I have a message via jamfhelper that users will see during a policy that runs at logout (shutdown triggers it also, so looks like if a user shuts down instead of logout, its the same as logout).I want to add an icon to the message, jamfhelper has the -icon argument that lets me do that. Testing the script locally with the icon in the same directoy works, so now I want to add the script and image to the JSS, but where would I put the image file? my file share distribution point is casperlocal/jssdist. where are the scripts stored? would i put the image in the same directory as these scripts?

Alright, I've run into a pretty big problem here. I have ~10,000 devices enrolled in the JSS. As of right now I have less than 24 hours to renew my Push Certificate or it will expire and everything will fall apart. The only problem is that our old director who made the Cert is no longer with us. I've exhausted my resources to find out which Apple ID it was and now I'm running out of time. Would I be able to cache a quick add package, or some other kind of enrollment method today in order to get devices re-enrolled by the user in the event that we need to make a new Push Certificate? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I've been asked to compile a list of the most popular third party applications on Macs with an eye towards adding them to Self Service. I can export a search by application, but since it is by machine, I have no easy way of counting the total number of copies of any given program. Is there a better way to generate a report that I'm missing?

Hi all,I've only started doing some basics with iPads and managed VPP distribution and I just encountered an issue. We bought 2 copies of Proloque2Go via the VPP and chose the managed distribution option not the code download. The ipad I enrolled months ago got the app just fine and it worked properly to install. I just enrolled another ipad and I tried to push the app and the management console is showing:"Apply Redemption Code for Proloquo2Go - Symbol-based AAC" "The redemption code is invalid." Since this is not using a "redemption code" what could be this issue? Thanks for any help! Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools

Hi everyone, We have a windows file cluster on which we share files through DFS. I use login script to map 4 shares on our OSX machines. This works fine however the names of the shares are all the same (dfs structure names the different shares based on the customer). Changing the share names unfortunatlyisn't an option. On the windows machines this isn't a problem since the shares are assigned different driveletters to differentiate them. I've tried using a applescript mount volume "smb://domain.tld/dfs/service/customer" and a shell script with the mount_smbfs command #!/bin/sh mkdir -p /Volumes/CustomerShareName; mount_smbfs 'smb://domain.tld/dfs/service/customer' '/Volumes/CustomerShareName' However the mounted volumes show up in the finder with the original sharename and can't be renamed. After some researching it seems the only way to achieve what I want is to mount the shares and create an alias so I can display them wit

Is anyone else seeing that the /mach_kernel is unhidden after the Security Update 2015-002 on Mavericks?

I'm new to Casper (6 months), and I can't seem to find a download link on support.apple.com/downloads. Can someone help me out? Is there also a better way of getting the pkg instead of waiting for Appe? Safari 7.14 for Mavericks.

Has anyone been able to successfully put 10.9.x on an Early 2015 Macbook?

I'm converting a law firm from Windows to Mac. Not going to pretend that Outlook on Windows is anything but a giant Rube Goldberg device. :-) Anyway, the users are POPing mail and have multi-gigabyte Outlook mail databases. First choice would be to migrate the mail from these Outlook accounts to Apple Mail. If that's going to be an experience akin to cage fighting then archiving will be fine. What are good ways of archiving Outlook mail to some kind of searchable format that can be stored on the Mac server? Thank you.

creating Adobe acrobat XI pro package for distribution via casper policyi want to combine these 2 feature lockdowns into 1, how do i do it. Not sure on the correct beginning and endings of where to put the <key></key> <dict><dict> in order to combine. I want to control application updates with update pkgs. provided by adobe. here is the website for the 2 feature lockdowns: (lockdown updater, and javascript api alert)http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/MacWiz/lockdown.html I want to combine both into the 1 plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><dict><key>11</key> <dict> <key>FeatureLockdown</key> <dict> <key>bUpdater</key> <false/> </dict></dict></

We are currently running the above script (thank you Rob). This gives us the user field information. It works, mostly. We have 1300 +MBP and I only have 890 users in JSS. When I click on the User tab and search for "todd" for example I only get 1 response. When I click on Computers and search on Local User Accounts I get 4 responses (preferences for both show "contain"). We use Active Directory and the LDAP lookup seems to be working.What am I missing?

I am reaching out in hope that the community can collectively recommend an ideal method of creating a Mavericks Configuration. In the past, we followed @jhalvorson][/url instructions found at: [https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3841. These instructions no longer work w/ Mavericks because the InstallESD.dmg has changed (correct me if I am wrong). Appreciate any advice.

Hi there, We have a fleet of Macbook Airs deployed last September that we are looking to upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite. This will be our first upgrade of this kind. Problem is, we have not since updated the laptops at all since this deployment due to time restrictions and frankly, lack of workflow knowledge. Context.. Casper 9.32 (to be upgraded to 9.65 beforehand). We have a Software Update Server set up and ready to go. All our clients are pointed to a dummy SUS via config profile, to be pointed to our real SUS when ready. I am seeking some help on a possible workflow to achieve the following: Upgrade from 10.9.4 (no OS updates at all bar those included in 10.9.4) to 10.10.2. In this process I am guessing we also need to install all the relevant Apple updates etc. It would be very much appreciated if someone can work with me briefly to develop a workflow. Thank you!

There was a similar-sounding issue for folks that have upgraded to 9.65, but that issue appears to involve $ signs in passwords. Basically our AD binding policy that has been working flawlesssly for three years just went kaput. We're on 9.61 and have had the binding fail on five machines so far (all in one location). Rebooted servers and laptops, recreated the binding, the log doesn't show an attempt to run the policy. Doesn't work on Mavs or Yosemite. Tried running the policy as a different user. Ideas? I suppose we could upgrade, but we were fine on 9.61 for now. TIA

Hi all I'm trying to create an extension attribute that checks all available network interfaces to see if a proxy is enabled or not, and then use the AE with a policy to disable or enable the proxy dependent on the Mac's building location. At the moment the script i have returns the status of each individual interface and when used as an extension attribute it will only show the status of the last port checked, can anyone advise how i'd get the script to look at all the results then echo "yes" if they are all on and "no" if any of them are off ? <result>on</result><result>on</result><result>on</result><result>off</result><result>on</result><result>on</result><result>on</result> = off and <result>on</result><result>on</result><result>on</result><result>on</result><result>on</result><result>on</re

Ugh - just a heads up to the nation. I went to download Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 today from get.adobe.com/flashplayer, and rather than getting the standard disk image from Adobe, you now get this garbage Google Chrome install option that you have to uncheck, along with the a 'new and improved' Flash Player installer that has to download a payload from the Internet, and will fail if you don't close Safari first before it begins it's install. This is in comparison to a regular DMG you could just click and install in the past (and extract a .pkg from by just examining the contents of the installer executable.) I'm sure now we'll have to figure out where exactly the Adobe Flash Player.pkg package is being installed to and somehow save that, or we'll have to go back to creating Composer snapshots. Thanks Adobe. ~Ted

Is OS X prompting me for something behind that black screen? How can I check the logs since the Mac's in question are in a reboot loop? Has JAMF thought about adding a process bar to Casper Imaging's "Installing Software" page?

Hello all. I am having a very strange issue with the JAMF ASUS appliance. When I enable an update (check the box) and click on apply, after a brief refresh period the branch re-loads and does not have the updates I selected marked any longer. I have attempted to reboot the server it is running on and that didn't fix the issue. Has anybody else seen this or know how to fix it? Thanks.

Hello everyone! We are looking at using iBeacons in our k-12 environment. Just looking for suggestions on what models people are using and how are they using them. Thanks everyone

I am using the setTimeServer.sh script provided by JAMF. When I look in /etc/ is see ntp.conf and when i vi ntp.conf it says in the file ; server time.apple.com i'm on the east coast and it is set to west coast time and Cupertino, CA time zone all other enrolled macs are getting the script fine and i do not see this log message for others. On this one newly imaged mbpro I am getting the following log message. Script result: Setting network time server to: ntp.blobface.xxx...2015-03-09 12:44:36.026 systemsetup[2384:507] ** -[ADMNetworkTimeClient _ntpSetEnabled:] /etc/ntp.conf doesn't exist. You need to create it first before ntpd can start sucesfullysetNetworkTimeServer: ntp.blobface.xxxNetwork Time is already on.

When creating a policy, does the activation for date and time need to be set? Or can the policy run simply based on it's trigger and execution frequency?

My network guy and I did some work on our LDAP (AD) mappings. I now have the mappings as I want them but I would like to know if there is a magic incantation that will force an update of all my records in the JSS at once with the new data or do I have to do them all individually? Thanks for any help.

Hey everyone- I am looking to update my Self Service with the newest Java update but instead of being easy, like in the past when I could just drop the file from the Java download in Admin, now it is saying that it will not accept it because it sees it as a third party app??!! I have tried going to Composer to build from there but when I loaded the created package into Admin my entire system bugged out and could not find the distribution point anymore unless I took that package out and restarted my server. So all in all my afternoon yesterday was horrible and I don't even want to bring up the Flash massacre that ended my morning yesterday.... Is anyone else having issues with Java or how do you get around this to make my day a whole lot better?!

Mac Mini keeps showing up as unmanaged after enrolling it. I cant push any policies to it. I have removed it and enrolled it again, still running into the same issue.. Thanks

I'm having an issue trying to get Yosemite upgrade pushed out to students with locked down computers.For 10.8 and 10.9 we had it set up to where they'd run a policy putting the installer.app in their applications, and then run a script targeting this the "Install OS X Whatever" executable file to run like so: /Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion.app/Contents/MacOS/Install OS X Mountain Lion& But with 10.10 in the Contents/MacOS/ folder all there is is the InstallAssistant executable. Is there any way to get this to work?