If a device is marked as unresponsive in Jamf, it will not impact the compliance status of a device in.
If a device doesn’t check-in within a 24-hour period, Jamf will mark the device as unresponsive. This is configurable in the Jamf Pro console and you can read more on that here. 0, the Jamf Pro installers include the Jamf Pro Server Tools software. By default, devices check-in with Jamf Pro every 15 minutes.
Given the many variables and that we know zero about your schools WiFi, it's impossible to advise here a correct configuration that will work. Its products include Jamf Connect that streamlines Mac authentication and identity. You will may need the help of your network admin to help you correctly configure your network authentication settings if you are using Enterprise Authentication. (The SSID is case sensitive so make sure its typed correctly.) See this link for more detail on creating and editing configuration profiles. For example, using macOS Server's Profile Manager, configure a Network payload for your MAcBook for your schools WiFi network. Hopefully your network admin can help you with this too if you don't have macOS server you can use. mobileconfig configuration profile for your MacBook which allows you to configure a WiFi network for your MacBook to use at the login screen. Once you're logged onto the WiFi successfully for the first time, that should be enough to get you logged into your WiFi at the login screen, without the need for an Ethernet connection every time. Next, you want to connect to your WiFi network.Then click the Create button next to “Mobile account,” choose the disk where you want the local copy of your network home folder, then click Create. Click the lock icon to unlock it and enter an admin username and password. Once you are logged on, make your user account a mobile account by going to System Preferences > Users & Groups.(Don't worry, we only need to this for the first logon.) Once connected via Ethernet, login that way using your network account first.This user account only needs Read-access.
Create a dedicated user and password in Jamf Pro which will be used for IT Glue to access the Jamf Pro Server API.
In Jamf Pro click Computers, then click Policies. Shortly after though, users started to complain that they would randomly lose network connectivity during the day requiring a reboot to resolve the problem.
The first requires you to get an Ethernet adaptor for your MacBook (Yes, I realise you don't have one of these but for completeness, I am including this as a solution because it might suit other readers) and make sure your network admin has setup a mobile user account for you. Create a Jamf Pro policy to install macOS High Sierra with Self Service 1. Following Microsoft's Guide Set up the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on macOS policies in Jamf Pro Microsoft Docs we successfully built, tested, and deployed to our environment.
It's a little bit of a catch 22 but the way to resolve this is by creating a mobile user account that will cache credentials in your user home folder. It too doesn't have any Ethernet out of the box. Clicking on home or reconnect and it comes back for a while. Leaving it up on screen, after a few minutes we get the red bar at the bottom saying it cannot connect, try again. I have just encountered this issue myself with a 2017 MacBook Pro. When we open self service, we connect and can run stuff inside.