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Random Question.... Composer Capture of VPP app?

So this is a foolish question, and you may go "HUH?" when you read it, but has anyone tried to do a Composer capture of a VPP installed app? Without going into too many details, I'm looking to create a base, thick image, but package Xcode into it. Wi...  View more

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How are you deploying new mac laptops?

I currently have laptops enroll in via jamfcloud, download and run the quickadd.pkg. And during the enrollment process, i have it download all the profiles/install microsoft office and 6 other 3rd party applications including antivirus. The entire qu...  View more

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Creative Cloud app isn't autoupdating

I recently discovered that our Creative Cloud desktop app hasn't autoupdated in about 6 months. It used to autoupdate itself just fine... then it just seemed to stop. When I discovered this a couple weeks ago I had to manually download and run the CC...  View more

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VPP assignments vs Installs

In our JSS, there is a significant discrepancy between VPP assignments (all used by Mobile Devices), and App Installs. I've checked a few mobile devices' installed app lists - and some don't actually have this app, but are still counted among the lis...  View more

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Time Machine - Username and password to Nas box.

Hi, We have a Nas box we are using for Time Machine, currently it's setup locally on the machines however i would like to set it up via Casper so we can manage it. The Nas has Bonjour enabled and currently backs up without the need of mounting. Howev...  View more

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Network profiles not installing on Jamf agents

Has anyone ever successfully created "Configuration Profiles" in Jamf and pushed to machine?I created a new profile called "802.1x Wired Network Profile" in Jamf > macOS Configuration Profiles.When applying to machines by adding machines in Scope of ...  View more

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Lock down iPad to Safari (and a single URL)

We have an iPad 2 that isn't part of our DEP so we are somewhat limited in how far we can lock it down as it will be unsupervised. Can anyone offer advice as to how to lock down an iPad to only Safari and a URL. Preferably locked so they can't even m...  View more

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Need to Change JSS Server Name

Warning: I'm one of those people who drive true IT people nuts! I inherited a job I wasn't trained for and am still learning something new every day. So please forgive my ignorance.When we implemented JAMF two years ago and went through the 3-Day Jum...  View more

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Intermediate cert trust setting, need documentation

Can anyone point me to documentation on how to set/configure proper trust settings of Intermediate certificates? Our parent org sent me a package installer containing a new PIV certificate chain and installation script. Once installed on a 10.11 or 1...  View more

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New User Startup

Hi, I'm looking to have a better New User experience. I've just set up DEP/Deployment and will be sending machines to the new users. When the startup is done I want them to complete a few tasks before they can use the machine, things like:- Screen as...  View more

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TI-SmartView CE Emulator

I recently started testing some of our existing software on the latest version of macOS Sierra (10.12.3) and ran into an issue with the TI-SmartView CE emulator software for Mac that was a result of a change Texas Instruments had made to the software...  View more

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Command Line to Remove the DEP Setup

I've been running into an issue with our DEP computers where when we unbox a brand new computer that is enrolled in DEP, it won't display the DEP/MDM screen during the initial account setup. I was able to determine the issue and have taken the steps ...  View more

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LDAP Attribute Mapping - Extension Attribute

Hi all I'm trying to understand the process involved in obtaining LDAP user attributes with using Extension Attribute. I can see the option LDAP Attribute Mapping, should it just be a case of adding the attribute name that i want to report on or are ...  View more

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Beta/Release deployment for In-House iOS apps

We have deployed two versions of our in-house app to two groups of users. We want to have most users on the release version, but a few on the beta version. Right now we find that moving a user from one list to the other causes the app to be deleted a...  View more

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2 Instances of Java

I'm curious if there is kind of a "best practice" for running two instances of java i.e. one old and one up to date version of java for apps that need old java running.  View more

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Jamf 9.98 & MySQL 5.7.x

I was testing the workflow to upgrade 9.98 and mysql. the 9.98 seemed to upgrade as expected. when I updated mysql though, I got the error about needing to change the root password.. which took some googling as the docs were confusing.. finally got b...  View more

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Trying to understand Policy options

How do you properly remove a policy ? I'm testing some on a machine and I have it doing what I want but unless I removeFramework I can't seem to figure out how to "uninstall" a policy Thanks for the helpRich  View more

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JSS 9.98 issue

I updated to 9.98 a couple of days ago and now iPad apps that i have set to VPP install automatically are not automatically updating on the iPads. If you go into self service you can update them - so it is not an emergency. Just wondering if anyone e...  View more

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Disable Netbios on OS X 10.11-10.12

Good morning everyone!, I have gone through the messages here and also most places on the web. I have tried most scripts such as:sudo launchctl disable system/netbiosd, and while that runs it does not seem to disable netbios, I still see everything i...  View more

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