I want to include dock items along with the apps that I am distributing via Self Service. I add the Dock item using Casper Admin, and it is then visible when I create the policy in my JSS. I'm adding the application package and the dock item to the p... View more
Prior to OS X 10.11 I was able to launch Self Service when a DEP based enrollment completed. Version 9.82 of the JSS fixed the issue with DEP enrollments with OS X El Capitan which is great, but is there a way to have Self Service launch for the firs... View more
Nearly keeled over when I perused the JAMF change management logs and noticed a bunch of policies created using an unfamiliar naming convention (using pipes). My first thought was "who is doing this?!" After some digging, we determined Casper Remote ... View more
Has anyone deployed Cisco Jabber 11.x yet? Sifting through their documentation, didn't find any info on defaults commands for suppression, configuration, etc. So far I have: ...[snip]... defaults write /Users/"$u"/Library/Preferences/com.cisco.Jabber... View more
Recently, my IT team started offering our old, refereshed Macs (4+ years old) to members. During the Referesh cycle, each Mac is wiped and re-imaged with a standard "factory" Mac OS X image (usually the most recent OS X build - assuming its comapatai... View more
It's possible that I may have created a bunch of install packages (with Composer) that set bad permissions recursively on /Applications. When I re-image a Mac running 10.10, I get lots of "Unapproved caller" errors, requiring multiple safe-mode reboo... View more
First I apologize for the length and advanced nature of the questions.I have been editing a script that will configure or create all the files on a disk, post install, to pre-configure it when booted the first time. The idea is to have a post-install... View more
Hello! I work for a school district with about 2500 iPad clients in our JSS. Currently, we let clients pull apps down from self service. All of the apps are nested under one category called "All apps". I want to start breaking down the apps into "Cat... View more
My campus LAN has an irritating habit of automatically prompting users to authenticate via 802.1x after login. If users attempt to use their credentials 802.1x will endlessly attempt to authenticate and essentially disable the network connection. I w... View more
Greetings all! I am running JSS v9.81 in my environment with all client machines running v9.81 as well. I have about 20 machines that are in need of having a generic, local admin user created on them. For ease of discussion, let's call this user "tes... View more
Centrify was purchased before I got here with the intent of having all the Macs using it to join Active Directory and receive some management in addition to all that Casper provides. It was never deployed and I've been nudged into moving forward with... View more
Fresh install of Ubuntu Linux 14.04 got Samba installed and tested can't apple K to the share on a mac but work everywhere else logs are blank. Im missing something I have set the rights for my users it is there a trick or does someone have a vm all ... View more
I may be way out of line here and if so I apologize. I am posting this question here because this group might be the only one savvy enough to figure this out. I installed El Capitan on 11.28.15. Everything seemed to be ok except updates from the App ... View more
Stumbled into this just now. Apparently Apple has removed Keychain First Aid from Keychain Access inEl Capitan 10.11.2 Keychain AccessAvailable for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1Impact: A malicious application may be able to masquerade as the K... View more
We just started testing sites out to allow a few teachers limited management functions for iPads in their buildings. Policies and apps are still controlled at the district (global) level though. I don't think there's a way to do this, but I'd really ... View more
Generally we haven't had many issues with the device assignment program. However, after last weekend, or perhaps because we've had some rebooting issues with our JSS server, some apps appear to be not installing. This includes one in-house app, but o... View more
Since we can't flush policy logs granularly (set a separate flush schedule for each policy), is there a SQL command that will print out a list of policies and the number of log files that policy has? I have named each of the policies that I know gene... View more
Hello - Can anyone think of a way to restrict JAMF enrollment to only devices that are Ethernet connected, or prevent enrollment while WiFi connected? Thanks,Ben View more
Hi guys, Having a silly problem when customizing the dock for users. Problem: I get two download folders on the dock after imaging. One is the proper downloads folder where it fans out, the other is a question mark "?". Are you guys running into this... View more
Hi guys, Having a silly problem when customizing the dock for users. Problem: I get two download folders on the dock after imaging. One is the proper downloads folder where it fans out, the other is a question mark "?". Are you guys running into this... View more
Is anyone using File Vault and also Radius / 802.1x profiles? I am seeing weird things with trying to do the "Use as Login Window Configuration" File Vault bypasses this and it wont show up unless you login as the File Vault user then logout. In a pe... View more
Bit of an odd requirement, but due to a smart-card log on requirement, we normally set up a service account to allow login at the FV2 screen, and then users log in at the regular screen using their smart-cards. I'm attempting to set this up as a poli... View more
Hi guys, Having a silly issue while imaging. Issue: The dock will have 2 downloads folders. One of them is the correct one where it fans out, the other doesn't show as having an icon, displays a "?", and does not fan out. I'm editing the plist locate... View more
there are no printers installed but the Inventory for the computer says 1 printer, and in the printer area that list the printer it just says PPD I have to reset the printing system on the computer and have inventory run in order for it to display th... View more
I am brand new to JAMF, and need a little help understanding some things. I created a policy to install Adobe Flash Player on my test OS X machine. I created the dmg using Composer and uploaded to JSS using Admin. I scoped the policy out, and set the... View more
Hey everyone, We used to have a configuration profile that would add the users mail automatically and it worked fine. Recently, when the user enters in their password we get the following error: "Unable to verify account or password". The weird thing... View more
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Yep, it's true. I spelt JAMF with a G in this post! The Providence Apple Admins meetup group is holding it's first meetup on Thursday, January 21st. Meet fellow Apple Admins, learn about the Meetup's plans, discover speaking opportunities and network... View more
Anyone seeing this, looks like a bug in Safari 9.0.2 Safari 9.02 pages not loading completely and crashes, can also causes Flash to crash and Safari has to be restarted. This probably should be filed in Apple Radar, if it is not already logged, I wil... View more
Was wondering if anyone had any knowledge of using Microsoft InTune as an MDM solution for iOS devices? Recently it has come up that our school district may be entitled to this product through some other license deal we have in place already with Mic... View more
