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
Hi Everyone, This is only my second post here so please understand Im still a rookie when it comes to driving the JSS. I have successfully deployed flash and java updates by recompiling the source in composer before uploading the dmg to Casper and th... View more
Hi, Has anyone ever tried to pull the expiry date of any Certificate? I can see it is in my Keychain and also can see the last date there. But I need to find a way to pull report from all Macs and send out notification based on expiry date.Unable to ... View more
Has anyone been succesful to run 10.11 on a VM (ESXi 6)? The installer seems to work fine but upon completion of the install the machine reboot to the crossed out circle. View more
I'm looking to easily install some programs that are .app. We use LogMeIn and Cisco Jabber in our company and haven't been successful with Composer to create either DMGs or .PKGs. When downloaded they are of the .app extension which isn't supported i... View more
I was just thinking the other day how Casper does its uploads to SMB or AFP shares. However it allows for distribution of packages/scripts via HTTP. My question then becomes, why not take SMB/AFP out of the equation completely and just go with someth... View more
Hello. I'm finally getting ready to start migrating to configuration profiles. Everything seems to work fine when testing internally, but noticed that profiles only seem to work when the machine is reporting in to the internal "full access" jss. Noth... View more
Hello, I am attempting to setup VPP in the JSS. I applied for licenses from Apple for the iWork suite for the 600 MacBooks that I manage. They emailed me and told me that I had not installed my VPP token yet in my mdm, how do I install this in the JS... View more
We recently got our first Macbook in since they were announced. We purchased it through Apple, and DEP was supposed to kick in to enroll it and trigger the initial policies. Something odd happened though. Instead of automatically accepting DEP enroll... View more
At a recent JAMF Roadshow, an Apple Engineer mentioned that one could disable the claiming of OS X apps such as iLife and iWorks via Casper. The only optioned I'm aware of that mentions something like this is through a configuration profile, but he w... View more
We are a 1:1 school in grades 7-12 that has all of our students in Open Directory. We bind their computers to the directory due to the mobile Internet filter and user agent which are both installed on the machine. We also have our JSS tied to Open Di... View more
I am wondering is it possible to create a script that will only run when a new account is created on the machine. This script will setup a bunch of stuff for the user like Wifi, Admin Rights, Enabling the user for FileVault. The machines are domain b... View more
Hello, Is there a way to put a configuration profile in Casper Admin to use in Casper Imaging? What I'm trying to do is, have all new machines that are being imaged to have the VPN settings installed at imaging time. I've found a way to set the VPN s... View more
Good morning, For our deployment on student iOS-based devices we restrict the app store and use Self-Service for app installation. One drawback to this setup is update handling on devices. One way we were looking at working with updates is to keep a ... View more
So here is my problem I have over 4000 iOS devices on my network, when running update inventory those that are passcode enabled do not appear to update until the user actually unlocks the iPad. I have done the below tests to verify. Left an iPad for ... View more
Hi all, Please forgive my bash scripting ignorance, but I was wondering if one of you scripting gods could help me with a small script or command to output a list of files that start with a space character. Using the find command or something similar... View more
This summer, we will be re-imaging almost a thousand Macs. We wanted to move away from the good old fat image to a modular one. Few questions though, re: customisation. We are using "tweak-the- English.lproj" to have a uniform look and feel (we use m... View more
Hello Everyone, Our next monthly Twin Cities Mac Admins meetup won't be until July 15, however, we're having a couple of social meetups between now and then. The next gathering is to discuss the currently active Coursera "Programming for Everybody (P... View more
Hey Guys,We are implementing Wifi auth (Device) with TLS through Aerohive.Has anyone out there configured auto enrolment of your OSX devices to your Enterprise PKI (Windows Server 2008 R2), eg so they all get their own unique device certificate insta... View more
Looking for some help on FileVault2. Don't think there is a need for it with students and wary of the problems it could cause with them losing keys etc. Been looking for a way to disable/restrict the ability to enable filevault. Am I missing it somew... View more
If you ever need to see how much of your data has been accessed and when, this command can help. If you have over 4tb of storage I recommend using some sort of database to open this file. find / -type f -exec stat -f ""%Sm" "%Sa" "%Sc" "%N" " {} ; > ... View more
This script blocks non admin users from adding fonts to their local user #!/bin/bash#disable's non admin users to install fonts chown -R root /Users/$3/Library/Fontschmod -R 755 /Users/$3/Library/Fonts exit 0 View more
There is a pwpolicy set to disable an account if a password has been entered x number of times incorrectly, and is supposed to reset after a certain amount of time. For some reason i've seen accounts not reset, but stay disabled. I'm able to enable t... View more
Hi all, This isn't so much of a Casper issue, but more of an Apple issue. We've seen about half a dozen cases of Early 2015 13" Macbook Pro Retinas with "bluetooth not available" issues. A simple restart tends to fix the issue. There were 1-2 more st... View more
Does anyone have any end of year scripts they use in their labs they wouldn't mind sharing? Looking to clean the up, and keep them spritely! :) View more
I've got 10.10.3 machines that get this pop up upon loading the OS. This is before the user even logs in for the first time. Has anybody seen this and got a fix? I'm looking to suppress this. My research has pointed to iTunes helper being in login it... View more
@rderewianko helped me figure out how to check what account someone is signed in with in Google Chrome. We're a Google for Work shop so want to make sure people are signed in like we recommend so their bookmarks and settings are saved to their accoun... View more
As I tweeted earlier this week, I'm relocating to Southern California next Friday. I'll be driving the 2,800 miles, stopping a few times to meet with family, and stopping in Texas to get water. Just wanted to give a shout out to my boss Jeff Tamburin... View more
Hello,Would you please recommend me the best workflow to get policy assigned to JSS User Account/Group? We use LDAP, and I can collect JSS User Accounts to the group, but can not assign the policy to that group of JSS users. The idea is to get some p... View more
