JAMF can do lot of stuff, but the build in deferral options are just nonsense and actually embarrassing to even have build into a product. A popup saying that somekind of management update is available, but it is not possible inform users about what ... View more
Hello folks. I know I'm late to the party on this one, but as I'm going through my summer packaging at the moment, I noticed that a few of the tweaks we used to apply to the user template (copying in license information files for the most part), are ... View more
Has anyone experienced WiFi taking precedence over Ethernet in macOS 10.14.5? We've seen that although the Mac is connected on Ethernet; set first in service order - the Mac uses the WiFi . This causes a lot of problems during enrolment in our case. ... View more
Hi, Jamf user of 2 days, sorry if this is a simple one. Looking for advice on the best way to deploy a package. We have a policy to install a package to a smart group scope filtered on department. I'de also like to offer this to all computers in self... View more
I've tended to think of these two things as equivalent, all FileVault users have Secure tokens, and all users with Secure tokens are FileVault users. But now I've discovered that we a few dozen Macs where our both of these things are true: Our manage... View more
Hello all. For some reason when I enroll a machine in nomad and go through set up, i restart, then get stuck in a boot loop which even when putting in username and password I get tossed back to an apple logo with loading bar and back to the nomad log... View more
To scripters out there, I'm trying to write an extension attribute that will tell me whether or not the local user matches the AD username. The macs are not AD bound, but JAMF Pro is, and the AD usernames are assigned in JAMF. My thinking is to grab ... View more
CentOS server I have changed the metadata and root directory sections of the reposado preferences.plist file to the following values: UpdatesMetadataDir /opt/data/sus/metadata/ UpdatesRootDir /opt/data/sus/html/ When examining /var/log/reposado_sync.... View more
We're trying to uninstall Traps using the following script: !/bin/sh /Library/Application Support/PaloAltoNetworks/Traps/uninstall.sh It appears to have removed the application from the specified directory, but our smart computer group is still detec... View more
Hi I'm using the a script to change every users name and initials to -- . This works great for Word but doesn't seem to change Excel or Power Point unless you have the box 'Always use this name regardless of how I'm signed in to Office' checked in Wo... View more
Ever since our Cloud JAMF PRO updated to the latest version, we get a
load of
in the logs instead of the line breaks. This is making
policy logs very difficult to read. Is anyone else seeing this and is
there a fix in the works ?
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I have a simple policy setup that when used, use to issue out a new recovery key when the old was was used I would add a specific computer to that policy that would need a new recovery key and JAMF use to take care the rest. This is no longer working... View more
Maybe I'm just new and being dumb but....How do I get my VPP purchased App Store apps to update? Also why do they still say "Get" in the Store? For example We are using the Microsoft To-Do app, Distributed from Jamf, Mac App Store apps only. It was r... View more
so my instances has root for all machines and now management wants to only allow root access based on a specific group or as-needed. ive read many threads here where Jamf admins restrict root access ala remove sudo access - how is that accomplished? ... View more
Hello all, For years we've used Undercover on our 1500 Macbook Airs. From what Undercover just told me when we were trying to purchase more license, they're shutting down after 2019. So my question is, what tracking software does everyone use? Underc... View more
I tried to create an Extension Attribute to list the Filesystem of each computer in the JSS. I know the general command is diskutil info / | grep "Type (Bundle)" but don't know how to get the result to list in an inventory search. Any help is appreci... View more
My new video for this week!YouTube video - Running Office in Restricted Networks View more
Hello!I'm new around here :-). I want all my Macs in the company to auto join 802.1x wireless network.We used to do this with a configuration profile and a user AD certificate. There was no issue until now since the Macs were bound to AD. Now we want... View more
Hey All, I'm looking to see if there's a best practice for reporting font collection via Jamf. We currently have font collection turned on in our inventory collection settings, however I'm trying to make a smart group to list only computers with "abo... View more
For those running Jamf Pro in AWS, are you using an Application ELB or Network ELB? Any pro's or con's either way? View more
So after much time convincing our Mac users that we should have long moved away from El Captain and given our Mac Fleet a refresh, I am also moving our deployment method away from JAMF Imaging (Since "Imaging is Dead" TM) to using Apple School Manage... View more
Does anyone have a method for easily indetifying users who are actively using iCloud and it's features?Thanks. View more
Hi Nation, I am a bit confused by the use of user smart groups within scoping.Some of our apps are made available in self service and only targeted to user smart groups. So the app appears in the self service on a device with a targeted user assigned... View more
Hello I have an issue with policies execution with DEPNotify, it takes a lot of time to complete using the DEPNotify-Starter scriptAll my policies are recurring (once per computer) and start with DEPNotify after enrollment with a single line within t... View more
Is there any way to get/push older versions of Google Apps that are compatible with iOS 10.3.3? I have an older group of 4G iPads that need Google apps for a Summer program but will not install the latest versions because of the iOS 11+ requirement. ... View more
I've been tasked to roll out File Vault to the Macintoshes and I've run into a problem that exists on my own Macintosh. I've got a config profile that will enable FV2 on a logout, which upon logout, prompts me for my password so I can be added to the... View more
Hi JN, I got a request to allow Popups for a few specific websites. I can see the option to configure settings for a specific website in Safari: And then this opens and I can set Popups to allow. But i cannot find where Safari is saving this.I cannot... View more
Sounds interesting but where are the Policies?Jamf Blog View more
Does anyone have any experience with Cisco AnyConnect, specifically the HostScan module? It looks like there are 64 bit binaries installed for HostScan, but when running AnyConnect it still loads the 32 bit module. I can't find a way (if it's even po... View more
Freshly DEP enrolled MacBook Air, which had to be recovery mode re-imaged because it would not pick up DEP, we received the "needs to repair your library" loop upon first login to management account created by DEP. Enrolling same model, fresh out of ... View more
