I work in a school environment and I'm using configuration profiles to restrict access to most of the settings within system preferences. I re-image the computers, the policies applied and system preferences look like pic attached (#1) where the stud... View more
It appears Apple no longer offers Xcode through their dev site, when you go to download it, it links back to the MAS. Are we back to the old method of putting MAS in Debug mode? View more
It appears Oracle has reversed course with regards to the install application and the Ask.com browser add-ons. Java 8 Update 40 is now available as a signed installer package from https://www.java.com/download/. Thanks to @foigus for the heads-up. View more
Hey guys, I'm a bit stuck at this place. I need to make the preference pane Date & Time available for everyone without admin privileges. I know that this has to be done with the authorization DB. I found the respective key here: system.preferences.da... View more
Dear all, As title, can jss send a command wipe the device data and then automatically re-enroll? View more
Hello all, Dust off the little grey cells... My Google Fu has been tested on this problem We tried to turn off our PHD syncing, and when we set the rules to 'never' our users complained of syncing errors popping up. I have tried to remove the com.app... View more
I'm building out a new JSS on Win2012r2. The MySQL download page indicates that the installer is 32bit but will install both 32 and 64bit binaries. The resulting msi installer seems to be installing 32bit files on by my 64bit capable VM. As a result ... View more
Is OS X prompting me for something behind that black screen? How can I check the logs since the Mac's in question are in a reboot loop? Has JAMF thought about adding a process bar to Casper Imaging's "Installing Software" page? View more
We have had an interesting scenario come up that falls somewhere in between Apple and JAMF as far as how to set things up. I think we can do this, but I wanted to get a sanity check from JAMF Nation since nobody can tell me 100% for sure whether this... View more
Looking at /private/var/db/COnfigurationProfiles/MDM_ComputerPrefs.plist Right after imaging a system it shows "NeedsPoll". So the system does not have an APN Token immediately. After i authenticate to our proxy and reboot this file is updated with A... View more
We are seeing an issue just recently where the right hand column in Self Service containing the Categories goes blank after someone logs in using an LDAP user account. We have our Helpdesk and LLC staff log in using their LDAP account in order to acc... View more
I read on some forum post that i have to create an SCCM Prestage CD that applies the prestage to a FAT32 partition and capture the image using winclone. Problem is, winclone gives me an error on unsupported format. Has anyone got this up and running ... View more
I'm curious to know how others deal with users that wish to use a Mac and run Mac OS, but want to be able to run certain Windows only software. I see four main options:A. Load bootcamp and run Windows as a second OSB. Run a VM that runs WindowsC. Run... View more
Hey guys, I´ve got a Problem with my MS Office 2011 14.4.8. My Office Apps Word/Excel/Powerpoint are crashing when there is CS6 installed.When i don't install CS6, Office is running with no Problems. This report appears when i open an Office App: Mic... View more
Hey Guys, Since I upgraded my Casper environment to 9.65 I see problems when pushing packages with Casper Remote to Virtual Machines (VMWare Fusion).Logs are telling this: Sending Wake On LAN command...Opening SSH Connection to 10.127.99.100...Authen... View more
Hello all, anyone ever packaged up the Adobe Live Media Encoder for distribution? I need to package it up for our presentation kits we use at conferences and its one of those lovely adobe installers with parts all over the place. View more
We have a challenge in our environment where we have multiple sites across our campus. We have techs that go to these locations and install the quick add package (this is one way enrollment is getting done). The challenge is you have to create a sepa... View more
Starting to use Configuration Profiles but finding that the Management Account is also affected by the profile. Is there a way to not apply the Configuration Profile to the Management Account? Either at the user level or computer level. JSS 9.65, OS ... View more
and error message from JSS "The MDM server is not authorized to perform this operation" View more
Hello, I have a ticket with JAMF open. We have been having a large amount of issues lately, and I decided to drop our old Casper infrastructure and do a total overhaul. So I have a brand new manually installed JSS (on rhel). The main issue I'm having... View more
I have an off topic question to ask. On March 3, 2015 we found out that the college I work at, Sweet Briar College, will be closing for good this summer (http://goo.gl/hHbDfo). My question to The Nation is, is there any job openings in the Virginia a... View more
Hello Everyone!I am seeking if anyone has an extension attribute i may be able to upload to our JSS to seek if "Parental Controls has been Enabled". I am looking to build a Smart Group. We may have some admins performing this on computers that is not... View more
Hi guys Having an issue enabling MDM for the local user account, this is the error I get via the terminal Enabling MDM at the user level... Error installing the user level mdm profile: profiles install for file:'/Library/Application Support/JAMF/270D... View more
and I have message.The MDM server is not authorized to perform this operation. View more
The Apple Configurator 1.7.1 is giving error that it couldn't allocate resource while trying to Supervise the iPad. View more
I'm curious what (if any) tools people are using to monitor Tomcat. We've got a large server with multiple JSS instances, and we'd like to keep an eye out for memory hogs and other ne'er-do-wells. I tried JMeter, and am not blown away by it. Any reco... View more
Hi all I'm here to make you feel great about your scripting skills! I've just cobbled this together to show if any of the network adapters have the proxy enabled,saved as a script and run from my Mac it returns "on" if any of them are enabled, i'd li... View more
I'm trying to do the following: On an Active Directory joined Mac, the first time a user logs in, set the Dock to have a certain set of items in the Dock. The Mac is domain joined with network accounts only, not Mobile accounts. I also delete the loc... View more
I have been testing with the Recon network scanner on some of our subnets and have been noticing that the app seems to be re enrolling machines that are already in the JSS. I have the box checked to "Ignore IP's of computers already in the JSS" but i... View more
OK--So, we are not supposed to zero out SSD's as they may become damaged or suffer slow performance.The general consensus as I understand it (on any OS platform) is that you want to have a ATA secure erase command sent to the drive as it will erase s... View more
