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Locking down Ssh

Hello, I have come across a situation on our district macbook airs where students were able to access Terminal and ssh into other machines. I blocked access for Terminal. However, this would not prevent them from using other tools to use ssh. I have ...  View more

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Software Patching - What's the future?

For years now I have been relying on some custom scripts to conduct Apple OS & 3rd party software updates on our Mac fleet. As Apple continues to clamp down on security (especially that new T2 chip) I am finding that these scripts are no longer worki...  View more

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Outlook 2019 Default Save Location

Forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything about this off the bat. As I am sure many of you have dealt with, users don't check where they save an Outlook attachment, and the user ends saving the attachment to the Outlo...  View more

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manage DNS-extension

We must change the DNS-settings for our clients.I would try to manage it by jamf to expand the computername with the domain for DNS.i found a script at jamfnation but it changes the computername to "iMac" - that's not so good for us ;-) so i wrote th...  View more

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Apple Updates - Reboot needed prompt

Hi all, We have a requirement to run softwareupdates -ia every 24hours BUT we want to push out a jamf helper prompt IF a reboot is needed. How are people doing this out of interest?  View more

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macOS 2018-006 security patch and AFP auto-mount

Dear fellow mac admins, Over the last couple of days we've seen a sad (but probably sound) development in AFP auto-mounting volumes via script. macOS security patch 2018-006 has broken most of our nice little auto-mounting scripts for customers, thro...  View more

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Allow booting from external media

Hi everyone, you probably heard about the new Startup Security Utility that let you prevent or allow booting from an external drive on Mac with T2 chip.I found the KB article from Apple that shows you how to choose the preferred option (https://suppo...  View more

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Network Share

We changed the network share to a different name and the Mac and still trying to connect to the old share path. Can't figure out why. We are also leveraging Enterprise Connect in our environment as well. I have already checked Login Items in System P...  View more

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VPP Inventory of unused apps

Is there a way of finding out what apps in our VPP catalog in jamf are not installed on any iPads? Since JAMF tells you the app is used if it is scoped, but doesn't tell you if it is actually installed, I am hoping there is some way of figuring that ...  View more

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WindowServer Crash - Forced User Logout

Hey all! I'm at my wits end with this issue and I'm hoping that someone here may be able to solve this. Our company is experiencing an issue that is affecting both our Mac Minis (conference room use) and Macbook Pros (end-user machines). We have run ...  View more

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DEP - Prestage Enrollment Breaks inventory preload.

We integrated Jamf with ServiceNow and use ServiceNow as our asset repository and tracking mechanism. We purchase and receive through ServiceNow. Before DEP we could create the computer object through the API using Serial, Mac Address and computer na...  View more

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A software update required to use this startup disk

Can someone help me understand the issue I am having with updating a new Macbook Air that has the T2 chip in it from 10.14.1 to 10.14.2. We have a software update server using NetSUS and when our users try to upgrade, they get the message below. Upda...  View more

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Smart Notebook Software Accessibility Mojave

Our latest Smart Notebook software on Mojave is requiring addition system preferences/privacy/accessibility to enable the Smart Board interaction. From Smart website...Go to Apple menu > System Preferences > Security & Privacy.Click the Privacy tab, ...  View more

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Higher Ed + jamf Release Candidate Program

Hi everyone. We are exploring the jamf RC program. We are cloud hosted. Just wanted to see if any other institutions of higher education are in the program and if there is any feedback you would like to share to help us with our decision making.  View more

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Easy way to rename mac`s

I have some mac´s that got an wrong Name when they where enrolled. If I rename them in Jamf nothing happens.So I am looking for a way to remotely be able to rename the mac´s without any user intervention ? - is this somehow possible?  View more

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User information - Update to Jamf

We are using no Ldap or AD, so only local accounts and wondering if there exist any script somehow that can show up first time a user login, filling in the information like full name, email , etc so these information are updated in Jamf? I have tried...  View more

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Wipe Mac message with Mojave

Does anyone have any info on how to leverage the wipe/lock commands where we can customize a message to appear on the pin screen? Heard Apple has made this feature with Mojave.  View more

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JAMF Infrastructure Manager updates

I have JAMF Pro Cloud with an on-prem windows server for the ADCS connector and Infrastructure Manager. Do I have to download and update ADCS and Infrastructure Manager when there are new updates on JAMF nation or do they auto update?  View more

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Help to deploy notarised app to Mac

We are beginning to evaluate Cisco AMP for our Antivirus needs.In connection with that I need to deploy the app via Jamf. In the newest release, Cisco has made AMP a notarised app, and changed the way they distribute it from a .pkg to a .dmg. They st...  View more

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