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Homepage Extension Atribute

We pushed out a new homepage to our company Macs. We pushed out a terminal command that changed Safari and Firefox homepages and a pkg for Chrome homepages. We are now looking for an EA that will detect the homepage of each browser to make sure every...  View more

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Add macOS Sierra to Casper?

Hi all, I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of macOS Sierra from our developers. I was just wondering what format the OS is in this year? Do they provide you with the full OS, or just a package file that directs you to the App Store to download it? ...  View more

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Adobe Updates Download - best practice

Please recommend the best place where to download full images of last Adobe updates. I use CCPLauncher to build the distribution packages for updates, but - honestly - it works terribly. It bring me 3 errors of 4 times I build the package. As Adobe a...  View more

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SPSS 24 silent install and java

I have a self service policy that i'm testing to install IBM SPSS 24. I'm using the .bin file and the installer.properties file to set install options. The silent install needs java installed. The policy installs both Java and the SPSS 24. The policy...  View more

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Use JAMFHelper to create a message with a hyperlink?

Hey all,Trying to find a way to have jamf helper post a message that has clickable links. Perhaps one of the buttons could be set to go to that link. If not I could always push a link to their desktop and just have them double click it, but I'd rathe...  View more

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The slftool thread

So, el capitan has a new binary called sfltool. It has been discussed a few times, and I have incorporated it into my firstrun script to add items to the sidebar. I think many more uses for this will be discovered.Here is my script as an example. #!/...  View more

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JSS 9.92 - java 8u92 - mysql 5.7.13

Hello all, We are looking at rebuilding our JSS server(s) this summer from scratch (preserving db of course - already at version 9.92). Has anyone had any issues with the following software matrix? : Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5MySQL Community Server ...  View more

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JDS status on Dashboard

This is probably really simple and I'm just missing something, but for some reason I've not been able to search out the answer. During our JumpStart the technician from our reseller demonstrated a way to set up an indicator on the Dashboard showing t...  View more

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Show output un Self service app

Hi All, Wondering how to show output in the self service app. Like when in terminal executing sudo jamf policy it shows what it is doing. I'd like to see the same in the self service app.  View more

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DEP iPads Prestage enrollment with LDAP intergration

Hi everyone, I'm new to JSS and seeking professional advices of yours. My company intends to purchase 100 units of iPads under DEP, but need to clear some haze in mind before doing it. We have list of employee details from Apple open directory, LDAP ...  View more

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Disabling Notification Center el capitan

Hello, I'm trying to disable apple Notification Center, i'm working on a campus so i want to make a package or script so i can deploy this with our deployment solution. Whenever i start a terminal and type: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchA...  View more

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Signing OS X Configuration Profiles

Hi JAMF Nation A simple question: How do I sign a configuration profile? Which certificate should I use from the Apple developer portal? I would like to upload a signed configuration profile to the JSS. The JSS ignores some payloads if the profile is...  View more

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Best way to cancel/revoke a policy

Hello, Just a quick question, what's the best way to cancel or revoke a pushed out policy? I have pushed to all our machines to cache an app, but now I want those machines to delete the app. Do I need another policy to delete the cached app? Many Tha...  View more

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NetSUS Boot Problems with ESXi

Hi everyone,i have the following problem, maybe anyone of you can help me or point me into any direction. I have an HP Server with ESXi installed, a Virtual Machine (CentOS 7) and installed the NetSUS Installer. So far so good, i uploaded an NBI and ...  View more

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Determine which user unlocked screen saver

Hello, On some of our Mac workstations, we have service accounts logged in doing various tasks that users kick off by logging into the service account. In order to make it more secure, we're not allowing the users to login directly as the service acc...  View more

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Managing updates

Hi i was wondering if any one has found a way to manage updates for a array of different application , as we are struggling to force updates to users machine as they are not admin and require a technician to manually type there password.  View more

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What are your thoughts on App Store subscriptions?

I was curious what others thought about Apple moving to App Store subscription model? How will this effect your enterprise or education environment? Thoughts on how this might change VPP, and do you think you'll tag along with the subscription model ...  View more

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PrinterProxy Error, and $Username variable

Hi All, We have a problem here with 10.11, where now that the Printers have moved to the User profile, we have to allow execute access to the Library... Simple, right? Wrong!! After adding ~/Library to the allowed folders, ~/Library was not allowed, ...  View more

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awdl0 and Digital Guardian

Our company uses Digital Guardian as its big brother software. If you're not familiar with it, it's very heavy handed and can run just about any "rule" you'd like it to. One rule in particular is that it will block your network access if it detects m...  View more

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Access Based Enumeration on Windows Server Shares

Is there a way to make access based enumeration work for Macs when Windows Servers are configured in this manner? Our network staff is looking to make use of this feature for our environment which consists of both Mac and Windows users and even some ...  View more

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Where is the Menu Bar?

I am working on our new image for the semester. I just noticed that when I go to log off, the Menu Bar disappears. The computer has not crashed as I can click on something in the Dock. Is not an issue o a fresh image. I guess I will have to go thru t...  View more

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Allowing non-admins to grant firewall exceptions

Does anyone know of a way to allow non-admin users to grant exceptions to the application firewall without entirely opening up the Security preference pane to them? Basically when the OS prompts "Do you want to allow [application] to accept incoming ...  View more

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OSX 10.11 dmg

Newbie here. How long should it take for my OSX dmg to index? It is for a mac mini. I have been waiting for over an hour. Is this normal? I am using Casper Admin 9.81.Thanks!! Z  View more

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