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Forcing screen saver with script

Hi,I am required to force all users screen saver to display a collection of images as supplied by our IT Security department, and I'm trying to work out the best way to achieve this.I have a a policy that successfully copies the screen savers to the ...  View more

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Disabling Icon Preview

Hi, Does anyone have a script to disable icon previews in Mac OS Sierra?I found an old script I used on previous OS X but this doesn't work fully, it disables it in finder/desktop but if I browse to a network share icon previews are turned back on ag...  View more

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Wi-fi extension attribute

We disable (or at least attempt to disable) wireless access on our Mac desktops, and only allow it on our MacBooks. Can anybody help me with an extension attribute to report whether the relevant wi-fi interface has been enabled or disabled? Thanks in...  View more

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Citrix Receiver Logs

Hi Guys, Strage issue. For some reasons users have started reporting they can't login to citrix. When i make them login to Mac as any other user, means a new account on Mac, they can login but in their old account it does not work.I have deleted all ...  View more

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Software Update at re-occurring period

Hi All I'm hoping you Guru's can assist and provide me with advice! I have a policy to point our mac's to our internal Apple software server, but I would like to setup the updates to push/install to the macs on a specific date every month only. Do an...  View more

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Netboot Setup on Linux Server

Hello All, I hope this post found you all well and healthy.We moved from Apple Server to Linux hosted servers for our Apple infrastructure and I am trying to setup Netboot on the Linux server but I can't found any document that mentions steps by step...  View more

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Renaming computers with partial serial # + prefix/suffix

Good afternoon everyone! I'm looking through the forums and i'm wondering if there's an easy way to pull just the last six digits of the serial number for the computer name. Below is what I have for creating the name with the full serial. Thanks for ...  View more

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User and location field no populating

A lot of my enrolled macs are not updating the user field. Its random but its really an inconvenience to have to update them manually.any command out there to update users and location field? when the field is not populated? My macs get named after u...  View more

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Smart group membership history collection?

Buddies, Is there an option to monitor smart group membership over an period? Some groups change a lot and sometimes it would be nice to monitor the amount of members in a group. Like, a smart group of computers with an harddrive more then 50% full o...  View more

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What type of Mac "server" to choose

Buddies :) In our network we have 2 minis and the Jamf server on a virtual MS server. The mini's are now 5 years old , so we start looking around. These mini's have the double hdd option, and a external TM Hdd. That option is no more I see now. What ...  View more

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SUS server workng with Caching server

Let me preface this as I realize that these are separate services and the pro's and con's of each. We have been looking at setting up one of the services but are more leaning towards a SUS as we need to control distribution of software OS software up...  View more

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Sort Scripts in the JSS

Hello all, Is there a way or a script to locate current scripts that are mapped to a policy? I need to sort out and remove old scripts which are no longer mapped to a policy. Thanks in advance  View more

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upgrade from Cacher 2.0 to 3.x

I noticed there was a new(er) version of Cacher available than what I have 2.0 vs 3.x. In the release notes it says 3.x went to a straight python script, but I can't find any of my notes about the old one. Any tips for how to remove the old versions?  View more

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NetSUS - no web login and disk space

Hi, I'm in the process of trying to get NetSUS set up, our Systems team have created a LInux VM with Azure. I have 2 issues/questions which may be related ? One. - When i try to access the webpage after the install nothing loads and it times out, i'v...  View more

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Comodo secure email certificate automation

Hi all - i was wondering if someone could help me automate entire process which includes the following actions, if at all possible: in outlook 2016 or apple mail, open a message with with certain subject ("Applying for your Corporate Secure Email Cer...  View more

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Issues running remote enrollment with recon

Hi Guys, Has any one seen this? We don't enroll many macs using the recon app so have not noticed this until now. When trying to do a remote enrollment with recon we get the following error. However i can scp over a quick add package and install it v...  View more

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Using Okta as an LDAP source

I am in the middle of deploying a centralized Jamf Pro instance for a large disparate organization. We're talking 5 business units with multiple sub-organizations, ultimately leading to well over 150 different Active Directory forests with no trust b...  View more

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Microsoft Office for 2016

Hello everyone- My organization uses Office 2016, and one of the things that I have been trying to wrap my mind around is how to enable automatic updates for the Office 2016 suite. I have been enabling auto updates piecemeal, but I would like to find...  View more

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Recovery Partition and 2017 MacBook Pros

Using the 10.12.5 installer from the App Store and the Sierra 10.12.5 update for 2017 iMac with AutoDMG produces an image that appears to install correctly on 2017 hardware. However, there is still an issue with the Recovery Partition using this meth...  View more

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802.1x on not bound Mac

I'm new to my role and before my time, the Macs were AD bound and using 802.1x authentication. Now they are not bound and I'm wondering if anyone can share how authentication can be done now. Networking is not my strong suit. My goal is to have a cle...  View more

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Second Batch of JNUC 2017 Sessions Announced

Hello Jamf Nation,
 To make your decision to join us at the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) this October easier, we’ve posted 37 additional sessions, bringing the current JNUC session count to 54. And with 26 more sessions coming in July, we’ll be...  View more

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Big News for The MUT

Hey all, Mike here--the creator of The MUT. I just wanted to make a post to let you all know that there are some big changes coming for The MUT--and some big changes that have happened recently. If you haven't heard of The MUT, it's a native macOS ap...  View more

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Delete user from multiple classes in one go.

Is it possible to remove the user from all of their enrolled classes at once? (as it takes 7 clicks and a paste of the user name in the search box, to remove a user from one class and if they are in 15 classes which many of our users are this is very...  View more

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MacOS Training Suggestions for Admins and Support Staff

Hello, We are starting to provide support for Mac's but the issue we are running into is that none of our support staff uses Mac so when an issue is brought to them they are not sure what to do. I've looked at Apple's website and came across http://t...  View more

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