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Jamf Now Very few settings for Mac devices

I created an account and added an Apple Macbook to Jamf. What I noticed is that under the "restrictions" heading, there are few settings for Mac devices. For example, I don't see an option to turn off the App store? In addition, Jamf indicates that t...  View more

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Standard user can't login - Catalina 10.15.7

Hey guys,I'm working on upgrading some MBAs and I have a policy that creates a new standard user which the students can use. I have the Macs joined to an AD and I thought just to test I should try to login as the student account. It fails. I know it'...  View more

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Mount SMB share?

Looking for the most reliable way to push SMB shares through Jamf Pro. I see a lot of old threads, scripting, 47 different approaches, etc. Never felt like I really saw a definitive answer.I have ~100 AD-joined Macs on Jamf Pro (cloud hosted). We're ...  View more

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Mac App Store Apps Columns

Hi,How can I edit the columns shown on the [Computers >] Mac App Store Apps page? Currently, I can see Name, Version, Source, etc., but I'd like to remove some columns and add others to show more information.Thank you!   View more

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MS Edge - import Safari browsing history workflow

My organization is looking at using/favoring Edge because of its integration with o365. Most users currently seem to prefer Chrome, which imports nicely for users manually clicking some prompts in Edge.To import browser data from Safari to Microsoft ...  View more

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How do you reapply content filter profiles?

I was troubleshooting something and changed my network location. After that, all of the my content filter profiles show either not running or not connected in system preferences. I tried removing and reapplying the profile, uninstalling/reinstalling ...  View more

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UI in Self Service Policies

Hi There, If there is a similar thread already - sorry i could not find it. My question is following - We want to make a couple of Policies in Self Service where there is some for of UI. Forexample a policy to create a new account, and to have a Dial...  View more

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Deferring Major and Minor updates

Hi,Does anybody know where the settings are located for deferring major and minor updates separately. The one's mentioned here https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mdm/mdm02df57e2a/web as Defer major releases and Defer minor releases. I only found d...  View more

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Apps not updating automatically

Good morning, I have all of our apps that are pushed down to the devices set to Automatically force updates. Updates are not happening. Is there a setting that I may be missing? I have spoken with a few device users and the devices are not being turn...  View more

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FileVault key not being escrowed

Hello,I have a configuration profile set to enable FileVault upon enrollment & escrow the personal recovery key. This is working great, but here & there we had some keys not get escrowed, even after the computer inventory updated several times. I rec...  View more

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Big Sur Google Drive for Desktop popups

Has anyone figured out how to stop all these Google Drive for Desktop popups?The desktop applications installs, the user runs the application and signs in, then a verification to verify you downloaded the app from Google, but then I see another popup...  View more

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Free AV recommendations for student use

Hey everyone, We've been offering McAfee to our students when they request AV, but apparently we're losing that option this December, from what my security team has told me. I'm being asked to research a free AV solution for Macs for our students (I ...  View more

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Firefox homepage - Configuration Profile

Hey guys,I'm horrible at scripting and I was wondering if I could get some help setting the homepage on Firefox with a Configuration Profile. The XML comes back with no errors but it still doesn't seem to work. Do you see what I'm missing or doing wr...  View more

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Jamf URL Missing

Update: Figured it out.Hello,I'm relatively new to managing a Jamf server and currently have access to my Jamf Pro site without issue. I am, however, trying to verify that I'm typing the correct server address to connect to my Jamf Admin app. After d...  View more

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App Packaging Physical vs Virtual

Hey everyone! Currently using composer on physical hardware to package apps, followed by a reload of the device. Looking into Parallels or Fusion for app packaging. Has anyone run into any issues packaging apps on a vm? Thanks in advance   View more

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Adding Older MacOS Versions to VPP

I'm certain the answer to this is "you can't," but I figured I'd try here.I want to get some VPP licenses for the Catalina installer so I can scope them out to some machines without them having to hit our Jamf servers. Unfortunately, Apple School Man...  View more

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Flush policy logs

I would like to enable a group of users to be able to flush policy logs on clients, but without granting them the "Administrator" role.What are the privileges that I need to set for this group to be able to do this flush command?Thanks.  View more

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Lock Computer Permissions

I would like to enable a group of users to be able to send the "Lock Computer" command, but without granting them the "Administrator" role.What are the privileges that I need to set for this group to be able to send this command?Thanks.  View more

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Accepting a vpp invitation with no app store

I am sorry, but I can't find an answer for this anywhere. I have used VPP invitations for years, once a student accepts it, I can push iBooks to their iPad. I have also always used the self service portal for apps and removed the app store.In the pas...  View more

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Building M1 Packages

Hey All.. I got my hands on an M1 MBP since we are starting to deploy more M1 Macs. I built a DMG to deploy an M1 based app and it builds fine in Composer. It's about 166MB but when the DMG is installed, it's 0 bytes. Empy .app folder. Looking on the...  View more

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Smart Groups

I would like to know if you can move a computer from one smart group to another without having to reimage the device. We have setup smart groups that pickup the computer from pre-stage but once they are in the groups we can move them to a different s...  View more

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Recon stuck before submitting data to Jamf

Hello I'm running into a tricky situation. Indeed it seems like a bunch of people already encountered this problem. But never I was able to find a solution or a proper diagnostic of the said problem.Here I am:Using verbose I saw that it was freezing ...  View more

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Microsoft Defender ATP - exclude network volumes

Just wondering if anyone knows how to configure Defender to exclude network volumes.1) One of ours mounts as "data" which is a pretty generic name. So for example I could exclude /Volumes/data for that but I worry that I may be excluding a thumb driv...  View more

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