Digital Signage
How are you guys using AppleTVs at your various facilities? What are the displays like? What information are you hosting? View more
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Local users not appearing in FV2 preboot screen
Running JSS 9.97.1488392992. We have begun seeing an issue appearing on what appears to only be the new mid-2017 iMacs (iMac18,2) arriving lately (so far). After FileVault is turned on per our configuration profile, we attempt to add users other than... View more
Casper Imaging Hanging
Version: 9.99.0 (I know 9.100 just came out.)OS: 10.12.5 Hey all, I am having an issue with Casper Imaging where after a while it just hangs at “Initializing Imaging Process…” If I quit diskutil in Activity Monitor it continues with the image, but wi... View more
DEP - Prestage Authentication - AD Password requirements
Fellas.. Hope you can help me out here. Our DEP/Prestage Enrollment workflow requires the user authenticate to proceed with the computer setup and enrollment. Our new hires…who receive Macs right from the box…are required to change their initial gene... View more
Auto close browser on iPhone after X minutes
Most of the iPhones we hand out on our campus are assigned to a single individual, but about 10% are "shared" meaning they are used by multiple people. Sometimes these iPhones are handed off from one shift to another, and sometimes they are used by m... View more
Wait, what's that? A Hackathon at JNUC?!?!
This year, we'll be sponsoring a Hackathon at the Jamf Nation User Conference! Community members and Jamf employees can build custom projects and enter them in the Hackathon. We hope to see some really cool stuff and spend some time helping and contr... View more
DEP "nagging"
One of my concerns with our DEP prestage enrollment deployment is that if the end user does not have an internet connect during their setup, they can just skip the DEP enrollment... But I've been told that a nagging notification should pop up telling... View more
Local Accounts and a space in the name
Hi everyone, I currently running in a situation, where we enroll a machine through DEP and the first local account (username) on the machine does have a space in the name like "Max Mustermann". Before the user continues with the enrollement we like h... View more
2017 MacBook Pros not adding ethernet interface during adobeinstall
I am now using an AutoDMG build of 10.12.6 for my NetBoot and OS Image. NetBoots the 2017 MacBook Pros' just fine. However after imaging and booting into the adobeinstall user for post-imaging tasks, it is not recognizing/adding the ethernet interfac... View more
Having some login issues with Sierra and active directory, Log File Question
Good Morning everyone, Not sure why this is happening and I have addressed every conceivable thing that could be going wrong. When logging into systems with Sierra after binding I get this error messageIf I add our login server info to the hosts file... View more
Configuring a Caching Server
I know there's probably a million discussions on this, but can't seem to find it. My school is new to the world of Apple. I am more of a Windows systems guy in terms of expertise. We are awaiting the arrival of our first class set of iPads. I have re... View more
Running createmobileaccount inside a policy failing...
Hello All, I have a single policy/script that is called during the enrolment phase and takes care of calling other policies to make necessary configs and software installs. Among the actions performed by this policy, the two lines below that are fail... View more
same SSL certificate for internal and DMZ jss?
Hello,do the certificates for internal and DMZ jss have to be the same?At the moment our internal jss has only a self-signed certificate and we plan to install a DMZ jss with a Let’s Encrypt certificate.Because Let’s Encrypt needs to update every 90 ... View more
Problems with editing Self Service Icons/Colours on JSS server
Good morning all (morning where I am at least!) I'm having some trouble with customising my Self Service. I'm going off of the wonderful guide here by Emily Kausalik. My JSS is running on windows 10. I am trying to edit my login logo, and the default... View more
Off course, it happend again :)
People, No real question, just something i have to share, (me working in a big school with 3500 pc's and only 350 mac's so the windows co workers don't mind) Yesterday installed OSX 10.12.5 on mac's in 6 classrooms with Jamf.The install for the new s... View more
GUI prompt or JamfHelper over loginwindow?
I'm having some trouble getting two items to work as part of our New Machine Workflow. I've read a lot of documentation on this but can't seem to fix either, and some research indicates that it might not be possible. 1) We execute a New Machine Workf... View more
Using cabled ethernet to clear passcode and enable disabled iPads
It seems since 10.3 I have been unable to send clear passcode requests to iPads that are disabled and have dropped off wi-fi or that the user has just forgotten the passcode. Using Apple's "unsupported" method of Lightning to USB3 and USB ethernet ad... View more
Casper Imaging (Direct write or target mode) failing on Late 2016 MBPs w/touchbar.
We're starting our rollout of JAMF (cloud hosteD) and alongside it significantly increasing our install base of Macs. Currently trying to get these things imaged. I'm a windows guy primarily trying to wrap my head around this and any advise or someon... View more
OS builds after 2017-003 updates
Hello!What are Yosemite and Al Capitan system build versions after installing 2017-003 updates, please? View more
Convert Network Account to Mobile Network Account?
We are trying to implement a onedrive sync solution. On our campus users authenticate with AD credentials and their home share is created on the Mac. One of the steps after creating the symbolic links is to do a chown on the links for the user. The p... View more
10.12.6 (16G29) appears to re-unify the build
No variant for mid-2017 models, same build on old and new hardware. Carry on. View more
Backup Software Recommendations
Hi, I know CrashPlan has been getting expensive and a lot of people are looking for alternatives. I have been testing out Google Drive Backup & Sync and I like it. Just wanted to see what you guys are using and get some alternatives to try/discuss. J... View more
Script to change Environments
Hey there Jamf Nation Peeps,I'm wondering if anybody has in their environment a script (or something) that changes from a Production type environment to a Dev type environment? This is what I envision... In Self Service, a policy that only a very sel... View more
Easy way to update local account password?
How can I update the password on a local account.in our case we have "localuser", I see there's a place to edit/change the password, but when I edit/change the password and run the policy I get an error, because it tries to create the account.what I ... View more
Tinkerplots Register / DeRegister
Has anyone had success registering and de-registering Tinkerplots v2.3.3? I've followed the recommended command line instructions on their website ( http://www.tinkerplots.com/network-installation ) but with limited success. View more
Extract value from a Plist
Last week I had help from @mm2270 to extract our Extension Archive name with given Bundle ID[https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/24701/find-and-save-value-from-a-plist](link URL)I tried to use that script to search for other velues but it wa... View more
Export BluePrint
All,One of my departments has an iPad cart they have been maintaining with Apple Configurator and they would like for me to duplicate their config in JSS. I've never used configurator before this and what I would like to do is pull the config from on... View more
Policy Request Form?
Hi All, I need to put together a form for 3rd parties to fill out for new JSS policy requests. Does anyone have one they can share so I'm not reinventing the wheel here? Cheers! View more
Enabled a user onto Filevault automatically (or script)
Hi all, Here's the scenario:- We have a Macbook. Filevault is already enabled for the first user created within the Macbook- We want log-off, then ask another user to log on. When that happens, we want filevault to automatically add this new user to ... View more
How do I find the App Identifier of an app installed through VPP?
I am trying to create a smart group matching the App Identifier. I tried to use the bundle id I have in the iOS app Xcode project, the bundle ID I ship to apple with. When I use the smart group as a scope in a profile it does not work. How do I choos... View more
