So we don't give users admin for obvious reasons and Sketch comes out with updates almost weekly at this point. The problem is their files are only compatible with the version they were made in.I haven't worked autopkg into my workflow yet (I know!) ... View more
NOTE: This is a work in progress. Suggestions and commentary are ALWAYS welcome! I'm sure most JAMF admins have had such directives before. But I won't be discussing everything here. This thread's purpose is to discuss how I am adding my local IT adm... View more
Hi all, We have over 170 printers in our environment and would like to make the printers print in grayscale by default. Does anyone have a script that the have in place to do anything like this? I do not want to have to touch all 170 printers. Right ... View more
I know this is a long shot, but I thought I would see if anyone else here has encountered this issue. Recently I discovered that our Ricoh MP C4502A Printers can no longer print in Color via a PXL printer driver. In order to print in color we would n... View more
Hello, I am trying to install a newer version of what was Junos Pulse now its Pulse Secure without a reboot. When Updating to the newer version via Casper over the old version when it reboots it automatically picks up the Connections preferences fine... View more
Hello! I have a teacher that wants to push a free iBook from the Apple Store to student Macbooks. I know that we can do that using Self Service, but it appears on the student end that they need to have created an AppleID to send the book to. Is there... View more
Looking for an "easy" way to auto mount user specified network shares at login. We currently have Users & Groups locked down in system preferences. Having users set their auto mounts via script and launch agent is complicated and overkill. Any easier... View more
Hey all, My team is experiencing a strange issue on several Macs that only began cropping up recently. The only change to our JSS was upgrading from 9.81 to 9.82 maybe 3-4 weeks ago. No new Configuration profiles, policies, etc. The issue is agnostic... View more
All of a sudden I’m seeing packages fail with the error: Certificate used to sign package is not trusted. Use -allowUntrusted to override. All happen to be Apple packages. Some of these were used just last week without a problem. All clients are runn... View more
I'm in the process of setting up a limited JSS in the DMZ, and my security architecture folks have asked for a way to monitor both successful and unsuccessful connections to that JSS. Does anyone have any advice on tomcat settings or something else t... View more
We recently purchased Third party certificate for our DMZ tomcat. I went through the process included in this article. (https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=115) When I browse to the JSS, now our certificate is no longer self-signed so... View more
Anyone already create a script to return what kind of drive is installed? Just looking to group machines by SSD or non-SSD. Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools View more
Hi All, I am sure I came across a site on Jamf that someone posted that links you direct to all the latest PKG downloads, photoshop, office etc? Has anyone got the link? Or could correct me if I a totally wrong - which wouldn't amaze me! Simon View more
Hello, First of all I have had a quick check and nothing new about this has been posted for a while, so just wanted some clarification. I am about to setup a trolley full of iPads which will be all the same. Do I have to setup each iPad individually ... View more
Hi We have an In-House app which for example is version 9.3 The app is installed and showing the correct version number in the JSS as version 9.3 When our developers push us out an update with a 3 string version number, 9.3.2 for example, we put this... View more
Anyone tried this before? I want to create a folder, then apply an Automator Workflow to it.... Any suggestions? View more
Hey All, Google just released http://www.kiddle.co and I am curious if anyone can tell me if there is a way to set the homepage of Safari to this site if the devices are managed? View more
Is it possible to create an account in OS X that only has the ability to read or run tasks but not access or make changes?It may need a way to run commands from a remote console for auditing purposes, they were denied using the root account, any sugg... View more
Need to deploy office 2016 to end users that previously had office 2011. Issue is how do you set up the exchange account thru casper so that it is automated? View more
I have a Mac that will not bind, and I'm at a loss to explain why. Maybe @arekdreyer or some other AD expert can offer some insight. Every AD server in our forest turned it away. Mac uptime is 5 days; Mac OS X 10.8.5; Network configuration is correct... View more
I built a pkg using Platypus that is designed to run an unattended install using the following script: #!/bin/sh sudo installer -allowUntrusted -verboseR -pkg "/path-to-pkg" -target / I added the following line to present the users with a notificatio... View more
I Inherited our jamf/jss management and wasn't here for the provisioning. Our server certificate in IIS that enables https downloads in Jamf is expiring next month. I see there's a Renew... option, but I'm not sure how to renew it. (options include r... View more
Here on the campus I work it's been standard for years for the full time staff and faculty to have admin privileges on their Windows and Mac systems. I've opposed this over the 18 years I've been employed but it falls on deaf ears. After some recent ... View more
I just imaged three iMac (Late 2015) running El Capitan, and they can't see the 10.11.4 update available from my internal network's Apple SUS. It found the iTunes 12.3.3 update from it, but it didn't see the OS update that is downloaded, and enabled ... View more
Hello, Currently our staff have admin privileges on our Mac OS X Machines. We would like to take this away and make them a standard user. The only thing preventing us from doing so is adding Wifi Networks either at work or home. Does anyone know a wa... View more
So I have a LaunchAgent that is going to be deployed a systems running 10.9 through 10.11. For unloading and loading the LaunchAgent as part of the pre/postinstall scripts in the installer and uninstaller packages, I am currently using the launchctl ... View more
I searched the EA's posted here and came up empty. Has anyone written an EA to report the computer's default distribution point? Or is this going to be my crash course introduction to API scripting? View more
I am noticing that while still largely successful, most of the trigger-based policies in my environment produce failed or otherwise unsuccessful push attempts on client machines within the specified scope. Take for example the case of a Dropbox updat... View more
Hi Guys, I'm trying to find out if anyone else has had any issues like this; We have about 150 iMacs around the school for student use, and until recently we have used the AD plugin to mount their network drive as their user profile. The network driv... View more
as part of our o365 upgrade we're considering removing all exchange accounts from the Outlook 2011 client before the import to Outlook 2016. That way the 'On My Computer' data will get imported but the user will setup a fresh account that brings down... View more
