Server administrators who are managing their own Software Update servers should remove all updates signed with the expired certificates and redownload the updates from Apple" http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5198 If you have seen your ASUS dow...  View more

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Taking over a new company issues

Hi Guys,have a bit of a fun one that hopefully someone might have come across in the past. We have recently acquired a new company that has merged with another of mine. predominantly mac which is good, we have been supporting them for a little while ...  View more

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The New iPad (3,3)

While we have been able to enroll, we are not receiving inventory updates from this type of iPad. Anyone else having this experience?  View more

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Printers list empty

Hello, i'm running 10.7.3 macpros and macair under radius wi-fi settings, with windows servers 2k8 printserver; clients are binded to the AD via Directory Utility. Some users are complaining that when they try to add a new printer, the printer list i...  View more

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Favorite Servers in 10.7

Hi, I'd like to pre-populate the 'Favorite Servers' list found when doing - Finder > Go > Connect to server... with a few of our regularly accessed servers for each new user that logs on to a machine. I found a thread on here from back in 2008 about ...  View more

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OT: Compiling Nagios nrpe and plug-ins on 10.7

Sorry for the Off Topic thread Does anyone currently use nrpe to monitor your servers? I'm running into an issue while compiling nrpe and the nagios plug-ins on Lion and was wondering if anyone has successfully accomplished the same task. It appears ...  View more

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Sharepoint-Sync with PresSTORE?

Hi, is there somebody thinking about using PresSTORE Synchronise to keep two or more Distribution Points synced? I could start a feature request at Archiware. It could be a nice feature, especially those who wants to migrate their services to stronge...  View more

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Self Service Monitoring - troubleshooting

We are just getting started with self service. Some users are saying they don't see the app in self service. Short of remoting in, is there a way we can see that a specific computer should be showing the app in self service? The Policy trigger is set...  View more

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Home Sync Settings

We are currently trying to move away from WGM and move towards just managing all of our settings with Casper. The one setting that we are having a problem getting to work is Home Sync. This is mostly on 10.6 machines with managed preferences, but als...  View more

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MCX: Set default mail app?

Hi Guys, I'd like our clients default mail reader to be Outlook 2011.. i tried the com.apple.internet mcx plist but this doesn't seem to work? Any way of doing this via MCX on 10.7 clients or do i need to script the launch services plist?  View more

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Distribution Point hosting on SMB - NetApp

Anyone managed to get NetApp to host your distribution points? I have created a shared folder in NetApp data storage and I can mount if from OS X 10.7.3 GUI but Casper Admin wouldn't be able to mount the share though. Do we have to do any special set...  View more

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Are MAS apps distributable and manageable with casper?

I have been looking over some of the discussions that have already been had around this topic, but i haven't been able to get a clear picture as to if i am able to do what i am trying to do. There are apps on the mac app store that i wish my users to...  View more

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Locking a profile in production

Today, I tried to update an email profile for my company with results that were not foreseen. After creating a new profile, I started to model after an existing on. What did I do? I opened another JSS instance and proceeded to view one email profile ...  View more

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Extension Attribute for Display Serials

This is a short and simple Extension Attribute we're starting to use for Display serials. I don't believe all third-party displays will report a serial via system profiler, but Apple displays and a few third-party displays will. #!/bin/sh serial=`sys...  View more

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OT: Kerberos ticket renewal 10.7

A bit off topic - but putting this out there anyway... With 10.6.x the Kerberos Agent would pop up a polite GUI requesting password which could be called from a script as follows: echo '' | sudo -u $user kinit This could be used to automate prompting...  View more

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Everything Apple Managed

Hey guys, more than likely everyone is aware that we are doing a preview of 8.5 next week as well as having housewarming parties in each of our offices. In case we missed you, we wanted to make sure that you knew about the event. While we aren't talk...  View more

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