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JAMF Pro on Prem hardware

Is anybody here still running their JAMF pro instances on-prem? Our management is very anti moving things to the cloud.I am a super new Sys-admin for our Mac stuff and management has tasked me with researching what to replace our current hardware rel...  View more

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Installing Adobe apps on Mobile Devices

Hey there, Does anyone have any experience with installing Adobe apps like Fresco, Reader, Photoshop, etc to a mobile device (iPad Pro)? I'm able to install other apps by adding them through VPP and scoping my device to them but with Adobe apps it do...  View more

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Declarative Device Management

Can someone explain what "Declarative Device Management" is? All I can find are vague descriptions and I just don't understand what it is. With that, what's the deal with this failed command? DDM is not showing as being enabled on any of our devices....  View more

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What is wrong with forced OS Updates?!

I'm having a really hard time consistently getting forced updates to work through Jamf. I finally was able to get a upgrade via packaged policy to work yesterday but I'm not having a lot of success using the Software Update payload within the policy ...  View more

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Inadvertent MacOS Upgrade

We had a really weird hiccup the other night - On the evening of the 13th I sent a command to our lab Macs to update to macOS 12.6.2. I did this as I've always done in the past - by going to their smart group, viewing it, clicking "Action," selecting...  View more

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Feature request status

What do the different statuses mean on https://ideas.jamf.com/?I was looking at a number of different statuses and most are pretty straightforward but "In Ideation" is unclear to me. What does that mean?Some other statuses I found are:In IdeationPlan...  View more

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Erase-install question

I'm been running the script with success as long as the end user doesn't restart their mac before hand. I have a test mac on 12.3 and I deployed 12.6.2 via the script. I see in the logs that it selected 12.6.2, but the in the morning when I checked, ...  View more

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Jamf Setup and Jamf Reset 3.2.0 are now available!

Jamf Setup and Jamf Reset 3.2.0 are now available!New versions of Jamf Setup and Jamf Reset apps were released today (3.2.0), and are available for download from Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager. Check out the details below on what's ne...  View more

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Beyondtrust - PPPC issue

Anyone deploying Beyondtrust with PPPC config ?I have a really strange issue. I deploy a PPPC config for beyondtrust for accessbility enabled and Full disk access. First time when connecting to a jump client it prompts the user to activate screen rec...  View more

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Change Wi-FI Order

Hey Everyone,iam Looking for a way to change the Wi-fi Order on MacOS Ventura without Re-adding the Configuration.I'm searching and found a lot of Scripts, but they will not work on Ventura.In the past the information was saved here, but it isn't the...  View more

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Jamf Pro Scoping Issue

Has anyone seen a situation where the Jamf Pro UI won't accept adding a computer or group to the scope of a policy or profile right away? It usually takes multiple tries before it is finally added to the scope. Here's a screen recording demonstrating...  View more

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Intune VS Jamf Pro

Hey guys, The management is thinking to move from Jamf Pro to Intune to manage our Macs, I've never worked with Intune before and would like someone who is using it to tell me about their experience : - Is it really good MDM for managing Macs?- Compa...  View more

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Final Cut Pro Failing to install via VPP

Hi,I'm trying to install Final Cut Pro via VPP. The mac performs the download but then fails to install. In the install log I see the following error: Install rejected with error: Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=100 "Authorization is required ...  View more

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Package failing to install - What to do?

Hello,When enrolling Macs, a specific package is failing to install. In the Policy Logs I see - Installation failed. The installer reported: installer: Error - the package path specified was invalid: How do I change this path so I can direct it to Ap...  View more

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Nudge profile for multiple os's?

We've got Nudge working on a single OS level, utilizing the ever changing version numbers and continually updating the minimum version to be whatever the latest point release (12.6.1, 12.6.2, 12.6.3, etc)... it's been working fine. Users even seem to...  View more

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Testing Firefox version and acting upon it

Hello, I have an EA which reports back the version of Firefox installed on client machines in JAMF. The question is, what do you do with that once you want to take action (such as updating the version)? JAMF does not allow one to test the version for...  View more

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DUTI for all users in AD

Hello, I'm using DUTI to set default pdf reader as adobe instead of preview in all users and works great locally and admin accounts but for regular accounts with no sudo privileges it does not apply. Anyone know a fix? Here is my current script  View more

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M1/M2 Recovery Lock management script

I took the great work that had already been done here: https://github.com/shbedev/jamf-recovery-lock and expanded on it to create an single file comand-line script that will allow you to supply a search parameter and it will return all Apple Silicon ...  View more

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Execute Command in Policy Help

I've following the instructions from the documentation to create a OS Ventura installer to test out manual OS Upgrades for our organization. I'm having issues with the command execution. The packager installs correctly and can be found in the /privat...  View more

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Remove all Adobe Apps andFiles

Unsure if you will find this handy. I wanted to find a way to quit all Adobe processes and delete all adobe files. Made this script which seems to do the trick! #!/bin/bash ##kills all adobe processes pkill -f Adobe pkill -f adobe ##Removes all Adobe...  View more

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Jamf API integration in Azure

Hello,I have an issue linking JAMF API to Azure to automate reports sharing.API URL can be linked to MS Power Automate but stopped to a DLP strategy. How to convert the Jamf API to Microsoft API so it can be linked to Azure app ?Thanks,  View more

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Department and Building removed

We have apps assigned to students by department and building location. Yesterday and today, we have had two random students have their department and building removed and apps disappeared from their ipads because they were no longer a part of the bui...  View more

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Deploy Avast Business Antivirus

I'm trying to deploy Avast through Jamf Pro to our company MacBooks. This script & steps found here used to work, but there have been changes with Avast that seem to have since broken this process. There are several issues the first being that Avast ...  View more

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Installomator failing Office Install on Intel Macs

So we have Installomator setup to install Office 365 to all devices. This seems to work without a hitch on newly enrolled M1 and M2 devices, however always fails when installing on an older Mac. After checking the logs I saw the error where it couldn...  View more

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Safari 16.2 Standalone Installer Downloads

For anyone that prefers to make Safari updates available via Self Service, here are the standalone Safari 16.2 installer download links extracted from Apple's Software Update Server catalog...Safari 16.2 for macOS Monterey: https://swcdn.apple.com/co...  View more

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