This is totally NOT JAMF related. However, you are all my favorite folks to ask for this type of advice and so, here I am. Now for my issue: Our users are tired of working with our secure SMB file shares. They don't like being advised to move files t... View more
I am trying to create a Smart group criteria that lists computers not installed with version 20 of a certain application. Computers can have previous versions of this software installed, such as 17, 18, 19. I have a computer that has version 18 and 2... View more
Anybody ever see this, I have no idea what is causing this file to be on the root level of OS X (macOS). Is it Apple's softwareupdate? Looks like it might be. thx. john View more
Anyone registered for the CCT Training in NYC the week of June 27? How are you preparing outside of the study guide? View more
I work for a school district, and we're thinking about placing a distribution point in every building to lessen network load (approx. 25 buildings). JSS doesn't seem to have a great way to manage distribution points (e.g. checking uptime, network sta... View more
We're having an issue "Serializing" Adobe CS6. The installation of CS6 is part of a monolithic image. I have followed the instructions provided HERE to create and administer a Serializer package. After running the policy and opening Photoshop, Adobe ... View more
I have a policy that installs software via recurring check-in. When a user is logged in and recurring check-in happens, the software installs fine, dock item added and application is accessible. If no user is logged in at the time recurring check-in ... View more
Hey all, I may no longer be able to use Casper Imaging :( for my needs. Been looking at AutoDMG and my question is if at all possible to FUT & FEU with it as Casper Imaging does so nicely already? Thanks in advance and sorry if this is a dupe. -p View more
Hey All, We're in the process of moving from MCX to config profiles, but I'm having a problem when it comes to the dock. I used mcxToProfile to convert the dock plists (all of our school sites have varying items) which worked great with the exception... View more
Hello Community, I have a few questions about "Mobile Device Managment". We want to manage our Iphones and Ipads. About this I have a few questions and I don't found the solution. Can I set a fix ICloud Account? If the user lost the Phone or Tablet t... View more
Hi All, Anyone noticing their CPU usage unusually high and fan's spinning after the macOS Sierra update, well i've narrowed it down to a process, so couple of things so far seem to have done the trick, one clear the OCSPD cache from /var/db/crls and ... View more
Hello, We are in the process of selling many of out 8th grade MacBooks to the students. We are marking them sold in our cataloging system and have run the removeframework (along with many other tasks), but we never figured out how to script deleting ... View more
Fortinet's recent FortiOS 5.4.1 release for their FortiGate security appliances prevents any version of FortiClient prior to 5.4.1 from registering to the appliance. Users may even get a "FortiClient is being actively blocked from registration" which... View more
We need to push some specific ipfw rules to machines. Can anyone suggest a way to do this with configuration profiles? We need port 22 open for Casper Remote, but don't want to expose people's laptops to port 22 when they leave campus. We need a rule... View more
I know, there are a lot of ways normally, but hear me out. I'm working on a Mac Mini that is having issues. After enrolling it in Casper and bringing it up to El Cap, at some point during this process, all admin rights were removed from all the accou... View more
Switching from user-based app deployment to device-based app deployment, and hoping to avoid using any AppleID. At the same time, can Apple's Classroom app be used so that teacher/student/class assignments are all device based? Hoping to avoid using ... View more
I am finding that when I log into my computer, I get a kerberos tgt ticket with the user name in lower-case (i.e. jsmith@TEST.COM) . But if I request a kerberos TGT ticket using Ticket Viewer on 10.11.5 (on a Mac bound to Active Directory) I get the ... View more
Is there another way to up Tomcats’ memory in Windows other than using tomcat7w.exe? We’re running our JSS on Windows 2012 R2, and our DB is MySQL on a separate Linux server. I’d like to up Tomcat’s memory via the JSS, but when I try and use C:Progra... View more
All of my managed Macs have a login window Profile that prevents automatic login. End result: Everyone must authenticate at the OS X login window with AD (or cahched) credentials. Typical IT privacy/secuirty policy etc. I deployed a new home/remote o... View more
Hi Guys, So I have been playing around with the slftool and wondered if there was a way of removing items like how it adds them? View more
Just had an upgrade from 9.81 to 9.92, I have now noticed that since the upgrade, policies that run on 'Enrollment' are not running. looking at the /var/log/jamf.log shows 'checking for policies triggered by "enrollmentComplete" but none of the enrol... View more
We're imaging using a monolithic image and I'm having issues activating SMART Notebook on OS X. I'm trying to activate SMART Notebook automatically using their silent image command, but it isn't working. When I run the command in Terminal, it works f... View more
is it possible to change the name (in Casper Admin) associated with a Dock Item ? if so how ? for example; application is named Pumpkin.app but I want the dock item to be named 'Pump' NOT Pumpkin View more
First time using Casper Imaging and ran into a few hiccups, but slowly working them out. Biggest issue now is Self Service will not install on the imaged machines. We are using target imaging, and it laying down El Capitian, and a few other packages.... View more
This Fall we will be significantly increasing our device load on the current JSS server. Right now it is a 4x core Xeon with 8GB RAM. Runs fine but has had some 'slowness' issues this past school year. DB is local. This Fall we will be hitting 6K iPa... View more
I've set up a Software Update Server and pointed clients at it in the JSS. This seems to work fine on most clients, but on a few it's still going to Apple / App Store for updates. if I run the command to check where it's pointed: sudo defaults read /... View more
Just a thought about this and wonder what other experiences have been with this. We have been using the default 14 days for sometime and discovered it doesn't work well with some devices going off-campus and for long period of time. So, I could exten... View more
So as part of the homebrew installation process it advises that you may need to perform the following if you're on El Cap sudo chown $(whoami):admin /usr/local && sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local user/ Obviously with the JAMF binary being loc... View more
Hello, How can i add Microsoft office and photo shop in my image with serial number in it Any help View more
We've had an issue with replicating large packages/DMGs to SMB shares on Windows servers at sites that have slow WAN links. A file copy will take several hours and appear to complete, but the file is simply not on the share afterwards. Has anyone els... View more
