Cart Creation - Creating Computer Carts


IF ANY OF THE COMPUTERS ARE NOT IN DEP THEN ALSO SEE THE INSTRUCTIONS ENTITLED “Enrolling non-DEP computers into Jamf”.


  1. Create smart group named “Cart x” where x = cart number

  2. Create Configuration Profile named “Cart x Login Window”

    1. Login Window payload - copy and paste the following two lines:

###############         USER = student         ###############

###############       PASSWORD = lion      ###############

  1. Scope Configuration Profile to smart group

  2. Create a “Cart x printer” policy, scope it to Cart x, and add that printer as a payload

  3. Image computer

  4. Delete from Jamf Pro

  5. Step through Setup Assistant

  6. At the normal Apple login screen log in as q (no policies or config profiles triggered)

  7. Disable System Preferences/Network/Advanced/Auto-join SAES Setup

  8. Enable System Preferences/Software Update/Automatically keep my Mac up to date

  9. Update computer

  10. Rename computer

    1. IMPORTANT

      1. HostName and ComputerName can only contain spaces if you use quotation marks around name - i.e., “Cart 3 DA0226”

      2. LocalHostName can NOT contain spaces or underscores (the traditional substitute for spaces). But it can contain dashes, so use them for spaces in the LocalHostName.

    2. Name = Cart x DA#### (include spaces around x)

    3. sudo scutil --set ComputerName

    4. sudo scutil --set HostName

    5. sudo scutil --set LocalHostName

    6. Sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

    7. sudo jamf recon

    8. sudo shutdown -r now

      1. This restarts the computer

  11. Log in as student/lion

    1. a .student file does not get written to /private/var and thus no student-triggered policies or config profiles get triggered.

    2. the computer name does not get an “s” appended to it

      1. This is because cart comps are excluded from the policy “10 Post Login Rename”, which otherwise would do all this

  12. Quit







LS Cart -  Jamf Groups, Policies, and Departments


  1. Smart Groups

    1. All Carts

      1. Computer Name like cart

      2. Department like cart

    2. Carts - All

      1. Computer Name like cart

      2. Department like cart

    3. LS Cart

      1. Computer Name like L-CART

  2. Policies

    1. Add WeDo Lower School Cart

    2. Keyboarding Without Tears

    3. Kidspiration

    4. Shared Users Link

    5. Reset Clock

    6. LS Cart - LS File Share Alias

    7. LS Cart Dock

  3. Departments

    1. Cart - Lower School