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Inactivity Lock MacBook Question

I currently have the following payload scoped to our MacBooks, and I'd like for the MacBook to lock after 10 minutes of inactivity. However, users are being locked out after 2-3 minutes of inactivity. Any idea what I'm missing here?  View more

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Policy "whatif" or -list

Is there any way that I can do a dry run on a machine to see which policies it's in scope without running them? Sort of like Powershells '-whatif' command or '-list'  View more

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Cachig Server and JSS

Hello, I am planing on adding a caching server using a mac mini and need to understand how it will play with the JSS.As of now I have a Software update policy that runs onece per day and goes to Apple for update. Now once I turn on the caching servic...  View more

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Upgrading to Office 2016 & Large Mail Databases

Hi all, just looking for some of your experiences with upgrading from Office 2011 to 2016. Specifically if your users have large mail databases (ours have gotten out of hand, 10GB+ is the norm). We’ve found that it takes about 1 hour for Outlook 20...  View more

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How to completely disable Siri

Hi, trying to completely stop Siri from being enabled, currently we have it so that the setup assistant is skipped on login, and the Siri system preference item is blocked, but the user can still run the Siri.app from /Applications or Spotlight. I've...  View more

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Adding Search Domains doesn't work

Good Morning,we use this script to set the Search Domains to our clients but if the clients are ready there is only one search domain in the DNS Settings. We changed the script like this for example: Manually specify the DNS entries (separated by spa...  View more

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3 Distribution points

Greetings all, I have added 2 additional distribution points to my environment. So now I have 1 Master DP and 2 more. in the JSS, for the Master, I have DP2 set as the Failover and Enable Randomized Load Sharing is turned on. On the DP2 that is being...  View more

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Restrictive Software loophole

Hello everyone, I recently discovered that there is a loophole to restricting software.Currently, I have four restrictive software settings: Mackeeper, Steam, uTorrent, and Minecraft. All set up to remove the applications if they are triggered/launch...  View more

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Jamf Pro 9.101 beta program is now open

The Jamf Beta program is now open for Jamf Pro 9.101. The first beta of Jamf Pro 9.101 brings compatibility and new key-feature support for macOS High Sierra, iOS 11, and tvOS 11. New payloads, restrictions, and MDM commands for the Apple operating s...  View more

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Dockutil Command w/o Separate Script

Hello! I'm trying to find a solution for attaching Dockutil commands to a policy. I want to embed the command within the policy, instead of creating a separate script for just adding one icon to the dock. I expected to be able to make a one-banger co...  View more

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Need help w app distribution. What am I doing wrong?

Primary education environment; Managed Apple Id's. 1:1 distribution. Loaded Osmo app into JAMF from VPP. Distributed to specific user. But I'm having an issue getting Osmo app to load from self service on to teacher iPad. Will not load, I get an erro...  View more

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simple script to take pics using webcam

Our company recently had a system stolen from us, a system that was (mistakenly) not enrolled in our JSS. Fortunately, it was enrolled in DEP so, once the system was wiped then it checked in with DEP and, subsequently, showed up in our JSS (I love th...  View more

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Extension attributes cleared by Recon policy

Hi there. In order to keep our extension attributes up-to-date, we have added a recon policy, to run once daily, with a script called as follows; #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/jamf recon exit 0 When I run this script locally on macs, the recon command upd...  View more

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Script Help, EA for Folder

Hey guys, newbie in this and myself and JAMF been trying to get the following to work but we are not getting much luck. Any thoughts? #!/bin/bash USER=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}') DIRECTORY="/Users/$USER/Desktop/OneDrive - Bunbury Cathera...  View more

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Prestage Enrollment Issue

Hi All, Since upgrading to JamfPRO 9.100.0 Prestage Enrollment is not working as it has.It doesn't matter what combination of settings I have in the Account Settings area the newly added device still prompts to create a new computer account. Has any ...  View more

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Local users and other users showing on login window

Hi all, I recently wiped and re-added some of our lab computers to the JSS using Recon. I pushed out a login/logout configuration profile so that a username and password login screen would show for our users. We use Active Directory. Instead, I am se...  View more

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Deploying Macs

We are deploying some new Mac desktops for one of our departments as they are in dire need of an upgrade. I wanted to ask everyone what there process is for doing this. We would like to take as much of the setup out of the users hands as possible. In...  View more

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FileVault2 Password Synchronization

Hello, I have a situation in which an executive is having password synchronization issues with FileVault 2. I'm not convinced whether this is a technical issue, or something else. I figured I'd toss this one out there to get everyone's opinions. We h...  View more

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upgraded to 9.99 Require Password now activated?

We recently upgraded our jss to 9.99. Now our labs require passwords to log in back to the computer after going to sleep. This was not an issue before. The Security payload shows the "Require password..." box is unchecked, but is activated on each la...  View more

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