I have a very uncomplicated workflow setup in Casper Imaging: it basically binds the computer, names the computer and updates the inventory. Everything in this workflow works fine, but the binding which does not work at all. I started out today running JSS 8.64 (out of date I know, but it's summer) and I was not able to get any of our Macs to bind to the server. I have since updated to 8.71, created a new Netboot image that is up to date (OS 10.7.5) and has Casper imaging 8.71 running on it which has had no impact. I still can not bind. I attempted to add the bindToLDAP.sh script to the workflow but that didn't work either. I changed the priority to 1 for the bind through JSS and tried the same with the script. I am at the end of what I know and I am looking for help. If any of you have had similar situations and know a way out, I would appreciate it. Thanks,Dan

Hey there, best community in the world: We have Casper set up on our internal network, everything working pretty much as we like it. The request now is to make Self Service available to our users outside our network. I've read the article at https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=174, which discusses setting up a second JSS, in the DMZ, and pointing it to the internal one. I may be missing a whole lot, but would it not be possible to just move our current Casper server (JSS and Distribution Point on the same box) into the DMZ and be done with it? Thoughts?

I was hoping to know if anyone can tell me how to give more RAM to tomcat on a headless linux server. I feel really stupid posting this since I am a CJA :(

When Erase Target drive is selected the actual image is not getting installed to the selected drive. If the option is unchecked the image goes through fine. This is happening on version 9.31. Anyone run into this before?

I've found a few scripts claiming to do this, but cannot find one that works. Any thoughts? Going from appleworks 6 to word formatting and in batch. Have a few teachers with hundreds of old appleworks documents that i don't want to convert by hand. Gabe ShackneyPrinceton Public Schools

Hi all, So I've got NetSUS set up on Linux, and created a NetBoot Image using NetInstall Creator (https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProduct.html?id=13&view=info), using Casper Imaging 9.4 When I go to image a machine, it erases the disk, tries a block copy of our OS base image. It seems like the block copy doesn't do anything because it "completes" in a few seconds, and then it goes back to erasing the disk again, and then proceeds to install all the packages but fail on every one. It also fails to reboot, and there is nothing installed, no OS, nothing else. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here? Actions from Casper Imaging log: Initializing Imaging Process... Mounting https://jds-01.ourdomain.com/CasperShareDAV/... Preparing disk for block copy... Performing Block Copy of 10_9_4_base.dmg... Cleaning up after block copy... Erasing Macintosh HD... Installing 10_9_4_base.dmg... Installing 1Password 3.8.22.

I am planning on setting up a test/beta environment to prepare for the next version of Casper and OS X 10.0, along with patchoo. The MacMini running OS X server and test Macs will be on their own VLAN, so it is just a matter of getting the JSS configured correctly on the Mac mini. I have an external drive that has a Carbon Copy Cloner bootable backup every night. Is it a good idea to turn off MySQL on the production OS X Server and do an updated clone and then use that to image the MacMini or am I better off doing a fresh MySQL install? Thanks! Corbin

In large environments we've always had different environment, so we can do testing and development, for example: • JSS (live environment)• JSS-TEST (testing environment; clone of live environment)• JSS-DEV (new/beta version testing) My colleagues and I were discussing the possibility of using the new Sites feature as a way to do testing (where we've always used JSS-TEST). Is anyone here using Sites for testing? If so, how has it been working out? Good? Bad? Any gotchas? Of course once we start kicking Sites around, we'll post our experiences, hoping to get some feedback before we do. :) TIA,Don

Hi,Just wondering how did you guys manage to fix it. I am upgrading from 10.8.5 to 10.9.4 and after upgrade, I get prompt inside Network Preferences. As soon as I click on it, it says - external image linkThis happens when I upgrade from older versions. When I deploy new image it works fine. Seems I am leaving something from the old configuration that is causing this to happen, but I can't manage to find what is the root of this problem.And yes, I don't want interface to be enabled, so I am using: security authorizationdb write system.preferences allow security authorizationdb write system.preferences.network allow security authorizationdb write system.services.systemconfiguration.network allow and then networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled "Thunderbolt Bridge" "off" Still nothing works...Has someone encountered this before?

We recently upgraded from 8.73 > 9.31 and one of the things we noticed is our once-per-computer policies were running again on the computers as they cut over to the new JSS. We suspected our policy logs were being dumped on re-enroll. Thanks to our JAMF sleuths (Tim H and Dan K), we ran some tests and it looks like we may have found a bug. If we pull a JSS Summary we see: Flush history on re-enroll fase However, MySQL shows the opposite: $ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 1264 Server version: 5.5.36-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) Copyright (c) 2000, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or 'h' for help. Type 'c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> use jamfsoftwa

While syncing the home directories we are getting the following error message.{There is a problem syncing the file "file.txt"You do not have permission to sync this file. You can check your permissions in the Info panel in the Finder.}However, at the end of sync the file is successfully synced to the file server. The file is on Desktop and syncing to Windows server. On mac the user has Read & Write permission by default.

Hi everyone, I am having issues Screen Sharing incompatibility between my workstation and user's workstations preventing Casper Remote from working properly. For example, my Screen Sharing version is 1.5 and it wont connect to a user with 1.4 . I'd like to make a smart group to get a definitive list of who has what version of Screen Sharing in order to aid my troubleshooting, but I cant find a way to sort by the version number for Screen Sharing since it doesn't live in /Applications .I tried the method linked here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3445128?tstart=0 , but it doesn't work since system/library/coreservices isn't indexed by spotlight. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, -Mike

There is plenty of documentation on ways to distribute iBooks to iOS devices, but I require a way to distribute iBooks to users' macbooks and self service would definitely be a preferable way to do this. I am currently using composer to package the iBook and then adding a postinstall script to open the iBooks file so it is added in to the user's ibooks library and then delete that ibook from the install location. This does work, however an easier way to do this would be preferable.

Hey guys, When a user upgrades from 10.8 to 10.9 the system finds the Thunderbolt bridge interface. So every time the user goes into network it will say "device found Thunderbolt Interface" The only way to get rid of the message is to use admin creds. Does any one have an idea on how to deal with this? I would think a pref file could be changed or something. Thanks!

Hello, I have a weird question. I was wondering if there is a way to display a PDF (or something similar) when a user first logs in to their computer. I am looking for a way to send messages to users outside of their email, since students are not the best at checking there email.

Hi Everyone, I am currently running a upgrade of our Production server after taking the necessary steps to clone the VM, backup the DB and also snapshot the Virtual Linux server before running the upgrade. The JSS is running on a Redhat Linux Server 6.x and the MySQL DB is roughly 31GB located on a seperate drive. I've since run the linux upgrade at 6:30pm it is now 10pm (sydney time)I've looked at the JAMFSoftwareServer.log file and there is no entry after 18:32The last entry of the log is 2014-01-11 18:32:47,569 [INFO ] [Table ] - Altering column purchasing_information.enrollment_profile_id... When accessing the web url it's been stuck on Updating encoding for applications (Step 2 of 3)...Converting 11.61 GB... Do not restart your JSS. The progress bar looks like it's stuck but the animation of the progress bar is still moving. How have other fellow system administrators faired with there upgrades?How long did the entire upgrade take? T

I'm setting up VPP for the first time in a JSS of under 50 users and see that for now VPP works only with iOS. Is it feasible to use Profile Manager in the short term, then later on when Casper supports Mac OS VPP revoke the apps from Profile Manager and then start to use Casper for VPP for these same purchases?

I am a very confused new MAC admin. We went to MACs and JAMF Casper Suite because it had applications to help automate the process. the only thing that I have learned recently is that I need to take a scripting class and avoid composer. Help. The two apps that I am working with are Flashplayer 14 and OpenDNS ( I know that I need to contact their enterprise support.

Hi, I just started a new job about a month ago and the previous tech had a handful of Macs managed by Munki. I have no experience with Munki at all, so forgive my ignorance. Unfortunately, he did not leave any documentation behind. The problem I am having is that these Macs that have been managed by Munki have a bunch of preference panes in System Preferences grayed out. I cannot seem to undo this permanently. Here's what I've tried that has not worked:- following the steps here to uninstall Munki: https://code.google.com/p/munki/wiki/RemovingMunki- how to flush MXC cache settings (but the Macs I manage run 10.8 or 10.9 however I still tried this with no luck) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3540 The closest I've gotten to removing these MCXs was deleting the /Library/Managed Preferences folder. That worked until I rebooted than all those settings came back. If I remember correctly, Munki doesn't manage Macs like Casper meaning I don't think there's a

anyone know a way to disable the Chrome SharePoint plugin (that Office 2011 installs) through MCX or policy? It doesn't seem to load correctly so the user always sees "Could not load SharePoint Browser Plug-in". thanks!

I do a fair amount of manual queries directly from the 'jamfsoftware' database utilizing applications like Sequel Pro/MySQL Workbench and I am having trouble converting or getting the epoch time from the `computers_denormalized` table into something that is usable for reporting. I am running the below but am getting NULL values in return: SELECT `computer_name`,FROM_UNIXTIME(last_contact_time_epoch,"%Y-%m-%d") AS 'last check-in',FROM_UNIXTIME(last_contact_time_epoch) AS 'last inventory update'FROM `computers_denormalized` I know I could use the GUI or manually copy and paste the epoch numbers into some online converter but I am looking for something that I can do right in the sql code. Are there any sql gurus out there that could help? Thanks!

I tried to push out an application with Casper without problem, but when a user first launch the application, the application will prompt the user to enter the configuration / preferences (which should be common to all uses) and eventually saved to each individual users' ~/Library/preferences as plist. Assuming that I can duplicate this plist for all users, but how can I push this plist with casper allowing it to be copy to the individual user's preferences, when the user first launch this application.All helps will be appreciated.

Aside from the issues with the kernelcache in 10.9, has anyone successfully gotten 10.9 set up to use a RAMDisk?There was an article from the University of Utah on how to do this for 10.6. This worked even through 10.8 but I can not get it to work in 10.9. It just reboots the machine like there is a problem with the rc.netboot file. Seeing as how Apple continually revamps the internals of the OS, I'm wondering if it is still possible to set it to boot to a RAMDisk. Here is the relevant article: http://www.macos.utah.edu/documentation/administration/setup_netboot_service_on_mac_os_x_10.6.x_client.x_client/setup_netboot_service_on_mac_os_x_10.6.x_client-diskless_netboot.html

Hi all, we have an issue where, when netbooting and asking disk utility to partition/erase/unmount the Macintosh HD, there is an error that the disk can not be unmounted. Anyone had this before? Any solutions please? The Mac OS used to create the NBi is 10.9. If you'd like any more information let me know. thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

Hello, I have created a policy to push a local account to all of our enrolled computers. I have labled the Username and Full Name as "Student". The issue is that our students can not go into that account and change the name to their name. After speaking with customer support they do not know of any scripts that would allow a standard user to make the change without a Admin password. So I am coming here to see if anyone has created a script or has seen one that will allow students to change the name of their account.