Hello everyone, I am currently using JAMF for a K-12 school district and am wondering how the Software Update Server works within JAMF. Is my current assumption correct: Updates are cached to the local servers and that's where the Mac's pull updates ... View more
Hello, I'm trying to use launchagents to run a login script for every user -- on every login to a machine. So far I've created the plist, and the script (it just creates a link to that users home directory on the desktop) What I'm having trouble with... View more
Hello, Clients of mine have been using 10.10.X for some time now and I have started upgrading many machines to OS X 10.11.4. One thing I've noticed is on logout the screen will display a black screen with just a cursor. The only thing I've found to r... View more
Has anyone come up with a good way to determine if pending Apple updates require a restart? I've heard of folks writing an EA that runs softwareupdate -l | grep "restart" but that seems a bit time consuming since software update is already running du... View more
This isn't a world breaker or anything, but I was wondering if anybody else had run into this. I have a desktop picture restriction set up in a config profile, designed to set a desktop pic with a specific image. But having that restriction in place ... View more
I have received a request to change the check-in frequency to once a day and I was wondering if that was even possible. It looks like it can only be set to 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes? View more
Hello Everyone, I'm currently tasked with pushing out El Capitan to computers at a K-12 school district. Let me give you some background on what is currently going on: We have approximately 400 MacBook Pro computers that were purchased last summer on... View more
Hello. On every computer that I update from 10.11.3 to 10.11.4, on log off the only thing that shows is Here's the updates that were available to each device: Finding available softwareSoftware Update found the following new or updated software: RAWC... View more
Book Creator app crashes Symptoms: Student attempts to open up app, launches to blank screen. Will either remain unresponsive or automatically quit. Issue persists after app restart or device restart. Attempting to update through iTunes or Self Servi... View more
Best way to install Apple Update to the user without interaction. I want to have a script to run off hours so that when they user comes in the office in the morning the updates are installed, I was thinking create the pkg through Composer then push i... View more
We are currently blocking the Apple update sites with our firewall to prevent users upgrading their iPads to IOS 9.3. However there are many that I want upgraded to 9.2.1. Im downloading all the .ipsw files. Can I manually add these to the caching se... View more
hello JAMF Nation, may i ask if there is a way for us to manage the desktop background & screensaver for all users who will login to a mac? company is requesting a specific desktop background (like anouncements or events)company is requesting a scree... View more
Hello, I have been doing well in the past (before 10.11) with deploying our LDAP server information to clients but now it no longer works correctly. I used to build a dmg with Composer which had the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist i... View more
Where do you set the cloud DP as the failover? When I edit my various DPs, and view the list of Failover DPs, the cloud DP is not an option to select. I have my internal DP set as master but cannot select my cloud DP as a backup? View more
How do I correct this so that it shows up as Verified. We recently decided to move the iOS management from MobileIron to JAMF and in MobileIron, all we had to do is upload the SSL certificate from Entrust to make this work. In JSS, I went to PKI > Ex... View more
Our organization is trying to find more cost effective way of deploying Macbook setup without becoming an hassle. Currently, all Macbook Pro/Air users get Thunderbolt display at their desk to act as a docking station. This setup is always being compa... View more
Hi, This might be a repeat question, but here's my story. I'm fairly new to this MDM for Edu using iPads. Our school has a cart of iPad 2's that I believe where bought from an outside vendor some time ago. I'm currently using Apple Config 2 to "manag... View more
Today I updated my HTTP File Share Distribution point from 10.11.3 to 10.11.4. As expected Server.app uncommented port 80 in /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf, so I commented it back out. However, the HTTP downloads still don’... View more
I hate being such a script noob. I feel like I'm really close but am missing some critical piece of information in order to get this script to work. This script is intended to get the name of the current user and then make that user an admin, or make... View more
Is there a way to create a smart group based on a process name? We have carbon black installed. Some clients are not working. need to make a group based on the processname: CbOsxSensorService I know we can create a policy that checks for processes, b... View more
Haven't seen this posted anywhere, but Office 2011 14.6.2 is out.Download View more
Hi All!So I've done my research on this already around JAMF Nation and everyone seems to be able to disable wifi completely wether its through managed prefs or a config profile. I have a script running that turns off wifi if hard lined and in turn if... View more
VPP is not support for China. How do I push paid apps to self service? For over 100 students. Thanks! View more
HI,I need help to enroll 4 iOS 9.2 Apple TV with Apple configurator 2 The enrollment procedure stops in step 4 with this error message: [ConfigurationUtilityKit.error - 0x4 (4)] What is the solution ? Thank you View more
Sorry for the typo in the title... Anyone know where I could pull the name of the current outlook 2011identity that is being used to automate removing any older identities that were rebuilt? Or better yet have written a script that does this? Cheers,... View more
Hello, Anybody use Apple Recycling Program for old macs disposal? I am looking for some Recycling Program documentation which officially confirms the secured disposal, etc. Would you please direct me where I might find it? Appreciate that! Thanks! View more
https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/apple-os-x-zero-day-vulnerability-can-bypass-system-integrity-protection/ (just sharing at this point; no advice to offer other than nag Apple) Edit: CVE-2016-1757, as Rich notes below, is patched in 10.11.4 and Secur... View more
Hi, I'm struggling to get HTTP downloads working with server.app 5 I've followed https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=116 The symlink is there and working but downloads aren't. I get, Error: Could not connect to the HTTP server to down... View more
What is the best way to install Creative Updates? Any Ideas Should I package it in Composer or is there anything way that it has been done successfully? View more
Does anyone else have this issue on occasion? We use DEP for "imaging" our Macs. We will enroll the machine in DEP, it will show up in Casper as assigned, and everything looks good. However we semi regularly will have the machine skip the "Configured... View more
