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Configure Jamf Compliance Editor and Jamf Pro for Compliance Reporting

The Jamf Compliance Editor (JCE) is a tool designed to simplify the implementation of the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) within a Jamf Pro environment. It allows IT administrators to enforce...

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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Offboard a Mac Computer Using Jamf Pro and Apple Business Manager

This guide outlines the steps to properly offboard a Mac computer from Jamf Pro when an organization sells or transfers ownership of a device to a staff member. It is essential to ensure that the Mac computer...

Monday, February 24, 2025

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How to Configure Jamf Pro SMTP with Google Authentication

Configure Jamf Pro to use Google Authentication for SMTP enhances security, ensures compliance, and simplifies management, all while aligning with Google’s modern authentication framework. It also future-proofs...

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

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How to Configure Jamf Pro SMTP to Use the Microsoft Graph API

Configuring Jamf Pro to use the Microsoft Graph API for SMTP enhances security, ensures compliance, and simplifies management, all while aligning with Microsoft’s modern authentication framework. It...

Monday, January 13, 2025

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Retrieve AppleCare Expiration for Mac Computers Using Jamf Pro

This guide provides a practical solution by demonstrating how to utilize Jamf Pro’s API roles, scripts, and policies to collect and store warranty data for reporting purposes. With the use of API roles,...

Thursday, January 9, 2025

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How to Deploy and Configure Jamf Setup Manager

Jamf Setup Manager builds upon the robust feature sets of Baseline and DEP Notify utilities, providing a pivotal solution for IT departments and provisioning depots. Its primary purpose is to ensure that...

Monday, October 28, 2024

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Configure Software Update Settings for macOS in Jamf Pro

Ensuring timely software updates is essential for maintaining the security and integrity of Apple devices. Regular updates not only keep your environment secure but also enable users to access the latest...

Monday, October 28, 2024

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How to Configure Baseline for Jamf Pro

Baseline is an MDM agnostic deployment solution for macOS that leverages swiftDialog, Installomator, and your original code to provide a zero or light touch deployment solution for Mac computers. It can...

Saturday, May 18, 2024

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How to Deploy Printers with Jamf Pro

Jamf will remove Jamf Admin in an upcoming release of Jamf Pro. Since one of the workflow that Jamf Admin provides is printer creation, an altenative way of printer creation is provided in this guide....

Monday, March 4, 2024

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Update macOS Sonoma Using Managed Software Updates in Jamf Pro

You can use the managed software updates feature of Jamf Pro to update the macOS of Mac computers belonging to smart or static group membership lists, eliminating the need for inventory searches and reducing...

Friday, February 9, 2024

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Restore a Deleted Configuration Profile in Jamf Pro

The Jamf Pro user interface contains a lesser known ability to restore deleted objects, such as Configuration Profiles. Deleted objects with an object name that is able to be selected and clicked, can...

Friday, January 12, 2024

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Create a Jamf Smart Group for the Current Version of macOS

Smart Computer Groups are a good way of filtering your devices with specific attributes. Combine this with Patch managment and you will be able to view devices that are in compliance with your company...

Friday, December 22, 2023

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How to Configure Sonoma Blocker with Jamf Pro

Sonoma Blocker is a binary that listens for the macOS Sonoma installer application process and terminates the process which stops macOS Sonoma from being installed on a Mac Computer. Sonoma Blocker will...

Friday, November 3, 2023

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Jamf Pro: Configure SMTP Server Integration with Microsoft 365 Per App Password

An app password is a long, randomly generated password that you provide only once instead of your regular password when signing in to an app or device that doesn't support two-step verification. You only...

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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How to Upgrade macOS Using erase-install and Jamf Pro

erase-install is a script to reinstall macOS directly from the system volume using startosinstall, a resource binary which has been built into macOS installer applications since version 10.12.4. The --eraseinstall...

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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How to Configure Account Driven Enrollment and Enroll a Personal Device in Jamf Pro

Account-driven User Enrollment is designed for organizations that need personal devices enrolled into Mobile Device Management. This method of enrollment supports Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) scenarios,...

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

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How to Configure Escrow Buddy to Escrow a FileVault Personal Recovery Key (PRK) in Jamf Pro

Escrow Buddy was created to escrow FileVault personal recovery key (PRK) to an MDM server. Escrow Buddy’s authorization plugin includes a mechanism that, when added to the macOS login authorization database,...

Friday, July 21, 2023

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Use Jamf Pro to Deploy iOS App to Mac with Apple Silicon

You can deploy iOS apps to Silicon Macs right from your Jamf cloud as long as the iOS developer allows this for their app. Not all Developers allow the deployment to Mac due to how the app will perform...

Friday, June 23, 2023

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How to Configure Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) in Jamf Pro

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) was originally a Microsoft solution designed to provide a secure way to manage local administrator account passwords on Windows computers. LAPS is a security...

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

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How to Install SentinelOne with Jamf Pro

SentinelOne protects your computer and data with anti-malware and anti-exploit protection. The SentinelOne agent continually receives intelligence updates from SentinelOne servers. This guide will show...

Thursday, April 13, 2023