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Screensaver

Anyone else seen the issue with the screensaver getting stuck? Moving the mouse or hitting any keys will not return to the login window or desktop. We have to hold the power button down until it goes to sleep and hit the button again to bring it back...  View more

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Reset local admin password every 6 months

Hi everyone, On all of our mac computer, we have the same local admin account with same password. We would like to have the password change every 6 months and have a randomly generated password. I know I can do this with a policy; however, we would l...  View more

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"Allow Network Users to log in" Missing!

Hello everyone, I am noticing that all troublesome Macs that stop communicating with our AD server have one thing in common and its that this option in System Preferences-Users and Groups-Login Options "Allow network users to log in at login window" ...  View more

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High Sierra (beta) with AutoDMG

Hi there! Currently we are deploying a base macOS Sierra through modular imaging, this 10.12.6 is comming from the default installer and recreated with AutoDMG. If i do the same with macOS High Sierra, AutoDMG does not recognize this version of macOS...  View more

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How to reset firmware password?

Hi all, Did something stupid... I used sudo firmwarepasswd -setpasswd to change the firmware password I got the following feedback, so I thought the password change was successful "Enter new password:Re-enter new password:Setting Firmware PasswordPas...  View more

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User Initiation enrollment failing

We have been using the User Initiation Enrollment where we send an email to the user, they log in, and the management profile is installed. This is our second year using this with no problem. This afternoon, this seems to have stopped working. The us...  View more

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User Initiation enrollment failing

We have been using the User Initiation Enrollment where we send an email to the user, they log in, and the management profile is installed. This is our second year using this with no problem. This afternoon, this seems to have stopped working. The us...  View more

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anomaly with Granular Password Settings

We have our macs bound to AD (transitioning to NoMAD in the works). About 5 months ago we added a tiered password expiration based on password length using following article: http://techgenix.com/Configuring-Granular-Password-Settings-Windows-Server-...  View more

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DEP with Active Directory Binding

I'm trying to setup DEP along with an Active Directory Binding at enrollment once an employee authenticates with their username and password to perform the following: Create a mobile / admin account at first log in Name the computer using the newly t...  View more

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Adobe Install/FirstRun/AutoLogin

I am attempting to get AutoLogin to work in a fashion like the Adobe Install account does. Im trying to get it to work on Sierra. I have used the CreateUserPkg.app before but that was a super long time ago and seems to no longer be maintained. So I w...  View more

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Best way to inventory Adobe Software

Hello, Today I setup Licensed Software titles using Software Identification Tags as per the kb article and cross-referencing Adobe's documentation. I need to get license counts for all Adobe products as we need those counts to purchase and true-up on...  View more

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Turn on iOS iCloud Backups with JSS?

Is it possible to turn on iOS iCloud backups with the JSS? Currently most users have the iOS backup feature disabled. I've set the config profile to allow the devices to use iCloud backups, but I'm hoping there is a way to turn the iCloud backup feat...  View more

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Video Study materials for Casper Suite/Jamf Pro

I have decided that I want to go for the JAMF Certification. In order to prepare for the training classes I want to study as much related material as possible so that I can better absorb the material in the classes. I am looking for video tutorials t...  View more

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.mobileconfig settings for Sidebar not sticking

So I'm using mcxToProfile.py to create .mobileconfig files that my company will be pushing to all the Macs in our lab. mcxToProfile.py takes a .plist and turns it into a .mobileconfig file. One of the preferences we are trying to set is the Sidebar i...  View more

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Manage Engine Desktop Central

Hi Admins, Who here use Desktop Central Patch Management piece for their Manage Mac's to patch 3rd party apps? What are your experiences? Agent Installation process? Thanks in advance.  View more

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Importing Departments into JamfPro from a CSV

Hi all! The Departments in our JamfPro instance were a mess, Nothing was pulling from AD because of all the miss matches. I've cleaned all of that cruft out and now I want to add the Departments as exported from our AD. The question I have is, can I ...  View more

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Question re: log retention and flushing

Trying to determine if things are working "as intended" or if something is up with our JSS: I have all logs set to flush automatically after 6 months. Definitely working for things like the change management log, earliest entry there is exactly 6 mon...  View more

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Jamf Process Hanging

Recently, we noticed that many of our new laptops were failing to open Self-Service (bouncing in the dock) and that many of our software restrictions weren't being properly applied. Looking in Activity Monitor, we would notice anywhere from 2-4 JAMF ...  View more

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Set Safari & Chrome homepage without locking

Hello, I've searched numerous posts about this and every solution seems to be outdated because it doesn't work. Has anyone been able to set the homepage for Safari/Chrome without locking it? We are rolling out a new intranet and want to temporarily s...  View more

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ChemDraw Professional 16 Suite

Has anyone successfully packaged this using Composer insofar that launching the program doesn't prompt you for a Name, Organization, Serial Number and Registration Code? Thanks in advance for any advice!  View more

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Microsoft login redirect Safari plist?

I've discovered that our school can bypass the Microsoft login screen with a redirect, bit of an explanation on this site. https://chamonixvue.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/how-to-bypass-the-office-365-login-redirect-page-with-adfs/ Basically, our student...  View more

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Cylance Unisntallation

Hey Guys,I'm having difficulty figuring out how to use Casper to uninstall CylancePROTECT silently for individual mac. Uninstaller is password protected and I'm not getting any option/Terminal command to send password for the uninstallation. Can some...  View more

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Help Tinkering with Web Scraping

I'm tinkering with web scraping in bash, and I'm getting a result, but it's inelegant and, I suspect, unreliable. What I'd love to learn how to do is to take the Xth table from a given web page, and place the contents of its rows and cells into a csv...  View more

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Location of CasperShare in the Linux filesystem.

I am migrating 9.98 JSS from Mac to a Linux server and I am having problems with the web server getting "Forbidden" when I try to download a package from it. Can you tell me: What path do you use (what location in the filesystem) for your CasperShare...  View more

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WiFi Profiles - Mac & iOS

Hi, We push down all of our wireless credentials via profile to our Mac and iOS Devices. I have noticed that sometimes the wireless profile from the Mac syncs over (via iCloud keychain) to the users iOS device. I know I can restrict iCloud keychain, ...  View more

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