I have an Excel spreadsheet (that can be easily put into CSV or tab-delimited text form), that contains the device serial numbers and asset tag information of 1,100 iPads that are present in the JSS. This spreadsheet unfortunately was NOT exported from Casper. It came from a building tech contact who was responsible for assigning iPads to each child. I wish to have the asset tag information in Casper properly. I want to somehow import the asset tag information "as is" from the spreadsheet into each iPad. What types of calls to the REST API or SQL commands if necessary would I use? I'll be honest, while I am fairly well knowledged in working with Casper itself, I'm really lousy as a programmer or scripter. Right now what I do when I need scripts is look at other people's original work and tweak as needed with my knowledge. Exact syntax and mechanisms used would be very helpful. I want to thank anyone who responds in advance and hope the share knowledge here.

I upgraded the image from 10.10.2 to 10.10.3 on the casper admin. I am using casper suite 9.65 but every since the update the imaging process freezes. Last time this happened I was on casper suite 9.62 and had to update it to 9.65 and re-create the netboot. Do I have to have the next version of Casper to use 10.10.3?

Sorry if this has been answered before but I couldn't find anything specific on this. When dealing with the iPads you can set the wireless settings in Configuration Profiles, but I cannot find how to do the same thing with our Laptops. Thanks!Andrew

Does anyone know the exact number of days that a policy that is configured to execute once a month will run? 28 days ?? I have a policy that will run a script, execution is once a month during recurring check-in. If the first time the policy was run on 5/8/2015 when would the second execution happen? the policy is also set to run for newly enrolled macs, so trigger is 'enrollment' & 'recurring check in'

Hi, As for now we are restricting access to USB drives via a configuration profile.This allows us to prompt for a username and password when a USB device is connected.Unfortunately the only credentials that are accepted to mount the drive, are admin credentials. Does anyone have experience with these settings and know how to allow standard users to still mount the USB drive with their own credentials? In short;A standard user must be able to mount a USB drive with their own credentials. I've already tried editing the authorizationdb using the following commands: security authorizationdb write system.volume.removable allow security authorizationdb write system.volume.removable.adopt allow And for the sake of being sure. security authorizationdb write system.volume.external allow security authorizationdb write system.volume.external.adopt allow

So with some help I've got a script that checks the date and if the date is before 2015 it then sets the date to 2015 then turns off wireless then turns on wireless and then sets the time back to network time. I'm now trying to get this check to happen at startup via a launch daemon and I cannot seem to get it working Getting an Error 13. Im storing the script in the /Library/Application Support/JAMF folder. Would also be great to have this be triggered by a wake from sleep as well. Is it possible that I have the permissions wrong? root is the owner of both files and both are set to 644. The reason for this is our wireless controller issues a certificate that was created in 2012 and when a mac runs totally out of power it resets to a date before 2012 and then cannot rejoin the network until the date gets back within the certificate period (2012-2025). This script fixes this issue but I just can't seem to get the script called correctly. Any help will be greatly

Each passing year that goes by since the sunsetting of Java 6 I become more and more reluctant to install it on machines, to the point that I don't include it on the systems. However, there seems to be 1 last holdout for it, and that's CS6... Is there any way to avoid it or do I need to have it installed still for CS6 users?

Is there a method or an extension to determine which eBooks have been installed on a Mac client? It'd be nice to see what eBooks a user has downloaded, or have been installed on a Machine. Even better if I can do a search for eBooks based on the version so we can scope those for updating.

Hey all,I'm trying to write a script to check date and time on a computer at startup to see if it is set before 2012. It would have to be locally run not from the JSS since its fixing the network connection. The reason is when any of our machines run out of power they reset to a date before our networks certificate was created thereby keeping them from authenticating to our network. I just need to have a script check the date and time and if its before 2012, set it to after june 2012 and then turn off wifi and turn it back on. Thanks for any help you can provide!Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools

Is it currently possible to add a message within the title bar of the jamf displayMessage command?I would really like to be able to put the school name in the titlebar to let users know who the message is from, currently I am adding an extra line to the message, but I don't really like that way of doing it, I feel a title bar would be much nicer. If it's not currently available, is there a feature request for it? I couldn't see one.If not, I will create one.

Hey, we have device bound Active Directory - Accounts for our Windows 7 PCs.This is how it should work, the account sem87rz is only able to login into PC87.In the Windows environment everything works fine. But really strange is that this accounts are able to login into all Macs (Yosemite 10.10.3) in the pool.How is that possible?The Macs where bound to AD via Directory Bindings on JSS (Version 9.65).

We've recently become much more proactive in pushing updates to our users' machines. One thing we've set up is a handful of extension attributes that report back the installed version of the various programs. Most machines are reporting back flawlessly. Here's what one of those machines looks like: Since this data had been populating for a couple of weeks, I decided to start targeting smart groups to it. Adobe Flash, for example, is targeted to machines where "Adobe Flash Player " is not <current version>. I then targeted an ongoing policy to push the newest Adobe Flash to machines in that group on Startup, Login, Logout, Network State Change, Enrollment Complete, and Recurring Check in. The policy is set to update inventory, so machines that are in the group should be removed from it after the policy runs. So for every new version, the machine should run the policy once and then stop being targeted by it. When I came in this morning, I found that one machine had run t

I'm working on a bash script that will run arbitrary API queries and then write the output to a file. At present, I'm using cURL to send commands to the JSS. This works. The only issue i'm having is that the returned data has no newline characters in it, and is one long line containing the XML data. I've read through the man page for cURL and the only place it mentions preserving newlines is for PUT commands. This is all well and good except for the fact that I'm only interested in GET for this project. Does anyone know how I can either get cURL to preserve newlines in data received from a GET command, or know of a better tool to use in a bash script? Is something like python, or another language a better way to go? My current script is below for reference. Thanks in advance! #!/bin/bash set -o nounset # Treat unset variables as an error server="devjss.mycompany.com" apiBaseURL="https://$server:8443/JSSRes

I downloaded SequelPro. When I launch it I am asked for the HOST name. I enter our server name (where JSS is installed and it's also the server I installed SequelPro on) and it says It can't find the host. "Unable to connect" how do you normally connect using this tool? I know I'm an Admin so it's not a rights issue.

I believe it has been discussed extensively but couldn't find the right answer. Maybe I have the wrong problem ;-) How would you prevent admin users doing major updates eg. 10.11 ?Maybe simply set a warning when user launches the update? Or a plist to hide it from store ? I'm not talking about locking the system, simply discouraging 'basic' users to upgrade on day 1.If the power users want to do it, it's fine.

Hi All Has anyone come across the "Connect to Server" disapprearing from the "Go" menu after installing JSS Casper v9.72

I want to adjust file associations so that documents are opened in the correct application. Specifically Word Documents being opened in Word and not text-edit. This seemed to be the default before re-imaging with casper, but now I have to change the associations manually (and they are user specific). I want to be able to push this out as a policy to all of our machines. I found the program Duti in a previous thread, but have not been able to get it to run successfully. I have also tried using composer to create a dmg based on the launch service.plist but that did not work as well. Is there a script that can handle this? Would be great if there was something less painful then manually touching each system. Thank you!

Just wondering how everyone using web help desk is getting the data from the mobile devices to sync. We were using the API's to import the data and sync, using the sample python scripts in the JAMF SDK. However since the poodle SSL issue it looks like the python script has stopped working. Trying to now get around this issue: Any ideas?Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools

Anybody have an idea on why I keep having this policy fail? Computer check-in with no issues etc.. but when this policy runs, it fails Running 9.65File Share DP = MasterFile Sharing Protocol of Server = SMBPort = 139Use HTTP Downloads = Checked Executing Policy Cache OS X Mavericks Installer...Caching package InstallOSXMavericksInstallESD.dmg...Downloading http://casper.local/jssdist/Packages/InstallOSXMavericksInstallESD.dmg...The network connection was interrupted while downloading the package from http://casper.local/jssdist/Packages/InstallOSXMavericksInstallESD.dmg. Attempting to reconnect...Downloading http://casper.local/jssdist/Packages/InstallOSXMavericksInstallESD.dmg...The network connection was interrupted while downloading the package from http://casper.local/jssdist/Packages/InstallOSXMavericksInstallESD.dmg. Attempting to reconnect...Downloading http://casper.local/jssdist/Packages/InstallOSXMavericksInstallESD.dmg...The network connection was interrupted while downl

I am checking to see if the JSSDatabaseUtility can be launched/used/configured where the MySQL DB is located on a different server. I am working on the Mac OS X platform in my DEV environment. Right now when I launch the JSSDatabaseUtility from my DEV JSS, I get a prompt stating the path to the MySQL binaries could not be found and asks me to locate them... of course they are located on another server, so I'm kinda stuck. Trying to see what options I may have here at this point. Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Trying to make something more glamorous than it should be. I have an apple script that's fairly simple for cleaning up wifi on our workstations when our VPN client mucks DNS/Search domains. do shell script "networksetup -setsearchdomains 'Wi-Fi' empty" user name "ADMIN" password "PASSWORD" with administrator privileges do shell script "networksetup -setdnsservers 'Wi-Fi' empty" with administrator privileges Trying to make that infinitely more portable and glamorous and I reealise that I can make lists easily with something like set PORTS to do shell script "networksetup -listallnetworkservices | tail -n +2" but I'm scratching my head as to how to make my list become a string to enable buttons to accommodate various hardware models/port configs. Any help would be appreciated. And before you ask why an AppleScript, it's because we're deploying to both admins (who can elevate) and non-adm

if i have a policy that is triggered at 'enrollment complete', does the computer that is getting enrolled need to be in the scope of that policy?

Anybody used Office 2011's SP1 addition of import identity and import rge to automate importing Entourage identities/archives? I can't seem to find much in the way of syntax for those commands. I did find JAMFs solution for GUI scripting, but I would rather use the built-in scriptability of the app. Any ideas would be GREAT!

So I was working on packaging some applications and wanted to test it on a machine. I went to admin dropped the file, gave it info data. I then went into the console to create a policy for it...all worked fine. So then I opened remote and it said it can't reach the server (error 403). So I went back to the web console, I can connect to it fine and look at all the things. I then tried to open admin, got the can't reach server error again. I looked at my keychains thinking a proxy setting might be blocking it up, removed the proxy keychains and tried again - same issue. Just to make sure it wasn't a bigger issue then my machine I tried from other machines and it works fine. So any idea why my iMac is all of a sudden getting 403 error when trying to connect with admin and remote? Never seen this happen before.

I've been dipping my toes into AutoPkg lately. I've been building Java, Silverlight, and a few others that all come with handy version extensions. I noticed that the Office one returns a string of "true","false", or "Not Installed". This makes it super easy to target a group (Office out of date = true) and never have to touch it again. That'd be really handy for all those other extensions. Unfortunately, they all return the version number. That's really handy, but I'd love to modify it to be more like the Office one. That way I don't have to go update the "Out_Of_Date_Java" group's criteria every time a new version comes out. Here's what I have for my ExtensionTemplate for Java: <computer_extension_attribute> <name>Java Out Of Date</name> <description /> <data_type>String</data_type> <input_type> <type>script</type>