Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t... View more
So we are planning on rolling out Office 2016 to our campus soon and we are going to be giving users the option to install 2016 alongside 2011 for the time being. Once they are happy with 2016, they can run the uninstaller we have in Self Service. Th... View more
OK, no VPP yet, and we need to deploy Apple Configurator 2. Should be straight forward, like every other App Store app, right? Um, nope. On first launch user needs to go to Apple Configurator 2 > Install Automation Tools... which creates these two sy... View more
My original posting for this started off as just an Extension Attribute. In the past 3 days, it has become a full blown workflow. Here's that workflow. JAMF Software Deployment: Nessus Agent for Apple Macintosh INTRODUCTIONTenable Network Security's ... View more
I did a little poking around on prior threads but didn't see an immediate answer, so: What is the limit of criteria that can be used in a smart group? Is there a difference if you use all the same category or is there just a hard limit? In our scenar... View more
Hi all Im trying to create a script that will first generate a new FV2 recovery key then import the new key to McAfee's ePO using one of McAfee's commands. I've nicked a piece of @Sam.Fortuna reissueKey.sh script (thank you btw!) I've tried a few way... View more
Hey All, I'm running a 10.11.3 machine and I'm seeing odd Lock Window behavior. What I'm trying to accomplish: A custom background image that displays at the FileVault Screen, Login Window, and the lock screen. For the first two screens, I've been ab... View more
Hi JAMFers. Wrote this in November and promptly forgot to throw it up for people to get some usefulness. Please, as always, give suggestions for improving, or extending. This script assumes that your usernames associated with the asset record in JSS ... View more
I've read through https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5968 and I've looked at the apiFrontPage.rest page. I can see how I can get things like a list of departments, but how can I get the department a machine is part of? I'm working... View more
It looks like this weekend there was an update to the Self Service Mobile app (to version 9.82). We are finding anyone running this version is unable to connect via the app. It returns back "Unable to connect to server." Has anyone else seen this iss... View more
Is anyone else having difficulty pushing commands to mobile devices via the API. I follow the link:"https://[myCompany].jamfcloud.com/JSSResource/mobiledevicecommands/command/BlankPush/id/300" to issue a "BlankPush" and then it comes up with this... ... View more
In your 1:1 schools, what are you guys doing for end of year processes? I'm on the 3rd year of our deployment at our middle school and I followed the process of simply wiping/updating each device at the end of the year. At the start of the new school... View more
Hello hello! I'm curious where to buy laptops for international employees that can be enrolled in DEP and also be localized properly for the employee's country. In the past, we'd usually have one sourced at a nearby Apple store, but would prefer gett... View more
Hello- We've had a lot of trouble with the Login window config prof on 9.82, and I'm wondering how I can accomplish my goals without it. I'm trying to enforce "Allow Guest User" and create a login window banner. The login banner I think I can do as a... View more
I looked around and haven't seen this posted before—sorry if it turns out I'm duplicating old posts. Here's to hoping this helps someone else out as much as it's helped me in the last week! In a few of our school districts we're still using user-base... View more
Hi, Need a little help with some smart groups; I have Labs setup within Smart Groups - "Lab-C119-Mac" This brings back 20 machines - like it should When I want to build a policy around this smart group - it always seems to gather machines from other ... View more
Has anybody been able to find a way to pull a client machine's default distribution point using either the jamf binary or an API call? View more
Hi All Getting the error "There was a problem communicating with a push server" when trying to push and commands to iOS devices or to Macs. We have setup an apple push certificate and also have a valid SSL certificate, but we are still getting the sa... View more
Hi, I am trying to assign VPP content to computers. I've allocated the software to the computer and it appears in Self Service despite me having set Install Automatically/Prompt User. Anyone know why it would do this? Best wishes Michael View more
We have started to get Mac APP Store apps not installing via from Self Service this is not happening with every app. They can be a fee app or VPP purchased apps, all of these worked previously but now just go through the motions and not open APP Stor... View more
Trying to run this as everyone seems to rave about it, so i created a user in Caspers, full admin rights, stuck these details in the app, and i putt in our casper URL, and then the share point it auto found etc, but whenever I try to run a recipe i g... View more
on our devices (10.10.x) we have two local accounts, one "ITadmin" and one "enduser" (also admin level).We want to set a password policy that only applies to the enduser account as we need to keep the ITadmin accounts the same. I've tried creating a ... View more
Hello all.I have trial of casper suite now. I've installed it on Windows Server 2012 R2. And for testing I've decided to use built in CA in JSS.Unfortunately, I've faced "A network error has occurred" during enrollment via Apple Configurator 2.In JSS... View more
Now that Office 2016 for mac is out and being used in the workplace, is there an extension attribute out there to pull the version in the JSS. I know there is one out there for Office 2011 but nothing from what i can see for 2016. Maybe there is a wa... View more
I'm creating a Smart Group (and corresponding Policy) to update MS Silverlight plug-in. Based on this logic: Plug-in title HAS "Silverlight.plugin" AND Plug-in Version IS NOT "5.1" (then my related Policy installs the 5.1 package at start-up) If hypo... View more
I recently completed a project standing up a new JSS, and as part of that process we migrated to a new database. So, everything is pretty clean at this point. Additionally, I used the knowledge gained in the CJA class to make sure I am using the prop... View more
I have been working on this all day and cannot find a way to make this work. We want in our IT lab, to show ALL filename extensions for all users. Essentially, if we use the com.apple.finder.plist for the user template and enable it for one user, it ... View more
We have an iPad that has a 4-digit passcode that an unknown student has generously decided to test us with - and after attempting a DFU and clicking Restore iPad > Restore and Update > agreeing to iOS 9.2.1 update > and agreeing to terms > it errs ou... View more
I saw this today announcing Office Insider and it put a bad taste in my mouth. Does anyone know if this is something we can suppress for Volume license installs or even O365 installs that are managed by IT? View more
I've been trying to figure it out but is there a way to show a progress bar with precentage (most likely using CocoaDialog) to show the download progress of a cached package? We are kicking off a cached package policy via self service and our users h... View more
It's now been two days since the stable channel release of Google Chrome for Mac v48.0.2564.82, but every time I try to download it, I keep getting a DMG file with Chrome v47.0.2526.111 in it. Both the following links have the same problem: https://w... View more
