remotely un-install iOS 10 apps?
Good afternoon! Anyone have a script or can point me in the direction of a way to "uninstall" stock iOS 10 apps. I'd like to remove Home, News, Tips, Find Friends. View more
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Pull User's Username & Password to Authenticate Disk Mount
Hi All, We are currently using @davidacland script for mounting our network drives. It works perfectly, thank you David. The only issue we have is that out system requires the user to login to mount the main network drive and then their personal fold... View more
Newbie NetBoot question
Hi All, I am updating an older JSS server, and one of the issues is the server will not boot our newer machines over the network by holding the N key as the NetBoot image needs updating. Our ultimate goal is to startup the machine over the network an... View more
JSS Cloud VPP issues
We use JSS Cloud. We are having all sorts of issues with VPP and installing apps from Self Service. All of our apps are using Device based distribution. I will see an app in VPP Content that says we have 6000 licences, and 0 'In Use', yet when I clic... View more
Can't set Auto-logout settings
I’m setting the Auto-logout behavior to not log out the user after a set period. This is usually found in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Advanced; we’re setting it via a script. For most of our users, the script passes the parameter 3600... View more
JNUC 2016 5K?
Last year at the 2015 JNUC @cam put together a really fun 5K. I didn't see it in the mini events list for this year. Does anyone know if another 5K is being organized? It was a great time and I'd definitely do it again. View more
Can't launch any Apple apps as a certain user - sandbox error
I've got an issue that's stumping me; hoping someone has some ideas for me. On a particular system with a particular user (managed mobile account, non-admin), I cannot launch any Apple apps like TextEdit, Preview, Contacts, iWork, Mail, Calendar, Not... View more
Duti and gmail
I previously had duti setting utis for outlook, is there a way to set these to browser based gmail? #/usr/local/bin/duti -sv com.microsoft.outlook mailto #/usr/local/bin/duti -sv com.microsoft.outlook com.apple.mail.email all #/usr/local/bin/duti -sv... View more
Device Identity Certificate Missing / Casper Connection Broken on iPads
Hey all, Anyone else seeing iPads permanently break connection to Casper with no remedy but re-enroll? We are on JSS 9.92xxxx maintenance release. Have been getting lots of iPads that won't talk to Casper anymore, and upon further inspection, under S... View more
Restrict ability to live-partition drive?
Hello all, I know through other posts on here that it's possible to restrict certain parts of functions (the ability to disable the "Turn Off FileVault2" button while still allowing access to the security pane comes to mind). Is there a way to do som... View more
Does Configurator 1.7.x support iOS 10?
As the subject asks: Does Configurator 1.7.x support iOS 10? View more
How to scope policy to specific user on Mac?
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer. How can I create a Mac policy that scopes to members of a particular department rather than all users on that computer? Basically, I have a computer lab where I want one grade level (... View more
JAMF versus others MDM
Hi everyone, I need a feature comparison between AirWatch and Casper Suite to convince a customer to change his platform to JAMF to manage MacOS devices. Anybody has it ? Thanks a lot View more
Default Management Location
I'm having the hardest time, I would like to add complexity to the default management account. I can't find it anywhere in the JSS, I know there is a place you set it...where the heck is it...so many different discussions on this Google is useless. View more
Blank White screen on startup iMacs running 10.11.6 and JSS 9.92
Im seeing this starting to go again in our Learning Commons, where student use imacs boot to a white screen (not showing login screen) . Seems like the login screen is actually there, but stuck in the backround. We use AD with mobile accounts on the ... View more
Upgrading 9.92 - > 9.96 could delete your „Account Settings for additional admin accounts“ in your Prestage Enrollments for OS X
What we experienced when we updated 9.92 -> 9.96We use DEP for OS X:We had a lot of Prestage Enrollments for OS X with the setting „SetupAssistant: Skip FileVault“ AND „Account Settings for additional admin accounts“When we upgraded to 9.96 all „Acco... View more
After Update Recon is not starting anymore
Hi I upgraded to 9.96 yesterday.Today i want to create a new quickadd package but i can't use Recon anymore.Simply not opening. Konsole says: Recon: Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting OSX 10.10.5 any Ideas?Also tested with another user, not w... View more
FireFox Deployment
Hello JAMF Nation, I having a little bit trouble with "FireFox"... I start the deployment and FireFox works great! Only the Auto Updater doesnt works.. He tell me that the user don't have the premissions to update FireFox. I don't know why, I am Admi... View more
Is there a profile that locks USB ports on Macbook?
Hi, A Macbook user just raised an issue with me regarding they can't plug in a USB drive to ttransfer files. I do know we have a restriction profile that stops iCloud, imessage. I don't know we had a restriction on USB connectivity. If it a setting i... View more
Policy scope cannot be based on a smart computer group that uses the "latest version" criteria.
Found this nice little limitation a little while ago. So basically, "patch reporting" can't be used to do anything actionable, like, say, patch something. The use case was checking for machines not on the latest version of Chrome, and if found, runni... View more
NetBIOS name
I am very new to managing apple computer, or even using them for that matter. We are running 32 IMAC's on a windows domain. I am still learning how to use Casper and have re imaged from an external hard drive. Until i learn Casper better its what I k... View more
iBooks linking question
Hi all,I'm looking to link from one iBooks file to another on my shelf. These files are not published to the ibooks store, so they don't have Asset IDs as far as I can tell. They will only be used locally on my ipad. Does anyone know how I can link f... View more
Canadians and first time attendance
Attending conference for the first time this year as we look on starting to manage our Apple devices. Wondering if there are any Canadians heading down? We are from Grande Prairie Alberta and would enjoy meeting up. Cheers. Derek View more
ASM Importing users again/Deleting Users
We use Infinite Campus as our SIS which is now supported (awesome, great!), however when I initially imported the students from the SIS the naming convention for managed Apple ID's was first name, last name @ domain.org.Does anyone know if it is poss... View more
Storage full message on iPad set up as Shared iPad
Hi, I have an iPad set up as a Shared Device, when a specific user logs on and wants to use the camera app to use the video mode, instantly a message shows saying that the storage is full. The iPad has 40gb free, the iCloud storage for the user has 2... View more
Application installs hanging but everything looks fine
We are seeing this all over our school district so far. We switched to the Self-Service Mobile app. Apps are showing ok, but when a user tries to install multiple apps at once, apps appear to install but actually get 'stuck' in some kinda in-between ... View more
MacOS X Sierra and FEU FUT issues
So started testing our build process on Sierra for it's upcoming release and noticed something interesting. With our current files and packages it's failing to install the DMG file I have with FEU and FUT turned on. The DMG file contains some setting... View more
Fails to enroll with DEP
I will attach our PreStage settings When we run through the Setup Assistant DEP will kick in and say "We are going to config your computer." It will wait there for a couple mins and then error our saying:“Failed to contact Mobile Device Management se... View more
How do I run a policy at a specified time?
I want to roll out a software update at midnight tonight in order to minimize downtime for the users. I'm not seeing an option anywhere within the policy to tell it to run at a specific time. Is there a trick to this? Thanks. View more
confused about setting scope for VPP purchases distributed via Self Service
Our Casper instance is hooked in to our VPP account and I've purchased a copy of Final Cut Pro that I intend to make available to a user via SS but I'm baffled by the scope settings. First the VPP Assignment I create for the purchased app - that has ... View more
