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Best way to deploy .plist files?

Hi Guys! I've been reading material, and watching the "Don't Forget Your Bade! | JNUC 2018" video, and I see the speaker did Attribute Mapping with this file: /etc/SmartcardLogin.plist Basically I'm trying to figure out how to get this information be...  View more

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JAMF School OSX Scripts

Hi everyone. We are moving from Pro to School. We had a script that was run just after DEP enrollment to set some settings and name the Mac. This script does not run in JAMF School. Does anyone have an on-boarding script they could share for JAMF Sch...  View more

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Device Recovery Key ?

Does anyone know what exactly this "Device Recovery Key" is intended for? For Macs, it appears to be populated with the Mac's Apple serial number. The Jamf Pro Administrator's Guide lists "Device recovery key" in a table (Viewing and Editing Inventor...  View more

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Can you disable notification from *nix app?

Good Morning, Our AV solution uses a *nix app to monitor macs. When it is installed, Catalina users see the following Since this is not a .app bundle it has no Bundle ID. Does anyone know a another method besides disabling or setting DND for notifica...  View more

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Determine how the NetBIOS name is being changed

We have 2 domains/networks, and on one there are some Macs that have Windows computer NetBIOS names showing up on them. These are domain-bound, and the computer name and host name etc are still showing correctly. This was discovered after we installe...  View more

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error msg

error message is coming (uninstaller tool will damage your Computer) while installing Symantec through self service  View more

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Blocking macOS updates, working method?

Its my understanding that the 2 main methods for blocking software updates are:1. softwareupdate --ignore "macOS 10.13.4 Update"2. configuration profile where you can delay it. Method 1 does not seem to work for me. I have even tried the command on m...  View more

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Composer helper stops communicating

I gave up trying to make it work under 10.15 and use 10.14 for packaging.The 10.20's seem to stop at various spots during the after snapshots(ran it 3 times; different stops; had to force quit once - the other two said the helper application had stop...  View more

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Global Protect 5.1.x PPPC Settings

Hi All, So we're moving to a newer version of Global Protect, 5.1.4 from 5.0.4, and have PPPC settings via Configuration Profile allowing access to the Download, Desktop, and Documents folders explicitly - just to reduce the number of click thru's re...  View more

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Switch all app to Self Service install

Is there a batch process available to switch all mobile device apps from Install Automatically to Make Available in Self Service? We have a bunch of apps and I'd like to avoid making this change manually. Once changed I'll then switch a handful back ...  View more

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Composer Packages move to another machine

Tell me if this is silly, but I use one machine (a Mac Pro) as my "master" machine to create packages (pkg and dmg) for use on my labs. This machine is getting a little conjested so I'd like to somehow backup all the items in Composer and move them t...  View more

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Rename Computer Using GSheet

I've been happily utilizing the script from https://www.macblog.org/post/automatically-renaming-computers-from-a-google-sheet-with-jamf-pro/ (bless you @haircut) for naming all of my devices. Since it uses Python, am I going to have to install Python...  View more

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Package Uploading Fails Immediately?

Uploading any packages via the web interface immediately fails when clicking "Save" with a message, "Package failed to upload". Tried different browser, different computers, different PKGs, all the same result.The packages are not large or exotic. An...  View more

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Apple SSO Extension without MDM

The Apple Kerberos SSO extension (the one that replaces Enterprise Connect in Catalina and Big Sur) is configured via config profile that must be applied by MDM. Since the pandemic turned me into a full-time work-from-home admin, I've been using my p...  View more

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Adobe CC License

I am curious what people are doing with Adobe CC licensing? We are still on the old device license where the users do not have to sign in. Since Adobe will not longer support CCP and the new pkg's that are created need a sign in I'm trying to find a ...  View more

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local account password reset

I have no doubt that this has been discussed before but I can't seem to find any discussions relevant to my scenario. In the event that a user locks themselves out from their machine, how can I push a policy to reset the local account password or eve...  View more

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EA that looks at Citrix config file for server

I want to update a machines that have a particular server setup in Citrix within the config file, but I'm not sure the best way to identify those machines. I assume an EA that looks at the config file for the server and then a scope of the results wo...  View more

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Toggle Screenshots on and Off

I have been asked to look into disabling screenshots for some of our users due to an application that they use that has access to sensitive data. Because I don't hate our users I want to ONLY disable screenshots when that application is open. I have ...  View more

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Enterprise Connect Support in Big Sur

Hi All, Received an email from Apple's Professional Services yesterday and wanted to share in case anyone here didn't receive it for any reason. Hello, At WWDC 2020, we announced new features for the Kerberos SSO extension, including a redesigned men...  View more

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LDAP Group for Disabled Users

I'd like JAMF to notify me when a user is moved to the "Disabled" OU in AD, this way I will know when a Mac user has left the business and I can begin chasing down their device. I have tried changing the LDAP settings for "Position" mapping to "membe...  View more

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Adobe XD

Is it possible to deploy Adobe XD from JSS? I've been trying to find a way to do it but I haven't found anything yet. Any advice would be helpful.Thanks in advance.  View more

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Detect non-managed profiles?

How might I detect when profiles other than the profiles installed through MDM are present on a device? For one example, Comcast users can install a profile from Comcast that includes keys for the encrypted Xfinity_Wifi hotspots. That profile is prob...  View more

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