Retrospect Version Extension Attribute
Does anyone have or know how to make an EA to show Retrospect client version?Thanks. View more
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Reading Cached AD Groups Off Network
Hi all I have always had problems with getting remote cached managed mobile account users Active Directory group membership reporting back to the jss. If your users hardly ever connect to the corporate network it can be a nightmare. Ideally an ldapse... View more
"Casper Suite is now named Jamf Pro."
https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/ Casper Suite is now named Jamf Pro. The product will reference Casper Suite until the next release — Jamf Pro Version 10 — ships with the new name and great new features. Details of Jamf Pro version 10 coming s... View more
Jamf Nation blocked by McAfee
Hi all, in testing McAfee Endpoint Security for Mac version 10.2.1 (2632) with Web Control Enabled, JAMF Nation comes up being blocked. See attached screen shot. Can get around this by disabling the Web Control, has anyone else come across this? View more
JNUC 2016: Google Drive folder for shared session notes
Last year some community members shared public Docs for shared session notes. It worked out really well so I thought I'd make the folders ahead of time this year to keep them all in one place. Check out the public Google Drive folder with a folder fo... View more
How to prevent users from changing Computer name
How to prevent users from changing Computer name without compromising other Features in 'Sharing'. I just need to literally disabled the computer name and edit under Sharing. Thanks. View more
Getting the Mail app back in iOS10 without the App Store
The new ability to remove the native apps like Mail is great, but is there a way to prevent removal of these apps? If a student "inadvertently" deletes Mail, as far as I can tell, they can't get it back because the App Store is disabled. Mail is not ... View more
Microsoft Lync For Mac 2011, and the elusive EnableAppearOffline key
Microsoft's Lync Deployment Guide offers an EnableAppearOffline key but we haven't been able to get it to work. Anyone using this key? I wonder if Lync server side enforced settings might be forcing this key to be disabled? Wanted to check here befor... View more
Centralized Backups
Hi, Does anybody have a solution that would allow IOS devices to backup to our server? Users have used iCloud but run out of room quickly. Thanks,Jared View more
Livestreams recorded?
I'd really like to watch the live stream from the JNUC ( https://www.jamfsoftware.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2016/live/ ) but I'm in PDT and 7:00am? Ouch, Will these be recorded so we can watch them at a more reasonable time? View more
Wildcard in shell script error when pushing through Casper?
I'm pushing a script to change firefox settings that uses as a wildcard. When I run the script locally, the script executes with no issues. When I push from Casper, it doesn't recognize as a wildcard. See script below. I'm using a * because the profi... View more
When and where?
When and where is this taking place? View more
iOS AirPrint Profiles
For some reason, this year we're getting a number of requests to be able to make paper from devices that are supposed to replace paper. Go figure... I've been testing out Printopia Pro as not all of our printers support IPP/AirPrint. Anyone had any l... View more
members and former members of the enterprise admins group cannot login to AD bound mac
Hey everyone got a bit of an interesting issue. I have a user who whenever he logs in to ANY ad bound mac his library get corrupted. I have traced the issue down to his being a former member of the enterprise admin group. When I try to look up his de... View more
Intermittent problem loading custom dock - default dock takes over
Hello everyone, We have a policy scoped to our El Capitan computers (both macbooks and iMacs) where the policy first runs a bash script to determine if the user is a Faculty member or a student. If student then the student dock loads, if Faculty, the... View more
Macs Freezing/Lockups
I've had some odd issues that happened with some of our Macs in my company. We have over 100 Macs that are being managed with about 80 of those being used by employees. Other Macs are either shared or test machines. Last Friday, we received a couple ... View more
Sierra 10.12 - Safari Home Page - User Templet
Safari defaults to: http://www.apple.com/startpage and I unable to change the default home page by modifying com.apple.safari.plist like in the other versions of OS X. I need the user templet homepage set to our home page - not Apples. Any idea how t... View more
Change Speech to Text Rate via CMD line
Hello all, Testing in our K12 environment is coming up soon...Great! For specific tests, speech to text is an available option to students. For younger kids I think the "normal" rate is too fast. Does anyone have a script to change this setting under... View more
Problems mounting a shared drive.
When I run the following line from the terminal it (of course) works just fine. open smb://phs-fs1/HOME/testphs But when I apply the following policy it does not (screenshot). (No errors, nothing). Multiple people log into our machines I so I use the... View more
JSS Not Updating Mobile Devices to current User
I have several iPads I have to setup so they can be added to the correct Smart Groups on JSS before they go out to the users. Once I have them added I go through and completely wipe all of them (erase all content and settings), then they go to the us... View more
Adding LDAP group limitation takes computers in scope to 0.
I'm attempting to make a policy available to only faculty members at a few of our schools. I've got the policy set up to run once per computer with no trigger, available in Self Service, and targeting to all computers and all users. Set up like this,... View more
"Setup User" login after image
So I am testing an image on a machine and after boot when it got to the setup assistant I wasn't there to interact with it for a bit. For some reason, when I go to wake the machine up it wants me to log into a user called "Setup User" and I have trie... View more
10.12 Sierra Netboot DMG's remain mounted?
Hello All, Just finished upgrading JSS to 9.96. This means it's time for me to create an updated NBI image with an updated Casper Imaging App. Used AutoCaserperNBI (Thanks to @bentoms for a wonderful piece of engineering) and Auto DMG to go through t... View more
Unblocking Java
Hello, I have been searching for weeks now and can't seem to find a solution to my issue. We are a school and have a learning tool that requires java. Now the student laptops have a restrictions config profile in place so the students can't install a... View more
Please educate me...
Hi, first time caller, long time listener.... Doing some renovation/redoing/revamping of our very cluttered Configuration Profiles. 5 or so years ago when I started creating profiles we had 2 groups (marketing and developers) Now we are much more div... View more
Run jamf policy command at log on with launchd
Hello all, I just wanted to know if i could get some help to make the below code to work. Basically i want to run the "jamf policy" command at log on. Is there something that i am missing?? Thank you. Label com.runPolicyAtLoad ProgramArguments /bin... View more
Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0.35 app name issue... again
I updated MS Remote Desktop through the Mac App Store this morning and discovered yet again that the naming convention has changed completely. it is now named Microsoft Remote Desktop_8027218.app WTH, Microsoft? Is this how it's going to be from now ... View more
WebCLips available as Single-App mode
It would be nice if the created webclips are able to be implemented as a single-app profile. Also disallow the devices to change the webaddress etc View more
Bad MS Office 2016 bug
(I tried posting this in the Macadmins microsoft-office Slack channel, but it tells me I'm offline and refuses to let me change it to "active". it just says "reconnecting" and never connects. Hopefully this information will find its way to someone wh... View more
Eclipse Neon deployment
Is anyone else out there having to package and deploy Eclipse IDE? Previous versions were available in standard Mac .pkg files that installed into /Applications just fine. I've discovered that the Neon release of Eclipse appears to come only in a dow... View more
