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tryckman · 02-03-2021

We maintain 32 macOS caching servers across our school district and we are looking for a way to apply macOS updates to them without having to VNC into them, login, and then start the update. Unless we're wrong (which is a distinct possibility), it ap...

tryckman · 11-24-2020

Does anyone know a way to set preferences in the Directory Utility via a profile? We are looking to set administrator groups in "Allow administration by" box.

tryckman · 10-02-2018

Our teachers have started downloading Classroom on their MacBooks but their classes and students are not showing up in the app. Classroom is working great on their iPads. Is there any special configuration needed for macOS?

tryckman · 06-19-2017

I am working on cleaning up our JSS and was wondering how often people use the "All Mobile Devices" scope? The more I work with the JSS the more I feel like I should create static groups whenever possible and avoid using "All Mobile Devices" and Smar...

tryckman · 06-16-2017

We are preparing to scale from about 1500 iOS devices to 10,000+. We are currently running the JSS in a virtual Ubuntu environment with our SQL server separated out on its own VM. We plan on standing up two more JSS boxes and placing a hardware based...

tryckman · 02-04-2021

@gabester We use a combination of parent and peers. Our parent severs are deployed to serve child servers at school sites that are geographically in close proximity. Our larger sites have multiple caching servers that are setup as children but also a...

tryckman · 02-04-2021

Thanks @nstrauss. We are seeing the same behavior you described when we use the CLI. Thanks for the suggestions, we will try them. Confirming, updates cannot be started and completed unless a user is logged in?

tryckman · 01-06-2021

@AJPinto Any luck on figuring this out? Prior to upgrading to Big Sur we were able to use the Directory Utility to define AD groups that should have admin privileges. This allowed users in these groups to be admins in the GUI as well as allowed them ...

tryckman · 11-24-2020

Disregard, I figured it out.

tryckman · 10-01-2020

We are having the same issue.

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