What's up group! Wanted to ask if any of you have had the privilege yet of experiencing this problem when imaging Macs in El Capitan with the new version of Disk Utility. It appears that when you create an image from folder in DU under the File menu ... View more
We have a local account on our Macs called "student" to which we want to apply the same restrictions that we apply to Active Directory accounts. Now that we've had our JAMF JumpStart, this account is created by policy during the imaging process. We'r... View more
Hi,I'm using JSS 9.72 on a WINServer 2012 R2. I'd like to prevent users installing apps from the app store.I set a config restriction profile:- Allow installing apps - deselected- Allow removing apps - selected- Allow In-App-Purchases - deselected- R... View more
Is it my imagination or can we no longer get the SMART status of internal drives that are partitioned via CoreStorage (FileVault2 & 10.10.5)? My boss wants to be a little proactive for finding dying drives and I knew diskutil could return the SMART s... View more
Hi I created a OS X vanilla image with the AutoDMG tool on a mac with user and system language in german. Then I copied the image on a MacBook and run the setup assistant to create an admin user and enroll the device with DEP. I selected german as la... View more
Anyone with a hosted JSS seeing issues where they cannot edit certain types of objects such as polices or configuration profiles. ? I can open a policy and see it's current configuration but when i click the edit button I get the spinning wheel and t... View more
Hi Guys, I do want to automate the creation of recovery keys on our mac environment and I do have some troubles with the expect of the spawn command. Details: I need to expect the following string: Enter a password for '/': But I always end up gettin... View more
Hi, I have been asked a hypothetical question by our Assistant Head who deals primarily with Digital Strategy and ICT. He has given us a real life scenario of an issue that is currently being looked into. At present, students provide their own iPAD f... View more
Hi All, I'm trying to run the following script on El Cap to do user folder redirection: #!/bin/sh # Determine USERNAME variable username=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}') # Determine NETHOME variable netvol=$(dscl '/Active Directory/DOMAIN/All... View more
I have already installed the vmware pkg with the windows file, but when I try to open it, it gives me the message: "VMware Fusion requires administrative privileges to perform one-time setup." Is there any way to install VMware without using any admi... View more
Banging my head against this all day today, and haven't found a solution that works the way I want. Scenario: We are required to log on with smart-cards, so we've always used FV, with a restricted non-admin account that is allowed to "login" at the F... View more
I am new to the Mac support community so please excuse my simple question. After I buy Composer from JAMF where do I download or install it from? Do I wait for JAMF Nation to send me link? Thanks, Tom View more
Is anyone else having issues with automatically enrolling workstations with an OS X Server or 3rd party enrollment profile? I've done everything I can think except for rebuilding the server from the ground up. I've tried using the DeployStudio automa... View more
The subject line says it all, unfortunately. I just received a new iMac with a Fusion drive split by a 1.0TB SATA drive and 24.0GB SSD. I followed the instructions on this post as I've done in the past but couldn't seem to get it to work. I believe t... View more
Hello All, Since attending the JUNC, I was wondering if anyone knew how IBM was able to have user's log-in with network account credentials and create the first account after the DEP notification? View more
Hi all, I'm trying to disable the ability for tech support to use the "Connect To Server" option in Yosemite. I want tech support to only use Casper Remote to remote in to users machines so they are prompted to accept the remote connection. When usin... View more
Has anyone observed the following error in Casper? 2016-01-13 12:06:25,334 [ERROR] [oolThread-3] [VppServiceHelper ] - Error batch assigning licenses. ErrorNumber:9602 , ErrorMessage:"pricingParam" is invalid. This error message is appearing in the l... View more
Hi, I am about to send out VPP invitations to users. During some testing I have noticed that the user name that shows up in Self Service is not the user logged in. This means a user might get an invitation that they shouldn't. How can I rename this? ... View more
My first extension attribute. I just simply adopted the MS Office 2011 Out-Of-Date extension attribute we use for scoping Office 2011 updates. Seems to be working :) #!/usr/bin/python '''Office version extension attribute. Checks the lowest version n... View more
This has been a lingering problem for me that I can't quite figure out. We have a mac pro running server 10.6.8. It runs all our mac services including open directory. Every few days or so it stops accepting open directory logins and will not let any... View more
I have some applications that have to install post imaging such as the office 2016 Volume installer. However when i check install on boot drive after imaging. and the Adobe account auto signs in Icloud pops up asking to sign in ofcouse i skip it. is ... View more
Hello, I am trying to add users to a usergroup using the JSS Rest API.Reading the documentations the request should look like this: 1 However, I get a HTTP 400 (Bad Request) in return from the server.Is there something wrong in the XML? See the... View more
Locking up this suck as scratch disk, Preferences... Any one know if thats possible? View more
Didn't see this posted on the forums, so I figured i'd share for those who haven't seen it. Big things happening: http://www.apple.com/education/preview/ edit nevermind, I found the thread. View more
I have a couple of scripts that I'm looking to tidy up a bit and I've noticed that with El Capitan's release Apple isn't super fond of folks adding folders where the user doesn't normally have access to. Currently, I'll drop files into /private/var/t... View more
Curious what others think - we're about to move to "Production" with our JSS implementation, and would appreciate input on the approach we're taking. We're fairly "patch-happy" in the sense of regular patching and tight requirements/deadlines for add... View more
I have a password policy Configuration profile set on our machines that only use Local Accounts. What I am wondering after someone puts in the wrong password over 6 times it disables the user. How does that work? Do they get put in a disabled users g... View more
Hello Everyone, I am not sure HOW to frame this question so I hope this makes sense. We are trying to allow our faculty/staff Macs to be updated when the employee clicks on the "Update My Computer" self service policy I created. This policy will upda... View more
