We have a fleet of several thousand macOS devices. We would like to create unique local user accounts on each machine and have those accounts be MDM-enabled. (This is a requirement for deploying Mac App Store Apps and to used Apple Classroom.) In the... View more
Hi y'all,Could someone point me in the right direction for updating our Mac's?We are integrating a newly aquired company which had a pretty relaxed IT policy: there was no update management for MacOS devices.They used Intune which, in my understandin... View more
We've started the process of raining in local administrator rights on our Mac fleet, wherever possible.So far we've opened up the Energy Saver, Printers & Scanners and Time Machine panes in System Preferences via an initial setup script that we deplo... View more
Hi all, For upgrading our macOS 10.15 Mac's to Big Sur we use a script which calls another policy to download the Big Sur installer. Instead of packaging and uploading the complete installer to Jamf, we use the command : sudo softwareupdate --downloa... View more
Hello,we use Jamf Pro Cloud 10.30 at the moment. With Jamf Pro Tools (Composer 10.31) and even older Composer versions, it is apparently no longer possible for me to include files on the user's desktop in the package, so that I can deploy these files... View more
There appears to be an issue with CECPQ2 and at least versions 5.2.7 and 5.2.8 of GlobalProtect. If you're getting reports of web pages not loading while a VPN connection is active with the 92.x releases of Chrome or Edge you might find deploying a C... View more
We have been deploying the sdl license adobe pkgs by attaching local USB storage then running a script post imaging. #!/bin/sh/usr/sbin/installer -pkg /Volumes/Deploy/Fa21BaseFTVM1Install.pkg -target /Not using imaging now but in testing this with ja... View more
Hello Comrades, I'm trying to deploy apps using homebrew due to its "simplicity" but I've been cornered.Looks like gatekeeper won't let me open these apps because they were not installed from the app store (I was taught that all apps installed via se... View more
Hi,How do setup a configuration profile so that users can't remove a specific wifi connection? The option for "forget this network" is available, but I would like to be able to make sure users can't "forget" a specific SSID from their iPad or alterna... View more
I am setting up new M1 MacBook Airs that shipped with 11.3.1. My set up includes creating three local accounts, two of which are admin accounts.When the configuration starts, the screen immediately shows the "Other" login page. I just let it sit unti... View more
I had a curious question about something I noticed while auditing our managed apps in our JamF Pro instance. I think a few of our apps have shown this same message, but I wanted to focus on this one because of the unique situation.The app in question... View more
Hi Everyone!We have recently developed a Progressive Web Application and would like to deploy it to the iPads. Is there a concept of deploying a pwa to an iPad? Is it more like deploying a bookmark? Thanks in advance!Tony View more
I'm trying to create a compliance policy on supported macOS version, where I would support Catalina and Big Sur, but only in the latest incarnations. Right now that would be:Big Sur 11.5.1 (maybe also 11.5.0)Catalina 10.15.7 (but that number do not h... View more
Hi All,i am having great difficulty deploying McAfeeSmartInstaller.sh to machines running MacOS Catalina and Big Sur. Some may not be using the McAfeeSmartInstaller.sh but the installer.sh script with some success. I am unable to find where this inst... View more
We're in the process of moving away from Office 365 and moving over to G-Suite. Has anyone had any luck pulling Outlook profiles and adding G-Suite profiles? I haven't been able to get either to work. I was previously able to push outlook profiles wh... View more
We're running 3 different versions of Maya in my labs (for reasons), and when I try to add all 3 versions to the dock using dockutil, it will only add the first one, and I get:Maya already exists in dock. Use --replacing 'Maya' to update an existing ... View more
What's the best way to migrate from old to new Mac hardware without causing enrollment issues?We've always used migration assistance but once the migration assistance completes. You have to manually "re-enroll" the device using jamf enroll -prompt co... View more
How do we get the posts in the forums to just show the date and not the annoying relative stuff?? View more
Hi All, Is anyone seeing issues with macOS Software Updates since 11.5? Specifically updates showing as not available when no deferral set and when showing available fail with "An error occurred while downloading the selected updates. Please check yo... View more
We recently rolled out Azure MFA to our environment and I'm starting to get "push back" requesting that the number of times that a user has to authenticate be lessened somehow. I know there is an extension for Windows that does this but I have yet to... View more
We are setting up about 800 MBA devices. They grab the JSS policies and apps, which is awesome. But when going into JAMF I notice that a bunch of them say "_mbsetupuser" at USERNAME at LOGIN/LOGOUT. We use JAMF MUT tool and I wonder if this could spe... View more
Hi guys We use Goverlan in our company for remote screen sharing and troubleshooting. Up until now, this was only possible on Windows computers, but the latest version also has support for Mac. I deployed the Goverlan Reach Client without issues, but... View more
i'm looking for clarity around filevault and network accounts (not AD!), mostly on big sur and m1 models. until the introduction of silicon macs, i've been using a firmware password to provide some protection on machines that go walking for one reaso... View more
Thanks for reading in advance.We roll out Macs with local accounts, a password configuration gets pushed to enforce requirements. it is set to every 90days.in conjunction with an EA, I created a smart group that will get a notification pop up telling... View more
Hello everyone,I want to create a script that can set up a self-service printer. Preferably with python. What path should I follow? I'm curious about your suggestions. If there are source files that I can take as an example, I would be happy if you s... View more
Hi all,I have a need for a script that forces Macs to restart after 10 minutes of inactivity. There would need to be a warning that pops up as well, say after 8 minutes of inactivity to give a user a heads up that a restart is coming. Anyone know of ... View more
Hello,I upgraded my Jamf Pro server from 10.28.to 10.31 today (it runs on Windows server). Based on the instructions about the upgrade I checked the Change Management log file path and 1) it exists and 2) Tomcat runs as Local Service and has permissi... View more
Hey all! Just updated my M1 Mac mini to 11.5.1. Everything installed just fine, however when it booted back up it could not connect to any network. When attempting to open an application it looks like Rosetta 2 was uninstalled from the machine. My at... View more
Searched Jamf Nation but couldn't find anything close enough to my use case. I'm querying the Jamf API for computer IDs by way of usernames:jamfUserURL="https://[company].jamfcloud.com/JSSResource/users/name/$username" computerID="$(curl -X GET -s -k... View more
