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Macbook Pro powerbar 10.12.4 randomly reboots
Since updating to the 10.12.4 my powerbar MP keeps rebooting randomly. I havent actually seen it happen, so I assume its happening when the computer goes to sleep. I walk away for a time, and when I return the mac is freshly booted up telling me I ha... View more
Log out of iCloud on all managed iOS devices
I have a customer who wants all of their managed iPads to be logged out of iCloud so that the users can setup their own iCloud account. I was hoping to find a way to do this through Jamf Pro, but I can't find one. Does anyone know if this is even pos... View more
Does anyone have consistent results installing Mac App Store apps automatically?
I can't seem to get this to work right. It's very inconsistent, where I have some apps install properly and others never showing up or even in the pending installs list. Anyone getting this to consistently work for automatically installing vpp mac ap... View more
iOS 10.3.1 and Clear Passcode Command
Anyone else seeing issues with running the clear passcode command on iOS 10.3.1 devices when using the USB Ethernet adapter>USB hub>USB to Lightning dongle? I know this was is unsupported by Apple, but I am hoping its currently not broken. Running JS... View more
AD Mobile Accounts and Parental Controls
Has anyone else seen this problem before, we have a few macs bound to Active Directory that are setup to create mobile accounts when the user logs in. This works fine except the user has parental controls enabled by default, the parental controls don... View more
Hosting on GCP?
Anyone hosting (or considering hosting) their Jamf infrastructure on GCP? Seems similar to doing it on AWS, and for G Suite customers it might be a natural fit. View more
Moving to a 3rd Party SSL certificate
We've been using a self signed certificate on our Jamf Pro servers since deployment a few years ago. With the recent changes from Apple I am going to buy a certificate to meet their updated requirements and to make the system more secure. We have 3 s... View more
commvault deployment
Anyone deploy Commvault for their environment? the setup from their engineers as basically 30+ steps, most of which are command line. View more
13" MacBook Pro (Early 2015) Reboots after user enters password macOS 10.12.4
I have seen this issue 5 or 6 times in the last week on different 13" MBP. I tried all the fixes I know such as deleting cache files, deleting relevant plist files, even tried installing the combo 10.12.4 update with no luck. These all have FileVault... View more
bluetooth devices connecting
My school has bluetooth enable and greyed out, yet for some reason the iPad did not want to find a new bluetooth device that is set to discoverable. I needed to remove it from the profile so that i could shut off and turn on bluetooth before the devi... View more
NYC Metro Jamf User Group May 2017 Meeting
It’s that time to announce the next NYC Metro JAMF User Group! On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 4:30 to 6:30 PM we'll be holding our 18th NYC Metro JUG at the Apple Executive Briefing Center, 100 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, 10011. For those keeping track, this i... View more
Running a script to access the Jamf/Downloads folder and install Project Libre
Hi, I'm trying to create a policy to push out Project Libre 1.7 to a Mac workstation. There are a couple requirements for the install: 1) Project Libre requires that Java also be installed. We already have a seperate package for java. 2) If Java exis... View more
Apple productivity and consumer creativity apps are now FREE!
[https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207713](link URL) Below is a listing of Apps included in this update and covers both iOS and macOS versions: Pages Keynote Numbers GarageBand iMovie This update supersedes previous free license requirements (orders ... View more
Force a Monitor Color Profile
The users here have HP Dreamcolor Monitors, but I want to set the machines to all use a special sRGB profile we created. The profile is in Colorsync, but anytime a user moves a monitor, or I swap machines the System Prefs--Displays--Color always reve... View more
Config profile question
Our current environment has a config profile scoped to all machines to setup an AD cert and configure wifi using the AD cert. We've migrated to a new CA server and need to reconfigure this. I've tried updating the existing profile, but upon updating,... View more
Windows Help Disk
Since all the support tools for the casper/jamf suite are Mac OS only. How are you alls help desk team completing one of software installs. I.E help desk gets a call i need software ABC , how are they deploying it ? View more
Proxies, VPP, and 9.98
Is anyone able to connect to VPP via proxy on 9.98? I am using an unauthenticated proxy. I am able to search for App Store applications, but my purchased content won't update. My firewall team is telling me that JSS is attempting to connect direct ra... View more
Network Time Server command
In the Network time server field I'm getting this "The systemsetup binary is not present on this machine." Looks like this is only on OS 10.11 Macs. I have a few 10.9 machines that are returning the right network time server info. I'm thinking I need... View more
Casper Admin fails to mount SMB share; Mac "Connect to server" works fine
NOTE: This issue is resolved, but posted here for anyone else that might have the problem. We have our file distribution point on a Windows server using SMB. All information is filled out properly in the JSS, including Share Name, Workgroup/Domain, P... View more
Priority installing
I have an app scoped to 4 device groups, when it was first set up the number of devices in the scope was less than the number of apps available, now but over time the number of devices out numbers the amount of available apps, I wish to install the a... View more
"In Use" license count in VPP, Device Assigned VPP asking for Apple ID
We are deploying Microsoft Office products to all of our iPads but the "In-Use" count is off. This is for iOS devices. Microsoft Excel - 852Microsoft Word - 852Microsoft PowerPoint - 748Microsoft Outlook - 852Microsoft OneDrive - 852 They are all sco... View more
Turn off Bluetooth "Discoverable" mode when not pairing devices
Has anyone successfully found a way to do this? I believe I have created an extension attribute to check on the state, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to actually set the setting with a script or through JAMF. Sadly, we need it to meet ... View more
Smart Policy for Missing Encryption Keys
Working through a migration performed on JSS servers a while back. I'd set up a policy to reissue the FileVault 2 key following a few people's work (mostly @rtrouton's FV2 stuff) by deploying a .plist, importing, reissuing, yada yada yada. It's faile... View more
Auto sign-in to local account
I am trying to force login to a local account so that our students can use this (restricted) account for assessment purposes. I am having no issue creating the local account via policy, or setting the restrictions, but I would like this account to be... View more
Trouble connecting devices across domains.
So I have two WiFi networks here on separate domains. A guest network and a secured network. The guest network has its own domain and is on a separate VLAN. I have opened traffic for my devices to communicate outside my network and it works fine from... View more
Scripting the Installation of Profiles on MDM Capable Computers
Greetings! I'm testing a workflow and wanted to throw this out there to see if anyone is doing something similar. We are currently configuring our Zscaler proxy .pac with a variation on this script here. (Thanks, @bentoms!) Which does work but is not... View more
Closed cases?
Before I ask the question, this is not an angry post! Just curious why... I have had a couple of open cases with Jamf Support, the latest being a rather important one and ongoing for about a month back and forth now, but then end up randomly being cl... View more
iCould Desktop folder exclude
Hello,Maybe not an direct Jamf question,But one might know it here. I have an iCloud account, 200 GB always handy.It also backups my desktop and document folder. Cool feature, but since I am kind a used to store temporary things on my desktop, it use... View more
Apple TV 4 Console Logs
I just noticed in Apple Config 2 that i can view the console logs of the connected Apple TV.These logs are viewed in live time but could be useful if i was able to download the whole log or the last 2 hours worth etc. Was wondering if anyone knows a ... View more
