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Jamf App Catalog Mac Apps not installing

  • June 27, 2022
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Hello everyone, I read the whole thread since I am facing a similar issue currently. All apps from the Mac Store install fine or show in self-service, polices to install apps work fine too. The issue is none of the JAMF catalog apps install or show in self-service. Not sure if this is related to my company's JAMF pro being on 11.3.0 since a new version just came out after the partial outage.

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  • wifichallenges
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  • August 9, 2024

So is this just broken? 2 years later and many people having problems?

 

I naively scoped some adobe applications and assumed they would auto install. Waited an hour, nothing. Rebooted. nothing. ran jamf -policy no new policies need to be deployed... Then i come here and see all these issues. Does this jamf app catalog work for anyone? Because i was really excited about it and our jamf rep spoke about it enthusiastically... 

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  • jamf-42
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  • August 9, 2024

So is this just broken? 2 years later and many people having problems?

 

I naively scoped some adobe applications and assumed they would auto install. Waited an hour, nothing. Rebooted. nothing. ran jamf -policy no new policies need to be deployed... Then i come here and see all these issues. Does this jamf app catalog work for anyone? Because i was really excited about it and our jamf rep spoke about it enthusiastically... 


Only deploy Adobe Reader via JAMF Apps.. we have many many other apps all managed with JAMF Apps with deployed automatically and via Self Service. We have zero issues. 

more chunky Adobe apps.. I'd be inclined to use the old tried and trusted method.. of pkg deploy / scripting.

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  • DMH2000
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  • August 9, 2024

So is this just broken? 2 years later and many people having problems?

 

I naively scoped some adobe applications and assumed they would auto install. Waited an hour, nothing. Rebooted. nothing. ran jamf -policy no new policies need to be deployed... Then i come here and see all these issues. Does this jamf app catalog work for anyone? Because i was really excited about it and our jamf rep spoke about it enthusiastically... 


Jamf apps has been running well since the Cloud server update of around ~11.70.  When they first pushed it out you couIdn't reinstall an app! I get notifications that app updates are in progress. Mostly all apps we deploy are Jamf apps.  The only Mac app we have is FileZilla and is in Self Service.

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  • wifichallenges
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  • August 9, 2024

Only deploy Adobe Reader via JAMF Apps.. we have many many other apps all managed with JAMF Apps with deployed automatically and via Self Service. We have zero issues. 

more chunky Adobe apps.. I'd be inclined to use the old tried and trusted method.. of pkg deploy / scripting.


Ok thanks. ill keep playing with it then. Perhaps its a waiting thing as i only did scope these this am. was excited about not having to make pkgs anymore...

 

EDIT: went to look at the test machine, and even though the report says 0 deployed, it does have all the applications now! So i can confirm that even with the thick adobe ones, it does seem to be working!

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  • August 9, 2024

Ok thanks. ill keep playing with it then. Perhaps its a waiting thing as i only did scope these this am. was excited about not having to make pkgs anymore...

 

EDIT: went to look at the test machine, and even though the report says 0 deployed, it does have all the applications now! So i can confirm that even with the thick adobe ones, it does seem to be working!


our wait time is about 20mins max, but there are a number of factors here. .. tail -f /var/log/install.log and you can see the MDM app install. There is a bit of a delay in the UI.. and there is no 'recon' going on.. add Patch Management for each Adobe app, then add a smart group with 'patch reporting version - is not latest' and you can track this. 

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