User Images for Education
- Last UpdatedJan 23, 2024
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When you enable user images, an image or student photo is displayed in the Classroom app and on the login screen for Shared iPads. It is also included in the inventory information for each user.
To enable user images as a part of Apple education support, you need the following:
Images hosted on a distribution point with an enabled web server. Jamf recommends that you disable directory index browsing for your distribution point to ensure that the image files on the server are secure.
A CA certificate (.pem) downloaded from Jamf Pro is needed to establish a secure connection between the Jamf Pro server and the distribution point so that the user images are populated for each user in Jamf Pro.
For more information about CA certificates, see PKI Certificates.
A valid push certificate in Jamf Pro
For more information, see Push Certificates.
User images must be hosted on a distribution point with an enabled web server. The URL for that distribution point must be specified in Jamf Pro when you enable user images.
When setting up the distribution point URL, Jamf recommends that you use a variable in the URL and name the image files so that they function with the variable you choose.
For example, if the distribution point URL is https://www.mycompany.com/$USERNAME.png, the username in Jamf Pro for each user is inserted into the URL in place of the $USERNAME variable. If you name each image file using the username created in Jamf Pro for each user, the correct image is displayed for each user.
You can use the following variables in the distribution point URL for user images:
$USERNAME$FULLNAME$REALNAME$EMAIL$PHONE$POSITION$EXTENSIONATTRIBUTE_<#>
After you have specified a distribution point URL for user images, you can choose to specify a custom URL for a single user's image from the inventory information for that user. The custom URL overrides the specified distribution point URL. For more information about specifying a custom URL, see User Inventory and Criteria Reference.
To enable user images, the images must be hosted on a distribution point with an enabled web server.
You are now ready to enable user images as a part of Apple education support.
Due to caching, user images may not appear immediately on devices. You may need to restart the device or the Classroom app for user images to appear.