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Apple SSO Extension + Jamf

Does anyone use Enterprise Connect or the Apple SSO Extension in an environment with multiple realms? and how do you deploy this out or configure it? For example, we have our user ids in different dc's or realms (excuse my lack of AD knowledge), so i...  View more

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Headless webapp

Thanks to Covid-19, our campus looks like it will be closing soon. I'm looking for documentation on setting up a headless web app, so I can see devices that are offsite, outside of our network. I've searched around the resource pages, but I can't see...  View more

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Extra Computers Showing Up In Scope

I'm setting up some new policies, and I'm scoping them to specific computers or small groups of computers. However, almost every time I set up a narrow scope like this, there are an additional 20 or so computers that show up. One time I scoped the po...  View more

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Enabling/Whitelisting Kernel Extensions -Catalina

I am looking for a way to enable/allow a specific Kernel Extension. More specifically, VirtualBox. This is killing our use of VB on new machines and I have to basically do a remote session with every user and enable manually since they are not local ...  View more

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COVID and Adobe Remote learning

Check this out adobe is going to be helping educational institutions handling students having to work from home temporarily: https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-enables-distance-learning-globally-schools-impacted-covid-19/  View more

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Zoom for the masses

Has anyone possibly put together a best practices list for how to deploy Zoom is a school environment for a district that has not used it since the advent of PPPC profiles? (you know, on the off chance there was a global pandemic and they needed to d...  View more

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Good riddance Flash!

So, Flash is supposed to die this year. I offer Flash through Self Service, and I use patch management to keep it up to date. The only reason why I offer it through Self Service is so that my users will have a safe place to download it instead of cli...  View more

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Change loginscreen background in Catalina

In my organization (Higher Ed) we do a bit of school branding on all of our systems. One being we set a custom background image at the login screens in our labs and classrooms. Did this in Mojave by making our image an heic extension and naming it Mo...  View more

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Change screencapture format on 10.14/10.15

Has anyone had any success changing the screencapture format to jpg on 10.14/10.15 machines? It will sometimes work when changed locally on a machine, but we are planning to roll it out to several machines with a policy/script and it does not seem to...  View more

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Adding AD user in Terminal

Is there a way to add an Active Directory user account using a Terminal command? Our normal workflow when on site is to:- log in as admin- bind the Mac to AD- log out of the admin account- have the user sign into their AD account at the macOS login s...  View more

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Configuration Profile errors on some computers

Hello,I created a configuration profile using the latest version of the PPPC Utility. The config file allows code42 CrashPlan to backup user data. I have deployed the profile via our JAMF server to all of the computers running code42 and macOS 10.14-...  View more

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Considering adding a DMZ server

With a lot more of our workstations soon to be leaving campus for an unknown extended period, we're looking at quickly standing up a server in the DMZ so that we can continue to manage those systems while off campus. I've got the basic instructions (...  View more

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Receive alerts when. apps are installed on macOS

Is there a way to have computers report when new programs are installed? We would like to receive some sort of notification whenever a user installs anything. The other thing we would like to be able to do is allow users access to the app store in ma...  View more

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Remote Access to Lab Macs?

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, our University is stopping face-to-face instruction for a couple weeks. I’ve been asked if there is a secure way to allow students to remote into lab machines to complete coursework (since those Macs have specialize...  View more

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Pre-stage - Dock for all users

When a new users enroll their computer through DEP and pre-stage setup, how can I setup a default dock with certain appsI have used the dock policy, but it seems that it does not work when running in prestage and jamf connect. I only want to apply th...  View more

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Always On VPN Configuration

Hello, can anyone point me to some type of guide or instruction for getting Always On VPN configured for Macs via Jamf? We've been using the AnyConnect app for now but need to upgrade.  View more

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CrowdStrike Veryifing install via Jamf

Hi is there anyone on here that has created a smart group for Macs that have CrowdStrike Endpoint protection installed? It doesnt install as a app so having trouble. Goal is to make a smart group to see which machines actually have it installed, sinc...  View more

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Google Meet on iPad

Our school is extending spring break for two weeks and we are using a distance learning program that requires students and teachers to connect via Google Meet.We have a managed 1:1 iPad program , which has removed the App Store from the iPads.Since t...  View more

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Jamf Nation User Conference Update 



Our annual global customer event, the Jamf Nation User Conference, is scheduled to take place in a little under seven months starting on September 29 in San Diego, California. While we look forward to seeing our customers at this event, we are being ...  View more

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Installing VirtualBox & Extension Pack -Catalina

I am trying to use a policy to install VirtualBox in Catalina. I used the package downloaded from the VB but it continues to fail. Does anybody have a way of deploying this successfully? Sometimes it says "failed" but it does get installed.I would al...  View more

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remote lock a MacBook Air

Hello,One of our staff at the University forgot her laptop on plane, we understand that the device was bought from eBay, I used Lock Computer then I received a message "The JSS has received a feedback error from the APNs Server"Can anyone tell me if ...  View more

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Find machines that do not have an app installed

I'm missing this, and it's probably a simple fix that I have just not found in the forum. I can search the console for machines that do have an app installed, and the version they have. Let's say out of 500, 425 have the Chrome installed. How do I se...  View more

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Profile Restrictions (Restrict App Usage)

Need advice on best way to manage multiple profiles with different Apps allowed. We have many offices and we created Building for each of them (ex. B1, B2, B3, etc). Each building has the same departments which we created under departments (ex. D1, D...  View more

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smart group revolving around app path

Is there a way to implement this? I need to detect some of our cisco stuff located at /opt/cisco/ for inventory and have added the path, but then I will get an entry for the app with that path and the standard Applications path What I need to do is f...  View more

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