Desktop Background
I have a request from our communications departing requesting that we change our background picture for all domain users. Has anyone successfully done this on either El Capitan or Sierra? View more
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Integrating JSS with Okta SSO
We recently purchased Okta, and I thought it would be great to get Okta talking to JAMF Pro. We have a hosted JSS, so we cannot connect it to AD (don't want to open up ports to an internal server) so I thought this would be the perfect way to allow u... View more
Reduce the sudo timeout period
Hi all! We are looking for a way to reduce the sudo timeout period as recommended by the Center for Internet Security. The only solution we can find online is to manually edit with visudo and add: Defaults timestamp_timeout=0 However, we were hoping ... View more
Adobe CC Package Installation suddenly fails?
Hello, Our Adobe CC Package (2015 & 2017) was installing fine up until last Friday. Now the installation fails, and it wipes out what it installed after installing some of the Adobe CC apps. Anybody experience this? Here is what I tried:• Completely ... View more
FileVault 2 Recovery Key Rotation
In our environment, when a user calls the Help Desk for a recovery key, it is given over the phone. We've used another FV2 product (Symantec Endpoint Encryption) and prior to that PGP. With both products, when a Help Desk analyst retrieves the recove... View more
Who is setting a firmware password in schools?
Hi Folks, Just a quick question. Who is setting a firmware password in a school setting? We have one set across the board, but at times, it causes interference in various ways. Just curious. Thanks!! View more
Creative Cloud 2017 Installation Failure: Error Code =112
Hi everyone, Starting thread in case others have come across this. I wanted to just report a strange issue I came across, which began around Feb 21st 2017. Installation of Creative Cloud 2017 began to start failing during imaging, deployment or manua... View more
Adobe Creative Cloud Upgrade
Hi All, I'm attempting to upgrade all of our Mac fleet with Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 version to the latest 2017 version. What is the best practice to upgrade all of these? Our digital marketing side is wanting the new and the greatest so they don't ... View more
Can't Kill All Adobe CC 2017 Apps
Before installing Adobe apps, I've typically had a script run that kills all running Adobe Apps... because users don't listen or read. Normally I've used ps aux | grep Adobe | grep -v grep | killall Adobe or pkill Adobe* ... and its worked very well ... View more
Best Anti-Virus
Hi Folks, Just wanted to see if I could get a consensus on what AV people think is best for the Mac? What do you guys use? What do you see as its biggest benefit? Biggest area of improvement? Thanks,Alex View more
enrolling new iPads
I am relatively new to all of this. I have all of the certificates between Apple and JSS in place and enrolled some tablets not purchased from Apple. WE then obtained some from Apple through VPP and I have gotten to the point where the new tablets ar... View more
configuration on Safari on lab computers
How to set homepage and cannot be changed by users. How to deploy bookmark on client safari. View more
Looking for a script to remove invalid fonts
With our designers and video team I constantly find running the fontbook validator and removing invalid fonts to be very helpful in improving mac performance. I know there is a ftxvalidator app from the apple developer site here: https://developer.ap... View more
Netflix Stethoscope
I was excited to see Jamf Pro mentioned (OK, actually just "JAMF") as being the supported MDM for Mac computers in this article about Netflix Stethoscope, "a web application that collects information for a given user’s devices and gives them clear an... View more
Reposado/NetSUS not creating new directories
I'm running NetSUS on CentOS, but I cannot get any of my newly created branches to appear in the ...../html/content/catalogs directory. I have verified that repoutil --configure has set the html and metadata directories correctly. I also have each fo... View more
Unable to type in the login window after waking from sleep : Sierria 10.12.3?
Running into a weird issue where after waking a machine up, I can't type the user name and password is it keeps delete anything I type immediately as I type. Seems to be in Sierra only. Trying to nail down if it's specific to 10.12.3 or not. Cause I'... View more
ARD 3.9 Update - One solution using Jamf
I'm sure many of you have already figured this out ... but ... for anyone still struggling with the ARD 3.9 update this is what ultimately worked for me. I download the ARD 3.9 update to a mac with the command: softwareupdate -d RemoteDesktopClient-3... View more
ARD 3.9 impressions?
Other than the pain in the butt described here What is your impression of the ARD 3.9 update? I'm finding it painfully slow to scan the network or "authenticate" to Macs on the network. It also takes longer to actually connect to control or observe a... View more
NYC Metro Jamf User Group Meeting (Late March 2017) + TruSourceLabs Meetup
Twice in 1 month? Sure! Special guest: Joel Rennich of [TruSourceLabs](www.trusourcelabs.com) Kick the AD bind to the curb and get everything that you need from a casual bind.Joel will discuss how to get all of the functionality of AD integration wit... View more
How to specify what applications a MAC will receive according to the Mac's naming convention
Hi, I am trying to set up something similar to our SCCM task sequence variables so that certain software programs are installed during netboot imaging only if a Mac has a specific naming convention. Here are a few examples: If the Mac has this in the... View more
Time Not Switching on Shared IPAD
Maybe I'm missing something. I have set up an iPad in a shared prestage. In the setup assistant portion i have left location unchecked (per my JAMF buddy when we first set things up.) When I go to start the iPad up (not all of them mind you, only a h... View more
Script to update ARD 3.9 at checkin - works with manual jams policy but not otherwise
I am new to running scripts with JAMF so I am sure I am missing something about the following: I created this is the script to both update the ARD client to 3.9 and restart the agent: #!/bin/sh softwareupdate -i 'RemoteDesktopClient-3.9.0' /System/Li... View more
When will the current version of Flash in the JSS be updated?
Considering Adobe is advising all users to instantly update to Flash 24.0.0.221, I'd love to be able to push an update to all my machines, but the JSS still lists 24.0.0.196 as the current version. The newest update came out almost a week ago - do we... View more
Distorted Login Screen of MacBooks
Hello All! The last few weeks, more and more of our MacBooks have been showing this weird login screen. They have an AD bind and are managed via the MDM Profile. This configuration does include a login window payload, but removing it and a reboot doe... View more
Adobe Fuse Known Issue - Cache & Install Question - Unzip Adobe installer
Recently we became aware of a known Adobe Fuse issue (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2131616) that's causing the application to fail to launch. Apparently the only work around at the moment is uninstalling and reinstalling the application entirely. ... View more
Unable to unlock FileVault with fdesetup
Hi all, I discovered today that a few users have got an 'invalid' recovery key with jamf. After logging in via ssh I cannot seem to make any changes using fdesetup with users that are FileVault enabled on the system.I am constantly getting the follow... View more
Limiting policies to Macs currently on our network
My JAMF repository is on a file server that can only be reached from our internal network. If a policy tries to install a package, and the user is working remotely, the policy fails. I have a possible solution, and would like some feedback. Since we ... View more
Need to enable flash in safari using script
I have written a script to run as post install in order to enable flash in safari after installing adobe flash player 24. The script is using plistbuddy to edit the com.apple.safari.plist file in order to set the below values which are responsible to... View more
Configuration Profile Scope?
I'm finally getting around to migrating to Configuration Profiles from Golden Triangle MCX, but having some problems with implementation that I'm hoping someone can clarify... Trying to boil this down to be as simple to follow as possible: I want tea... View more
ARD 3.9 agent update - keychain error
Anyone seeing keychain errors deploying the new ARD 3.9 client update released today? View more
