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Running Policy ID Within JAMF Helper

JAMF Nation folks! I am looking to run a policy within my JAMF Helper script based on the end user's input. Note that most users will not have administrative privileges so this needs to run on standard accounts. Please have a look below and let me kn...  View more

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Macbook power related problems

I have an aging fleet of Macbook Pros (mid 2012) that have developed a problem since upgrading to 10.11 El Capitan. The computer will try to boot and power on, but never get to the gray screen, it stays at the black screen. The fan runs, the computer...  View more

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Florida: any JAMF/Mac User Groups in the state??

A month ago, I worked in a different state (Texas) with a good User Group (all hail @stevewood!). Now, I am in Florida in a different chapter of my life's book. (Damn! Don't I wax poetic?) Anyway, are there any Mac or JAMF user groups in the state?  View more

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Configuration Profile Restrictions

Is there a general KB that gives a brief description of each of the restrictions that we can enable or disable for configuration profiles? Most i know are self explanatory but some id like to know what all it restricts or allows before just clicking ...  View more

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Enrollment date missing

Hi, the last four Macs i've enrolled aren't showing the date/time enrolled. These we're all done via Netboot and Casper Imaging. Has anyone else seen this/know a fix? All running 10.11.6 and JSS/Imaging is 9.93  View more

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Parallels 12 Business Edition

Hi i was wondering if anyone has deployed Parallels 12 with the following restriction Locking down what images they can use Password Protect it so new images cannot be created by users . i was advised i can do this by a console but i cant seem to fin...  View more

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Dockutil Script

Hi all, I'm new to JAMF and I'm creating my first image from scratch. I'm wanting to use dockutil to customise the dock at login. I've placed dockutil in /usr/local/bin/ and I've compiled the following script from others I've seen online: #!/bin/sh L...  View more

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patchoo user prompt: does not display PKG name or info

Hey guys, I just set up patchoo on a test system and got it working. Caching, prompting and installing is working fine. But when the prompt comes up it just displays the hard coded text messages. Not the description or the package filename. However i...  View more

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Login Display Name

Hey guys, I don't know if anyone has run into this before but maybe someone knows something that can help. We recently went through a re-brand at the company, as a result all machines which are bound to AD have display names (locally on the Mac) for ...  View more

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10.11.6 ScreenSaver MCX

Hi Everyone, I need to create an MCX file for controlling the ScreenSaver lock-out time for our users to 20 minutes, we are running 10.11.6, I've found a few different posts but seems to have mixed messages, does anyone have this setup already that c...  View more

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Blocking ios updates

This has been brought up several times in the past but never a solution except at a firewall level which means our users will be able to download the updates from another network. IOS 10 just around the corner we're wanting to block it until we're ha...  View more

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JSS MUT Question

Anyone know how MUT handles .csv's with devices that are not in the JSS yet? Does it error out or keep going? We are slowly rolling out ipads class by class and would love to be able to run a big list of device S/N multiple times; each time with more...  View more

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Restarting Computer Within JAMF Helper Script

JAMF Nation folks! I am in need of some advice on how to restart a computer within a if-else/else-if loop of a JAMF Helper script. The script's purpose is to perform software and security updates and then reboot the computer if the user decides to op...  View more

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Transmission - keydnap v1.5 - Keychain Backdoor

I haven't seen any discussion on this: Attackers Infect Transmission Torrent Client With OS X Malware - TorrentFreak Another attack on Transmission, this time for creating a backdoor to the keychain data. www.welivesecurity.comArticle 1Article 2 Belo...  View more

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How would I set my Hipchat server in a .PKG

1st post here and very green with Casper Suite. I currently have built a .pkg with the Hipchat.app from my applications with drag and drop. I'd like to put our team server in the .pkg so that when it installs its already pre-configured, how would I g...  View more

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A Lockout Protocol for iOS 9.3

I thought this might be of interest to the community. We are now using a smart device group to capture devices that are "out of order" in some way (jailbroken, location services off, too old version of iOS) and effectively shut them down until an adm...  View more

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Deploying VPP apps to device - error message.

Trying to deploy device assigned apps using VPP. I see the apps in Self Service, but when I click on them to download I get the message... "There was a problem installing Numbers. Enabling MDM for local user account failed. Contact your administrator...  View more

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Broken apps after updating from Self Service

I've been noticing a trend lately since I upgraded to 9.92 that is causing problems. Here's the scenario:- Foo.app version 1.0 is installed in /Applications on many users' Macs- Foo.app version 1.5 is released so I package it up in Composer (dmg or p...  View more

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Best Practice for Apple Software Updates

Hello, Myself and org org are new to the jamf system and Mac's in our enterprise as a whole. I'm attempting to bring our current and future Mac OS X user base up to a standard our InfoSec team will sign off on and I have a question regarding Apple sy...  View more

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