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LIS files in Ventura requiring admin for textedit
After a recent patch we have had LIS files recently start requiring admin privilege's to open in TextEdit. Is there a way in Jamf Pro to allow for this without admin creds? View more
JAMF PRO - BYOD Macbooks
Hello Everyone, I got a sudden challenge on my desk to get a BYOD system working for our comapny. From my knowledge there isn't a BYOD set up so to say for MacOS. I see user enrollment is the method for this and it enters a un-supervised state. My qu... View more
App Store App Updates in Self-Service Despite Settings to Prevent It
Hey all, I recently deployed an app through JAMF (an App Store app) and want to prevent it from updating. The app is still available in Self-Service, but I've learned that it updates when users click the "Re-install" button in the Self-Service Store.... View more
Transfer Apple ID to managed
Does anybody know what could be wrong? I don't see Transfer to a work account for one Apple ID account, only Keep as a personal account. I had read https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102159 and checked every option. Once I saw Transfer to a work account... View more
Using Jamf Pro to Manage macOS Devices for a Masters Tournament 2025 Viewing Event – Need Advice!
Hi Jamf Nation Community, I’m reaching out to get some advice on using Jamf Pro to manage macOS devices for an upcoming event I’m organizing. I’m hosting a viewing party for the Masters Tournament 2025 (happening from April 10 to April 13 at Augusta ... View more
VPN Connectivity Issue after User Initiated Enrollment
Hey Nation, Recently we deployed user initiated enrollment for all users in the company. But after that, a large group of developers are having issues with VPN connection. We are using OpenVPN. The VPN gets disconnected after every 2-3 hours and deve... View more
Script to fix Management Commands in Pending state - what is the script actually doing?
Trying to get an understanding of what some scripts do that were written by a previous Jamf admin. We have a device in our fleet that keeps racking up Pending management commands. The MacBook in question is up to date in terms of OS and software upda... View more
Computer Compliance (0.0.2)
Provide your users a “heads-up display” of critical computer compliance information via swiftDialog Background More than six years ago, William Smith (@talkingmoose) published "Build a Computer Information script for your Help Desk"; we implemented a... View more
Best way to automate app updates with Jamf Pro?
Hey Everyone, I’m still getting used to Jamf Pro and wanted to ask—what’s the most efficient way to handle app updates across multiple Macs? Is there a built-in method for automating third-party app updates, or are most admins using third-party tools... View more
Script to fix Management Commands in Pending state - what is the script actually doing?
Trying to get an understanding of what some scripts do that were written by a previous Jamf admin. We have a device in our fleet that keeps racking up Pending management commands. The MacBook in question is up to date in terms of OS and software upda... View more
Desktop wallpaper and lockscreen
Hello All, Can someone please guide me on this? I have two images one that I want to set as the wallpaper and the other as the lock screen. What are the possible ways to achieve this? View more
Set / Clear Recovery Lock with Swift Dialog
I found another excellent script from Karthikeyan Marappan on his GitHub site for setting or clearing the recovery lock on a system. I took his script and put a nice GUI frontend on it. I believe this only works on Apple Silicon Macs at this time. In... View more
Resolved! Enabling Bluetooth via Terminal
Good morning, We recently upgraded our MacBook fleet to MacBook M1 Apple Silicon. Our old scripts that allowed us to force bluetooth back on does not work anymore do the restrictions of Apple Silicon. I was checking if any found a to turn bluetooth o... View more
Jamf Timezone cant be changed
Whenever i try to change the Timezone via the device details page on the bottom it just changes for a second, loads, and then goes back to the old Timezone. This is only happening on a few iPads we have, the other ones are working just fine and they ... View more
Central issues for iPad restrictions in school
The issue of iPad usage in schools focuses on restrictions to minimize distractions during lessons and breaks. Our school uses Jamf Teacher software but faces two main challenges: Restrictions During Breaks: Students use iPads during breaks, even tho... View more
Jamf recon stalls / stuck at Locate Hardware Information
Hi Everyone I'm getting "Locate Hardware Information" stuck on one macbook air M4 laptop whilst tring to execute sudo jamf recon, i followed the steps and instructions found on https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro/jamf-recon-stalls-at-locate-hardwa... View more
ZTNA Subnets not accessible
Hi All, I have configured the Gateway access followed by the linkhttps://learn.jamf.com/en-US/bundle/jamf-connect-documentation-current/page/Creating_a_Quick_Connect_Gateway.html Connection was established between Linux and Radar portal but when I tr... View more
Implementing OIDC-based single sign-on for Jamf applications
Hey everyone - with Jamf Pro 11.13 we introduced the ability to manage your SSO authentication configuration in Jamf Account, and then re-use that configuration for managing access to Jamf Pro. Centralizing the authentication management for SSO in Ja... View more
Resolved! FileVault 2 Status
I'm seeing a number of Macs reporting that FileVault 2 is not enabled, despite the encryption state being displayed as Encrypted. I've also seen this sometimes change to show Enabled before reverting back to Not Enabled again. Is this a known issue? ... View more
Resolved! Strange Login Window Behaviour
I'm seeing some strange behaviour with the login window on devices in one Jamf environment but not in another. All machines have the CIS L1 baseline and some additional lockdown restrictions on them. They should be asking for the username and passwor... View more
