On 14 November 2019, at 13:30, I presented at the Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis, MN, USA, on the following topic: Jamf Pro and AutoPkg: How JSSImporter automates package management and policy creation in Jamf Pro This posts detail the contents of the session, including sections originally planned that...
AutoPkg 1.3 was released this week and unfortunately, changes that were made to the reading of the configuration file breaks JSSImporter. Therefore, running AutoPkg recipes while JSSImporter is installed and configured will fail. It is advised not to upgrade at this time. If you already upgraded and encountered the problem,...
If you’re running a multi-context, on-premises Jamf Pro environment, you probably have some kind of third-party log aggregation and reporting tool to hand. But if you don’t have that yet, here’s a simple script you can use to get an aggregated output of errors and severe warnings from all your...
On 14 November 2019, at 13:30, I will be presenting at the Jamf Nation User Conference in Minneapolis, MN, USA, on the following topic: Jamf Pro and AutoPkg: How JSSImporter automates package management and policy creation in Jamf Pro AutoPkg is a community framework for capturing software installers from external...
I work with multiple Jamf Pro instances and often need to copy a configuration profile from one instance to many others. I use the Jamf Pro Classic API. If a configuration profile is overwritten via the API, the default setting is that the profile will only apply to new clients....
A customer pointed out to us that when a new version of TeamViewer was pushed to a client managed by Jamf Pro, the application would open during the installation of the package. That can be confusing to users, or badly timed. Note: by TeamViewer I mean the full application that...
Today we released a new beta of the JSSImporter processor for importing packages into Jamf Pro using AutoPkg. The 1.0.2b3 release is available here. This release introduces a subtle but important change to the behaviour of the processor, so I thought it worthy of an explanation here. For other changes...
IBM’s silent installer for SPSS Statistics is a binary file that requires a Java JDK to be installed on a client before it can be run. It is bizarre that this is the case, since the SPSS Statistics application includes an embedded Java Runtime Engine (JRE) that could trivially be...
Oracle Java SE now requires a license subscription In July 2018, Oracle announced that the licensing for Oracle Java SE (Standard Edition) would change going forward. Commercial (including academic) users need to buy into a Java SE Subscription. The new Oracle Technology Network License Agreement for Oracle Java SE is...
Back in March 2018, I wrote a blog post about startosinstall --eraseinstall, which had been introduced that day with macOS 10.13.4. This allows us to reinstall macOS directly on any Mac running 10.13.4 or greater and with an APFS filesystem. Since Mojave was released, all systems are running APFS, so...
