Jamf produced a document called Casper Suite Architecture and Design that in my opinion should be required reading for rookie and veteran Jamf administrators looking to build out or scale up their Jamf architecture. It could also be a good review if ... View more
We are experiencing printing issues with macOS 10.12. Everytime we attempt to print from macOS Sierra 10.12 machines, we get "Stopped - 'Filter' failed" and also receives problem report for "cgpdftops". We use Xerox printers so we tried the latest Xe... View more
I recently updated my Macbook Pro to MacOS X 10.12. Upon boot it's trying to access my Apple mail app which I have restricted to all users including myself. I checked my login profile to make sure that that didn't get installed in the startup items u... View more
Recently added a linux vm to my stand-alone mac JSS and clustered the two.Temporary until the semester comes to an end, but it does bring up the saving of the change log....As the setting is kept in the database, the JSS on the linux system is trying... View more
Hello,We have some loaner computers that we give to students when their Mac is out for repair. I see in the "Restrictions" Configuration Profile the option to lock the wallpaper to a particular file. Is there a way to instead set the desktop to a col... View more
Is there a way to see everything that is scoped to a smart group? Example: Smart Group A Here is everything that is using Smart Group A: View more
So to make things short, we have been through the ringer with Jamf Support, Questar support, and using our own knowledge and hours trying to figure this out. Issue: Questar testing for students on iPad requires Autonomous Single App Mode OR guided ac... View more
We had some abuse of the Messages app here and decided to restrict it from running via a software restriction policy. This policy works fine, in that if you try to launch Messages, you just get a notice that it's been disabled. However, the students,... View more
In my environment we have two separate VPP for education accounts and we just converted our second VPP account for managed distribution. We want to deploy one app, under two different Mobile Device App instances to different Smart Groups using separa... View more
Hello guys: I have some trouble pairing devices when Bluetooth is always on because I can't access the list of devices. Any ideas on how to do this without the need to remove the profile. Thank you View more
Apple is listening... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207191 View more
Greetings all, In prior years, we disabled OS X's autocorrect features on specific machines with a script + policy that wrote: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool false or alternately, defaults write -g NSAutomati... View more
I've got a policy that creates a local admin account on my managed hosts. Upon first login however it requires that the password is changed to login. This is causing problems when another admin goes in to login after the fact. I also have policy that... View more
I read this article today... LINKY There's even a quote from JAMF in it. So, thoughts? View more
Hello, I'm running into an odd issue that I can't seem to figure out. Since upgrading my image to MacOS Sierra, I can not get Location Services to turn on automatically during or after imaging. I've tried nearly every script and action that I could f... View more
Did everyone decide to take a 4 day vacation? I've never had to wait more than 1-2 minutes on hold the few times I have had to call. Today the wait times have been 20 minutes the first time (before I gave up) and this time I've been on hold for 25 mi... View more
I'm trying to evoke a policy in the post install phase of a payload free package. I created the postinstall script in Composer and entered the line: #!/bin/sh ## postinstall jamf policy -event sierra-postinstall exit 0 ## Success exit 1 ## Failure Bu... View more
Hi all, We're having some trouble with our JSS VM right now, and whilst resolving that is our primary aim, it seems to be causing some issues with client Macs in the mean time. Ever since it went down, we're having a ton of reports of slow logins, cr... View more
I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this behavior: Starting a few weeks ago, any time I would open the JAMF Daily Digest email in Outlook for iOS, the app would crash and quit on me. I could still reopen Outlook and do everything I would normally ... View more
We are on our first year with JAMF. Early in the year we created a suite of configuration profiles and policies, and some PKG/DMGs using Composer. In a couple cases we set FUT to ON. This has created some issues. Now when new users are created, a bun... View more
I am currently not a Jamf user, but I am in the process of reviewing it for my program. I was curious how much time is spent on using the Jamf Software? My job description is Technology Coordinator, but I am not IT. I was wondering if it is possible ... View more
Is there a way to get terminal to quit after a restart, if it was open prior? We perform OS updates via cache and execute policies remotely. Once the OS update is complete and the computers restart our users see terminal still open, and sometimes get... View more
So, my organization uses JAMF to manage encryption on machines in a variety of departments, but then provides SLA services to a smaller subset of departments. We would like to turn on Self Service to our SLA customers, but it appears as though Self S... View more
Whenever I run a Casper Remote command, it processes successfully; however when I try to access the logs for the job from the Casper Remote interface, it navigates to : file:///.file/id=6571367.12243594 (with a varying ID, obviously) ... and returns ... View more
I have a question that relates to enforcing FV2 via config profile. Using v9.96, I have a Config profile that is targeted at the computer level, when imaging a machine, the FV part does not take effect unless I run sudo jamf removemdmprofile and then... View more
As part of DEP, it autogenerates a binded computer name based off serial numbers. I need to unbind the machine and take out the computer record and then rebind it. The I see a lot of information on the force unbind with garbage username and passwords... View more
A few years back, I was in a school within a community with a large cluster of open WiFi networks. The problem we had was students dropping off the filtered School WiFi and connecting to one of the neighborhood networks. To address this issue, I crea... View more
Bonjour, depuis le self-service impossible de télécharger une application. Dans les logs de l'appareil sur le MDM, on retrouve bien l'application dans les commandes échoués. Avec comme erreur : " L’identifiant iTunes Store de l’application n’a pas pu... View more
Hi, I hope you can help me. I'm searching for a solution to update an app (no App-Store) without admin-rights (The Application needs admin-rights to update automatically). We have not enough time to deploy the App via SelfService or software policy.O... View more
Hi all, I am new to Casper and also to Mac scripting. I just want to mount as simple as possible our shared drives to the users Macs. I got an osascript running which works perfectly on the Mac itself.Have imported it to Casper Admin, created a polic... View more
