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Jamf 10 Patch Management experiences?

I installed JP10 on our internal test server to play with Patch Management. Added Mozilla Firefox 56.0.2 to Jamf Admin directly from the dmg I downloaded from Mozilla and added it the PM policy and set it to distribute via Self Service. When I ran th...  View more

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HP OpenView?

Does anyone know if there is an HP OpenView client/agent for macOS? Has anyone installed/used it in production?  View more

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Autolaunch Safari Webpage problems

Ok guys...call me crazy, insane in the membrane or...downright stupid, but, for some reason Safari will not launch an actual window when I have it configured as a login item. Safari will open, but no window until I click the icon. I have also tried u...  View more

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Test environment?

Hi all. I’m after some information from like-minded colleagues, so any input would be greatly appreciated. I am looking at ways we can improve our test environment for our Mac management system. Currently, we have a test instance of the management pr...  View more

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Parallels via JSS

Hi All I'm hoping someone can provide me with assistance with installing Parallels in JSS. I have the autodeploy package, added the dmg of Parallels Desktop 13 into the "Autodeploy.pkg and then tried uploading this into jss, but when its uploaded it ...  View more

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Deploying High Sierra 10.13 with Casper Imaging

Hi All, I thought i would share with the community my method for deploying High Sierra with Casper Imaging.The method basically consists for two scripts. I have tested this with a 10.13.1 Netboot Image created with AutoDMG and AutoCasperNBI restoreMa...  View more

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High Sierra upgrading Newbie advise

So for the first time ever we are wanting to not have to run around to everyone's laptop and manual upgrade. I am looking at in place high sierra upgrading by caching the installer on the machine then using a script to launch the upgrade process. Or ...  View more

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SMB Share mounting and which way is right for me.

I have found many scripts here and on the internet but I am not having luck creating a policy to mount a network share. We have a basic drive that everyone has access to, I want to basically have a script that mounts this drive automatically for our ...  View more

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eraseVolume fails, could not mount disk after erase

I have a simple script that erases a volume and them sets the permissions so that anyone can access the drive: #!/bin/sh #erase and reformat Volume_name partition sudo diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ Volume_name /dev/disk0s4 #change drive permission sudo ...  View more

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List MDM Capable Users in Extension Attribute

Hi all, I've had a few issues where VPP applications would not install and after a fair while of investigation i found that the uername listed under MDM Capable Users is not the same as the login username, in most instances the AD account had been in...  View more

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Script Not working in JSS but will work via ARD

Hi I have simple command lines that I've used to clean up our Lab based mac minis, deleting files deleting files in the following locations. rm -rf ~/Desktop/rm -rf ~/Downloads/rm -rf ~/Applications/rm -rf ~/.Trash/ I can run it them all at once with...  View more

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Any way to tell what Apple ID an app was installed under?

I have an interesting situation where a student has purchased a piece of software under his personal apple id, and is reselling it to other students by signing in as himself, installing it, then signing out. I found this out by attempting to update t...  View more

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Deferral Options for JSS Policies

I want to edit a policy for OS updates that I current have in self service and make it a weekly policy for all machines. On Frequency, I do have the option of once ever week. However, it appears the only option for user deferral (see attached screens...  View more

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OneDrive Implementation

I have onedrive implemented for users that received new notebooks (manually pushing the app and our preference files), and now I need to push it out with JAMF to all the desktop machines. Below are the unix commands I have been manually entering in T...  View more

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Is it just me, or does this bother you too?

I keep a short cut to the Casper tools in my doc for both my prod and test environment. Does it bother anyone else that the folder icons are now noticeably different? Or is it just my OCD? K. Thanks. Bye.  View more

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silent install pkg mac os x with custom install

hi all - i'm trying to do a silent install on anyconnect client 4.5.x. it's in .pkg format. typically i would execute the following command: sudo installer -verboseR -pkg "/somelocation/somefile.pkg" -target / however, the installation has several op...  View more

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Self Service Branding Header image tint (yuck)

The new Self Service Branding Header image seems to be delivered to the client GUI with a dark tint applied. (no bueno) I'm pretty sure this was being discussed in the beta forum, and I thought the JAMF response was this would be reduced, lifted or m...  View more

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Battery level not updating

I was wondering if anyone else was having an issue with their iPad battery levels not automatically updating during an inventory update? We have to do remote restart of the device to have it register it's actual battery level.Any help/suggestions wou...  View more

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Trouble w/ VirtualBox Deployment

Been searching for others might have done this in the past but no results on Jamfnation, so I gave it a whirl as a test. I have Virtual Box and a Windows VM created on my device working 100%. Then created a new pkg via Composer that includes the Virt...  View more

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Transferring files out to iPads?

Anyone know of an easy way to transfer PPT files out to a cart full of iPads? I have a teacher who bought some kind of activity off Etsy for her Kindergartners to use and I need to get it out to 50 iPads. It's a total of 19 PPT files. Aside from havi...  View more

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Norwegian localization of Self Service.app (10.0.0)

Hello, With the new and better-looking Self Service in Jamf Pro 10, we decided to also add a Norwegian translation. I have sent it to Jamf for revision and possible future inclusion in the app, but for now I can provide two options to have your Self ...  View more

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Package failed to upload

Hi Nation, I am receiving the following message when trying to upload a package to Jamf Cloud:Package failed to upload The package has only 64 KB, I was able to upload other packages before, not really sure about what is going on... Has anyone been t...  View more

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Privacy policies for France/Germany

Just a question to the community regarding how you handle privacy for areas like France/Germany? As it stands, JAMF Pro collects application usage and other information. Has ANY of the information that gets gathered into the JSS ever come into questi...  View more

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