In our library we have about 25 iMacs (21.5-inch, Mid 2011), that have recently started starting up randomly to white screens. What I've found is that the background is still the Login Window, because I can still type a username and password and it l... View more
We are thinking of migrating to Windows 2012 R2 servers this summer. I have heard some mentions that OS X performance with SMB 2012 Shares is noticeably better than 2008 shares. Any truth to that? Any other benefits for the OS X clients? View more
Hello All, Likely a beginner question, but I just wanted to hear some other thoughts from mac admins: After an iOS device has been enrolled with the JSS, self service is up and ready for use. If the iPad is reset (content and settings), has anyone co... View more
Hi Nation We have recently upgraded our JSS server to v9.91 from 9.82 successfully; but now we have just noticed that VPP licensed apps are now no longer downloading for either Mac or iOS platforms. We have already been through all our JSS settings m... View more
We are trying to find out where the System Preferences stores the information for file server shares that you add to the Users & Groups>Login Items list. But to widen the topic, is there a place/website where one could look up an app and see all of i... View more
I'm trying to enable the dock magnification when a new user logs in for the first time by putting the following in a login script defaults write /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock magnification -boolean TRUE killall Dock If I manually run i... View more
Has anyone played around with the idea of hosting their JSS not only in AWS, but via AWS Beanstalk? There's probably some drift here from what JAMF would support, but I'm curious if anyone has taken the effort. The idea here being that your JSS is on... View more
Has anyone seen release notes for 21.0.0.226? I feel like I've searched everywhere but can't find anything. It was released late last week and seems to be a Mac only release. In the past I've updated our systems automatically but now management wants... View more
Hello Everyone, We are in the process of upgrading our teacher iPads to new iPad Pros and we are looking for advice on the best way to transfer all of their existing data to the new iPad. The current and new iPads are both Supervised with DEP and enr... View more
Good Morning We have the Office 2016 Volume license. I wanted to test the use of the VL Serializer pkg. I am unsure as to how the Serializer is supposed to work. When I install one of the office pkgs, then install the VL Serializer my Office apps are... View more
Stupid question: if I'm using the new home screen layout feature in iOS 9.3, how does one remove webclips? Wiggle mode is disabled when this is on. Apps can be removed from Settings > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage. But, I have a cart iPad w... View more
Are any of you using a post install script to disable firefox auto updates? I usually build out the package in composer and disable auto-updates using a .js file that way. However, I've moved over to using autopkgr, and am not using composer. I'm thi... View more
Hello everyone, As you begin your evaluations and testing of Apple School Manager for classroom structure for both shared and 1:1 deployments and the subsequent testing of the new Apple Classroom app, please provide any feedback that you may have. Yo... View more
I have a bunch of iMac14,1 and MacBookPro11,1 models where some are having regular kernel panics almost once per day. Reading thru the kernel panic logs, i'm finding that they're all very similar and seem to point to the graphics card and com.apple.w... View more
I know we are able to display the name now via a configuration profile... but is it just me or is the only way we can display it in the teeeeeeeny tiny "If Lost, Return too..." / Asset Tag information font at the bottom of the screen? Doesn't really ... View more
I took my first stab at running a scheduled Policy that downloaded/installed SUS updates and then rebooted clients as needed. See screenshot for reference. In a nutshell, my IT dept has a monthly maintence window on the 3rd Saturday night of each mon... View more
Hi all, There are many discussions about how to install an AppStore app on a Mac Client. All of the discussions I have found involve interaction from the user. I really want to know if it is possible to push/ automatic install AppStore apps on Mac cl... View more
Just updated to JSS 9.91 and was starting to work with DEP for MacBooks now that it has features we were needing. I noticed that with being able to create another local account that some info was missing. I am able to specify the Username and Passwor... View more
If anyone is interested I added a bunch of scripts I have written over the past decade or so into a Git repo. Mostly EA's but I also have a script for managing AD Admin Rights using AD groups. Check it out and let me know if you see anywhere improvem... View more
I have been learning more about if statements, and came up with the idea of using one in an Extension Attribute along with dockutil to look for Self Service in user Docks, and if not found add it back. In Terminal the command dockutil --find 'Self Se... View more
Can someone explain to me what checking the 'Store imaging settings as autorun data in the JSS' box does when running Casper Imaging ? what's it for ? I just checked it for the first time on a test computer I am imaging. View more
Hi 3 of our JDS ubuntu 14.04 Lts vms have started failing to replicate form the master jds, the files get downloaded and exist on the jds and checksum succeeds but there is an error when reporting back the inventory to the jss. DEBUG JSSComm [invento... View more
Just a guess, do we bother with settings for OneDrive now with the new update that was just released? I looked around and didn't see any posts on it, so figured I'd start a thread incase anyone revisited OneDrive settings since this update was releas... View more
Noticed this twice now. The notice of a new version (in this case version 50.0.2661.86) is listed on the discussion board, but the link ( https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg) still points to an old version... in this case, a... View more
Student mobile devices are to receive the EDU Configuration Profile when added and saved to a Class. How may I push it out again if the profile is not appearing associated with a device or was never sent or "lagging" for some reason. My thinking is I... View more
First off, is anyone doing this? Most of these machines, around 75% have 2GB of memory the rest have 4. We would like these machine and the rest of fleet to move to 10.11 over the summer. However, these white unibody MacBooks are being very difficult... View more
I think it's been a little too long without one of these posts I recently upgraded our JSS to 9.91 and went to add a package with Casper Admin but I get the "master distribution point could not be mounted" error message. What I've tried so far is:-Ca... View more
Hi,I'm struggling with Mission Control's hot corners.I created a Config Profile from a cleaned com.apple.dock.plist. Everything works, the settings are applied.The problem is that if the users try to change these hot corners, they get reverted to the... View more
Hello all, I have ~150 Macs all bound through our AD, and also configured using Profile Manager. I don’t have anything out of the ordinary configured (Software Update, Munki URL, Screen Saver/Screen Lock) through profile manager, but I have several u... View more
