Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
In my environment I've noticed that SOME SMB volumes (2012R2 Servers) don't display on the Desktop as expected. What's curious is that two shares on the same server will behave differently. One will display and another won't. I've had difficultly in ... View more
We run an esxi instance on a MacPro to host numerous mac VMs for testing purposes. Every idle VM consistently chews about 1.5ghz when the 3d screensavers run because being a VM the 3d part is rendered by the main CPU, not a GPU. Prior to 10.11 I remo... View more
I have found that when I am on a mobile device using Active Sync (iOS 9-based iPhones etc), and searching for a fellow employee in the GAL, I have to enter at least 4 characters for the search to work. Our employee user names are only 3 characters lo... View more
We are looking at consolidating servers. Considering migrating our current CrashPlan PROe server install to a Mac Pro that is currently designated for our JSS. Since Jamf and CPPe are vendors for many, curious if others are successfully running the 2... View more
I was wondering how long it takes for badges to show up on your profile. I got my CCT on 3/20 and I don't have it yet, even though I got my certificate in the mail. View more
Hello Community, I am looking for a solution that our User can change easy here password in our AD. We test "AdPassMon" but it doesn't works on our Macs. I don't know where the problem is there. Now, I'm looking for a alternativ to change the AD Pass... View more
Hi, we have provided one of our users with an ipad that are managed by casper suite. due to some work related reason, the user backup the ipad and when he tries to restore the backup on another personal ipad of his, it prompts for a password. is this... View more
I'm going to file a formal defect with JAMF Software on Monday, but I thought I'd share it for the community's benefit. If you have a computer group with an apostrophe in the name, and you try to add it as a criteria (Computer Group), the "choose" bu... View more
I know it's just a visual thing but iPads that have been focused that have apps in folders end up being greyed out. Is there a way to not have this happen? View more
The possibility has been raised at my workplace of us buying a small number of iPads for a pilot programme. These would be college owned devices and would need to be usable by any student or staff member (i.e. they would be shared and not 1:1). I wat... View more
Is there a way so I can prevent users from changing their Mac name and also prevent them from creating their own local account? Some of these users require admin rights so I can't take those away. Currently I have a policy in place that forces the na... View more
Good Morning, I am trying to get Google Chrome Master Preferences in place. I have created the necessary file and placed it in /Library/Google/ and Chrome fails to recognize it. I made sure the file is in plain text format. Here is my file: { "homepa... View more
Hello Jamf Community, I am looking for a script, to change the DNS "Search Domain" to .local on Wi-Fi and Thunderbolt Ethernet. I try a few comands but no one works... Hope everyone can help me. Many ThanksChristian View more
I'm curious how you all are updating MS Office 2016 for your users, assuming you are managing the patches and not leaving it up to your users to keep Office up to date. When we first deployed Office 2016 to users, I used Composer to create a single .... View more
I know it might not always be practical but does anyone know if there is a way to assign a value to a variable that is shared by all extension attribute scripts? For example if I have multiple EAs performing checks based on the installed client OS ve... View more
Is it just me or did Apple just take down the man page reference library? I was referencing the fdesetup page not yesterday: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/fdesetup.8.html Technically, the page ha... View more
Two projects I'm working on involve DEP and software updates and deployment. In both cases I'm needing to detect what network the computer is connected to so that it knows what policies it can or can't run. My first thought was to detect the ip range... View more
Hello Jamf-Community, Since a few days, we are use Casper Suite. We are useing a Active Directory but we have a problem with the AD Connection at the Login. How I can conntect to the WiFi in the Login Screen? At the moment we need a Ethernet Connecti... View more
Looking for a way to disable notifications, either by a script equivalent to option clicking or using DND from 7am to 2am, something like that? ThanksDave View more
I have noticed a new "trend" with students over the past few days. Students are going into settings and changing the clock to some random time. Doing this obviously stops communications with about every secure connection. The fix is easy, just set th... View more
I have multiple computers that show Spotlight running at 110% to 150% which is causing the computer to run hot and the battery to drain quickly. I have tried using terminal to stop spotlight and restart it, as well as force quitting it in Activity Mo... View more
Hey guys quick question thats blowing my brains up. I have a path to an Active Directory group but for some reason dscl does not see it. If I do #!/bin/sh dscl . -read /Active Directory/DOMAIN/All Domains/ The group is simply not there. Now if I go i... View more
I have a large number of Mac mini's globally that id like to keep a better eye on, not to mention my jss servers that are windows VMs. We are a SCOM shop, and the support for OS X is non-existent, and im familiar with Nagios from a past life. My ques... View more
Hi Folks, So I am working on our plans for the summer and one of the big tasks is to re-image all of our lab Macs. This will be the first time I do this since we implemented Casper. Should we leave the computers in the JSS but simply flush all of the... View more
Hello, A Composer 101 question I'm sure: I've been tooling around in Composer today attempting to create packages for Java, Flash, Xerox Print Drivers, CCleaner, etc by "dropping" the original installers from the vendors websites into Composer...at l... View more
I am trying to figure out how to allow the computers to keep the system.log, install.log, and a few other logs for 90 days. Apple's newsyslog.conf man is gone and I've searched and haven't had much luck. Can someone point me to the direction on how w... View more
I have the Office 2016 Suite VL 15.17 installer, updates are out for each application at 15.21.1 is there a more current Office 2016 Suite VL 15.21.1 installer ? so I don't have to have the 15.21.1 updates run after each install of 15.17 ? I see this... View more
Hi All, We have a OneDrive Install pkg - now the file is indexed, but when I got to Casper and Action I still don't get an uninstall option? Any ideas on how I remove "OneDrive for Business.app" ThanksSimon View more
I'm wondering if anyone is in the process of experiencing this issue. Skype for Business is coming out and we're migrating to Office 365 in the cloud. Each meeting someone created that has the old lync address will be changed to a Skype address. Micr... View more
Hi Guys, My virgin post so go easy on me :-) MBA running OSX 10.10. Connects to network fine, enrolled in the JSS, internet & Outlook works etc. Anything downloaded from the internet (i.e Google Drive) installs fine and shows on machine. Anything I i... View more
