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Agent Deployment after macOS 15+

  • November 21, 2024
  • 26 replies
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Hey folks, does anyone have any experience so far deploying Netskope Steering Agent to macOS in versions above 15?  

Our Jamf policies that have worked for some time have stopped. Specifically the VPN configuration profile fails to deploy with the error:

The ‘VPN Service’ payload could not be installed. The VPN service could not be created.

 

This continues to work on anything below 15. Anyone needed to update their Jamf policies in order to get this to work? And by policies I mean the configuration profiles?

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  • Netskope Employee
  • November 21, 2024

Hey ​@sean.clowes - beginning with the 15.1.1 release of Sequoia, JAMF configuration profiles require a password to be entered in the VPN payload. It does not matter what you put in; literally anything will work. 

Netskope is aware of this and working to determine if this is a JAMF specific issue or the result of changes in 15.1.1.


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • November 27, 2024

Did the enrollment work using the password? I’m having the same issue with Netskope and Sequoia. 

Thanks. 


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  • Netskope Employee
  • November 27, 2024

@secproceo yes it works as long as you put something in the password box of the VPN payload in the configuration profile. 

 

I've worked with JAMF and they confirmed it is a net new issue introduced into JAMF Pro 11.11. No eta on a resolution from them, though. 


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • November 27, 2024

Excellent! Thanks for the update. :) I will let my JAMF admin know about this issue. I need to get the latest version of the Netskope client 120.x.x.x deployed to all the Macs. It looks like the deployment stopped working on 11/7. Are the instructions for configuring JAMF with Netskope listed here https://docs.netskope.com/en/jamf correct? I want to make sure we are not missing anything.


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 4, 2024

Good morning, everyone.

Has anyone been able to get the Netskope Client successfully deployed using JAMF with Sequoia?


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  • Netskope Employee
  • December 4, 2024

@secproceo  I’ve gotten this to work in my lab and we have organizations deploying Netskope with JAMF on Sequoia.  Are you encountering an error or behavior that prevents the deployment?

 


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 4, 2024

Correct. It appears the client deploys successfully but it will not enroll. Any idea what could prevent the client from enrolling? 

Error:

“Unable to verify Organization name”

Please verify and try again.

unkn - ERR_IDP_CONFIG_NOT_FOUND”


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 5, 2024

I think we found the issue. It appears the deployment was looking for the IDP when it needed to look for the “plist” file in the JAMF configuration. 

 

Does this configuration support the new secure enrollment?


shivam397
  • New Member
  • December 9, 2024

What’s the ETA updating the documentation around VPN profile? 
 https://docs.netskope.com/en/jamf


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 9, 2024

So far, we are using the instructions provided in the link https://docs.netskope.com/en/jamf. We followed every step. I’m not sure if there is anything that needs to be updated. I will keep everyone updated if we get the deployment to work.


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Team,

 

I think I finally found the issue. It appears to be an issue using JAMF deploy the Netskope client with Secure Enrollment enabled. Everything appear to stop when SE was enabled. Has anyone else encountered this issue?


zthompsoncr
Netskope Partner
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  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Is your secure enrollment enforced in the tenant? you have to click “enforce” now. 

 

Also, the author @ryans and I have tested and it actually is a JAMF issue we have spoken with JAMF and they know its a current issue on their end with the current version of JAMF Pro.


You could have had two issues here, JAMF and Secure Enrollment.

 

 


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Yes. My secure enrollment is enforced in my Tenant. Do you have any documentation from JAMF that says the issue on their end?


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

In addition, I added the token from my tenant into parameter 8 in our JAMF configuration per the instructions below.

Are you using Single-User for Multi-User Modes?

https://docs.netskope.com/en/jamf


zthompsoncr
Netskope Partner
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  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

it was in their release notes about the VPN Payload or whatever should be able to find it on their site. However, if you follow what was said it should work as we have done this multiple times as we do everyday with Netskope Customers.


zthompsoncr
Netskope Partner
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  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

JAMF is single user mode with PLIST and we always recommend you use this method.


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Thanks. I will look in the release notes. Did you turn off enforcement mode to resolve the issue with your deployment? I see my deployments stopped working when Secure Enrollment was enabled. 


zthompsoncr
Netskope Partner
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  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

No, we use secure enrollment in all of our customer deployments. It all works so if yours is not working there is something wrong.


Only use the Auth Token is what we recommend as well. The other is optional.


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Thanks. I don’t use the encryption of initial configuration of Netskope Client. 

I only use the authentication token.

Did you place the authentication token in parameter 8 in your JAMF configuration?

 

 


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

I can confirm we are using single user mode in the configuration. 


zthompsoncr
Netskope Partner
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  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Correct, in param 8 it should look like this.

 

enrollauthtoken=(tokengeneratedhere)


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 19, 2024

Ahh, I think we are missing the enrollauthtoken=******

We have the token number only. I see it in the instructions. 

 

 


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • December 20, 2024

Thanks again, I’m going to make the change in JAMF this morning to see if that resolves our deployment issue. If not, I will be back. 😀


zthompsoncr
Netskope Partner
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  • Netskope Partner
  • January 3, 2025

Just rounding this out, this has now been fixed by JAMF in today’s release of a new maint version of JAMF Pro. 3 Jan 2025


secproceo
Netskope Partner
  • Netskope Partner
  • January 3, 2025

Good afternoon, zhompsoncr, and Happy New Year! Thank you. Is the upgrade to JAMF Pro 3 applied to all tenants?