We are new to Jamf this school year and so there are many things we are not aware of through lack of experience. I received the following email from a teacher: *"I have had several students who show their iPads to be “cleaning” during class. Then, al... View more
Hello Everyone, We have been using Adobe's RUM (Remote Update Manager) successfully to update the 2019 Adobe Creative Cloud. There is one exception though, this is Acrobat. Apparently, until Acrobat is launched on a computer and activated by a user, ... View more
Just in case anyone needs this info:https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360022302612-Using-MDM-to-Configure-Zoom-on-iOS The Intune xml worked for me in Jamf. View more
iPads are not connecting to JAMF. Cannot get to the remote connection screen. Tried on used and brand new iPads they are just not connecting. Any ideas? View more
Hi all. I am still struggling so hard with API and bash syntax, due to lack of training. :-/ As I have a time-sensitive and crucial task to fulfill that does not leave so much time left for trial and error, could someone hint me how to get a site nam... View more
I'm observing an issue where Mac inventory hangs. Read some older posts and traced the processes to system_profiler getting Bluetooth information. If I run these system_profiler commands myself, they succeed almost immediately.The hang occurs when ru... View more
I have two requirements that Jamf thinks are in conflict. I need to: "require password" after sleep or screen saver, and Allow users to turn their firewall on/off. I should be able to create a config profile that just does the "require password" bit ... View more
Hello, Here's my problem, we supervise every of our iphones, and i have set up some app to be push on the iphone whenever there's an active itune account. Problem; as soon as I finish connecting the account (of the future user, which having to do thi... View more
Hi,I'm looking for a Mac solution to Active Directories User's And Computers tool. The only thing keeping me from dumping my PC and going full Mac is AD. Any suggestions.Thx View more
When trying to connect to the JAMF API from a script or terminal it just hangs?! Running basic commands from the training documentation of the 300 course doesn't even work. curl -sku USERNAME:PASSWORD -H "accept: text/xml" https://my.jamfcloud.com:84... View more
Hi folks. I just try to create a patch policy (for the first time) for Java Runtime Environment 8, in order to update all our Macs to version 221. And I think, I am quite far with it, but stuck on the question where to actually get an package (pkg) f... View more
Just got my test environment hosted at Jamf Cloud up and running. Now I am wondering how the rest of you have done when creating this: Have you got a separate DEP connected to it? ASM or Business Manager, how about that? VPP? Please share some best p... View more
https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/1176649541959004160?s=21 View more
Quick update if anyone missed the news today and have some machines in your enviorment that are having boot problems. Machines could still be in a bad state if they have Chrome set to auto update and have not rebooted or logged off. https://mrmacinto... View more
Trying to update google chrome via script is anyone implementing this already? View more
Hello everyone, Occasionally, we have a Mac enroll with an unknown or invalid FIleVault 2 recovery key (an example is when a Mac is encrypted before MDM enrollment). We currently use a script that prompts the user for their password, and then rotates... View more
Hi there, What would be the best/easiest way to enable SSH on a specific users' machine remotely, from Jamf? thank you! View more
Is there a way to do this? I cannot figure it out. I have tried to create multiple 500MB ZIP files to then be extracted when they are all on a machine, but it keeps failing when i go to extract it. "invalid compressed data to inflate" while replicati... View more
Hey Jamf Nation! Jamf Pro 10.16 Beta 2 brings an exciting number of enhancements to Jamf Pro. Jamf Pro 10.16 Beta 2 introduces the ability to use an Extension Attribute as a variable in Computer Configuration Profiles. Jamf Pro 10.16 also features na... View more
Recently we've been experiencing some weird issue with our Mac's. Randomly a Mac would "lose" network connection. the connection is there. will connect/reconnect but no internet. The only fix is to reboot the mac. Not seeing this on any of our window... View more
Hello folks!! I was wondering if anyone else can recommend an alternative VPN solution to move away from Cisco Any Connect for MacBooks? View more
Does anyone know of a way to monitor admin actions. Like, when an admin account is created, or when you have to authenticate as an admin to do something? View more
So I open the network prefs, select the wifi interface go to the little cog wheel at the bottom and select "Make Service Inactive". Can somebody please tell me how to do this via the Terminal, or at least a script that I can push out via jamf or some... View more
Bit of an odd issue. I have 2 Macs that were set up within the last year. In each case, the end-user backed up the old one with time machine, we brought the new ones in, and restored using the time machine snapshot. Our Macs are bound to Active Direc... View more
One of our teachers is using PhET on some MacBook Pros that we have set up as lab computers for the department. Students log into the with their AD account and are not admins on them. She wants them to download some JAR files from a website to run th... View more
Is there a way to avoid overcrowding of the Airplay devices and to make sure the teacher selects the correct Apple TV? View more
Has anyone been able to successfully deploy the new Compass tool that PearsonVue switched to that replaced Console8? View more
Hello We have a configuration profile configured to ‘Defer software updates for 30 days’ as part of our Restrictions Configuration Profile. This does not appear to be working.We know the configuration profile itself is working as it also blocks users... View more
I know there is a long list of new features/changes in jamf 10.15. But is there somewhere some video tutorial kind of what these new things can do? Reading an text and seeing an video of an example is two very different things and would be really nic... View more
Hello, We are using Apple School Manager with a direct integration with JAMF. We have seen an issue where we have some duplicate students; all the information looks the same except that one will have a roster associated from ASM and one does not. Is ... View more
