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Make Me Admin and Privileges here. No complaints. ------------------------------ Stephen Johnson Software Systems Supervisor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ------------------------------

Hi Bob, May I ask: why are you still binding Macs to a domain? Do bind all of them or just systems permanently on a wired network? I ask since Apple has said "don't bind" for several years now. We utilized NoMAD/NoMad Login to get "binding-ish" behavior, as well as creating on-demand local accounts ...

Hi Beth, I run the JAMF instance at our campus (primarily for macOS, but some iOS as well). Around 2200 macs at this point. Here are some thoughts I have: 1. We use JAMF and like it quite a lot. As with all management systems, it has its quirks, but it is the undisputed leader in the industry for ...

Hi, I manage a research department of Mac/Windows/Linux boxes, and concurrently manage all Macs via JAMF at the campus level. In my own department, we do not allow admin account on any system by policy. For Macs, we utilize Privileges (https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges) to allow faculty ...

So we use DEPNotify during enrollment (DEP or manual enroll). It allows us to have the user or tech enter some info for JAMF that we want (ie., user, hostname, department), and one of the policies at the end is to check if it is encrypted, and if it isn't log out the current user and enable encryption ...

Setting up the Filevault bit is relatively easy. We have it set to auto encrypt on enrollment, and in Self-Service, we have a script so that end users can regenerate a FV key and upload to JAMF (if, perhaps, they encrypted it personally before enrollment). We use Privileges from SAP for temporary administrative ...

We utilize MakeMeAdmin on Windows w/policies set w/GPO (https://github.com/pseymour/MakeMeAdmin/wiki/) and Privileges on Macs w/policies set locally via JAMF (https://github.com/SAP/macOS-enterprise-privileges). Both have worked well for us. Stephen Johnson UTSW JAMF Administrator UT Southwestern ...