I have created installers for OS X in the past on USB Thumb Drives and Volumes on External Drives. This has worked for Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan version 10.11.2. I have used the "createinstallmedia" app located in /Contents/Resources/ and t... View more
Hi, I will be undertaking a Jumpstart for a customer later this week and they have requested some post-Jumpstart configuration work. Their JSS is to be hosted on a Windows 2K12 box that will be provisioning several hundred Macs. The Macs are to be bo... View more
JSS 9.81 OSX 10.11.3 image Right after imaging with OSX 10.11.3, computers enroll and I let all the post-enrollment policies do their thing. When I login as the local admin account, I see a question mark icon for Self Service. When I click it, I get ... View more
This is driving me crazy. My students go to logout and the machine seems to hang. The menu bar disappears so they can't attempt to restart the machine. So they pull the power plug and leave it like that.Has anyone else heard of this issue. I created ... View more
This might be a long shot, but I'm having a hard time finding a similar issue anywhere online or getting HP from HP anywhere. The issue is with an HP Designjet T520 plotter cutting off the end of the image when it prints. It will get most of the way ... View more
I am seeing a new strange issue on iOS. We have an email configuration profile set up on our devices. Sometime between last year and this (and possibly because of iOS 9) the option to send a document via mail from pages or some other app is no longer... View more
Disclosure: I saw this information on two different sites, MacRumors Forums and Reddit. I'm posting this here so that you don't have to spend the time looking for those pages. If you are running El Capitan and your Ethernet port suddenly disappears o... View more
Hey Guys, Weird issue here. I am testing this by pinging the wifi address from another computer. This is a 9.82 managed 10.10.5 - 2015 Macbook pro on battery power and doesn't have anything plugged into it.This device does not have any profiles or se... View more
Hey guys, I wanted to get your opinions around a permission issue I've recently encountered. Basically I upload something to Casper Admin (pkg, dmg, script, etc) -- at this time 100% of these packages/payloads are not inheriting the parent "packages"... View more
https://school.apple.com Those of you who work in education will be chomping at the bit to enroll in this. Have fun! View more
I'm looking for a way to find all these devices and put them in a Smart Group. Unfortunately the options available for "Last Enrollment" is strictly before/after n date & before/after n days. I can't seem to figure out how to finagle it to report on ... View more
What "computer record" is this Login Window Profile Payload referring to? A JAMF computer record? An LDAP computer record? Does this Profile payload also set the computer's host name and local host name to match the computer record name, too? How doe... View more
Hi all, I'm flumoxed on this one! Yesterday i noticed that any policies that download pkgs or dmgs from the JDS were failing, (Self Service and recurring), policies that do not download are successful. I've tested on 4 different Macs at different sit... View more
I have read several JAMF Nation articles and blogs from other sources so I think I have this down but I want to make sure before rolling it out to hundreds of computers. I downloaded the Office 2016 for Mac iso file from Microsoft's VLSC site. We are... View more
Has anyone experienced an issue where the Macintosh HD icon flickers? Mac on OS X El Capitan Seen this article but don't have Google Drive client locally installed on the Mac, article Sachin View more
I have successfully packaged CrashPlan and put it in Self Service as a pull-policy. There are no major issues with this and it seems to work well (followed the "Administering CrashPlan..." guide). My question is: have you guys also been able to inclu... View more
Hi all, I'm flumoxed on this one! Yesterday i noticed that any policies that download pkgs or dmgs from the JDS were failing, (Self Service and recurring), policies that do not download are successful. I've tested on 4 different Macs at different sit... View more
Hi all, I'm flumoxed on this one! Yesterday i noticed that any policies that download pkgs or dmgs from the JDS were failing, (Self Service and recurring), policies that do not download are successful. I've tested on 4 different Macs at different sit... View more
All, Quick question: What is the best way to change the Safari Adobe reader plugin from Ask to Always Allow for a specific website? Config Profile or is there a little command i can use and run using Casper Remote? Anything else? Kyuubi View more
We have an employee that left our org, and the user was issued the laptop permanently for their personal use. Best way to accomplish them not being managed anymore would be to give them instructions for "jamf removeframework" and then delete the devi... View more
Has anyone been this stuck with a locked computer? I locked a computer remotely using JSS and creating the 6 digit code. The computer successfully locked, the student then tried to guess what the code is and got it wrong. He then brought it to me wit... View more
Im starting to really get into Extension Attributes! These things are freakin' magic. So many possibilites to be creative here. I have come up with a couple cool EAs that really help my Desktop team a lot in terms of gathering important site-sepcific... View more
We just bought Notion for our iPad pros with Apple Pencil using VPP, however I cannot get the handwriting $7.99 in app purchase to download. Does VPP disable in app purchases? If so what are the work arounds if any? Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Scho... View more
Oracle has made their Java 8 Update 73 installer an app rather than a package. So in order to install it, I have written a script to launch the app. I found documentation on Oracle's site that explains that if you follow the install command with the ... View more
We have just started using 1-1 iPads in 5th and 7th grades, and have just had our first iPad handed back that needs to be fixed under warranty, but realised we have no process for setting a student up with a temporary iPad to continue doing work. All... View more
Hello all, For those out there with heavy use of a SCCM infrastructure and OSX, I've published the following script that will add SCCM's User Device Affinity (UDA) functionality to your OSX devices when it is set up: https://gallery.technet.microsoft... View more
Has anyone found a way to prevent students from disabling wi-fi so that they can regain control of their iPad when the teacher is using Casper Focus? View more
Hi All, Stuck on the following. Anyone have any ideas of why its not making the edits on the .plist? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys! #!/bin/bash user=$( ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}' ) defaults write /$user/Library/Pre... View more
We have moved to managed distribution - pushing apps out to iPads instead of users. using JSS 9.82 and all our iPads are iOS 9 or above. all apps are up to date. Students come in daily with apps that crash when opening. if they delete the app and i p... View more
Hi all, our teacher MacBooks are not bound to AD, we manually create a local account as and when a MacBook is deployed to a member of staff, and we set that user as an enabled FileVault2 user. My question is, is it possible (by way of a script, confi... View more
