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Jamf manifests

Jamf manifests solve three problems with managing Configuration Profiles in Jamf Pro:

• Terminal work not required. Admins no longer need to know how to create plists for manageable apps, convert the plists to plain text and upload to Jamf Pro.
• Admins no longer need to maintain their plists outside of Jamf Pro in order to update them.
• All settings are manageable from within Jamf Pro.

How to use a Jamf manifest

1. After locating a Jamf manifest (you'll find several community-provided manifests here), copy the entire contents of the manifest to your clipboard.

   

2. Log in to Jamf Pro and choose Computers > Configuration Profiles and click the New button to create a configuration profile. Name the profile in the General payload and assign a site, category and distribution method as needed. Set the profile to install at Computer Level.

   

3. Scroll down the list of payloads to Application & Custom Settings.

4. Click External Applications.
   Set Source to "Custom Schema"
   Provide the Preference Domain (the manifest may provide this information for you)

   

5. Click Add Schema and paste the copied manifest under the Schema tab. Click outside the Custom Schema field before you Save.

   

6. Configure each setting as needed. Click the Add/Remove Properties button to disable unwanted settings.

   

7. Click the Plist preview button in the upper right corner of the list to view the resulting plist file.

   

8. Scope and click Save to deploy the configuration profile.