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jelockwood · 03-31-2023

Jamf has provided a means to control their Self Service app by using URLs.https://docs.jamf.com/10.28.0/jamf-pro/administrator-guide/Jamf_Self_Service_for_macOS_URL_Schemes.htmlThe client Mac that is enrolled in to Jamf and has the Jamf Self Service ...

jelockwood · 07-28-2022

I apologise to my fellow Mac experts for stating what to them will be obvious but do so for the benefit of other readers.Mac apps (mostly) use XML format preference files signified by a file extension of .plistThese preference files can be in one of ...

jelockwood · 11-18-2021

Sadly Apple continue to make life harder for us Mac admins. I currently need to uninstall Sophos Anti-Virus from every Mac so I can then replace it with an alternative. (This is because Sophos still have not released a fully native Apple Silicon ver...

jelockwood · 08-17-2020

It is possible in Apple Business Manager to define multiple entries for Jamf so that one could be for normal Macs and one for Stolen/Lost Macs. These different MDM entries in ABM would then link to different Automated Device Enrolment entries in Jamf...

jelockwood · 06-03-2020

I am in the process of writing a script to automate renewing the SSL cert used by my Jamf-Pro servers. This will involve backing up the existing cert, copying the new cert in to place and then restarting the jamf.tomcat8 service to cause it to load t...

jelockwood · 03-31-2023

@andrew_nicholas Yes, it is not the mechanism of how to kill it, it is how to detect it has finished before killing it. Opening the URL completes immediately and passes to the next shell line immediately well before the installation has completed so ...

jelockwood · 03-30-2023

@careybell @gregneagle I more recently than this thread was originally written, tried on a couple of occasions to come up with a solution to do this. I like @careybell have both Jamf Pro and Munki running.For the benefit of others I will repeat what ...

jelockwood · 03-30-2023

Thanks @cbd4s your script worked for what I wanted to do.I can now have a shell script call Jamf Self Service and trigger the install of a VPP app. However I would like to add one more thing to the process which is to automatically quit Jamf Self Ser...

jelockwood · 07-28-2022

@sdagley I am not putting the .plist myself in to /Library/Managed Preferences, this is being done by Jamf Pro as a profile using the same app domain name as the 'hidden' one in /private/var/root/Library/PreferencesUnfortunately it is a 3rd party app...

jelockwood · 11-23-2021

@BCPeteo There were some reports in these forums previously that suggested that Apple macOS Big Sur updates e.g. 11.1 to 11.3 might remove/disable Rosetta2 such that after a macOS update you needed to reinstall Rosetta2.It is due to this concern that...

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