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Fusion or Parallels for Jamf Admin

This could be opening a can of worms and an endless debate so im hoping this can be kept civilized as possible :) I currently have my main macbook pro and an iMac next to me for doing composer, autodmg etc work. I am thinking i might be better of usi...  View more

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Disable Sierra's new iCloud Drive features

Hi all, I learned today that Apple overhauled iCloud Drive in Sierra, which led to a bit of a shock. Do we know yet how we can disable the "Optimize My Mac" option in iCloud settings? (this should really be opt-in). Do we know if this will be added a...  View more

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SSL VPN or IKEv2

Have been testing and researching many options for vpn, and running into issues with stability, mostly with it disconnecting every several minutes (Routing all phone traffic through IKEv2). I cannot find any information on custom SSL VPN's. Does anyo...  View more

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Best Practice to apply default user settings

Hi, I would like to configure Finder preferences such as Items shown on desktop and default view. I am not sure how I should do it. Is there a way to configure this using Configuration Profile but allow the user to modify the settings afterwards? Tha...  View more

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Restrictions Hard Disk Media Access

I've been playing around with various restriction options with media. Selecting the option Require Authentication prompts the user to enter admin credentials in order to mount media. I've also found that a standard user gets prompted to mound the EFI...  View more

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Logs for Computer Deletion from Jamf

Hi Everybody! Just throwing this one out there in hopes that someone has been in this situation before. This morning I had a report from a user that they couldn't connect to our secure Wi-Fi and upon investigating, I found that their Mac was no longe...  View more

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Purchasing Audiobook mp3s for distribution

Hi all, I'm just looking into distributing Audiobooks through my instance of the JSS and in conjunction with our LMS.My question was, where do you guys purchase audiobooks from/what kind of licencing issues can you run into?If only there was a VPP fo...  View more

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Sending updates to all software in self service

I have successfully blocked users from downloading software on the internet through JSS. Users are now only able to install software provided through self service. I would now like to find out how to send updates to all software I have added to Self ...  View more

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Computer Name field grayed out?

I haven't touched policies or config profiles in months. Recently we had two Macs, one Macbook Pro and one iMac that went through pre-stage, config and policy. After that's all done our Techs rename the device and add it to our domain. Well for some ...  View more

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Converting from VPP by User to by Device

We are planning to move from VPP by User to VPP by Device, and are wondering what experience others have had with the transition. The physical changing of servers and migrating VPP easy - a flush click and an enable click... Determining the best mean...  View more

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Xcode 8.3.1 - App Store only?

I logged in to developer.apple.com/download to get Xcode 8.3.1 and discovered that the latest version available from there is 8.3. However 8.3.1 is available in the Mac App Store. Does this mean we will no longer be able to stay on top of the latest ...  View more

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FileVault Password Change Script

Hi All, I've finally moved to publishing some of my more useful junk. Here's a much-discussed issue that we fixed internally with a collaborative script that I finalized. This is a version that is scrubbed of our environment's details. Any pro-tips o...  View more

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Package a .plist

I want to package my com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist and have it installed on other macs. the plist i want packaged will have Automatically check for updates. AND install system data files and security updates CHECKED !! I DO NOT WANT Download newly a...  View more

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Historical MAC Addresses

Hi All, I made the following Extension Attribute to collect MAC addresses of devices now that we are living in Dongle Hell. This reports the last MAC address of both built-in and removable devices connected to the machines. To prevent the table from ...  View more

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End of the Year practices

Curious as to how other schools go about cleaning up their jamf Pro at the end of the year? Do you clear out pre stage enrollments, Classes, Users, and start fresh in the fall ? I feel like it wouldn't be a bad thing to do to clear out the years clut...  View more

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Modify Notification Center

Looking for a way to add/remove things to the notification center. A reason for this is we restrict the built in Calendar.app, but it's in Notification Center by default. So if a user opens NC they will get a jamf prompt saying that Calendar is restr...  View more

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Certifications-- when to do it

I was reading a few posts about certifications not being valid for the new jamf pro v 10 if you only had certification for v9. My question is, if i do not have any of the certifications currently would it be better to wait until v10 is out and get ce...  View more

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Script Help for Extension Attribute

Hello all, we are creating a script to report back if a system is compliant or non-compliant with out PIVM requirement. See below for the script I have so far. It works great in terminal, and returns either compliant or noncompliant as expected, but ...  View more

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