We have recently revoked admin privileges on employee laptops. The latest issue I am working on is CD/DVD ROM access. I had an employee complain about the DVD player not working and can't import songs into iTunes. I remoted in - CD and DVD mount OK. ... View more
We are using Dockutil along with this script to place an smb file share icon in the Dock. This is working just fine/usr/local/bin/dockutil --add smb://fs1.vcs.local/File Shares --label "File Shares" --position end What I want to do is check whether t... View more
Hi all - I'm new to all this scripting stuff, so please forgive my questions.. If I input all the office preference keys that i got from the office4mac site - and i put them all in a single script - then i run that script in terminal, will it modify ... View more
I'm in the process of trying to creating a slimmed download mobileconfig file so that my machines that are running 10.13 will have the FV key escrowed. I've followed the recipe provided from this link however I've done everything down to step 7. At t... View more
I have a wifi config profile that works on all my Macs but 2, even if I erase and reinstall the os. When it is installed manually or through self-service it is generating an error "The ‘Active Directory Certificate’ payload could not be installed. Th... View more
Trying to get an EA to report if homebrew is installed so I can scope a GIT update. #!/bin/bash ## Work Area #################### which brew if [ $? = /usr/local/bin/brew ] then echo "brew installed" else echo "brew not installed" fi I only get "brew... View more
We recently updated our environment from Casper Suite 9.97 to JAMF Pro 10.4. Since then I have seen that Self Service takes a longer to install when using Web Enrollment. On 9.97 Self Service installed almost immediately. Now it takes 10-15 minutes a... View more
Anybody seeing random, and not necessarily production, versions of Office 2016 apps being installed when using @pbowden's Fully Managed configuration profile which is supposed to set manual updates only on production channel with user initiated updat... View more
Anyone out there trying to deploy Fuze? I've created a simply /Applications folder installer package. However, upon first run the app needs admin credentials to allow the auto-updater to run. This can be suppressed with ESC, but it will try again on ... View more
I am looking to use composer to spin off a printer installer (.pkg) for our independent contractors, who have BYOD computers, and therefore are not enrolled in our JSS. I have everything good to go with a lpadmin command added to the postinstall scri... View more
We have created a restricted application blocking policy using wildcards, example: VPN and VPN, but it does not seem to work. Are there methods to using this feature? We have several common VPN's blocked and that works great, but we block one and the... View more
Hi, Is there a way of listing all the LDAP memberships for a user and then picking a particular one as need be?I work in a school and our students are members of a variety of different Security Groups.I would like to be able single out particular gro... View more
An example here will help. I have a policy that installs Acrobat. I thought about scoping this one of two ways:1. All computers installed once per computer since we do want to install this on every Mac. If we ever have to wipe out a Mac and re-enroll... View more
Hi, Just trying to find out where all the data that you see in Jamf Console under Computers.. e.g hostname, ip address and user login is kept/ logged. View more
Each morning we have our helpdesk guy walking around our office to check 200+ iPads to make sure the ones with low battery are plugged in for charging. This is done manually and is not efficient.Is there an existing python script that will query all ... View more
Excuse my newness as an IT tech* I have a company with about 30 computers (OS X). We have just recently enrolled into Apple DEP. I have trialed some MDM solutions including JAMF now. My goal is to be able to deploy new computers out of the box so the... View more
Hi guys! I am researching the best way to deploy SPSS to a lab bound to AD. I found this post here that helps me some: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/20588/spss-24-deployment How exactly does this work? Do I put the silent installer DMG... View more
I know this is likely a total noob question, but I'm stuck and looking for help.We're still in the early phases of deployment, and only have a couple of devices enrolled thus far. I have two iPad's enrolled - one is my tester, the other is a simple s... View more
Hey all, We're new to Jamf and still getting our terms straight to communicate questions effectively. My first question is, we're sort of stuck at the initial starting point and I've got two questions that keep coming up: Do we perfect our configurat... View more
We are using Dockutil 2.0.5 under High Sierra with a very simple script shown below. When the user logs in Siri, iBooks, and Maps still appears in the Dock when they should not. Any ideas? !/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/dockutil --remove all --no-restart /U... View more
Is there a way to generate a report that will show all the system names and their escrowed FileVault 2 keys (we hold them in the JSS)? I’ve reviewed the advanced computer search criteria but can’t seem to find what I need. View more
Wondering if anyone has any insight into this. I wrote an EA and put it up in my environment. Watching some of the results come in, I made an error and corrected it. Now the results are correct, but for those few that ran the EA already and the outpu... View more
Hi - so the box tools (or box edit) is a .dmg file. the only way i know how to silent install is a .pkg format (installer command). 1st step via composer is to convert the dmg to pkgthen package it via casper admin.then push out as a policy i get wha... View more
Hey guys I am looking at creating a policy to deploy Mathematica to a lab nearby. We have a license server that these will connect to, and I found out there is a mathpass file that I think needs to be placed in /Library/Mathematica/Licensing/mathpass... View more
I currently manage mobile devices for clients to remotely record their vital signs. These clients are both in state and out of state. This particular question is referring to a client that is out of state. A client inadvertently signed into a managed... View more
We have new users (as of 29 of May 2018) with appleid accounts set in Apple School Manager. When the users login to an iPad with their apple institutional ID and temporary password all seems well and the iPads restart after the "Getting ready" stage.... View more
Okay we have been seeing the following in the logs. 2018-05-03 12:39:30,865 [WARN ] [Tomcat-76 ] [ReconFieldHelper ] - Invalid version entry2018-05-03 12:39:40,550 [WARN ] [Tomcat-62 ] [ReconFieldHelper ] - Invalid version entry2018-05-03 12:39:44,76... View more
After enrolling 50+ Computers, some users had me notice that they couldn't use their camera. After troubleshooting with a spare computer I've noticed that this was caused by one of my configuration profile. Which is intended to redirect the FileVault... View more
we have a LADP group and we want to remove it from exclusion in the App scope we hit remove and it seems to be removed exit the click back into it and it still there anyone got any idea on how to remove this ??? have restarted Tomcat and SQL still is... View more
