Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t... View more
Our security setting for maximum clock skew has been set at 15 minutes for several years now. However, as our fleet grows, we find more and more devices that go for several days/weeks/months without being recharged or powered on at all. Before I chan... View more
Hi, Is is possible to create a smart group containing devices that don't have the built in iOS apps installed (e.g. Calendar)? I've tried just specifying 'Calendar' in the App Name field but that doesn't work, I assume because when you look at the Ap... View more
Good day, Is it possible to manage JamF Cloud based on the member of an Active Directory group?I've added a AD group in the "JamF Cloud User and group" but when i try to log in with a user that is a member of that group, it refuses the connexion.On t... View more
I need help with a script to change computer name. I am using the DEPNotify Starter 2.0.1 script. I am using the Popup 3 label for the list of University Campus, Popup 1 label for the building, and would like to use the last seven of the serial numbe... View more
Hello all, I was thinking of nightmare scenarios for end users and came up with this one.A user has forgotten their password, the computer is still FV encrypted, and the device is off-site. What, if anything can we do to assist them getting access to... View more
Hey guys, So I'm trying to set up a Zero Touch Deployment process in which we can hand the person a laptop in a box with some instructions and they'll be able to set up the laptop themselves. We have managed to get the Prestage Enrollment done in whi... View more
Hello Everyone, I have been able to successfully integrate jamf with ServiceNow with some great tricks and tips from the community here, so firstly thank you. I'm still looking to bring in some additional attributes from jamf into ServiceNow but coul... View more
Is anyone using this yet? My organisation is very interested in using this as the previous MDM solution (InTune) was able to remotely wipe an entire user's device, which was not popular for users who just wanted email on their devices, whereas this s... View more
Hi All, I have created sep extension .mobileconfig and created the package. But seems to be the .mobileconfig file is not executing from the package. It's just landed into /private/var folder .. Can anyone help on this ? May I know what commands I ha... View more
Hi all.We have the requirement of once in a while Service Desk being able to remotely access to a Mac client (with it's user being asked for consent and being aware of the remote session running and being ended), but as we are also a highly-regulated... View more
In versions of Mac OS before Catalina I was able to configure the screen saver to "message" instead of the default "flurry". This helped people including lab users know what the machine name was. It looks like the way they are doing screen savers is ... View more
Hello this should be fairly simple, but i am new to JAMF and i can't seem to figure out the issue.I am trying to do upgrade from HighSierra to Mojave. I have downloaded and cached the installer to Application folder. Created a second policy and runni... View more
Looking to make our environment more secure. We are self hosted and clients are bound to a local/hosted Active Directory.We rely less and less on AD and at some point will move to other solutions but for now that's where we are.Our fleet of Macs are ... View more
It looks the latest update to Google Remote Desktop is causing Apple Watch unlock to fail with error message: "Unlocking With Apple Watch is Not Allowed When Your Screen is Being Shared". Apparently, Google Remote Desktop is requesting access to Priv... View more
Hello I would like to start deploying Catalina to our Mac's. Can someone send me information on how we can do this via Jamf? Many thanks View more
Hey Since upgrading to Catalina, each user has about 7-8 notifications pop up asking them to allow. It really clutters the desktop. Is there a way of suppressing them? View more
Since the release of iOS/iPadOS 13, I have had the issue that pretty much daily I am constantly being asked to enter my Apple ID. This is on a managed iPad 5th gen from my work. The thing that seems to work for a short while is hitting cancel rather ... View more
Hello, We have run into an issue recently of Enterprise Connect stealing focus on users' Macs. Even if signed in correctly, the pop up will come up and steal the current focus from other apps. Hitting the close button makes it disappear for a while (... View more
I have a confi profile to approve the Symantec EP kernel extension. The software installs and i have no prompt to allow, so all looks good. After reboot i go to the symantec app and the kernel extension is blocked and i have to allow it, and also i g... View more
Hey all, I'm experiencing some perplexing scope issues on a student restriction Configuration Profile (actually there's a couple of them, but all configured the same way). I hope someone can look over my config and perhaps point out what I'm doing wr... View more
Hey Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 10.19 beta contains quite a few new features, fixes, and enhancements that we are excited to share with you! Please see the updated release notes and forum threads from Jamf Engineering teams for additional feedback! Mob... View more
There are a few existing threads about putting the McAfee Agent install script into a package and creating a policy for deployment. However, I have been having issues getting this to work. Full transparency I am not that well versed in scripting. To ... View more
Hoping someone can help.We have 20 iPads being used in the Music department, for Garageband and alike was working fine until the teacher decided she would like some iBooks installed. I'm pretty new to Apple and Jamf but it appears that you cannot ass... View more
Over the weekend new nvram boot values and keys were found. The new values will allow you to boot your Mac to the following start up modes from macOS. Internet RecoveryRecovery PartitionLocal Apple Hardware DiagnosticsInternet Apple Hardware Diagnost... View more
Hi,I am looking to implement a classroom management software for some computing science iMac. We currently use Apple Remote Desktop but we are having a issue on Mojave when I lock a screen a lot of the time I can’t unlock the screen but the iMac gets... View more
Hi,I use dockutil to set up the dock for each user on their Mac to have a few web browsers, Microsoft office and their home folders. It also removes stuff like FaceTime and messages and mail app. This works great on high Sierra but I’ve noticed if I ... View more
Hi All, Post creating Catalina package using composer am not able to execute. Actually the package size is approximately 9GB,but when I am try to run its just completed with 2 min and OS is not upgrading. Can anyone help here please. I used below com... View more
Hello Does anybody know how we can change the printer setting "color matching" with lpadmin -o? We want to you use the "in printer" and not the "colorsync" It is HP Printer :) and with lpoptions I didn't find this settings. Thanks :) View more
Firmware Password Manager 2.5 - New Release Firmware Password Manager is a Python script to help MacAdmin programmatically manage the firmware passwords of their Mac systems. The firmware password is one of the three interlocking methods used to secu... View more
Reverse Engineering Jamf Admin This blog post will cover steps to reverse engineer Jamf Admin processes to work around some bugs and poor implementations and develop your code to streamline & automate the process. For example, there are exiting tools... View more
