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Jamf Pro 11 Beta is Now Available!!

Hello Jamf Nation! If you haven’t heard the news, Jamf Pro 11 is here! Featuring a new interface, ADDE, DDM software updates for iOS, and more! How to join the beta: Enroll in the Beta Program under Product Feedback at account.jamf.com. Once enrolled...  View more

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Jamf Pro Beta Server Maintenance

Hello all! Access to the personal Beta instances you are able to request when you join the Jamf Pro Beta Program will be unavailable for an extended period of time over the coming weeks for maintenance. We'll let you know when they're back online! Th...  View more

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Create Casper Imaging partition on internal HD

Managing about 40 iMacs in a college lab environment. I have found that booting off a USB stick is incredibly slow, and I've never had very good results with NetBoot. So I thought I'd create a Casper Imaging partition on the internal HD of my lab Mac...  View more

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Office 14.5.0 update resurrects invisible main window issue

Those of you who were participating in the developer releases or public beta of Yosemite (or even the dot zero release) may recall that there was an issue with Outlook 2011 not displaying the main window if you had the disclosure triangle open to sho...  View more

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casperscreensharing password

I use Remote to kick off certain jam binary commands without interrupting the user. I can choose to log into casperscreensharing, but then I have to su in a terminal session in order to run any sudo commands. I have tried all of the usual suspects fo...  View more

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Smart Group for Computers with Expired Warranty

Has anyone been able to come up with smart group criteria for computers for which the warranty has expired? I had this working in 8.x but it seems to have broken in 9.x. My criteria is "Warranty expiration in less than x days" with a value of 0. Thes...  View more

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Licensed software & self service

I have an app that we have X licenses for. I don't install it by default, but do want to make sure we stay within our licensed limit. I assumed this would be fairly easy to setup using a smart group that, but there doesn't appear to be any way to get...  View more

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Enabling Fast User Switching 10.10

Hi everyone, This seems to be very hit and miss on Yosemite. Traditionally, we enable fast users in Managed Preferences. User level enforcedDomain : .GlobalPreferencesKey: MultipleSessionEnabledValue: True This works perfectly on 10.9 and below. 10.1...  View more

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NetSUS & CasperShare on Ubuntu 14.04

Hoping someone can help me out with this... The background: We run our 9.7.2 JSS on a 2008R2 Hyper-V vm which hosts our main CasperShare distribution point via Samba. Our ageing xserve has been providing NetBoot and a second distribution point via AF...  View more

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External JSS Help

Hey, Just looking for a bit of advice with a clustered JSS and certificates. Has anyone else seen the following errors and if so how did you fix them? Downloading required CA certificate(s)… There was an error. Error enrolling computer: Connection fa...  View more

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Self Service App - Notification issues

As I am led to believe, there is no way to force enable notifications for specific apps. so forcing on notifications for users is not an option. So when Self Service was distributed to our users (kids) many selected no. If the end user has selected n...  View more

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Setting Regions

HI All, Having some issues with our new lab images where the default region is set to Australia - root, this will stop Applications such as word from opening...... When you change the region from this to Australia then word opens fine. I have tried t...  View more

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Content Filter - Mobile Devices

On mobile devices we use Content Filter payload set as Limit Adult Content. This gives students safe browsing off the school premises. Sometimes the teachers complain about some websites or pages on some websites as restricted so we add those sites/ ...  View more

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Jumping into the fire - questions on 1:1 using DEP

Hello everyone, This thread is similar to a few others but slightly different. I didn't want to hijack their threads, but I have been reading them as I see them and absorbing information. Backstory: We have been planning for the last couple of years ...  View more

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Prevent Package from installing during imaging

We have a package that works perfectly when installed via policy/Remote, but doesn't work correctly during imaging. That's fine by me. We can just push it when needed. I'm certain either myself or one of the other techs on my team will forget that at...  View more

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Using Recon.exe for windows side

Hi All, looking for some feedback on Recon.exe Are there folks using Recon.exe for the windows side to have a unified inventory?I had done this at a previous position and it worked well.What are the current limitations of recon on the windows side, o...  View more

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New MacMini unable to connect to JSS

We have a number of different Macs from 'old' Mac Pro's (Early 2008), through a range of MacBooks to iMacs etc. all of which we can neboot and image, I also have a USB external boot drive configured with Casper imaging which also works with our Macs....  View more

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launchd StartInterval problem

OSX 10.9 and 10.10 Macs in a corporate environment. I've finally got a mechanism in place that is designed to check the uptime of the computer it is run on, and if the uptime is greater than 14 days, it then displays an applescript "nag screen" to as...  View more

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Printing Questions

Hi all, We use Windows print servers queues with our Mac clients. Printers are installed with the LPD protocol. Printing works OK, but sometimes we run into driver compatibility issues. Is anyone using IPP for printers from Windows server to Mac clie...  View more

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Possible to delete computer before imaging

Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to delete a system before imaging again with Casper. We have things that are dependent on running 'once per computer' and we have found that when we image a machine and then image it again (even with a differen...  View more

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