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MobileAccount Password Change Issues

We're using AD binding and mobileaccounts on the macs in my environment, which I know isn't ideal, I'm working on getting us going on NoMAD Login, but we use machine certs which makes that tough. I'm currently using NoMAD, mostly just for password ch...  View more

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Jamf Decom tool

I want to build a script that will copy down to all Macs in a folder so they can decom when they are getting a new Mac. I know this command will remove the Jamf Framework /usr/local/bin/jamf removeFramework I need help with an API call to Jamf to un-...  View more

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LDAP Configuration issue SSL

Our IPA setup is correct, I checked our Firewalls everything looks good, I made sure all IP addresses matched up with the datacenter list of IPs Apple provides. Please let me know how I should troubleshoot further.  View more

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XSAN Server Mount Delay

I know that not many people use Xsan servers but we have a Quantum Fiber server set up in our building. The issue seems to be that there is a delay of the computers recognizing the Xsan server. We push the profile out through Jamf and they seem to th...  View more

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To /Applications or to ~/Applications?

Application: GitHub Desktop Issue: Does not auto-update and pops an message asking to install a helper (Admin rights required to install). This is in Self-Service for all of my IS Macs however the developers/users do NOT have admin rights. Also, this...  View more

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Issue with Adobe Premiere 2015+2017

Hello All Need some advice. Our mac users login using network account which stores their home folder on the server so it does not create a user folder under /users When I install adobe applications on the local admin account they all work for admin a...  View more

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Remove files and folders with wildcard

We are in the process of moving some users to an Adobe Named User license. The only way I've gotten things to work is to do a clean uninstall of all previous Adobe applications which includes removing everything Adobe from the computer. I've been hav...  View more

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JAMF Pro 10.11.1 update stuck?

This may be a dumb question, but I was just updating our server to 10.11.1 (from 10.11.0) and I ran the .run file, I got to the point where is says "to complete installation open a browser and naviates to https://servername:8443" I did, but it's just...  View more

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Personalized Audible voice

Morning all,We are trying to create an audible warning script for our users. I am not a scripter but am learning from you all.What we have currently is a line in Files and Processes, osascript -e "set Volume 100"; say -r 200 "Good Morning! You guys R...  View more

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DEP Sync failed

I recently had my Jamf instance moved to a new server. Then I noticed I started having problems with my DEP syncing in Jamf. Devices that were added to the DEP pre-move would setup correctly but new devices added after the move wouldn't start the DEP...  View more

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Refreshing Login Banner message?

How do I force a login banner message to refresh? Basically I have a script that checks to see if all my policies have completed and if they have it then writes a message to the login banner using the following: defaults write /Library/Preferences/co...  View more

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Slow User logon issues

We have a good amount of new iMacs that are very slow to sign in using active directory credentials. The iMacs at the same location that are not on jamf pro log in almost instantly. I have load packages in the background turned on. I have not used ja...  View more

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How do you detect a user account beginning with a .?

Ran into a new, and at the same time old, question today. You can create a hidden account in macOS by using a . as the leading character of the account name similar to creating a hidden file/directory. Running dscl . list /Users UniqueID does not sho...  View more

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Multiple Content Caching Servers

Hopefully an easy question, but I can't seem to find the answer. We currently have one content caching server running on let's say VLAN 5. If we were to add another content caching server to VLAN 5, would iOS devices on VLAN 5 use both content cachin...  View more

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Adding more than one cloud distribution point

As of Jamf Pro 10.11.1, you can only set up one cloud distribution point on AWS's S3 service and it is created by default in AWS's US-East-1 region. However, I would like to be able to set up a second cloud distribution point, to better support offic...  View more

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New Folder Script

Hello! Very new at writing scripts and would like some help. Trying to create a script so I can use a policy to create a folder in specific location in dropbox. For example: Users/userprofile/dropbox/username/"new folder" I tried doing this through C...  View more

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Jamf Pro 10.11.1 - Cloud Upgrade Schedule

Good morning, Jamf Nation, Following the release of 10.11.1 earlier this week, we're announcing details about a forthcoming mass cloud upgrade. Specific upgrade windows are detailed below by cloud region. Let me know in the comments if you have any c...  View more

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User enrollment semi-fails?

Good Morning jamfNationites, We have a weird issue with a couple of the user enrolled Macs. These Macs show up in the console named with their serial number, check in, but have missing data. The system info in the console is Any idea on the cause of ...  View more

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NoMAD Login screen - Show WiFi?

Hello everyone, Is there a way to show the WiFi icon, located at the top right of the normal login screen, on the NoMAD login screen? We have a few mobile carts full of MacBook Pros and the students pull them out when they'd like to use them. Sometim...  View more

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Hide Applescript Prompt

I've exported an Apple script as a .app file which mounts network shares and runs constantly in the background. I've got a launch agent for the app with keep alive set, and in the info.plist file for the app i've set LSUIElement so that it's always h...  View more

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Retarting Tomcat 10.11

I recently updated to 10.11 and now I cannot figure out how to restart Tomcat. I used to be able to just "sudo /etc/init.d/jamf.tomcat8 restart" that now returns a 0 and doesn't work. I tried a "sudo jamf-pro server restart" too. That says "successfu...  View more

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