Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t... View more
Driving me a little bit crazy here - I have linked my VPP account with JSS - purchases are all listed. I have created smart groups to populate. I have ensured that 'assign vpp content' is checked, I have assigned the scope.Waiting in anxious anticipa... View more
We enable a user home drive to auto mount in AD when a user signs in. I was told we need to keep this enabled but as soon as the computer goes offsite it takes a few minutes to show the error message that it cannot find the network drive. I would lik... View more
I read somewhere that there was a trick to deploy these apps in a certain way so that when they needed updating an Admin User wouldn't be needed to sign in. Could someone give me the basic steps, please? Also, would this step you are suggesting be re... View more
Let me apologize in advance if this question has already been asked...Absolute JAMF newbie. First off, I am using MacOSX 10.11.5 and we will be upgrading to 10.11.6 shortly. I'm rolling this out to ten test users. With that said, I created a policy f... View more
I'm imaging Mac notebook computers for our faculty with Casper (both full and thin workflows) and noticed the following pkg installers from the macadmins site are not getting installed: Microsoft_Word_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkgMicrosoft_Excel_... View more
Is there any way to log the results of a login script that is run by a Launch Agent the same way it would be logged if it were deployed as a Login Hook by Casper? I initially set this script up as a Login Hook but the script was only running at login... View more
After upgrading to 10.11 on campus we wanted to find out which machines need our netboot server whitelisted to allow for booting remotely. I put together this quick EA that others may find useful. #!/bin/sh osvers_major=$(sw_vers -productVersion | aw... View more
I need automatic login for local user accounts, and my config profile is set to allow this, but I think the profile is actually enforcing the "disable" flag. Has anyone seen this behavior? View more
Returns either enabled or disabled or a blank value on <10.11 machines. #!/bin/sh result=$(csrutil status | awk '{ print $5 }' | tr -d '.') echo "$result" View more
I am trying to help my techs with some self service tools for when a CCP adobe installer inevitably fails. I found this and ran this: /Users/Shared/MacSupport/Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool ‐‐re... View more
Within casper, I want to get a report on the below functions. The report would ideally have the machine name, internal ip and external ip when these actions happened. is this possible? if so how? machines that were imaged in the last x hours software... View more
Hi Guys, Sorry going to be a vage one to start with but we are having issues with our mac suites locking up and not calling in to our JSS server. They have all been getting the same error at different times of the day (attached error). Error occures ... View more
This may be a stupid question, I was just wondering if there was a way to take the CCT exam without paying all the money for the classes. I am an ACMT and have worked for Apple for over 5 years and I am very proficient in Mac OS and iOS software. Or,... View more
Is there a way to do a search on all Macs to generate a list of all apps that were installed from the App Store? Until now I haven't been locking down the App Store access because that option in the Config Profile just didn't work in previous version... View more
I noticed a couple articles and a post on this board regarding iTunes U and Managed IDs. I wanted to post a question of how districts are handling this switch as we were shocked to find out that Managed Student IDs could not join our teachers iTunes ... View more
We have the Terminal app, as well as others, blocked via 'Restricted Software' for our students. This works fine; however, this is causing some headache for my technical staff to perform troubleshooting steps. The scoping of these restrictions only a... View more
Time has come to reach out to the community of experts. I'm trying to push out Egnyte Desktop Sync to all my client computers. The vendor package is a DMG that contains an Installer.app file. Just after some ideas on how to manage and deploy a DMG li... View more
I am trying to create a pre-built virtual box for an IPT class with Linux installed, I did manage to capture a Windows image in Parallels using the Snapshot function, but when I did the same thing with Linux it didn't pick up any installation whatsoe... View more
I haven't been able to find anything definitive about this, but I'm sure someone here will know. Does Apple School Manager automatically create managed Apple IDs for all of the students imported? We do not want to use managed Apple IDs, all of our st... View more
Not sure best practices here. We have our JSS servers in EC2 with all files stored in S3. Our S3 is the master distribution point which makes it easy for our users to pull files from anywhere in the world. To cut down on S3 usage into our main office... View more
So I'm having an issue with authentication for admins at offices other than my own. Here are the details - Two sites - San Francisco & Boise, ID Two local AD servers - SFO-AD1 & BOI-AD1 One admin group - Admins One domain - domain.com Members of the ... View more
Can anyone using the NetSUS product verify if it works on CentOS 7? I have been struggling with this for a while now, and I finally got it set up and running to the point that I could test a NetBoot image only to discover that none of my Macs will Ne... View more
Since Apple will be making some announcements Sept. 7th and JNUC is in October, we're scheduling the 14th NYC Metro JAMF User Group for Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:30 to 6:30 PM at the Apple Executive Briefing Center, 104 Fifth Ave, 14th Floor, R... View more
Hi folks I've a complex problem to handle with Apple School Manager and JSS integration. JSS use AD as source of user with following mapping settings:— JSS:User ID --> AD:uSNCreated— JSS:User Name --> AD:samAccountName— JSS:Real Name --> AD:displayNa... View more
Our clever students are now switching their bluetooth off so that Apple Classroom doesn't work on their iPads. Is there a way for me to force it to be always on? At least whilst they are on campus? Or maybe get a notification if it's turned off? Just... View more
Hi I want to recursively remove all printers of a certain model number with a script, what I have so far is the below but while testing the script seems to exit with 0. #!/bin/bash function rmPrinters { thisPrinter="" thisPrinter=`lpstat -p | grep X7... View more
I followed all the steps issued via this link in order to remotely update the iOS device. For some reason the devices are continuously pending and never updating. Is there something I'm missing that's required. All the iPads are on 9.3.3 and I'm tryi... View more
Hello, There must be something I am missing with this preference, no matter what I try the setting under Security & Privacy -> Require password after sleep or screen saver, is always checked and set for immediately. I believe it is this setting that ... View more
My setup involves a public IP address (13.93.87.150) that resides on the firewall, NAT'ed to a private IP address (10.0.0.6). It seems that ldap-proxy cannot bind to the IP address because it doesn't reside on the server. Which makes sense. We'd need... View more
We are on JSS 9.93 and have a handful of teachers chomping at the bit to get their Shared Model iPads in the game. We are generally familiar with much of the Shared Model process but were hoping for some more specifics about the process as we dig int... View more
