I'm distributing a bunch of in-house apps that have reference materials delivered to iBooks as in-house eBooks. I want to find a way to link the two. So far I can't get beyond a URL iBooks:// but the behaviour of that just opens the last used doc in ... View more
Hello, I'm attempting to create a configuration profile for FileVault disk encryption and when attempting to do the FileVault disk encryption at logout it fails. If I manually start it, it seems to begin doing it but I would like the config profile t... View more
Hi Jamf Nation I'm trying to enable the Finder Extension for the ownCloud Sync Client, but the command does not work for all users. What I tried so far: #!/bin/sh user=`ps aux | grep Finder.app | grep CoreServices | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq` su... View more
Hello guys, i want to keep the password of AD and IOS in sync. I know this can be established by installing a certificate on the device which will work with a token for athentication (Kerberos?), but i'm not really sure on the steps to take here. I a... View more
Hello,I searched but not find a mean de block the split view on a iPad air.I have restriction for almost all options with a single app mode to safari but i always can use split view and launch calendar, for example... Is there a mean to block this sp... View more
Bonjour, Comme vous tous, nous devons renouveler chaque année notre certificat JSS communiquant avec les serveurs APNs d'APPLE. Nous suivons bien la procédure décrite ici, en téléchargeant un fichier CSR chez jamf, en l'uploadant chez apple, puis en ... View more
Hi all, Hoping you can help me out. I'm migrating our Wi-Fi Config profiles away from downloading the .mobileconfig file and installing with the profiles command, to distribute directly. We need to do this for our User based Wi-Fi Certificates, so th... View more
Hi All, I'm sure many of you have experienced the issue that arises when you try to restore a backup of a supervised device onto a new DEP managed device, and how the iPad will get stuck in the "Installing configuration for..." page during a prestage... View more
Hopefully someone can help me. I am very new at this. After upgrading to JSS 9.96 I can no longer install software from the Self Service App. Right when it gets to downloading it fails, from the logs it appears it cannot find CasperShare. So I recrea... View more
I have a school laptop and a teacher turned filevault on and forgot the password, there is no file with the key and they did not send it to icloud. Is there a way to get around filevault and get the documents? View more
We are moving some of our iPads from Single User to Shared iPad mode. Found out that we cannot Push out Web Clips :( Seems very arbitrary to prevent web clips from being pushed out to iPads just because they are in Shared iPad mode. View more
Has anyone else noticed that when you put an iPad into Shared iPad mode, that you can no longer remove an app that is installed? We have just been erasing our lower grade iPads and putting them into Shared iPad, and teachers were re-installing apps, ... View more
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
