Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
How to cleanly and properly uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud apps has been an ongoing Mac admin challenge for years. I recently came across this post by Anthony Reimer which details how to uninstall an Adobe app by it's sapCode and base install version... View more
I need to delay the application of a configuration profile with our internal wireless settings in it when a machine is first run through prestage. I would like the order of events to be: 1) Prestage2) User logs in3) DEPNotify runs4) DEPnotify finishe... View more
Is there any way to profile (measure) the startup and login process on MacOS, to try and identify any tasks or settings that might be slowing things down? We've had a report from one of our teachers that it seems to take ages for the students to log ... View more
Hey Friends - We're got about 15 Trashcan Macs in an offline environment that have been sitting on Sierra 10.12.4 for the last few years. Due to some incompatibility with our software licensing/operating system, it's looking like we are being forced ... View more
I am looking for proper workflows to enable FileVault with Big Sur. Are there any new changes in 10.26 regarding FileVault configuration (current process seems very archaic) I currently use the FileVault process form the Jamf Admin's Guide and that w... View more
Hello, My company currently uses crowd strike as our A/V solution, but to do a clean on a mac we need another free solution. What does everyone here use? On the windows side we use emisoft for a free cleaning. Anything you can reccomend on the mac si... View more
Are you running the NT-ware uniFLOW SmartClient for macOS? As you probably know, NT-ware's older versions (v1.1.0 and lower) were not as robust as their Windows versions. In order to upgrade/update to newer versions, you need to uninstall the older v... View more
Is there a known good way to create a policy that includes a reboot in the middle of the process?Situation: a piece of software cannot be cleanly updated, but must be uninstalled, the machine restarted, and only then have the new version installed. I... View more
We have some iPads that are already deployed through a prestage setup. We didn't have ldap set up at the time though, so no one authenticated, and for inventory purposes we don't have a good idea of who has what. The rollout was rushed. Anyway, now t... View more
Need to know if the below command prevents the Apple Banner pop up on the top right of the laptop for an Apple Update. If not how can that be suppressed? Setting up a Policy with this command in File and Process. Policy is restricting the latest upda... View more
I have created dock items for several of the Adobe 2020-21 apps, but cannot get Illustrator's to work. I am using the default path of:file://localhost/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2021/Adobe Illustrator 2021.appand have even tried this:file://local... View more
I was looking to see how other admins are handling the impending Big Sur update. Though most of my testing has been positive I still have a few apps that need some polishing. With that said what are the recommended methods for preventing Big Sur from... View more
A lot of our distribution points have the Pegasus external desktop attached storage units attached to them housing our jamf shares. When I try to replicate the DP, Jamf Admin always returns that the server couldn't be mounted. When I ARD into the mac... View more
When sudo jamf recon command is run which network calls happen behind the scene? Does jamf binary sanitize input and output? View more
I have an in house app for tvos, which I uploaded to an AWS server, and I put the public url in the Jamf Pro app distribution. I put some smargroups in the scope, and I put a smartgroup in the distribution exclusions. When a device enrolls to a smart... View more
Hey education folks. Popping into the education community to once again shamelessly ask you to upvote my feature request. Maybe you're like me and there's still software using kernel extensions required in your environment. Well, that gets a bit tric... View more
Just a quick question on how/if people are hiding the home screen on Apple TV's? some of the video previews are not school appropriate. I do have Conference room enabled but sometimes it goes to the home screen. View more
When I try to turn on "Enable Activation Lock on the device (Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager)" in PreStage Enrollments, and the Shared iPad option is also selected, when I click Save it always ends up clearing that Activation Lock option... View more
Is there a method to allow internally developed app on Supervised iPad to allow access to Microphone and Camera access on the device without someone interacting with the device? I didn't see anything in configuration profile but I'm not sure on the d... View more
I have been having mixed success with using DEPnotify for our new out-of-the-box Macs lately. I have a DEPNotify package bundled, signed, and added to a PreStage Enrollment. I am also using the latest version of DEPNotify (1.1.5.) Here is my situatio... View more
Hey all, Trying to force a DNS server on our school iPads using the new DNS settings Payload. Was upset to find it was forcing me to use an ENCRYPTED DNS URL. Anyone know of a way of achieving this without? I understand that encrypted dns is more sec... View more
I search and searched and could never find this info so sharing this here with others. If you want to restart the catalog service on the Portfolio server run this: #!/bin/sh #Stop the catalog service sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.e... View more
I have two scripts for Google Chrome and it's a hit or miss if Google Chrome will auto update itself or not. Thoughts? Download latest version ##################################################################################################### # # A... View more
I have some scripts that will give certain admin accounts on our remote machines access to File Vault. I was wondering if traffic that is being pushed to remote machines will be encrypted so our passwords that may be in the scripts won't be in the cl... View more
I've been looking thru the discussions trying to find a script that will help me remove admin rights from users with mobile accounts on Macs running Catalina. We do have a few local accounts that I'd need to exclude from having their admin rights rem... View more
I'm attempting to deploy Canon's Uniflow follow me printing service. Adding the print driver is easy enough and I can map the printer and add it via jamf admin. The issue I'm having is that the "URL" of the printer (LPD/LPR) is unique for each user a... View more
Howdy all, I'm banging my head with something and its driving me nutz with Big Sur 11.0.1. I've been testing and updating our Zero Touch deployment to support big sur, the only problem I'm having is with the KEXT for our AV product. I have created th... View more
A staff member recently received a ScanSnap iX1500. They took it out of the box so I don't have any of the original documentation or if any software came with it. I'm looking online and see a few pieces of software that could be installed but before ... View more
I have certain users who need to run a Java based application that is started from a JNLP file. The issue is that when they click on it, the built in malware scanner in MacOS Catalina blocks it. Normally they would go to System Preferences --> Securi... View more
Hello Everyone, Occasionally, our Jamf-enrolled computers will display the built-in root account (System Administrator) at the login window with no option to switch users or logout. This is very odd since the macOS root account is disabled by default... View more
