Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
About 15 minutes ago (7:40 AM local time), I looked up a Mac in JSS, and saw this:Last Check-in: Today at 10:56 PM That corresponds roughly to Australia's Central Standard Time zone. But we're in Detroit. I suppose it's possible that the user manuall... View more
Hello, Something that bugs me about our inventory is we are not collecting clear user information so when I run a report its really hard to identify users without a further look up on one of our internal systems. Our Macs are AD bound and login is an... View more
Hi,Is anybody else experiencing issues (the "unable to connect to server" message) when trying to connect to the self service from iPads since the lastest Casper suite update?Installing apps already in the list loaded on device seems fine, but refres... View more
Recently with two different applications I was packaging (both very large), I've been able to 'Build as PKG' in Composer without any problems, but if I select 'Build as DMG' then I get the following error message: In case that hasn't embedded properl... View more
How exciting/boring/reliable is installing the "Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update" (any month) on your Red Hat Tomcat and/or MySQL servers? Any odd or bad experiences? (Trying to gather anecdotal information on how much of a "gotcha" this update m... View more
Hi guys, The build 16.5.142 comes with a new feature where we can auto-populate email and username. Do you know where the plist is? definitely not under ~/Library/Preferences Thanks Admins are allowed to set the email and user name with user profiles... View more
We've been asked to make all browsers show our intranet page for new browser windows and tabs. That's easy for most browsers, but Chrome is a bit odd. It provides no method to customize the "new tab" or "new window" behavior. (It does let you specify... View more
Hi, Since we updated to 9.96 (now on 9.97), if we try to run Recon on any machine which is already on JSS we are getting an error: "Recon failed to submit to the JSS. Downloading required CA Certificate(s)... There was an error. Error enrolling compu... View more
Hi All, I'm working on a script to remove content from the documents, downloads, desktop, and trash from a specific user. We have training laptops that we would like to refresh periodically. The first draft of my script is well intentioned, but it do... View more
I just wanted to post this here so if the next person runs into this, who is not a MySQL expert (like myself), they won't get stuck for a few hours like I did :-) So I'm in the process of setting up a brand new JSS environment that will include an ap... View more
Our organization has a need to set user policy settings in chrome. Currently I'm handling this by using this single command - "sudo -u $currentuser defaults write com.google.Chrome AuthServerWhitelist "*serverhere.com" While this works, new users who... View more
What permissions are required for running MUT to make updates to username, full name and email? I would prefer not to run as full admin account. I think I have just about everything else dialed in except for permissions to run MUT. I can do updates m... View more
Hello All, We were looking at obtaining Sophos AV for our 450 teacher laptops and 200+ lab machines for a school district. In doing some research, I see that both Sophos and McAffe are adding a minimum of 30 seconds to login time. What programs are y... View more
Just updated server to 9.97.1488392992. When clients are checking in for the first time, the jamf binary seems to be uninstalled rather then updated for some. Anyone else seeing this happen? View more
Hi Guys, trying to run a script for syncing files with lftp at midnight everyday.got the script to work now trying to use lingon to do the scheduling process. the script works fine in terminal but i got error message in lingon... any clue?thanks a lo... View more
Hi Can someone give me the addresses of the training centre of the London and Amsterdam training centres please? I'm just pricing up options for travel, hotels etc. Thanks View more
Hi there, did anyone use Jolokia to monitor the jamfPro Server?Currently I'm testing around and looking for some folks who already use it for monitoring.Product-URL: https://jolokia.org/ bofh View more
After purchasing Jamf Pro 12 months ago (when it went by a different name), and going through the Jumpstart, we didn't really touch our JSS or enroll any users. (For complicated business reasons, we just didn't have time.) Now, a year later, I'm comi... View more
Hi thereWe have noted something weird in the past week whereby students who previously could not run games from their users folder now can. We didn't believe anything in our lockdown policy had changed so we started removing whitelisted folders until... View more
Hi JN, Just tried to update Package Manifests in Composer (9.97.1482356336) and get "Connection failure: The operation couldn’t be completed. ( error 404.)" Is it down or just me? TIA, /randy View more
I have just written a blog post on how to automatically update Google Chrome using Jamf if anyone is interested. You can find my blog post here: https://lew.im/2017/03/auto-update-chrome/I have seen a few different methods posted here, but most requi... View more
In light of the 9.97 hot fix our organization is going through and purging or sanitizing any scripts that may contain sensitive data. To that end, one script in particular is throwing back some errors when we attempt to pass parameters when using it.... View more
I wrote this script to easily update package files used in policies when replacement packages have been uploaded to the JSS. Historically, we have almost a dozen JAMF PRO Sites where packages are updated centrally, but the policies are managed at the... View more
I have a policy that did a bad thing, and now need to correct it on just those machines that were hit with the policy..... (672 machines) Any straight forward was of doing this? Seems like a EA would have to be used? Please advise. BestDavid View more
Does anyone know if the latest dot release of 9.97 includes a higher version of Tomcat other than originally deployed with 9.97 (Tomcat version 8.0.39)? View more
Howdy! I'd like to run a report that tells me how often end users use the Flash (NPAPI) plugin in Safari or Firefox. I could run a report to tell me when each browser was last used but that's not the most accurate picture of usage. Any ideas how I co... View more
Hello, We have migrated from a Mac Shares server to a Windows 2012 R2 Shares server. It has gone smoothly with one exception. When a Mac User re-saves a .xslx file to a shared folder it generates a temporary folder which is normal when saving excel f... View more
Hi all, We are trying to deploy the Cisco AnyConnect default settings through the XML but we are having troubles with the default group. We are managing to deploy the settings for the server but we are not having any luck with the default group. Even... View more
We are looking to expand the file distribution point for macOS and potentially needing to host In-house apps for iOS. We currently have an internal server running MySQL, Apache Tomcat. Consider this as a primary JSS. All internal network will communi... View more
Greetings! I have a Post Image Policy that runs a script (mostly other policies with custom triggers) with a Startup trigger. I'd like to display a message at the login screen (or lock the screen even better) until it completes. I've tried using jamf... View more
