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Correct the agent certificate label in the Intune macOS tutorial - #578
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The sample agent settings profile used the variable $PROFILE_IDENTIFIER in the Certificate value. Only Jamf replaces this variable. Intune sends the text as it is, and then the agent cannot find its bootstrap certificate and does not start. Use the label step-agent-bootstrap. This is the common name in the SCEP profile of the same tutorial. Replace the fixed sample PayloadUUID values with placeholders, and tell the reader to make new UUIDs with uuidgen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
In step 5 of the Intune macOS tutorial, the sample Smallstep Agent Settings profile sets the
Certificatevalue tomackms:label=$PROFILE_IDENTIFIER;se=false;tag=.$PROFILE_IDENTIFIERis a Jamf variable. Intune does not replace it. The Mac gets the text as it is. The agent cannot find a certificate with that label, and it stops at startup with exit code 78 (EX_CONFIG).Change
mackms:label=step-agent-bootstrap;se=false;tag=. This label is the common name in the SCEP profile of step 4. The profile that the Smallstep console makes uses the same label.PayloadUUIDvalues with placeholders. Tell the reader to make new UUIDs withuuidgen.Test
valeshows 0 errors for the file. The warnings are the same as before this change.Not in this change
connect-workspace-one-to-smallstep-macos.mdxalso uses$PROFILE_IDENTIFIER. That page tells the reader to adjust the value. I did not change it, because I did not test the value with Workspace ONE.Linear: EFF-1128
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