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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

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

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Custom Settings Profile payload for Chrome

Hi all, I'm trying to configure Chrome using a Custom Settings payload, since I tried MCX and it doesn't appear to work with our AD mobile accounts. I'm largely managing basic stuff, homepage settings and a couple of extensions, but am having trouble...  View more

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Book Creator automated iCloud Backup

Hi all, we are using Book Creator on 1:1 and shared devices. On shared devices we recognized Book Creator doesn't backup automatically to iCloud if the student logs out. We talked to the developers and they told us we had to use App Configuration to ...  View more

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Phantom enrollments caused by target mode booting

Hiya all. So a curious thing happened today where I looked up an employee's computer name for an unrelated issue, and found two such computers, one of which was a 2012 iMac that my company doesn't own. I had loaned her a thunderbolt cable earlier in ...  View more

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Locking down SSH

Hello All, I am wondering how you all manage SSH. Our machine setup process is supposed to be to only enable SSH for our management account. Of course, this has not been happening on some machines and I need to deploy a policy to only allow SSH for o...  View more

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Mac backdoor - malware bytes post

I saw mention of this on slack today - so wrote an EA that would see if any of the fleet had the two files present. It's rather rough and doesn't do the checksum if the files are there, however could be used to identify any macs for further investiga...  View more

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Script to fix OneDrive file, folder, path errors

We are working on a script that will fix file naming issues for users new to OneDrive. We have some users who have all kinds of MS illegal characters in their file names and folder names. One user has 800+ such names to fix. Rather than have them do ...  View more

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Remove Webpage bookmark from desktop

I had a student click "Add to Homescreen" and it created a web app, normally you just hold these down until they wiggle to delete, but when I do that it just wiggles and I have no option of deleting. Any ideas? Thank you!  View more

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App Store Extension Attribute

Hey all, There used to be a plist file called "com.apple.storeagent.plist" in a user's library that you could pull a currently logged in apple ID in the app store from. It looks like that file doesn't exist anymore, so I was hoping there was another ...  View more

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Prestage VS Imaging. Differences?

Hi all, Well, I am still struggling with the difference between these 2 procedures (For MAC OS X) and which is better for what. I mean, I know the basics, like prestage is for DEP registered devices and more for when they are brand-new and imaging mo...  View more

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JamfNation email notifications?

I could be missing something... Does this forum not support email notifications? I often forget/neglect threads because there's no proactive alerting on replies. Is this hidden somewhere, or just not supported?  View more

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deleting private key

is there a scripted way to delete a private key in the system keychain? in the security help pages i found the find-key command (usr/bin/security/find-key) but i can't see a delete-key command. when i delete the generated certificate, the certificate...  View more

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Apple Configurator 2 hangs after iphone update

We've been using Apple Configurator 2 (AC2) to enroll our iPhones in Casper, but we've run into a problem when the iPhone is upgraded. For most of the phones we used AC2 to upgrade the phones to the latest iOS before preparing and enrolling them. But...  View more

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Password Age Reset After OS Upgrade

Hi. I noticed that after my users upgraded to macOS Sierra, their password age reset to 0. Has anyone else notice the same thing? I'm using the EA below to check pw age. Not sure where it came from as I inherited this JSS. #!/usr/bin/python2.7 import...  View more

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Packages Not Installing, Logs Report Success

Hi all, What does one do if a package sometimes does not successfully install (or in the case of the below Mathematica.dmg, not copy) but Casper reports that it did? PostInstall 2017-01-16 17:35:52: Installing package LanSchool Student 2016.dmg PostI...  View more

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Policy for specific users and execution frequency

Hi, In Self Service, I want to publish a licensed application for specific users to be able to install, but only to one specific computer. Same users should also be able to reinstall the app on the same computer. How should I put this together using ...  View more

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old 'non sierra' imac. El Cap wont install

Hi The Board id for the iMac8,1 is present in the InstallableMachines.plist for El Capitan but 'it' wont install. 'InstallAssistant' from Pakage contents gives this via terminal launch; < Any help appreciated... B > dyld: shared cached file was build...  View more

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In-Place macOS Sierra Upgrade Script

Hello, I am trying to follow this guide from JAMF: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s398/sh/bec8a262-e33d-4ad9-80fa-05b939db6d8d/f4ca396a63caa510 I am using the script noted here: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s398/sh/bec8a262-e33d-4ad9-80fa-05b939db6...  View more

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Clearing Safari history and cookies on exit?

There seem to be methods to do this in Firefox and Google Chrome, what about Safari? If there aren't any hidden settings to do this, is there a method to monitor the process so that when it quits a script could be ran? I'm thinking a script that call...  View more

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Infrastructure Manager- JSS user account?

I am looking into getting the LDAP Proxy set up for our cloud JSS. I'm reading through the documentation on installing Infrastructure Manager and one of the steps is "When prompted, enter credentials for a JSS user account with the “Infrastructure Ma...  View more

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Critical update won't install after imaging

After imaging 2016 MBP with a 10.12.1 image (built from the same model) the computer boots up and I immediately get a white square with a spinning gear for several minutes. Then I get the error above. There's no indication of what it's doing and I ca...  View more

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Critical update won't install after imaging

After imaging 2016 MBP with a 10.12.1 image (built from the same model) the computer boots up and I immediately get a white square with a spinning gear for several minutes. Then I get the error above. There's no indication of what it's doing and I ca...  View more

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A few VPP questions

Hi All,Working on rolling out some VPP apps to our Macs running 10.11 or better so we can use machine based assignment. I have a couple questions that I'm sure have been answered before but having trouble finding anything - please point me in the rig...  View more

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