Introduced in macOS 26 Apple Business Manager (ABM) supports migrating devices from one MDM to another. One unintended feature of this is the ability to use the migration to repair broken MDM communications, including mismatched APNs topics with expired MDM profiles. This saves IT from performing a device erase or going into recovery mode. ThisContinue reading “Fixing MDM Communications With Apple Business Manager Migration”
Tag Archives: Jamf Pro
Jamf Account Group Authorization in Jamf Pro with Okta
With the release of Jamf Pro 11.15 Jamf has been forcing customers to enable Jamf Account OIDC for authentication to use new features. In the default OIDC configuration each admin needs to be manually provisioned in Jamf Pro. As an MSP this is a difficult change to implement when you have to manage multiple consultantsContinue reading “Jamf Account Group Authorization in Jamf Pro with Okta”
Details button not working in Jamf Pro policy logs
Starting with the 11.13 update Jamf Pro administrators have reported that the details button in policy logs isn’t working as intended. Instead of showing the details of the policy clicking this button no longer does anything. This can make troubleshooting policy errors difficult. Fortunately after some discussions on Mac Admins Slack https://www.macadmins.org it’s been identifiedContinue reading “Details button not working in Jamf Pro policy logs”
Undocumented change in Jamf Pro 11.11 limits policy logs
In Jamf’s November 2024 Jamf Pro 11.11 update Jamf silently added in a 25 KB limit to policy log output. This will limit the your ability to troubleshoot scripts that fail to run with an output more than 25 KB. Jamf support notes that this is to prevent “server degradation”. There is no public documentationContinue reading “Undocumented change in Jamf Pro 11.11 limits policy logs”
Jamf Pro Framework Not Installing or Redeploying
Starting on or around Monday June 26th we recently ran into some issues where the Jamf Pro Binary located at /usr/local/bin/jamf was missing on newly enrolled computers. The computers would be MDM enrolled but and would receive configuration profiles but the Jamf Management Framework, including Self Service and the jamf binary would be missing. BecauseContinue reading “Jamf Pro Framework Not Installing or Redeploying”
Enforcing and Fixing Jamf Protect
Summary This is an updated version of my previous article to utilize Jamf Pro’s built in automatic installation workflows instead of uploading your own package file. One issue with these provided workflows is that they run “once per computer”, when a plan configuration profile is push to a computer. This means it will attempt toContinue reading “Enforcing and Fixing Jamf Protect”
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