I'm trying to figure out a way to disable iTunes from launching when pressing the F8 play/pause button. We have hundreds of computers in our school district doing Smarter Balanced testing. The students are figuring out that pressing F8 will launch iTunes and crash the test. I'm looking for a way to get a working script to use with Casper Remote and to set up policies with. This command works one-to-one: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist So I tried to make it into: #!/bin/bash launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist But this does not prevent iTunes from launching with F8 when pushing out as a script through Casper Remote. I have also tried to just execute as a command (without #!/bin/bash) with Casper Remote with no luck. For a temporary solution I have removed iTunes from the machines before we reimage this summer with this script: #!/bin/bash rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app/ We would prefer to not

Sorry if this is a duplicate question, but I did try searching first. I am trying to add an extension attribute to determine if a set of Xerox Printer drivers are installed so I can use it as a scope for a policy. I wrote a script based off of the one in the knowledge base article (See attached image). When I run this script via ssh on a machine it returns the correct result (In this case "Yes" because there are printer drivers installed). The same script run on the same computer as part of Casper's inventory update returns a result of "No". Not sure what is going on that would cause this.

Has anyone tried capturing a base image of OS X from a parallels vm? I get the impression that it is not possible, and potentially problematic since it's not pulled from physical hardware (which is especially important when new hardware with forked OS builds come out). If anyone has had any success I'm curious to know what approach you took. At least in the case where there is a current un-forked build in circulation this could be an alternative way to make a new base image on the fly when a spare machine is not on hand to capture from.

I've been having some issues getting Java to install on our image. The upgrade to Caper 9.71 did help, but it is still not fully installing Java. It places the Java JSS file on the macbook and installs manually just fine, but it is not fully installing during the imaging process. Has anyone had a similar issue or a way to correct it?

We have a couple of different default user accounts, created with CreateUserPKG, that we might deploy on a machine at imaging time as generic local user accounts (not all users might be employees so we need some local machine accounts). So, one user we deploy might have UID 503. When we image the machine some preference files are copied to all users home (per the option for that deployment dmg file), but the preference files don't inherit the UID of the folder's user (503), instead sticking to the UID of the account on the machine the preferences were made on (501 for example). Since the local user doesn't share that UID it can't read the file and ignores it for a new default preference file. Am I missing something? Or should I just look at a script to chown files at the end of imaging?

ok, i have a projecto for the nation. unless someone has already figured it out. my goal is to have Apple Remote Desktop sync with all of my machines via some syncing service like iCloud, google drive, or dropbox. script, app, snake oil and voodoo powder, I'm open to suggestions. thanks Joe

So in trying to troubleshoot a computer I found that one of our teacher laptops had Journaling disabled which caused 2 hard drive failures. I'm now trying to figure out what caused journaling to be disabled. Looking at making an extension attribute to find any other machines in our district that may have journaling disabled so I can see if this issue is wide spread (hopefully not being caused by Casper Imaging). Anyone else with this issue? Or any help scripting the extension attribute? I'm sure I can do a diskutil -list and pull info from there. Thanks for any help provided!Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools

Hi all, I thought I would have found the answer by myself… but no! I need your insights. Let's say I have a AD + FV2 setup. Computer is shut down and user has forgotten his password. He logs to an internal webpage and resets password. Now he starts computer. I guess the only way to get past pre-boot FV2 is by using a recovery key or admin password ?

Hi JAMF Nation! Is there a Safari equivalent to Chromium's policy list for Chrome? I'm trying to expand my knowledge/add more options to my Safari Configuation Profile. I can't seem to find anything on Google or Apple's Mac OS X developer's page. I'm currently using what I can find from my JSS on Computers>Managed Preferences> Safari. Can anyone link me to a good list? https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

Anyone else having trouble with HTTP downloads after the 9.7 release? AFP and SMB both still work and I'm able to download packages by typing in the package URL into the browser.

Does any god have good IdeaI gonna set timemachine in our company by casper manager profile (around 100 users)And the data store in afp://server-mp/backups and the server-mp installed server.app now my question.DOES ANY PEOPLE have good idea how to apply the timemachine setting to the managed clientI tried via manager profile but which not very stable, Sometime when i try to update the setting which can't effect And how to apply the time machine setting to Macbook air. As the macbook air didn't have connection at start up so that the timemachine profile setting can't effect There mush someone run the same enviroment as mePlease help!!!!!

What's the best method to push a pkg'd app out to an individual user? And is a policy needed to do so? Thanks in advance.

I’m tightening a few things down and was searching across JAMF Nation for a resolve in 10.10.2, specifically with finding a script on enabling the firewall. I ran across this script which seemed to bit quite a bit older and created by a couple of techs, obviously this was written while functioning under an older OS: !/bin/bash Written by Nate Walck and Clint Armstrong Liberty University 2009 This Script will automatically enable or disable the firewall depending upon which network it is on. This function turns the firewall on or off, depending upon which state is desired. If the firwall is already in the state desired, the script will leave it in that state. function firewall { #Reads the current state of the firewall and stores it in variable fw fw=$(defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf globalstate) #This compares the option passed to function firewall to its current state. if [ "$1" != "$fw" ] then #If the option pased is dif

Hello, I'd like to create a script to change the service order in network preferences to make Built In Ethernet and Thunderbolt Ethernet preferred over Wifi. We have had trouble with our wifi network getting overloaded and would like all 500 machines to prefer Ethernet, without requiring the user to do anything except plug their machine in using ethernet. I have been Googling/searching JAMF Nation for about an hour and have not come up with any successful solutions other than manually changing the service order in Network Preferences. Does anyone have any experience with networksetup -ordernetworkservices terminal commands or any other methods of completing this who could point me in the right direction?

I have read many of the Discussions on Pre - Enrollment. We have a vendor who images the Macbook airs for our students. I provide them with a like mac with our image( monolithic never touched by Casper). We use Casper Suite, they use Deploy studio.What is the best way to enroll students with very little interaction? I could configure the hidden management account and our local admin. Then is it best to run recon once the students return to school in the Fall or to place the quick add package on the Desktop? Will this capture their email addresses. We have our JSS instance hosted by JAMF and our software distribution server is only accessible on campus.

Hi there, We recently upgraded our JSS server to Yosemite and for some reason the Casper Admin keep prompting the below error message: Casper Admin requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Please help! Warm regards,michael

Hi All, When re-imaging a machine with a new OS (Mac OS 10.10.3), does it matter if the netboot image is a version lower (Mac OS 10.9.5) than the image being pushed out? I've re-imaged a machine using the method above and it was successful, the issue I'm having is that it only installed 2 applications that is included in the image configuration. Why would that be? Also, I was able to resolve this issue in the past by having the same version of Mac OS of the netboot image and the image being pushed out (as to why question #1) Thanks,

Hello JAMF! I've tired using this manifest as Managed Preferences (https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProductFile.html?id=73&fid=774), scoped it to my testing computers and Google Chrome will not recognize any of the changes. I've also tried the Master Preferences file so I could apply the settings during imaging and Chrome didn't recognize it as well. if [ ! -d "/Library/Google" ] then mkdir "/Library/Google" fi ( sudo cat <<'EOD' { "homepage" : "http://domain.com”, "homepage_is_newtabpage" : false, "browser" : { "show_home_button" : true, "check_default_browser" : true }, "bookmark_bar" : { "show_on_all_tabs" : false }, "distribution" : { "suppress_first_run_bubble": true, "show_welcome_page" : false, "skip_first_run_ui" : true, "import_history" : false

Hello All, We just completed our JumpStart and already running into an issue. The first phase of our implementation is to provide the Self Service to the users. I have different packages setup to installing using policies. Individually, the installation runs fine but when I run install policies back to back on the same machine the second policy fails with "Could not mount distribution point". When I restart the computer, the second policy runs fine. We are running Windows 2012 R2 servers and using AD service account as Read-only. The weird part is, when I setup my AD account to have the same permission as the read-only account to the CasperShare, I do not see the problem. Older discussion suggested to remove special characters from password because it conflict with MySQL storing the password but it's not the case. Any suggestions will be very helpful because I definitely do not want to use my AD account as the read-only account.

We currently use ESET Antivirus 6 for OS X, we have created the package via DMG and PKG everything installs apart from the login item for ESET. We have tried so many ways to get the ESET login but just can't to get it to work. Has anybody has experienced the same issue, or know of a fix? Many thanks David

Hi, I'd like to pre-populate the 'Favorite Servers' list found when doing - Finder > Go > Connect to server... with a few of our regularly accessed servers for each new user that logs on to a machine. I found a thread on here from back in 2008 about doing this, but I guess things have changed since then as I can't make it work for me. What's the best way of going about this? Many thanks!

Is anyone else having this issue? I have been testing using Casper Imaging to install OS X Yosemite in our test environment. It works without much issue if the host is already OS X 10.10, but seems to fail if it's 10.9? Not sure if it's something in our environment (we have LOTS of security tools in place) or if it's the actual Casper Imaging app not working.

Hi everyone! I hope you're well. I'm trying to write an AppleScript for migrating our users from one domain to another. I'm running into a problem though. I think it has to do with the space in our domain user group. Here's the part of my script that's failing: display dialog "Enter the username(Short Name) you want to migrate" default answer "" set shortName to text returned of result do shell script "dscl . delete /Users/" & shortName & "" with administrator privileges do shell script "chown -R " & shortName & ":DOMAIN\\Domain Users /Users/" & shortName & "" with administrator privileges display dialog "Don't forget to move the computer to the right OU" It's the part with DOMAINDomain Users. I've tried doing DOMAINDomain Users but I keep getting errors on that.

We are looking to blow away all printers via a Self Service policy so folks may re-download the proper printers that have been installed. Our students are not admins and i believe we do not allow them to delete printers via system preferences. Teachers are full admins but have rarely if ever have logged into a student computer to help elevate a permission. Anyone have ideas on how to accomplish this for a Self Service policy? We wish to get our clients helped out with cleaning up the old removed printers by deleting via a policy anyone may execute from Self Service. I have tried several scripts and unix commands at root from JSS but lpadmin almost always gives a "unauthorized" error in the JSS logs. I may run any of the scripts and unix commands locally and it just works! Stuck on the JSS deployment getting lpadmin "Unauthorized" errors!

im not new to anything here but i can't seem to get hand on that tool anywhere... i have all the installers but looks like all the path i am reading doesn't seems to be the good one.... anyone an easy solution to get the setregproptool Thanks