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
I have been tasked to update Office to the latest 14.5.1 version. I have the .pkg set to install with a login hook. While this works for a majority of users, the issue is that it only installs when the user is on a physical ethernet cable. I'm weary ... View more
not sure if anyone is interested in using the Crucial RAM selector tool in Self Service 1) Go to [Crucial.com](www.crucial.com) & download Crucial System Scanner2) Package the app to install in: /usr/sbin/[your_company]/apps/crucial/ 3) Computer Mana... View more
I've been dipping my toes into AutoPkg lately. I've been building Java, Silverlight, and a few others that all come with handy version extensions. I noticed that the Office one returns a string of "true","false", or "Not Installed". This makes it sup... View more
I'm seeing inconsistent results trying to get a Self Service policy to install OS X 10.10.3 with a package created using createosxinstallpkg. The policy reboots the computer (set to reboot immediately whether user is logged in or not) but some system... View more
We got one of the new Mac Books and one of the Mid 2015 Mac Book Pro Retina machines in. We added it to the domain just like we have been and have noticed that any Network user that tries to login that has a . in their username is not able to login. ... View more
I've been researching the best way to supervise and enroll a large number of ipads. I have created a backup of a supervised Ipad with an apple ID preconfigured and added a wifi configuration profile, a trust profile and an enrollment profile. However... View more
I am looking for a way to auto log out a user after being idle for 20 minutes. I need this to be a forced log out, so even if there is something open, it still needs to initiate the log out. Thanks! View more
So I was working on packaging some applications and wanted to test it on a machine. I went to admin dropped the file, gave it info data. I then went into the console to create a policy for it...all worked fine. So then I opened remote and it said it ... View more
Hello, We are currently in the process of moving to Outlook and are wondering if there is a way to extract the usage information of the applications. I know you can look at each individually but has anyone found a way to script it so you can gather a... View more
I have a question. Is it possible to create an ipad image and keep app details? For example in the EDU environment I need to install Accelerated Reader on 300 or more ipads. I wanted to be able to keep the district association to the app but so far I... View more
O Hai, I have a user who can't run any polices via Self Service on their Mac. The scripts/policies that we push down work fine. Quitting and restarting Self Service doesn't help, removing framework and re-enrolling doesn't work. Policy logs in JSS do... View more
I need help in systematically creating 300+ Apple ID at a time for my organization.I tried the instruction from GitHub ( Apple-ID-AppleScriptScript ). https://github.com/aaronfreimark/Apple-ID-AppleScript Thank You, View more
Gang: I am setting up a Policy to issue a new FV2 Revcovery key to systems already encrypted using Casper. However when I go to set the Recovery Key Type, I only see the Individual option. How do I unlock the Institutional or Institutional/Individual... View more
We are in the process of creating a new management account and have one small question regarding the inner machinations of the JSS: Does the JSS determine which management account credentials to use for a particular client by the mgmt account informa... View more
Starting from last 2 week, we started facing issue with self-serivce. When user try to install app from Self-Service, it throws below error; Any idea what could the cause? View more
We've recently gone from a few hundred to a few thousand devices, so we've needed to set up a clustered JSS that sits behind a load balancer. The load balancer is a 14.04 Ubuntu VM running pound, handles SSL decryption and has a few tomcat servers as... View more
FYI, if anyone wants to know, 10.10.4 works to create a universal NetBoot image. I only tested the current build of 14E26a as a base OS for AutoCasperNBI, but I haven't found a Mac yet from my collection of machines at work that doesn't boot from thi... View more
Hi all... i have been going through the procedure : https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/caspercheck-an-auto-repair-process-for-casper-agents/ Very complete procedure... but my results looks negative. caspercheck.sh is in /Library/Scripts/com... View more
Just curious if it is possible and if anyone has a script that queries JSS for the assigned users name and names the computer to match? I'm trying to set my workflow hands off. The users will go through the setup process and create their own accounts... View more
I'm running into this problem when trying to remote into a few of the users macbooks. It's not happening to everyone just a selected few. Any help would be great View more
Interesting dilemma on something I figured would be super simple: creating a Self Serve policy that runs all available policies. Normally, going into terminal and running "jamf policy" from any admin account brings down any available policies. Simple... View more
Scenario:When Mac laptops are imaged and joined to the domain in our corporate environment the desktop support teams have the option of giving the domain user local admin rights on their Mac device. Unfortunately, more often than not, they do so. The... View more
I serve as the special education tech support for a large school district. It's my job to organize the management of about 500 iPads being deployed to Special Education staff and students. I feel like even through we've been doing it for over a year ... View more
I am looking to allow non-admins to be able to access System Preferences > Security -> Privacy. I'd even settle for just System Preferences > Security. I've tried the following in OS X 10.10 security authorizationdb write system.preferences allow sec... View more
We've been using Casper to track people's versions of programs like Java, Flash, Office, etc, but we haven't been actively pushing new versions to their machines. I'm starting to change that, but I've noticed one major problem: pushing the update whi... View more
Hey everyone,I want to set the timezone to automatic based on location. Whats the best way to do this? View more
So were going through some testing on our macs and discovered that an individual (who doesn't have admin rights) can go into single user mode and esclate their permissions to admin. So the simple question is how do we disable a user from being able t... View more
Hey JAMFnation!,We are a global shop and I am trying to figure out the best way to set the region and language settings. Currently our imaging workflow is as follows:1. Unbox and boot to USB stick using autocasperNBI2. Run workflow that drop several ... View more
I am testing symantecremovaltool.command running on computers that have old versions of symantec endpoint protection. (script can be found at the following link, scroll to the bottom of web page)The download info says It requires no user input when r... View more
To aid end-users in determining where all their hard drive space has gone, we have a Self Service policy which leverages du and outputs text files of the top 75 directories of the root volume and the user's home folder. The utilitarian results are so... View more
