Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
JSS 9.8 requires java 1.7 or 1.8. We currently have JSS 9.72 installed on RHEL with Java 1.6 installed. I see JSS 9.72 supports Java 1.8 and we would like to upgrade to Java 1.8 before installing JSS 9.8I am wondering if anyone has run into problems ... View more
I downloaded the full (monolithic) Office 2016 15.14 installer to upgrade my 15.13.1 installation. After the installation I launched Outlook and saw the pop-up letting me know about the ability to make archive files. This definitely confirmed the upg... View more
Has anyone found a way to disable creating keyboard shortcuts in iOS using JAMF or any other means? We have students who are creating keyboard shortcuts with inappropriate content on class sets of iPads. While I feel this is a classroom management pr... View more
In the JSS release notes for 9.73 it was reported that defect [D-008688] was fixed. Now in version 9.8 its reporting [D-008688] as a known issue again. The only work around we have been using is deleting the System level password in the keychain and ... View more
It seems it would be easy to add http://mesu.apple.com/assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_SoftwareUpdate/com_apple_MobileAsset_SoftwareUpdate.xml to a mobile pac file and redirect it to a local file I host on one of our servers to block the newest updates ... View more
I'm looking through the Release notes of JSS 9.8 and it says to refer to the API Resource Documentation. Is this only located at https://jss.local:8443/api or is there a PDF version somewhere? View more
just installed 9.8 on my test server. When I logged in for the first time I got a notification stating: "Script contains invalid reference to /usr/sbin/jamf" Does this mean they have moved where the command is? View more
Would be good to hear your experiences upgrading to the new version, good or bad! View more
Hey Folks - We recently migrated to Casper from Meraki (K-12 school with iPads depolyed 1:1 in grades 6-12). The biggest reason for the move was so that we could shut down the App store and only publish "approved" apps through the self-service app. W... View more
Has anyone figured out a way to suppress Maps, iBooks and Photos in El Capitan yet? In previous releases Apple has copied/moved the com.apple.dockfixup.plist, unless it is being done some other way. I use dockutil to create a custom dock and throw it... View more
We are doing a large Digital Citizenship push in our school district and part of the program requires students to read an eBook about it. I purchased the book through VPP and scoped it to all of our iPads and set it to install automatically. The book... View more
Hey Everyone, I've see a couple of systems recently that seem to have a memory leak when submitting data to Casper after a recon. I have attached a screenshot below. The fix seems to be running sudo jamf -removeFramework and then re-enrolling the sys... View more
Our company has 5 distribution points. SF, Chicago, London, NY, and Boston. All the distribution points have the proper credentials. They mount just find when replicating and everything replicates over to all distribution points from the mastershare.... View more
Hi, we use self service (Casper 9.72) and have some sporadic issues with Self Service. Sometimes it will work, other times, the little spinning circle just goes round and round. Users have been through the entire VPP process in approving assigning ap... View more
We are beginning to use Casper Focus and have noticed a few things (Casper 9.72). It is really slow It often fails to focus a number of iPads which are supervised/DEPd / enrolled correctly. A few attempts later it will. Removing focus sometimes fails... View more
Hello nation, So we discovered vShare today. I am still a pretty new iOS/OS X admin so I wasn't aware that something like this existed. Apparently users can download an App via a website like vshare dot com and get access to an illegitimate App store... View more
We have been using VMWare Horizon for a few years now to connect our MAC users to a VDI session. We have added a second connection server now and are trying to add it to the connection list but it is not applying correctly in the package. Instead of ... View more
Hello All, Thank you in advance for reading. I've read a few different posts on here about adding printers using a script and before I did so I came up with my own to add about 50-60 printers to a bunch of machines. It is as follows: #!/bin/bash # Re... View more
Hi All, This is much more logistics than tech, but I'm curious how organizations handle purchasing and budget for computers/tablets/phones. Does equipment come out of IT's budget?Does equipment come out of the individual business unit/department/facu... View more
So during our build process we like to activate file vault at the end of the build process. I have a package that makes sure the recovery partition is there...creates the users that are needed for FileVault. Then I run the following command to enable... View more
We are on our 3rd year of rotation on our devices, they have been signed out of iCloud by each user when turned in, so no account is associated with the device. Each device has been reset, then put into Recovery mode and refreshed through Apple Confi... View more
I am looking to create a Smart Computer Group which targets all Mac laptops in my environment that are not encrypted. Specifically, I would like to isolate those which have Solid-State Drives (SSD) and EXCLUDE disk drive types that are using older, r... View more
Hello, We use SuSE Linux for all of our Linux servers, so I was wondering if there is a way to break apart the install to see what gets installed. I am relatively certain that since this will run on Red Hat, installing on SuSE should be fairly straig... View more
I was looking for a way to turn some of the power save features off through Casper and I was looking at the Energy saver section of Configuration Profiles. I see "put the computer to sleep after" and "put the display to sleep after", but the range is... View more
Is it possible to retrieve a list of devices based on a Site?When retrieving a list of all devices, no site or anything related to a device's building/site is being exposed through the api. See the XMl below: 2 6 iPad iPad dd1dff5d598e3fce####16288... View more
I've been hoping someone with the organizational skills to start up a user group around Columbus would do so. I won't be able to make it on the 27th, but hopefully soon! View more
How can I make an ebook available in self service without requiring our students to provide an Apple ID? The default method just provides a url for the app store item so then the student has to provide an Apple ID to download it. Is there a method th... View more
So in reimaging a lab yesterday (2012 MacBook Pro 13") I found that the enrollment script was either never created, or that it was complete jargon and not written to the drive correctly. My first guess is that I should have deleted them from the JSS ... View more
I discovered that end users with Standard User permissions are freely able to install any and all system software updates via the App Store.app - including updating from 10.10.4 to 10.10.5. How can I block this? View more
