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Jamf Pro 11.1.0 Beta Now Available!

Hello Jamf Nation!Jamf Pro 11.1.0 Beta is now releasedWe're excited to announce that this beta includes Remote Assist and macOS Self Service Onboarding along with many other features and fixes. How to join the beta: Enroll in the Beta Program under P...  View more

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Jamf Pro Beta Server Maintenance

Hello all! Access to the personal Beta instances you are able to request when you join the Jamf Pro Beta Program will be unavailable for an extended period of time over the coming weeks for maintenance. We'll let you know when they're back online! Th...  View more

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where are the accounts?

When you create hidden accounts, like the jss account or a local adminaccount, where does it actually store those accounts? It's not in/Users....  View more

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Gather AD name and plug in to JSS

Few years ago when we first jumped in the Casper pool, someone shared with us a script to gather user's name, real name and department info from AD and then run recon to plug the info in to JSS.Now we can't get consistent results from it. We used it ...  View more

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local MCX, OD MCX, Casper MCX

Hey everyone, So, some debate is coming up on what we are going to do at my work, and I am looking for the list's input. We got 5500 Macbook Airs coming in that will ship with 10.6. Not sure if we have the budget to upgrade all our 10.5.8 servers to ...  View more

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Script help?

So we have had an issue with our M$ Messenger and finally got a fix forit today. The downside is that it requires a bit of terminalinteraction. What would be the best way to go through this as we haveto deploy to about 500 machines... * Save attached...  View more

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Extension Attribute script for Apple Software RAID Status

Here is a simple one for checking the status of an Apple Software.It's a real pain when Mac Mini Servers RAIDs get degraded. #!/bin/sh #get RAID Status status=diskutil appleRAID list | grep "Status:" | awk '{print $2}' echo "$status" --Doug Hanley do...  View more

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Access MySQL from SQL Server Managment Studio

Our asset management grabs information from SCCM SQL database. I was asked to see if we can connect to the MySQL database on our Mac Server to grab computer information. Does anyone know how you can connect to MySQL to grab information from the JSS d...  View more

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Extension Attribute for Team Viewer.

With Justin Rummel (and other's help) Hear it is in simple form: #!/bin/sh result=/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :ClientID" ~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist echo "$result" Major caveat, it will only work with the full Teamviewer...  View more

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Smart Group Operators... Limited?

I am on 8.0 atm, not sure if this has been addressed in the newer versions but I am finding the lack of operators like " less than" or "greater than" quite limiting in Smart Group Criteria."is", "is not" are useful but quite limited limited... I was ...  View more

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10.6.7 OS Installation disk

All, I have a new MacBook Pro 15" with the Quad Core i7 chipset. I took the OS installation disk to create my new base OS from. Needless to say, I am writing because I am having nothing but problems with it. I was using this on a 21.5" iMac and the p...  View more

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start Tomcat with -security option (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIEDCaveats: NONE Has anyone configured Tomcat to launch with the -security option? Would itbe just adding the "-security" flag to the/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.jamfsoftware.tomcat.plist file after the startflag? org.apache.ca...  View more

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CCA in Long Beach

Anyone here going to be attending the CCA in Long Beach next week?--Matt LeeFNG Sr. IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper AdministratorFox Networks Groupmatthew.lee at fox.com Need Help? Call the Help Desk at (310) 969-HE...  View more

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Composer pkg help for ARD

Can anyone offer a tip on how to get my ARD package to keep the serial # information? I deploy this package to my team members/mac admins, and they'd have to enter the serial # when they launch it for the first time. I tried both snapshot method and ...  View more

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[OT] Technology Positions Open in Hopkins

Hello Everyone,Hopkins currently has a couple technology positions open. One is a new position and the other a recently open position. http://tinyurl.com/hopkins-june11-jobs Hopkins is a school district with approximately 8000 students in the western...  View more

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Anti Virus For Xserver.

Just wanted to get some opinions about what Antivirus software any of you might be running on your xservers. For desktops and laptops we use McAfee on both windows and Mac, but that will not work on Xservers. I figured I'd see what the rest of the co...  View more

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Going back from Lion 10.7 to Snow Leopard 10.6

We are pushing through an order for 40 Mac Pro's and Mac Book Pro's so we can get them before the new OS. We are not ready as a company to test and implement Lion just yet. Do anyone know how easy or hard it will be if you get a new Lion Mac say in a...  View more

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LDAP lookup for inventory data

We have just configured the LDAP connectivity of our JSS to AD, and it works fine. I was under the impression that when we Reconed new machines or when existing machines checked in, that they would start populating the fields for User Name, Real Name...  View more

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Help with an Extension Attribute script

Any Teamviewer users out there? I would like to grab the ClientID from the Teamview plist Its the 2nd key in the dictionary. ClientIC 1869728100 ClientID 262023163 The path to the file is:~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist sed and a...  View more

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WIndows JSS and a few questions

Recently we moved our JSS to a Windows server due to resource limitations on the Mac Mini we had in place. I have two issues and can't seem to overcome them: I can not connect to the JSS using the JSS Setup Utility. Self Service to port 9006 is not f...  View more

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Sophos installer

For anyone who uses Sophos, how are you integrating it into your image? Are you using the packages they gave you without modifying them, or taking a composer snapshot of their package installer? If I install it at reboot with a custom trigger it inst...  View more

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Log out self service after policy completion

Hi guys, Is there a way to logout self service after a policy is run? Or do you just kill the app? This is for when local support use self service, so the users do not have access to the it stuff. Regards, Ben.  View more

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Extending AD schema & Multiple MCX

Hi all, Just wondering if any of you have extended the AD schema. And if so, can users be in more than one MCX group without having to choose which group at login? Regards, Ben.  View more

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Yammer/Adobe Air

Hi, I am been tasked with rolling out Yammer to all our Macs which is an Adobe Air application. This means that I need to update all our Air installations. I tried to make a new package with new and updated files, but Yammer will crash everytime I tr...  View more

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Update Netboot Image

I'm trying to update an existing netboot image to point to the new JSSserver's ip address. Does anyone know where in the netboot image the Casper Image preferencesare kept? I do not want to remake the image. -Geoff  View more

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managing 1000s of Macbook Airs [ ref:00D8cOw4.500CEz6mD:ref ]

My comments were mostly about instances where there is no hardware distinction between one install and another. We have a Mac test lab here, that we can't use effectively. It has one of each type of Mac that we use, some (the iMac) with multiple part...  View more

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managing 1000s of Macbook Airs

So, Our new request for purchasing our next refresh in our 1:1 is going through the board soon. Nothing is set in stone but the budget plan is to cycle in 6,000 new Macbook Airs to replace our 4 year old Macbooks right now. This means that by the tim...  View more

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