DEP - Prevent user account creation
Is the new MDM option: "Prevent user account creation" for DEP in Casper 9 implemented? WWDC15 Session 301 View more
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VPP apps purchased as "Managed Distribution" showing up as code?
I've purchased a number of apps via VPP today, and ensured they were "Device Assignable" compatible. I triple checked I purchased them as "Managed Distribution", and that's how they show up in the VPP account purchase history. However, when I add the... View more
Java 8 Updates 65/66 are now available - Oracle is using an application to install (again)
Oracle has released Java 8 Updates 65/66. This includes security fixes. The release notes can be found here, and the downloads for Windows, Mac, Linux et al are available here. Bizarrely, Oracle distributes Java 8 Update 65 as an installer applicatio... View more
Box Sync 4
Not sure why Box is distributing a drag-install app, when on first launch it prompt for admin rights, to install /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.box.sync.bootstrapper. So we packaged that item to be distributed along with the drag-install app. I s... View more
Issue Remote Lock Command via Script
We are looking into if it's possible to have a mac get remotely locked at the end of imaging. This way the lock code needs to be entered before the computer can be used. Anyone have any idea if there is a way to issue a remote lock command via a scri... View more
Self Service 9.81 acting strange
Situation: trying to set up a self service policy for iBooks Author. Created a policy in the JSS (version is 9.81 - hardware is a mid 2012 Macbook pro running 10.10.5) to make iBooks Author available in self service (free from the app store, but it t... View more
Script to Disable "Automatically adjust brightness" setting in Displays Preference of Yosemite
We have a lab of photo macs that need the Automatically adjust brightness setting in Displays Preference turned off. It is on by default on new installs I have been getting nowhere tracking this down. It appears to be written in the ~/Library/Prefere... View more
Fast JSS Switching App
Hi all, I had hoped to have this out before the JNUC but it didn't happen. After talking to several people it became clear it might be useful to some of you. I created a little app that will quickly switch the JSS address that the Casper Suite tools ... View more
AutoCasper NBI not booting Diskless?
So I created a new Netboot image with AutoCasperNBI with a 10.10.5 base with 9.81 casper imaging. I made sure to set modified rc.netboot file was checked. Booted to it and did a mount in terminal and it shows - /dev/disk0s2 on /private/var/netboot An... View more
Moving our Open Directory to the same server as our JSS
I'm always leary about combining services from different machines onto the same. So I just wanted to double check before I did anything. Would it hurt anything if I setup the second interface on our Mac Pro with the IP of our current OD master and mi... View more
McAfee Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Office 2016
I haven't been able to locate any good documentation around recommended exclusions for McAfee Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Office 2016. Has anyone ventured down this road, or has anyone seen any glaring issues with the two products not playing n... View more
download a wifi profile from JSS and manually install on an unamaged device.
Has anyone ever done this? If so, how did you remove the profile? View more
Agenda or Topics
I'm excited to host you all next week to start, what I hope to be, a continuous discussion on JAMF software best practices. On that note, I would like to have some what of an agenda to cover or at the very least topics. For example. I would like to d... View more
Updating Casper Imaging on Netboot. Netboot.dmg is READ ONLY
Hello, I am trying to update Casper Imaging from 9.73 - 9.81 on our Netboot image, however the Netboot is read-only and I cannot make any modifications. I tried downloading the entire netboot.dmg to my desktop to change permissions and re-upload, but... View more
Tokens for WiFi
Does anyone know if we have the ability to use tokens when filling out fields? For instance, I want to create a wifi profile that pulls the username automatically from the device, so I want to use something like %username% into the PEAP username sett... View more
Enrollment Logs/History?
Hello, I'm looking to start tracking information about when machines were first enrolled. We re-deploy machines fairly frequently, and they're imaged (using Casper Imaging) each time they're re-deployed. I can see the last enrollment date in the mach... View more
Case Management Software
Hello Fellow Mac Admins! My company is looking for another case management for our support tickets. As of today we are using Salesforce, not their Salesforce Desk product. I wanted to reach out to see what you guys/gals are using in today's world. I ... View more
Allow non-admin to install app from Self-Service
Hello all, Sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it. We're a PC shop, rolling out Macs and using JSS. Went through the JumpStart but still fuzzy on some things, and trying to learn how to use Macs in our environment without making o... View more
Track AirDrop Traffic
Hi, Anyone else having an issue of students changing the name of their iPad, sending inappropriate pictures via AirDrop and then quickly changing the name of their iPad again? I'm wondering if there's a way to track AirDrop traffic. Is this difficult... View more
SMC Reset - Problem Solving
Hello This isn't exactly a JAMF question. Does anyone have any idea why machines need to have the SMC reset or what fails to cause the random weird issues (battery doesn't show up, fans blowing at 100%, slow skippy performance). I run a 1-to-1 progra... View more
test JSS and a caspershare
I am trying to set up a test JSS for trials. I believe I have the server set up and working, but I can't make a connection to the caspershare from Casper Admin. I tried to duplicate my production caspershare on my test server by using Casper Admin to... View more
Random machines not checking in
We've got approx 50 machines which have stopped checking in (approximately 30 days ago) I've read other threads but none seem to match this issue. running sudo jamf manage and sudo jamf policy on an affected machine gives the below results; Checking ... View more
Uncheck Share Printer
Hi All, I need assistance with deploying a printer with the Uncheck Share Printer. I have done some of the suggestions mention on other posts such as: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=1846 https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com... View more
Install CS6 from DMG Script not working
Just wondering if anyone else has had problems with this? I have updated the script to point to the new JAMF binary location (/usr/local/jamf instead of /usr/sbin/jamf) but it fails and only gives me the message 'installation has failed - contact you... View more
Announcement: Twin Cities Mac Admins JNUC Social Recap - October 28
Hello Everyone, Our next Twin Cities Mac Admins meetup is set for October 28th from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at mono in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. This user group is for Mac admins from all industries and experience levels and is a chance to learn... View more
Scripting Language preference
In two weeks I am will be in the CCT course and I am currently getting my feet wet with Casper. I've spent many hours reading discussions here and i've come across a lot of different ways things can get done. I've seen BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python, and A... View more
logging password in the clear
i'm currently running a script to have existing FileVault2 users key kept by the JSS. Here is the script i'm using... !/bin/bash ######################################################################################## # Description This script was de... View more
Casper Imaging - We can never get AutoCasperNBIs to work - Suggestions?
I've read through a lot of the tutorials here and over at MacMule, and I've had zero success with getting Casper Imaging to work. At the moment, our team is using deploy studio because, unlike Casper Imaging, it works. (I've used Deploy Studio, Apple... View more
User Initiated Enrollment with LDAP and Chrome
I am getting very mixed results with User Initiated LDAP enrollment on Chrome. Sometimes it works and authentication passes through, sometimes it does not. When credentials do pass through, sometimes the downloading screen spins and a download is nev... View more
