Whitebox Packages 1.2.2 released, now leverages macOS Notification Center
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Patch Revision data out of date?
Hi All, I've noticed on our 9.100 install that patch reporting data is out of date. Casper thinks is current for Chrome is 63.0.3239.84, but 63.0.3239.132 is actually current. I’m also noticing Flash doesn’t know about latest version. 28.0.0.137 came... View more
enrolling via https://Jamfpro.mycompany.com/enroll issue with users and sites
An issue has shown up for some of our international techs. When they are preparing to enroll new systems, they get the log in window, but are no longer getting the window with the username and sites. When I'm screen sharing and logging in with my cre... View more
Caches deleted using Recon Quick add
Hi, I am in the process of on-boarding a college into our JAMF Pro instance. I gave the department Admins a Quick-add package to enroll existing Macs. Turns out, they are caching a custom image for their log in screens at /Libraries/Caches. That is g... View more
NetSUS 4.2.1 configuration problems
Hi, I'm having some issue to setup a local netsus server and get my clients to update from there, and update only what I have "approved"... We have a very simple setup of Netsus OVA version, which was used to host a netinstall image so far.I wanted t... View more
In house distribution errors "The app is already scheduled for management."
We are distributing an in-house app through a hosted web server. We first were getting the "Untrusted Enterprise Developer" error, so I found out that the provisioning profile that was bundled with the app was expired. We had the developer re-bundled... View more
Forgot Apple ID associated with APN
Hi Guys,Need an urgent help here.we forgot the apple ID which is associated with APN certificate renewal.Contacted jamf and Apple support, unfortunately no help. is there any way we can find this Apple ID? View more
Checking for profiles hangs when shutting down
Can anyone tell me why some users laptops hang at checking for profiles when powering down. I found a few resolutions on here but need to know where to look on the client machine to see which profile or profiles are hanging? Any help would be greatly... View more
Automated herding of cattle ...er Users for weekly-ish reboots
Hey all I was thinking of retooling our weekly reboot, Apple update, install jamf cached packages process workflow. Eventually I would like to get creative and use a launch daemon to check for system uptime and after a machine has been on for 7 days ... View more
Roll back Safari from 11.0.2 to Safari 9.1.1
A policy was created to do an Apple update, the update ran by a colleague but due to the nature of the environment a certain version of Safari works to access a specific FTP site. To use the latest version of Safari requires upgrading the subscriptio... View more
Network accounts are not available, but they are.....
Anyone who have their macs on a Windows domain logging in through AD get this message on the log in screen? We get it quite often but it you enter your username and password it does actually check AD and log you in, unsure why it says it won't which ... View more
QuickAdd.pkg fails on one specific computer
Hi all, I have a strange problem. We have a Mac that was DEPed, but due to time constraints they set up the Mac anyway using Migration Assistant, naturally I want to enroll this Mac now (though I can't put it through our standard DEP procedure as tha... View more
Microsoft AutoUpdate 3.14.17121501
Hello,I am looking for the link to download the pkg Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac version 3.14.17121501, the patch management tells me that it is out on 16/12/2017.I did not find anything at microsoft. View more
High Sierra remove lock screen
Has anyone come across a way to remove the lock screen option from a mac? In our busy student open access and teaching rooms we don't want them to be able to lock a mac and walk away from it for obvious reason. We have a way of checking idle time and... View more
Looking for a Deep-Freeze-esque for School Labs?
How are you guys implementing Lab style deployments in your environment where you need to keep computers in a "frozen" state or in a state that can be reverted after a restart? We're currently looking for a better way since we're starting to see the ... View more
Spectra and Firefox/Chrome
Firefox (mainline and ESR)Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-01 | Speculative execution side-channel attack ("Spectre")- Fixed in Firefox 57.0.4 (mainline), or Firefox ESR 52.x. Google ChromeActions required to mitigate Speculative Side-Channe... View more
Re-pushing failed Mac Store Apps through auto install
Is there any solution to have a macOS device re attempt to auto install a mac store app through JSS? e.g. sudo jamf recon View more
Running 2 Casper policies, but at seperate times
Hi, We are running Casper JSS 9.101. We want to: run Casper policy 1. a week later, run Casper policy 2, but only if Casper policy 1 has been successfully completed. As far as I know, there's no simple way to do this. We could go to the Casper Policy... View more
Installing PKG using a bash script with Jamf
Hello all, I have a few pkg files I'd like to install using bash since I can suppress the various popups they produce during installation which are really just confusing to the user. I'm simply running: sudo installer -pkg "package.pkg" -target / and... View more
K-5 iPad Education Event at Jamf Headquarters - February 6th
Hello iPad Admins, On February 6th, Jamf will be hosting an EDU focused event at our Minneapolis Headquarters. You will hear from educators that are getting the most out of their iPads. Additionally, you will learn about the Jamf & eSpark Learning Pa... View more
Weird (?) Question About How Apple handles Software Update Checks...
Hi,Okay, so I'm struggling to find an answer to this, so I thought I'd ask here: If a user disables all the checkboxes (so the computer is not checking for updates at all) in the App Store pref pane, does the computer, behind the scenes, still check ... View more
McAfee EPO Version Extension Attribute
I thought you used to be able to share extension attributes but I do not remember now. I got the basis of this from an older EA located here [McAfee Check EPO Agent Version]https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/third-party-products/files/525/mcafee-check-... View more
macOS Device-based VPP App Installations Failing and Opening App page on AppStore
Since updating from 9.98 to 10.1.1, we have been noticing on some newly enrolled computers this issue: In Self Service, the available VPP assigned AppStore apps all fail. After you click Install, it spins at Installing for 15 seconds or so and then p... View more
Jamf Pro Policies and JamfHelper
Hi Folks! Don't mean to be long-winded here but... I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around all the various scripts available that work with installing packages via a policy in JAMF Pro along with JamfHelper. And a gang of these scripts are fr... View more
Authenticated Restart with FileVault 2 Not Working
We have a Policy In place for our DEP Zero-Touch Build that enables FV2 as the Management Account, and then performs an Authenticated Restart, however on reboot the machine requires FV2 Authentication when it should not.See below Policy Log. Any Idea... View more
VPP issues with managed Apple IDs
VPP invitations should automatically register the account for users with managed Apple IDHowever for some of our students the invitation shows as incomplete - when you look at Usage in the invitation If you look at the User in JSS there is not a butt... View more
10.13.x Content Caching - Config Profile Control
Has anyone figured out whether it is possible to control 10.13.x built in Content Caching granular settings via Configuration Profile? I put together a custom profile with the keys that I want set by default, however, the Caching functionality is not... View more
Spectre patches, are they wiping out your Plug-In whitelists?
We're getting reports that users who get the Spectre patch for Safari are getting prompted to allow Plug-ins that we have been whitelisting through a Configuration Profile. Anyone else seeing this? View more
Inventory showing 0 Applications
I just noticed that the inventory for our macs are showing 0 Applications installed. If I force a recon on a machine I can see in the logs it is searching the /Applications directory. For some reason it is not population the Applications list though.... View more
