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Office VPP - anyone using it ?

Several month has gone since the new option to install office 365 from Appstore apps.I have tried to use it some times, but it still seems very buggy?. Nearly always the installation of apps is not working and each app has only a very small size of f...  View more

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Mac Appstore apps not installing

Every now and then I encounter the issue that Appstore apps are not installed during enrollment.In the log it shows: vpp redownload call timed out Right now the only way to get them installed is wiping the disk and re-enrolling the machine...Is ther...  View more

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Apple releases SecureToken Documentation

We have been waiting for Apple to document SecureToken for a long time now. The wait is finally over. I dug into the new Apple document to see if I could find any new bits of information. https://mrmacintosh.com/securetoken-documentation/  View more

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Copying Launchpad items to multiple computers

We're looking into using Launchpad as a Launcher in a lab as an easy way for students to launch applications. We previously were using DragThing, which was perfect for our needs, but the developer is removing support for it. Unfortunately, I'm not ab...  View more

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2018-2019 Macbook Pro black screen after enrollment

I have been getting reports form my techs that the MBP 15" 2018-2019 have been becoming unresponsive after imaging stuck at a black screen. You can SSH into the machine and reboot or run any commands. I just found this odd, I'm working on fixing now ...  View more

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802.1x "Vanishing"

Edit: FYI - Working off of 10.9 - moving to 10.11.1 this Thursday. I also want to note we don't see this behavior with the other profiles, just our 802.1x profile Hey everyone - We have just started experiencing a weird behavior with our 802.1x MDM p...  View more

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Deploy.apple.com is down right now

Just in case you're wondering if it's just you, just got off the phone with support, they're getting calls for this from all over. "Authentication service 'AppleConnect' experienced a malfunction: java.lang.RuntimeException: AppleConnect: fatal valid...  View more

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Restricting Microsoft Edge?

Hello Everyone, We are trying to create a restricted software piece for Microsoft Edge. We can restrict the "dev" version of the installer, but the canary build isn't being blocked. As the end of the school year is quickly approaching, we really don'...  View more

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Dock and Dockutil and Jamf Policy Woes...Ideas?

Hello all, So, in our environment we have a Mac lab used by elementary students (PreK-3), there's a single login for each class. Finding a way to have each of these user accounts to get a custom dock has been a nightmare (tired built in Jamf tools: p...  View more

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Apple Business Manager - Adding Serial Numbers

Good day, I have been out of the loop for a while when it comes to Apple management. I'm trying to grok Apple Business Manager... I had a discussion with a former associate who said that you can upload your older machine serial numbers via CSV to ABM...  View more

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IP in menu bar package behavior

I install the "IP in menubar" app on our Macs to show the computer name and its IP address in the menubar (https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Software/IPinmenubar.shtml). For this deployment I use Composer to simply capture the app in the Application...  View more

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WiFi/AD issues

Hi, Hope some of you can help me out here. We experience that when our users change their AD password, they lose their connection to our WiFi, but I can still view the Wifi Profile on their Mac. Anyone experienced this before? *They way I solve it to...  View more

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Emergency notification to Mac desktop

Hey folks. I have been asked by our estates team to see if we can come up with a mechanism to display a message on our Macs in the event of an emergency in our buildings. Setting up a simple Jamf Helper notification for this has gotten me halfway the...  View more

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Redirect personal filevault keys to Jamf

I know this has been discussed before, but wanted a fresh take on it as it seems old methods are no longer supported. We have numerous users who have enabled FileVault via System Preferences, and not by Jamf, therefore we don't know what their person...  View more

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How to: Imaging Mojave 10.14

First: This is not Apple approved. I know that, you know that, do it at your own risk. I do, this works fine. This is not a discussion about why or opinions :). Some of us have this need, this is one solution! Step 1: Making a Mojave Image:Have a goo...  View more

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GUI Testing Suite Suggestions

Hi! We are planning to build up a testing lab for GUI testing. Right now we are evaluating several solutions such as Squish, Eggplant and SikuliX. Our requirements to the solution:- automated GUI testing with scheduling- support for macOS & Win10, iO...  View more

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Workaround for Script Parameter $3?

Does anyone know of a workaround to get user input from Self Service either than using the script parameter $3? We have noticed since the JAMF PRO JSS 10.11.1 update, this is broken. We utilize this parameter heavily when onboarding in August, for ab...  View more

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Nomad and Nomad Login syncing

Hello all, I've seen this mentioned a couple of times before on here, and it seems no one really has an issue with it aside from me. We have a print server that uses Active Directory to auth users for print jobs- they have an NFC card they can boop, ...  View more

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Deploying Office 2019 without Outlook

As a GSuite district, our users use google for all our email needs. We do have several users that need the Microsoft Office suite deployed to their machines due to reports, programs that are not nicely compatible with Google. I want to be able to pus...  View more

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Push out OS update

First of all, excuse my ignorance. My knowledge of Jamf has come from trial and error and believe me when I say, there's been a lot of it. Most off of our MacBook Airs are on 10.12. I'd like to update them (about 1200) to 10.14. Is there an easy way ...  View more

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Multi-User Login Issue

Let me start off by saying that we are a school site/district and all of our users are domain based of our network and not local user accounts. We upgraded one of our Mac labs to Mojave and quickly discovered an issue with the login screen. Once a us...  View more

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Logout Script Question

Hi All, I currently use a script on logout in my labs that deletes the user's account. It keeps some local admin accounts but deletes the rest. All works great in my Sierra and High Sierra environments. However in my testing with Mojave it keeps the ...  View more

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