When creating test JSS instances, I often stumble over this issue where the “Change MySQL Settings…” option is greyed out
JSS Database Utility: Change MySQL Settings greyed out
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A few weeks ago I posted “Because MacMule,” but this is only part of the story. Not only have the Mac Admin community greatly assisted me over the years, but that post did a disservice to the company I work for as i neglected to mention them.
That company is Pentland Brands & you’ve probably never heard of us. But please take a moment to look at our recently re-launched site to get a real flavour of the company & it’s values.
Continue readingError: /var/log/jamfChangeManagement.log (Permission denied)
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As mentioned in my previous post, we have a simple cluster setup for our JSS.
However, I’ve seen and intermittent issue with permissions to /var/log/jamfChangeManagement.log, below are more details as well as a break-fix solution.
Continue readingError: Could not connect to the JSS. Status – 503
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This weekend our firewalls were replaced with us moving from one vendor to another. This took a little longer than required due to some issues with rules & inside outside definitions, but my colleague was more than up to the challenge.
This change required our VPN config profile to be re-pushed, it seemed to work. But further testing revealed we had an issue.
We have a simple cluster for our JSS with one server “cloud” accessible in the DMZ & another on our WAN that is our master JSS, post firewall change I checked:
Continue readingHow To: Sync Time With NTP via Script
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Time’s a blessing & a curse, but an absolute. When it comes to Active Directory & Kerberos, it’s very important.
The below script will try & sync the Macs time to the NTP server specified at $4 or hardcoded as a value for the NTPServer variable in the script.
Continue readingHow To: Delete The Currently Logged In Users Login.Keychain & Then Logout Or Prompt To Logout
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The below will delete the currently logged in users login.keychain, if the $logoutPrompt is set to Y then it will bring up the standard OSX logout prompt, else it will kill the loginwindow process & force logout.
When the user nexts logs in they will recreate the login.keychain.
We have this a an item in Self Service.
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A little over a month ago I attended the Jamf Nation User Conference 2013 (READ: JNUC) in Minneapolis, this was the 1st multi-day conference I’ve attended & the 1st time i’ve flown solo. This also led to somewhat of a watershed moment for me.
Continue readingVPP 2.0, Mavericks, iLife ’13 & iWork ’13
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On October 22nd, Apple released Mavericks for free. As well as the iLife ’13 & iWork ’13 suites being announced as free for all newly purchased Macs that shipped with Mavericks.
This came as a shock, but a good one. Next thing was figuring out the licensing.
Below is how we overcame this shock.
Continue readingUpdating Managed Settings popup at login window
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How To: Set Safari 7 to open at the Homepage
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Safari 6 used to open new windows by default to the Homepage, this behaviour in Safari 7 has been changed to show the “Top Sites” window as shown above.
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