Hi All, Just running into a wee problem with a little test I am playing with and was hopping that somebody may have some ideas. I am attempting to get Casper Imaging to install into a VMWare Fusion VM (via NetBoot) and so far I keep hitting the same ... View more
Hi, Yes, I know not the best idea, but this was just a fun project to see if I could get it to work. I found Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi 2 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi. I have it all setup on a 128GB MicroSD, the partition is extended and the ... View more
Hi all, I'm here to ask a rather elementary question. I'm looking to package an update to Chrome for our end-users machines and want to ensure all their prefs/bookmarks/plugins stay intact post update. If I use AutoPKG to create a chrome.pkg and uplo... View more
Hi, Happy new Year ;-) As we got iMacs and MacBooks with DEP and finally upgraded to 9.82 I figured out how our "Best Practice" will be (Details will follow, if somebody is interested).Now those Macs came with 10.11.1; If you reset them via Recovery ... View more
Hello, I am missing something with the Cert Based Auth on JDS? I have ticked "Enable Certificate-Based Authentication, Ensure that device certificates on OS X computers and other JDS instances are valid" and then made sure the JDS has noticed this wi... View more
This is the first time we have acquired the Macbooks via DEP. While trying to image them via Casper Image the Macbook must be first booted other than the local image so the Casper Image could image the local image but we are unable to boot this Macbo... View more
I am seeing the 30 day notification indicator "VPP Account...expiring in 30 days" in our JSS. When I go to our Apple VPP portal and click "Download Token" I get a '.vpptoken' file. So far so good. But when I upload that token to the JSS our VPP expir... View more
If we make any changes the smart group update fails with the following error. An error occurred while saving the changes.See JAMFSoftwareServer.log for more details. View more
I deleted a few photos and text messages when cleaning my iPhone this morning. I already had backed up with itunes. However, i tried a few times to input the password i thought it was right, but all went wrong. is there any way to recover the passwor... View more
The distribution point is successfully mounting while running Casper Admin on the JSS server, however, while installing the software i.e. Ms Office 2016, VLC player and printer driver, the installation fails with error couldn't mount distribution poi... View more
Scenario: Running on 10.10.5 and Composer 9.65 (and tested with 9.81). When converting some packages no files will show up in the Sources (or in the folder in /Library/Application Support/JAMF/Composer/Sources/). I know the original pkg file has them... View more
Hi all, I've seen many posts about setting Adobe Flash Player to auto update. Just wanted to know what you guys think is the best way that is least intrusive to the end user. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks! View more
Our jump start date is quickly approaching and we are trying to work out our strategy for managing FileVault. Currently, EPO is managing FV on our Macs and holds the keys (no enterprise key). We think to get Casper to take this over, we will have to ... View more
Here is a view of our Self Service app. I not the server admin, but I was wondering if there is a way to change the title size of individual policies. **Edit: I should clarify that I do co-manage a branch, not the full JSS. The arrow is indicating th... View more
I am attempting to get an app to start when the user logs (Alertus) I think I have the right files in the right places.Has anyone else had any issues with launchd and El Capitan?Thanks in advance View more
ok. so here's me situation. i need for a teacher to be able to go into self service on their laptop and run a policy that asks for a student iPad serial number and then does an update inventory on that device. it looks like i can use the api to do th... View more
We've been requested to test and deploy McAfee in our environment so its pretty new. We have the ePO server side set-up. but am curious about a few things with testing and further deploying. These test machines our not on our domain yet, we wanted to... View more
We're looking into cloud-based DPs and our relationship with MS makes Azure the first option everyone suggests. I know it is not a native cloud option, but I assume it's possible to set it up as an https DP? Is this possible, and has anyone done it? View more
Hey everyone. So..I've got an issue regarding JSS connecting to a file share and I'm running out of ideas. Setup/issue is as follows - The setup JSS hosted on a mac (version 9.81), and currently setting up an smb fileshare on a separate mac. Folder h... View more
I know this is kind of off topic, even through I see an increasing footprint of folks working with BSDPY here... If there is a better forum to post, please let me know and I will post there, not seeing a lot, but maybe I missed something. We're runni... View more
Webex Productivity tools crash Outlook 2016 15.18 when cancelling meetings. FYI. I've tested this on multiple machines and the results are the same, cancelling any meeting crashes Outlook. Confirm if you've noticed this. View more
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
