Script: Update M1 user to Monterey (no admin, no disk owner)
See here;https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro/macos-installer-script-not-working-for-apple-silicon-m1-macbook/m-p/250873/highlight/true#M233793Hope it helps people. View more
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Self Service for macOS: Erase Assistant
BackgroundNow that macOS Monterey is out, we wanted to allow our opt-in Beta Testers with local admin rights easy access to nuke-and-pave their Macs the "Apple" way:macOS Monterey includes Erase All Content and Settings, a way to quickly and securely... View more
Concerning App Updates and Patch Management
Hello, So we are having a bit of a struggle here, since the begining I've never wanted to use the Patch Management feature because there was only a defined set of apps usable, and thus you had to have apps in here, and the unsuported ones in the poli... View more
Erase all content and settings missing (macOS)
I have multiple machines (m1, Intel with T2) that are missing the "Erase all content and settings" from the system preferences menu. I can't find anything on the issue except for a reddit post that was never resolved. ALL machines used to have the op... View more
Removing System Extensions
So I have the need to remove a system extension that is installed on over 200 devices.For what I read so far the solution is to disable SIP and run the systemextensionsctl uninstall command. This is not a solution for me since most of the computers a... View more
Hiding Screensaver but not Desktop
Hello allI'd like to hide only Screensaver, as we do not allow people to mess with it, but not Desktop, as we do allow to change it at the moment. What would be best way to do this? View more
Prevent users from deleting browser history Chrome App and set custom homepage
Does anyone know of a XML file or script that will #1 Prevent users from deleting browser history Chrome App and @2 set custom homepage on chrome within Jamf Pro. View more
New behavior with MacOS Aiprint and HP printers
Hi All,This morning we noticed the MacOS Monterey MacBooks are adding printers a little different. We use a Windows print server with a program called Presto to broadcast printers via Airprint.In the past when we add an Airprint printer via System pr... View more
Ldap with Jumpcloud
Hi there, I'm trying to understand what version of TLS is used for the 'Simple' authentication type, does anyone have an idea? Hopefully its not TLS v1.1 ? many thanks View more
Administrative Passwords Policy
Hello,We currently have all Mac users as admins, but that will be changing in the future. We use local accounts for our administration and user accounts. I wanted to reach out to the community to see if they have any tips in terms of how they manage ... View more
Big Sur - You don't have permission to use the application
We have user reporting they are getting the message "you don't have permission to use the application" for various apps, Chrome, Office Apps, etc. Restarting or just waiting a few minutes and its seemingly goes away but still an inconvenience. WOdner... View more
Items being removed from Dock
We a a simple policy that adds certain apps to the Dock. Chrome. Word, Excel, etc. Recently we have noticed that they are now removing themselves from the dock. If they are manually put back they will vanish again.. I am assuming it is Big Sur but it... View more
Google Drive Permissions Not Working
Hello,I am trying to push Google Drive from Jamf, however when it asks for permissions (I am not at the point of making PPPC or system/kernal extensions), but when this pop up comes up:"To approve, open System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Click ... View more
Outlook email address extension attribute not working
Have a script that does the following:Checks to see if Microsoft Outlook is installed. If it is.. Utilizes applescript to determine if Outlook is running. If it is .. Tell me the username of the microsoft exchange account is being used. If Outlook is... View more
Editshare Fails to launch
I'm troubleshooting an issue with Editshare 7.2.4.2 on Catalina.I have two labs of Macs that need to run this and about half work fine the other half don'tOn launch I get a dialogue prompting to check Console to Terminate:In Console I see the followi... View more
Jamf connect invalid request
Hi There,I am currently testing a new Jamf Pro environment with Jamf Connect.After logging in with my Azure AD Account and get to enter the network password again I get the following error.- Invalid request: Invalid request:This behavior is when Crea... View more
SSO Extension password expiration
Hey Jamf community, I hope someone can help me with our problem with the SSO Extension.We have replaced Enterprise Connect with Kerberos SSO Extension and now we have the problem that the password expiration date is not taken from Active Directory.We... View more
Disable "Restart and show password reset options"
Hi! Looking for a way to disable the "Restart and show password reset options" as mentioned in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860 We have firmware passwords set on our laptops (by policy the firmware password is only known to IT) and when a use... View more
DEPNotify and Jamf
All the scripts and setup guides I see for DEPNotify involve also having Jamf Connect. We don't use JC and the money people don't want to spring for it. Is there a way to use DEPNotify without Jamf Connect? If so, are there any guides you can point m... View more
Need to update local admin password
Hello all! Management has decided that it is time that we update our password that we use for our admin accounts on our fleet of computers. I currently have things set to have that account created during prestage enrollment. It's easy enough to updat... View more
Big Sur 11.6.1 keeps getting reinstalled after upgrade to Jamf 10.33
My company is using Jamf Cloud and we were upgraded to 10.33 over the weekend. Since then, when using the MDM command to install updates, Macs keep reinstalling 11.6.1 even if it's already installed. The situation is as such:I am using a modified ver... View more
Reporting Through the API?
Hello,I am new to the Jamf community and thought I would see if you all have a solution for this. I have a smart device group of iPads that I would like to pull the location information and the device count at each location and report them to a sprea... View more
IIS Distribution Account
Has anyone created an IIS instance using network accounts or MSA(service account). I can't get past the verification of the password when you set up basic authentication - via the instructions It continues to report the password is wrong - I use doma... View more
Issues with uploading a new package in web app and jamf admin
I'm trying to upload the latest versions of Zoom and slack in the web portal and it gets stuck at 100%. Also tried uploading within Jamf admin and it errors out. Any ideas? View more
Screen recording privacy
Hello guys, any news with screen recording privacy preferences via MDM in Big Sur/Monterey? Is there a way how to enable teamviewer recording without user allowing to? View more
Rotation of FV recovery keys
How do you guys rotate your FV 2 recovery keys?! any ideas? View more
How did you get your opt-in beta testers?
I'm looking to get in some opt-in beta testers from our user base. At this moment, all of our beta testers are inside of mine and surrounding teams, and we are all under the same leadership so its easy for me to just say "hey, guess what, you're a be... View more
"List of Users" cannot be set on macOS 12.0.1 (Monterey)
We have a configuration profile for "Login Window" which is set to show the "List of users able to use these computers" - but all our Macs with macOS 12.0.1 (Monterey) are configured to show (only) "Name and password text fields" (of course this sett... View more
Archive Policies and Configuration Profiles
Hi All,I took over a Jamf role about 9 months ago in education (with no handover and sparse documentation)(I've been a mac admin for many years but new to jamf)There are about existing 150 profiles and 70ish config' profiles.I'm just about getting to... View more
EA: If home folder creation/birth date is past 3 years
Hi all, Extension attribute: I need to get the creation/birthdate of the currently logged-in user on a machine then print a statement if the folder is older than 3 years old. Since we were on Fleetsmith and had new enrollments this might be the best ... View more
