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JAMF - How to Delete a local user account

    JAMF - How to Delete a local user account

    Jun 15, 2023

    Login to JAMF
    https://mdm.utexas.edu/

    Go to COMM from Full Jamf Pro

    Go to Computers

    policies

    Click on New

    Click on New

    Choose GENERAL Settings
    Category – Management, Tool or Security or whatever makes sense

    Name the policy make sure it starts with COMM
    Make sure the
    Enabled box is checked
    Enabled means the policy is enabled it won't run unless it is enabled – Disable if you do not want the policy to run

    Trigger

    Choose Login

    Recurring Check-in is the policy will run every 15 minutes till it's been run on that system


    Check the box Automatically re-run policy on failure

    Select Retry Event
    On next recurring check-in


    Pick the number of times to retry

    Then scroll down to
    >Local Accounts


    Choose Configure

    Choose Delete Account

    Username for the account you are deleting


    In this case we unchecked the home folder just needed the user account disabled and it worked fine

    Check to delete the home directory if you'd like to remove it

    Next Click on Scope to add comptuers that are going to have the policy pushed to them

    Choose Edit

    Choose Selected Deployment Targets

    Click on add

    You will choose to add
    >Computers for individual computers
    >Computer Groups for adding smart groups of entire labs

    To add a computer search and select the computer to add

    To add a Computer Group find the computer group and click Add

    Your targets have been selected and the show up as Targets

    Then click on Save

    To remove targets click Remove

    Click on Show in Jamf Pro Dashboard to monitor the process

    Click on the jamf home page to see the dashboard

    The status will show up here.

    Completed, Pending etc.

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