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Browser Metrics

Had anyone used JAMF to determine usage metrics on Mac web browsers? I deploy Safari, Chrome and Firefox to all Macs. Powers-that-be are interested in (eventaully) gathering usage metrics to determine what browsers are being used the most for each pl...  View more

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Can't Load data from Apple Software Server - OS X Server.app

Hello JAMF Nation, My ASUS is now throwing a hissy fit and refuses to load SUS data. Everything worked just fine last Friday and no updates occurred over the weekend. We have our clients pointed our SUS using either a config profile or command line. ...  View more

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Office 2016 15.17 weirdness

Ever since we updated to 15.17, Outlook will not retain the preferences for the reading pane. In fact in some cases it seems to randomly assign preferences for some folders. Setting & re-setting it and quitting & relaunching doesn't make it stick. Is...  View more

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Script to Update iTunes?

Anyone out there have a script to have a computer go out and grab the most recent version of iTunes? I'm trying to avoid creating new DMGs of common software and push that off onto the individual computers. I've found scripts for Firefox and Chrome (...  View more

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New Netboot image not connecting to casper share

Hello, I've just created a new netboot image using the autocaspernbi tool. I can boot to the netboot image and casper imaging automatically starts but it fails to connect to the casper share. I still have the old netboot image available and that work...  View more

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Issue with IP address

Hi , we are facing issue with the IP address conflict in DB/dashboard from the client machine reporting to the server.In our Scenario we have 8 different locations and with 8 distribution servers apart from this we have one master distribution point ...  View more

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unable to install a free app sold - self service

Hi everybody, My english is very bad but i gonna try to explain my problem :)Last week I bought the game "Monument Valley" it was free for two days. I bought 200 apps for my students iPads. But actually i can't install the app, i contacted apple VPP,...  View more

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JAMF Daemon freezing Mac

I'm not sure how JAMF software was loaded onto my Mac, but it's causing my laptop to freeze everytime i try to open a dialog box for from a browser. "com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.jamfsoftware.jamf.daemon[93276]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1...  View more

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Boot to Windows with SIP enabled

Does anyone know a way of booting to Windows when SIP is enabled.Apples wonderful security feature prevents you from using bless and the replacement systemsetup -setstartupdisk only seems to work with OS X volumes.It would be nice to be able to progr...  View more

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jamf recon couldn't update Sophos AV version 9.2.8

Im running on Sophos Anti Virus (SAV) 9.2.8, which communicating and checking update back to our Sophos Enterprise Console. I found that all my clients installed with SAV 9.2.8 and check client SAV version from Sophos Enterprise Console is 9.2.8.Whil...  View more

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Enrollment Complete

This is a totally dumb question, but what exactly is the Trigger type "Enrollment Complete". I assume its set when a new Mac is imaged or a QuickAdd package runs, correct? Are there other situations that qualify as "Enrollment Complete"? Just wanna m...  View more

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Gmail Config using SSO?

I'm hoping someone can help with this. In our school we are using SSO with AD to authenticate access to Google apps.We want to look at pushing an email setup through config profiles. I can get the settings into the mail app, it does require you to en...  View more

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Device Assignment Apps - Showing Unmanaged

Hi All, Firstly how's everyone getting on with pushing apps to devices? Any one had any know issues? I've finally started using our live MDM last week and got staff two staff members enrolled and setup, as we solely managing iOS devices. We focusing ...  View more

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Accelerated Reader URL in profile

Hello all, New to the community and just needed some help. Trying to push Accelerated Reader app to the devices with the URLalready in place. Wondering if anyone knows the script for App Configuration to integrate the Accelerated Reader URL to the st...  View more

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EA to determine the current network negotiation speed

I have found several extension attributes that will help me determine which network a Mac OS device is on, etc… I need something a little different. I have a bunch of systems in a couple of old buildings with a mix of new and old switches that are no...  View more

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Open Directory Network Mount on Login

We are currently using Open Directory network accounts for our student logins and home folders. I would like to change it so that we still use the Open Directory authentication for logging in, and then the students' documents would be on a mounted ne...  View more

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Corrupt files when copying to SMB shares

Hey guys, I've got a couple users who are having problems when copying files back to a netapps share using SMB2. Occasionally (1 file in 10-20), when copying back to the server, the file become unopenable and has a filesize of 0 bytes. Once the probl...  View more

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Finding non registered Macs

We have some Macs on the network that are registered in Casper. Others were purchased by VIPs for their employees as a perk and haven't been registered. Is there a way to scan a network to find out what MACs belong to Macs? Has anyone had a project l...  View more

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VM Clones Not Enrolling as New Computers in JSS

Hi! Have a strange issue that I'm trying to figure out. I have a couple VMs in Fusion Pro that I am using for package building. I wanted to create a couple more VMs by cloning them. The only issue is that the clones just overwrite the existing record...  View more

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Please login to you iTunes account

Hi all. I'm new to all of this. I'm trying to manage an iPad 2 running iOS 9.2, JSS 9.81 and Configurator 2. I'm adding apps through VPP and the JSS and I'm getting the "Please login to your iTunes account to install apps from "xxxx.xxxx.edu" (our se...  View more

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Mobile HotSpots

Looking for a way to create a smart group of student devices that are logged on to a mobile Hotspot. Students are connecting to avoid Filtering and Casper Focus.  View more

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Security Update 2015-005 Yosemite

Does anyone know if Apple pulled this update? It originally came out alongside 10.11.2 El Capitan and Security Update 2015-008 for Mavericks. I updated my computer with it yesterday and was preparing to push it to a batch of test systems today. Howev...  View more

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Block Cookies for specific website

We use a website bigchalk.com that we have problems accessing every month or so. The company tell us we have to delete cookies for the website - does anyone know if there is a way to create a profile that will just block cookies from that website on ...  View more

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Cloud hosted SMTP source IP range

Hi, I've been looking through the discussion and knowledgebase trying to find this information. We are using the JAMF Cloud solution, and would like to configure the SMTP sender to use our Mimecast email system. In order to allow this, we need to all...  View more

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Chromebook Management?

Is anyone using an MDM for Chromebooks? There's the Google Control Panel of course, but the interface is pretty clunky and doesn't have any of our other stuff in it. I looked briefly at using Merkaki a while back, which might be a nice spot to track ...  View more

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