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Re-Check Expiration on ADPassMon

@bentoms Hi Ben, wondering if you've ever run into a scenario of the "Re-Check Expiration" in ADPassMon needs to be manually executed to update the password expiration time? Is there anyway I can force a re-check with a casper policy and set it at a ...  View more

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Network-Userfolder a the Dock

Hello Community, Again! I need a solution for the Network-Userfolder / Adding Server. The User Folder / Share Folder is mounted automatically and works. The problem is, after I lost the network connection or starting the Macbook without Ethernet I ge...  View more

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Adding user account to AD

Hi All, Anyone show me how to add a user to AD via a script, and then add this to a specific OU?I know how to add a user to local machine using dcslThis would be part of my first run script after machine has bootedWhat I require is to have the MAC ad...  View more

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Updating Print Drivers

Hello All, How is everyone updating Print Drivers and Printers? We have several Canon iR ADV printers on campus. This summer we are planning on upgrading to El Cap. In ensuring compatibility we want to update the drivers. Printers are pushed via Poli...  View more

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In-House eBook Deployment - Delayed?

Hi everyone, I am working on deploying some in-house eBooks (PDFs, actually) to my test iOS devices. Unless my google-fu is off today, I wasn't able to find any other posts/information on why I might be having this issue. I have a JDS set up and am a...  View more

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SMB Volumes Not Displaying on Finder Desktop

In my environment I've noticed that SOME SMB volumes (2012R2 Servers) don't display on the Desktop as expected. What's curious is that two shares on the same server will behave differently. One will display and another won't. I've had difficultly in ...  View more

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3d screensavers, disable

We run an esxi instance on a MacPro to host numerous mac VMs for testing purposes. Every idle VM consistently chews about 1.5ghz when the 3d screensavers run because being a VM the 3d part is rendered by the main CPU, not a GPU. Prior to 10.11 I remo...  View more

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JSS Performance on same box as CrashPlan Pro Server

We are looking at consolidating servers. Considering migrating our current CrashPlan PROe server install to a Mac Pro that is currently designated for our JSS. Since Jamf and CPPe are vendors for many, curious if others are successfully running the 2...  View more

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CCT Badge?

I was wondering how long it takes for badges to show up on your profile. I got my CCT on 3/20 and I don't have it yet, even though I got my certificate in the mail.  View more

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AD Password Change include Keychains Update

Hello Community, I am looking for a solution that our User can change easy here password in our AD. We test "AdPassMon" but it doesn't works on our Macs. I don't know where the problem is there. Now, I'm looking for a alternativ to change the AD Pass...  View more

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Restoring ipad

Hi, we have provided one of our users with an ipad that are managed by casper suite. due to some work related reason, the user backup the ipad and when he tries to restore the backup on another personal ipad of his, it prompts for a password. is this...  View more

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Queries regarding shared iPads

The possibility has been raised at my workplace of us buying a small number of iPads for a pilot programme. These would be college owned devices and would need to be usable by any student or staff member (i.e. they would be shared and not 1:1). I wat...  View more

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Google Master Preferences

Good Morning, I am trying to get Google Chrome Master Preferences in place. I have created the necessary file and placed it in /Library/Google/ and Chrome fails to recognize it. I made sure the file is in plain text format. Here is my file: { "homepa...  View more

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Change DNS "Search Domains" via Script

Hello Jamf Community, I am looking for a script, to change the DNS "Search Domain" to .local on Wi-Fi and Thunderbolt Ethernet. I try a few comands but no one works... Hope everyone can help me. Many ThanksChristian  View more

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Best Practices for Updating MS Office 2016

I'm curious how you all are updating MS Office 2016 for your users, assuming you are managing the patches and not leaving it up to your users to keep Office up to date. When we first deployed Office 2016 to users, I used Composer to create a single ....  View more

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Global JSS Extension Attribute Variables

I know it might not always be practical but does anyone know if there is a way to assign a value to a variable that is shared by all extension attribute scripts? For example if I have multiple EAs performing checks based on the installed client OS ve...  View more

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Man Pages at developer.apple.com down?

Is it just me or did Apple just take down the man page reference library? I was referencing the fdesetup page not yesterday: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/fdesetup.8.html Technically, the page ha...  View more

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Detecting the network a computer is connected to?

Two projects I'm working on involve DEP and software updates and deployment. In both cases I'm needing to detect what network the computer is connected to so that it knows what policies it can or can't run. My first thought was to detect the ip range...  View more

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AD Conntection (WiFi) befor Login

Hello Jamf-Community, Since a few days, we are use Casper Suite. We are useing a Active Directory but we have a problem with the AD Connection at the Login. How I can conntect to the WiFi in the Login Screen? At the moment we need a Ethernet Connecti...  View more

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Spotlight High CPU usage

I have multiple computers that show Spotlight running at 110% to 150% which is causing the computer to run hot and the battery to drain quickly. I have tried using terminal to stop spotlight and restart it, as well as force quitting it in Activity Mo...  View more

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AD DSCL Question, Interesting...

Hey guys quick question thats blowing my brains up. I have a path to an Active Directory group but for some reason dscl does not see it. If I do #!/bin/sh dscl . -read /Active Directory/DOMAIN/All Domains/ The group is simply not there. Now if I go i...  View more

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