I want to say first and foremost that Jamf as a whole is a great product, however, patch management is terrible. It's missing some really basic features such as scheduling. There are some glaring issues as well. Notifications are basically non existe... View more
I missed the signup, but Dave from Jamf clued me in, so I will come by! View more
We've used the web clip for Self Service on iOS since rolling out Casper Jamf Pro several years ago. As use of it has increased, so have complaints about its relatively sluggish response and incomplete feedback regarding app installs. I'd like to pus... View more
What do you use of solutions for screensavers.We have some enterprise screensavers with pictures that are placed in specific folderIs it possible just to point to that folder and the Mac then will pick a random one each time ? View more
Does there exist any "easy" update scripts for OS security updates. What I need is quite simple. Download security updates if they exist - and install them. If reboot is needed a prompt should appear to user, that restart is needed within X minutes o... View more
I have a script I use to change passwords on my MAC's, what I'd really like to do is have the script check the password to see if it is different before attempting to change it. View more
Trying to install a BitDefender package and get following process with error in log: Executing Policy BitDefenderMounting JamfShareInstalling BitDefender...Successfully installed BitDefender.Running script BDinstall...Script exit code: 255Script resu... View more
I have looked and there doesn't seem to be as way to deploy this.This link says it doesn't support Small Business CrashPlan Read HereHas anyone deployed this via JAMF View more
I've been told many times I'm going about this the wrong way, but I really want a simple solution that doesn't require a bunch of scripts, so.... We have all our devices in DEP. They are set to a prestage enrollment that has the directory settings se... View more
So Jamf Remote has a "Save As" button... but I'm not sure how to make use of it and I can't find documentation. It saves an XML document with the policy configuration as a .casper file, but Jamf Remote doesn't seem to have a way to open any type of f... View more
I need to disable ARD on student laptops so they can use Lockdown Browser. Students don't have admin access on their laptops and somehow the Remote Management setting is turning on. Lockdown Browser will not allow the students to launch the applicati... View more
Using Mobility settings to create user when logging in from Open Directory, only creates Documents, Downloads and Library. These 3 are only given System permissions, not the User. It puts up a password box saying "macOS needs to repair your library t... View more
I seem to have a strange issue with a few different of the latest generation macbook pros - specifically one is a 13 inch with no touch bar, two of them are a 15 inch with touchbar. When a single adapter is used for ethernet, USB 3.0 and Video on a f... View more
Hi everyone, I hope all is well with you. I'm looking to automate our data transfer where I work. Im not sure if this is the right place to post this. Right now I transfer data using the migration assistant. Sometimes I use a hard drive to make a tim... View more
When I renew an APNs cert, will the cert already in the JSS continue to work until its expiration date, or will it stop working as if it were revoked? I'm trying to write a detailed change/backout plan for this process and need to know this detail (n... View more
Is there a Way to disable software Update in mojave. I know it is possible to disable Them in plist file, however if Admin Rights user Can just go to software Update and enable it again. Is there a Way to fix it, so it is possible to Control updates ... View more
Hi all, Am I missing something with in-house app deployments? We have a valid Apple Developers Enterprise certificate, a valid Provisioning Profile both packaged within the IPA and it is uploaded to a web server with the required access. However when... View more
Hello,Does anyone know of a way to automate the firmware password removal during a Netboot Install of the macOS? I have a script that we have available in Self Service to be able to remove the firmware password using an Expect script. And it works gr... View more
Hello Everyone, I know we can find smart groups, thanks to the work of others, and the attached policies and profiles they may be assigned to. However, I cannot find a way to see this with scripts. Over the years, we have added quite a few scripts to... View more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We have a few scripts that rely on user-input dialog boxes that generate the following popup when executed via a Jamf policy on macOS 10.14.xI've attempted to create a TCC profile to pre-approve com.apple.loginwindow for com.apple.systemevents but it... View more
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
When using the internet off our corporate network users are getting pesky certificate popup the states "The website "..." did not accept the certificate "unknown"". The website varies but a lot of the time its a google site like adservice.google but ... View more
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
