I know that this question isn't directly related to Casper, but does anyone know of a way to disable the internal speakers on a system via a script or managed setting in Casper? I've been getting complaints from students that the noise levels in the computer labs are getting out of hand, so I'm trying to find a solution that forces the use of headphones without causing me a lot of grief in the process.

Hi all I'm trying to create an Extension Attribute to report back the status of a Global LaunchAgent which is in /Library/LaunchAgents When run from the user context it reports back correctly but when run as root it does not, i've gone through most of the dicussions and tried adding in ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4 then sudo -u to the logged in user but my script fu is weak. Can any one advise how to make the script below run the launchctl list command as the logged in user as an extension attribute ? Cheers,Andy #!/bin/sh agentloaded=`launchctl list | grep local.keepAlive.ADPassMon | awk '{print $NF}'` if [ "${agentloaded}" == "local.keepAlive.ADPassMon" ]; then echo "<result>Loaded</result>" else echo "<result>not loaded or installed</result>" fi

I have infront of me an iMac that has 256 Apple flash storage, but I cannot for the life of me get Casper Imaging to partition the drive and install the dual boot image we have. Is there a problem with SSD's?

Is it possible to enroll a new laptop using DEP, and then (somehow) have that laptop become managed, without me touching the device? I was told to avoid imaging, so all of the packages I need to install will be done after the laptop becomes managed. Thanks

Hello all, I am looking to remove the to startup screens Chrome shows when a user first launches the application. The "set google chrome as your default browser" and "set auto updates to run". I just want the users to get a default web page when they start the app for the first time and not these two questions. I want to set the default to "no" and auto updates "yes". Thanks

I have been reading through the various threads on managing Lync settings and gotten a lot of great information. I have gotten the automation piece in place using the script from @talkingmoose and that has worked out great. However, some of the settings we are trying to enforce simply aren't working. Most likely because I am doing something insanely wrong. ;) Some of the settings we are specifically looking to enforce/disable are the Audio Call’s, Video Calls, Idle timer, and the Lync plugin setting. The goal is that once we set these, the end user will not be able to change these settings. I don't necessarily agree with some of these settings being enforced but it isn't my call. I have opened a case with MS so hopefully I will get some guidance on that front but thought I would check in here as well. I have some screenshots below on what we want to do.

Hi everyone, Do anyone of you know a quick method to replicate your JSS DB on to a Test JSS? Thanks, Henry

Hey guys,Looking to see if anyone has any idea on how to grab a particular item from the Spotlight plist file. We are able to set the Spotlight settings via configuration profile, but now i need to use a script to check to see if the value is being managed or not. Since they seem to be in a dict, this is the part i am having trouble with. if i check defaults read /Users/$loggeduser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight, it spits out everything. I would like to grab only the values we are looking for, { enabled = 0; name = "MENU_WEBSEARCH"; } { enabled = 0; name = "MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS"; },Here is what i have so far: #!/bin/sh loggeduser=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4` SPOT=defaults read /Users/$loggeduser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight | "grab X" if [ $SPOT == "0" ] then : else jamf policy -trigger spotlight_config fi Thanks for looking.

This is happening randomly with no pattern on our AD accounts after imaging. Issues: Keychain access shows that the login keychain isn't created for anyone until the second login. The tech has to log in twice for everyone to receive a login keychain afterwards. Basically, I log in the first time and have no login keychain. I log in a second time and then everything is fine. Base image has no issues whatsoever. It's when I start installing Adobe CC 2014/2015 (no FEU/FUT) during imaging via a policy that this issues arises. I've tested ten machines and four of them did not have a login keychain. I even created a Keychains folder in the user template using Composer and that didn't work. What would be causing this issue? Only our base image has FEU/FUT, the additional packages do not. Other people having the same issue: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7662 https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7462

I'm trying FEU for the first time but it doesn't seem to be working.Here is what I'm trying to accomplish. We just recently deployed network projectors throughout the building, I'm trying to send out profile with IP address/DNS names of projectors to Epson EasyMP Network Projection applications so when the user opens up the applications, the profile is already built with list of projectors in the building. The challenging part of this is that the projector list preferences are built within the user-level preferences folder. I ran through the usually with the composer to capture the data and I have several preferences files built into the /Users/Admin/Library/Preferences/ folder. I uploaded the DMG to the Casper Admin and checked the FEU check box. Then, created a self service policy to install the projector application with FEU check box checked from the policy as well. I ran this against the test machine from my AD account. However, the preferences files are only

We are attempting to deploy Cisco AnyConnect 4.1 but when attempting to connect we get a pop up indicating that OS X wants to use the System Keychain. Has anyone else come up against this?

We put our root certificates in the System keychain but now have a duplicate set of certs (one set is expired). Does anyone know of a way to remove certificates from the System keychain in an automated way? thanks in advance for any suggestions

On my enrolled macs if I turn Firewall ON, do i have to turn on any options for casper communication? will turning ON Firewall mess with JSSConnection? (recurring check-in, login/logout etc...)

When adding policies to the JSS Dashboard, they don't show progress - just grey circles - for active policies.Process to replicate:Edit a policyClick checkbox Show in JSS DashboardIt shows up on dashboard.When checking the Policy logs for the policy, it shows activity yet that activity isn't reflected on the JSS Dashboard. The Policy says:Completed: 0 Remaining: 0 Failed: 0I do see some policies updated with color graphs in the Policy view and when I check the non list view (block view?), yet even there the newly edited or created policies aren't updated.Is this expected behavior?

Is it possible to scope Self Service Plug-ins to specific groups? For example, I want to have a link to "QuickStart" guides for applications that are installed on specific Macs. Then scope a smart group with those apps installed, so those who do not have these apps installed won't see the link to the "QuickStart" guides

I would be interested to hear what others are using out there for this. Our current system no longer meets our needs and is antiquated. I seek to learn which systems are out there and actual Apple admins use, what they like and what they don't like. Now ideally, said ticketing system should also be able to be customized for multiple department use (such as HR/Maintenance), but that is not an absolute requirement. Thank you in advance for advice and suggestions,blackholemac

I have a policy that creates a local admin and filevault2 enables it. It works fine but the picture I try to setup for the account is not getting assigned. Instead I get the default picture of a 'silhouette' of a person. 9.51 this is what i have tried in the picture location text box. None of these have worked, no picture of Soccer.tif "/Library/User Pictures/Sports/Soccer.tif" /Library/User Pictures/Sports/Soccer.tif /Library/User Pictures/Sports/Soccer.tif

I'd like to be able to Netboot around 50 machines at a time but for some reason we can't boot more than 11 at a time. Sometimes we boot a few more than 11 but never more than 13. 11 seems to be the norm. When we attempt to boot more than 11 it looks like their going to work but then they eventually just reboot to the internal HD. Any ideas? - jamie

Hi all,I'm facing an issue for the Macs of my company.I need to set up the network service order for the different interfaces.The main goal is to setup the interfaces as follow:1- Ethernet (built in, Thunderbolt or USB)2- WifiBasically I need to set up as primary interface any Eth connection detected and as secondary the Wifi. All the others can follow. Does anyone has a solution/suggestion for this?Thanks everybody. Cheers,Jack

I've been trying for a few weeks to implement sep as a self service item. Its working however, it never comes up with a managed client. Has anyone else ran into this problem?

Since I'm on my quest to revoke admin right from the users at my workplace I have to go through all applications and set them to not update or update themselves. Now I'm wondering how you manage the constant Adobe XI Pro updates? Anything that'd make this less of a hassle would be appreciated!

There's not a lot of documentation, or current discussion, about the Restore partition feature. I've created a restore image, made an OS package out of it with composer, uploaded that to my JDS, and in my test configuration I've setup a partition for the Restore partition. The physical drive is 750GB, my restore partition image is about 10GB. I have the format as JHFS+, Make a restore partition is checked, reimage the partition is checked, and append a name to the partition is checked. I've set the partition size up to 25GB, and the Maximum percentage from 5% (37.5GB on this drive) up to 100%! The imaging gets all the way through, but fails at the end with the same message, not enough space. What the heck?

Okay, I just know I'm missing something simple. How do I get something just on the current user's desktop? I can put it on all user's Desktop, and in the User Template folder. But I need to put a file just on the current user's desktop. :- I guess I could put it in /tmp and use a post-install script to move it to the current user's desktop. Is that the best option?

We're using 'Featured' as a flag to the users that this is an important update. We have self service policies that use smart groups to display updates to apps for the users to download. We don't push packages to our users since we just can't be sure what their internet is, or what they're doing, etc - we can if it was insanely critical though. I've edited the notifications.png and notificationsFeatured.png files so it has a red banner and the word "Important". I've replaced the original files and changed the permissions on them (trying to troubleshoot). And I've restarted apache. But my self-service app still shows the blue banners when I launch it. What else am I missing. I guess I could create a new war file, blow away everything, and have Tomcat repopulate everything? And I know I'll have to replace these files with each JSS update.

Hello, After imaging a Mac with Casper I receive this message once I boot the Mac to the desktop. I can not figure out what is causing this error message to pop up. You can click ok and it will go away for a while but will come right back. Has anyone else here seen this error message before and know what is causing it? OS: [-] Yosemite (10.10.4) Software installed during imaging: [-] Self Service[-] MS Office 2011 (Installed on base image)[-] Citrix Online Plug-In[-] Java JRE-8u45[-] Java For OS X 2014-001 Thank-you, -Anthony