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
Hey all, My JSS is 9.73 on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Computers > Management Settings > System Settings > LDAP ServersI only have one entry in there, my.company.ad.server.com If I click on it, I get a 404 Error "The page you requested could not be found."See... View more
I have created a QuickAdd package and placed it the Packages folder of my DeployStudio server. I have it run as the last step in my workflow. The "Postponed installation", "Ignore install failures" and "Automate" check boxes are checked. When I image... View more
I have written a script to gather a bunch of fairly generic information from System Profiler and various log files, write it to a text file, and then zip up the text file in preparation for uploading to a drop box (write only) folder on an OS X file ... View more
I am looking for a way to create an AD bound, admin, student user upon first boot after TMI. I am hoping to log in to our institutional admin account that is already on all machines and create this student account from there. System Prefs > Users & G... View more
Hello Community! I am currently researching how to deploy Apple Updates such as Security Updates, Numbers, Pages, Keynote, etc. How are you all deploying these updates? At this time, I am ok with a quick and dirty way to deploy Keynote, Numbers and P... View more
I am trying to identify why the device identity certificate would disappear from 10-50 or so iPads, that previously had working communication to our server. Without doing any further tests, I thought I would check here if any one else may have encoun... View more
Does anybody know if there is a way to set firefox as the default user agent for safari. I know I could do a default write to the safari plist. I just don't know what to write to it. Any help would be appreciated. View more
After I Netboot the client system for Casper Imaging with the bless command, the system netboots successfully then says: Connection error while connecting to https://swimbot.lan (Result: 0)Check your network connection and try again [ OK ] It then of... View more
Has anyone had an issue with VPP iBook Purchases with the titles not being available in the Casper iBookstore. This seems to prevent me from being able to link the purchase to my JAMF hosted server. View more
Does anyone have a method for flagging machines that have errors during imaging? I'm thinking of an EA that'll grep the jamf.log - as opposed to using the API (which I haven't the foggiest how to do... yet). View more
Hello, First of all, I found this thread. The solution there does not work for my environment. I have tested by changing the default screensaver (Flury) to something else and it will not take.. We are running 9.72. I have a few things that happen in ... View more
After adding all of my clients to the JSS, I now receive the "access denied" message for these same clients in Apple Remote Desktop. Any ideas? View more
I have students (with non-admin rights) wanting to add their own personal printers at home, but they are prompted with the admin logon. How can I allow this? Can someone give me step-by-step instructions? I'm new to all of this! Thanks! View more
Hey Guys, Im setting up a policy to configure the default dock. I've tried the policy as once per computer, once per user, and ongoing. The dock is modified for all local accounts, but when an AD user logs in, it just goes back to the apple defaults,... View more
Every once in a while we'll come across a computer that gets moved from a classroom to another classroom or even another school without us knowing. When we go through each year to update our computers we name the computers according to where they are... View more
Before I start messing around with this idea, I wanted to see if anyone else has done it so I can shamelessly borrow some ideas/workflow. Right now, we have a scenario where we bare-metal image Macs using a USB stick with Casper Imaging, and the tech... View more
So a brilliant (and often malicious) student of ours is practicing his programing skills and designed an application that he says does some simple things to make life easier for students. Apparently it creates folders on the desktop of the user corre... View more
I was looking for some books on Applescript for beginners. Any suggestions? View more
Howdy, My boss is asking me to figure out how to virtualize 50-100 instances of OS X. I don't think OS X's EULA allows for this. From what I understand, I can legally install up to 2 OS X VMs only on Apple hardware using Fusion, Parallels or VirtualB... View more
so after looking through discussion on here, i found using pwpolicy gets me the password policies i want. But every account I create is auto disabled and any existing local accounts are disabled. I'm using the following command to set my policy: pwpo... View more
I'm working on testing out setting up one of our remote sites (European Office, USA hosted) and I'm seeing some weird DP issues. Machines enroll/communicate fine, however they receive the correct DP for their network segment when deploying through Se... View more
We are looking to image machines that will be our initial JDSs that are on the other side of the world. I was wondering how other users who have done this went about it. Notes:We do have a Windows infrastructure there.They are acquiring the machines ... View more
I know we are not the only ones who have experienced issues with the AD occasionally dropping if you use the built-in bind utility on the JSS. I was wondering what others are using that is more reliable but won't break the bank. We are a school that ... View more
Hey guys! I've been having troubles lately installing Windows 7 Enterprise via bootcamp or SCCM. During the task sequence, it reboots after installing the drivers and stays at a black screen with a blinking dash at the top left. Sometimes with the er... View more
I know I've come across a few threads in regards to imaging with Yosemite, but we have yet to find a resolution to our problem. We just got delivery of 2000 MacBook Airs (MacBookAir7,1) that shipped with 10.10.5. After the client is imaged we're seei... View more
I saw that there are updates for both the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air flash storage firmware. Apple Support - Flash Storage Firmware 1.0 How do you determine the current firmware version installed on the notebook? Is there an easy way to create a "sm... View more
It's come to my attention that the old ways of disabling AirDrop file sharing: defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES no longer works. This now returns: defaults[17195:855346] Could not write domain /Library/Preferences/com.... View more
Is there any way to do this? I'm getting tired of having to relogging into the JSS to view policy logs. View more
Running OS 10.10.4 with JSS 9.73. I have a few managed preferences that seemed to be working fine. I installed PaperCut and ran the "install-login-hook.command" so as to make PaperCut to start up and have the user not be able to quit it. Would that h... View more
