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Licensed Software - Adding in Computer name field

Hi AllI've started to use the Licensed Software area in JSS to good effect, particularly for knowing how many clients we are running with ELA licenses. However for Individual software licenses it would be nice to have a field to enter the Machine nam...  View more

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Scripting help for a raw newbie

I got what is basically a generic script off JN to use to find a contraband file on users laptops. Since I am just starting to develop this solution I have made the script available to a test laptop with a policy triggered by a reoccurring check in. ...  View more

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*OT* Has MacUpdate fallen to the adware plague?

I stopped trusting MacUpdate years ago, when they defended the presence of MacKeeper as a listing on their site, while sporting ads for MacKeeper. https://blog.malwarebytes.org/news/2015/11/has-macupdate-fallen-to-the-adware-plague/  View more

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Auto Close of JAMFHelper Message Box

We are using JAMFHelper to display a message when Software Updates are ready for install. Since the user has a chose of doing them now or waiting, some users are just moving the message box out of the way. This stops the machine from checking in unti...  View more

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Creative Cloud Packager over Proxy Server

Hey there, maybe one of you have some experience with CCP over proxyserver and can help me. In the release notes of CCP 1.92 they are talking about "Better support for proxy environments". So better is relativ to me, because in my it-environments it ...  View more

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SUS Help

We originally had a software update server running inside our school but no longer want to use it. In JSS how do I set everything to use apples SUS again? Thanks  View more

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RootCert EXTA?

Hello JAMF members, Trying to create a EXTA to tell me if our Macbooks have our RootCA cert or not. I have managed to use the following Terminal command: security find-cert -c ISD720CA Which returns the following: keychain: "/Users/clee/Library/Keych...  View more

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JDS Install Fails - "Server App Not Configured"

Trying to run the 9.81 JDS installer on a 10.11.1 MacMini Server and I get the error, "Server App Not Configured: The JDS requires that the Server App has been configured. Please run the Server App setup, and try running the JDS installer again." I i...  View more

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No mountable filesystems / Cant mount any .dmg

Has anyone seen this? When trying to mount a dmg, i get the no mountable filesystems error. Very odd error. A workaround i found was to jamf removeFramework, restart - re-enroll... after a while, the error will show up again. Also what is weird is th...  View more

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Keeping VPP within our branch of the JSS

Greetings!I work at a sizable university and we have several different "sites" in our JSS. I was wondering if it's possible to assign a VPP account to only one site. In other words, keeping the apps purchased with our account completely separate from...  View more

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About Enterprise Connect

Hi all, This is Rick Lemmon from Apple Professional Services. I'm happy to answer any questions you have around Enterprise Connect. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the tool, it provides a good level of Active Directory integration for Macs t...  View more

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JSS Database user permissions

Hi all We have our database for jamf on a separate windows machine. Yesterday vSphere had a hiccup and I was disconnected while using Casper Admin. Casper Admin would say "The Master Distribution point could not be mounted" but I can mount the share ...  View more

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Outlook Large Attachment issue

Has anyone seen and/or possibly have a fix for the following? We have has several instances of folks attaching ridiculously large files to emails and attempting to send them. 20, 30, 50 MB and up. These will of course fail, but they will keep recycli...  View more

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Execution Frequency being ignored?

I have a bizarre issue. I am pushing a code snippet out to my Mac Mini's that reboots them once a night. The code runs great, the policy does not. I have it set to run on Recurring Check-In / Once Every Day / with a client-side limitation of running ...  View more

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Adobe CC 2015 and OS X 10.11 Support

This is a bit of a link dump, but figured it might prove somewhat useful: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1967492 https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?cat=support&sitesection=home&term=el%20capitan&archived=false&p=2&c=0&site=_all&kmc=0&fil...  View more

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script help

I want to check to see if a couple of directories exist and if not create them before running rest of the script I’m using if-then-else statements but that is not working for me. I find I have to run the script 3 times: 1st-time it creates the first ...  View more

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Writing to Active Directory ?

Hi All, Is it possible using DSCL or dseditgrouo to edit group membership in AD from the Mac ? My AD account has the rights I need but when I try it just says failed to make changed. Anyone done it ?  View more

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Multiple domains: be sure to use 3268 !

Hi Folks, Just a simple heads-up. If you have multiple domains, make sure to use port 3268. Reason is this is the Global Catalog that contains ALL information of the forest in read-only. You need to know which Domain Controller is your Global Catalog...  View more

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Taking away the App Store iOS

Well we had a good run, but our teachers are now wanting the students cut off of gaming and only able to access our Self Service. Is there a way for me to take away the app store and hide all apps they already had installed that aren't in Self Servic...  View more

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Flash Player Update Help

I am new to using JSS and am trying to configure my first update but it does not seem to be working. Here is what I have done so far: Created Smart Group to find all systems without Flash or at a lower version- Created a Policy which should install f...  View more

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NetSUS Settings Appliance Migration

Hi All, Can anyone tell me which files need to be moved over if we are upgrading our NetSUS appliance? We mainly use the SUS portion of the appliance and I would like to not have to re-select all the updates we require as well as not have to re-creat...  View more

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Composer Freezing

We have a number of machines that are failing to upgrade the JAMF Binary and as a result are not checking in with the JSS. Lacking a policy based solution, I am trying to leverage ARD. It seems delivering the jamf policy command forces the computers ...  View more

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