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Jamf Parent

Hi, Are there thoughts of pushing Jamf Parent to macOS devices as well?I think a lot of parents at my school would like the ability to restrict student BYOD devices for their children.  View more

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Default PDF and Image applications

Hello all, I am trying to deploy a plist for com.apple.launchservices.secure to make Adobe Acrobat the default PDF viewer, and Adobe Photoshop the default image application. For some reason this particular profile is not showing up on my Jamf Pro man...  View more

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App Request in Jamf Pro 10.14

The functionality looks great, and I'm ready to put it into immediate use save for one big detail that I find myself wondering "why?" from Jamf on. Why can't I use a smart user group for my requesters in addition to a static group? I would like to en...  View more

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Esri CityEngne

Is anyone out there using jamf pro to deploy Esri CityEngine with a concurrent server based license, and has successfully created and deployed a package? I have been working on this for a few days and keep getting stuck. Thank you  View more

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JAVA Uninstall Script

Forgive me if this is answered in another discussion - I have seen similar posts, but nothing that gets to the root of what I am trying to accomplish. I am also, unfortunately not versed in BASH scripting, hence the reason for reaching out... I am tr...  View more

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10.14.6, MDM User Approval and Screen SHaring

I've just discovered that it appears with 10.14.6 you can now do MDM user approval via screen sharing. Previously you couldn't do this and were presented with an error saying you couldn't do it that way and it had to be done physically at the device....  View more

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Jamf Parent

Reading between the lines in the documentation:https://docs.jamf.com/10.14.0/jamf-pro/administrator-guide/Integrating_Jamf_Parent_with_Jamf_Pro.html Am I to infer that in order for parents to restrict their students' iPads:1. The parents need their o...  View more

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Automatic IP Audits?

I was wondering if there was something pre-made I could use to pull IP address of devices from the JAMF console and have the report run through a whois and send out an email to myself for any IP's not geo-located in the states? Or is this something I...  View more

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Jamf acquires Digita Security

Hello Jamf Nation! As you may have heard, today we announced that Jamf acquired Digita Security. Digita Security is the creator of enterprise-grade, purpose-built endpoint protection solutions designed to protect Mac from malicious activities and thr...  View more

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Need for distribution point?

Apologies if this is a stupid question. Do I actually need a distribution point? I am setting up an on-prem Jamf server and all my client Macs are local on a closed network. Can I just upload and push out pkgs to/from the Jamf Server, without using a...  View more

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Saving To Files app on iPad

ok, trying to use cfgutil to push a pdf to the files app on a COW of iPads. using: /usr/local/bin/cfgutil -f install-doc com.adobe.Adobe-Reader /Users/user/Documents/ipads estfile.pdf i can get the pdf in to reader just fine, but when using com.apple...  View more

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Script: Best way to request user input

Hi, Im looking to create a scripted install of an application that is hosted internally. The script needs to download and run various commands to install the software. This we have worked out. The application has multiple available versions and multi...  View more

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Activation Lock Command

The activation lock command always named DisableActivationLock no matter if I enabel or disable it. Is this how it has to be?  View more

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Conundrum - Managing iPads in Carts....with Apple Pens!

We are refreshing several hundred iPads. Apparently, we are getting pens with a good portion of them. Cases will have pen holders. These iPads will be in Carts that are only opened during class time. These iPads are not set up as shared iPads as our ...  View more

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DEP from Apple.com Orders - Apple Customer Number

I must be missing something but where do you find the Apple Customer Number so I can have purchased from Apple.com get enrolled in DEP? All I can find is posts saying contact my purchasing department and well that's me.  View more

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Inventory Preload: device type is missing or invalid

We're attempting to use the Inventory preload on 800+ iPads we recently got in. When I try to upload the csv file I get the following error: device type is missing or invalid This comes up for each line we uploaded. I only filled out the serial, user...  View more

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Add Chrome to the Dock

I'm sure I'm missing something easy but I cannot find a way to add non-apple apps to the dock via Jamf. Any suggestions?  View more

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Authbind broken in 10.14 - with workaround

In Jamf 10.14 (on Ubuntu 18.04), tomcat has moved to systemd instead of the old init script. It seems that all of the handling of the AUTHBIND environment variable has been removed. Setting AUTHBIND=yes no longer works to allow binding to unprivilege...  View more

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Self Service Crashin first time running

I have this error when trying to run self service for the first time, tries to open and then crashes Process: Self Service [920]Path: /Applications/Self Service.app/Contents/MacOS/Self ServiceIdentifier: com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.macVersion: 10.13...  View more

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Updating Packages

If I have a piece of software I want to update, if I go to settings - computer management - packages and upload the newest package for that software will that automatically update on the users computers or is there another step that needs done to get...  View more

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