Good afternoon fellow JAMFanatics (TM?) ;) As I'm sure many of you are, we're stuck deploying Mavericks to the new model MBPs, Airs, and Mac Pros. For our portables, we're getting complaints about the new 'feature' that the user sees in regards to the policy update popup when they log into their Macs and they can't contact the JSS. (For reference: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=8777) In an effort to curtail that, I'm planning on modifying our standard settings script to disable this check if the machine is a portable. However, I can't seem to find an easy way to determine if it's a portable or desktop. I know system_profiler can be used to pull the model number and whatnot, but I'd rather not try and grep/awk and build a nested if statement if I can help it. Does anyone know a command or another method to easily return if the machine is a portable? If not, I'll write up a script to determine it and

Sorry for a noob question but I have a hard time to extract a string from another string and I'm sure one of you geeks has a simple answer for this. I have a string like "domainnameusername" that I extract from a plist using defaults read. I got the domainname with cut -d '' -f1 but I can't get the username. I tried cut -d '' -f2 and cut -d '' -f3 and cut -d '' -f2 and I always end with an empty string. I'm sure it's all about escaping but I don't know enough yet to figure this out. Thanks,Dirk

We are looking for a skilled JSS admin to help with a few projects on our JSS. We can discuss details if you're interested. The work we have could be done anytime so if you're looking for a little extra side work this might be just the ticket.

I'm trying to document the communications flow between Casper, APNs, and the client. The only thing I'm not clear on is the interaction between the client and APNs. Does APNs notify the client, or is the client checking in with APNs on a regular interval. If the later, what is that interval?

I pushed out an update for silverlight yesterday, and a group is complaining it broke their app. So need to remove the current version of SL and install the previous one. I indexed the pkg and told casper to remove it, however, when I try to push the old version down it returns an error: Installation failed. The installer reported: installer: Cannot install on volume / because it is disabled. installer: A newer version of this software already exists on this disk. I found this on the silverlight page - but it didn't seem to help. Access your hard drive Double-click the hard drive icon on your desktop Find the plugin Navigate to your Internet Plug-Ins directory: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ Remove the plugin Drag any of the following into your trash bin: Silverlight.plugin WPFe.plugin

I have setup the SUS on the appliance with the following details: Base URL: http://sus.fqdnStore updates on this SUS: ticked I then pressed the Sync SUS button and let it download 50GB of updates overnight, the Dashboard shows that amount of SUS Disk Usage. I created a new branch, but there are no packages listed in there to select. I tried creating new branches and setting on as the Root Branch, but still no packages appear in branch screen. I ran another sync, but it didn't change anything. I SSH'd into the appliance and I can see that it is creating .sucatalog files in /srv/SUS/html/content/catalogs for each of the branches but their contents are as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>ApplePostURL</key> <string>http

Hey all, Did anyone else get an email from JAMF with the above Subject? This was in the body: On March 14, an unknown source maliciously gained access to your primary e-mail address on JAMF Nation through a previously unknown and unintentional information disclosure on the website. .... I ask cause me and anther guy at work got the same email at the same time.Just wondering if anyone else getting this and if it's legit. Thanks,-p

I have followed the instructions sent to me by support. But system image Utility cannot find a source to create the net image. I am creating on mid 2012 Mac book pro. Followed the instructions from Apple and Jamf to create. Creating the .dmg on 10.9.2 , copied to machine with server 10.9.2 but it will not recognize the mounted drive as a source. help!

Hi all, I just finished moving from a JSS 8.72 on an old Xserve to a new 9.25 Ubuntu JSS install. I followed the directions here:https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=122 Everything went very smoothly up until I started testing. Any existing devices, enrolled in the old JSS, are not getting any of the push commands. Newly enrolled devices work fine. I put a CNAME record in our internal DNS for the old JSS server pointing to the new JSS A record. Same for our external DNS. Deleted the old JSS A record. I did regenerate a new, self-signed, SSL cert too. The Self-Service apps also works fine for devices; Self-Service is pointing to the new server. I feel I'm missing one piece?? Thanks,Patrick

I am having trouble with imaging using JSS 9.23. The machines will boot off the netboot server and pickup the correct autorun settings but when I click on image it acts like it is going to imaging goes through erase hd partition drives and then it quickly goes though the block copy then imaging hangs on ensuring system files are hidden. I have tried different images and updating the casper imaging version on the netboot image. the netboot is also diskless since I though that might be an issue as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated with this one.

Please pass this along! We are reviewing resumes right now. We are hiring two full-time Help Desk employees to support and all-Apple campus. Casper knowledge a huge plus. Must be very strong in Mac OS and iOS. Pass this along to anyone in the eastern PA or tri-state area who may be interested! Thanks! http://home.moravian.edu/public/hr/jobs/ClientSupportAnalyst%203-10-14.html

How Do I upload an EA to JAMFNation?This I probably obvious, but I've been messing around for half an hour searching for something I should probably know. Any help Appreciated.

I have a weird issue that pops up every once in awhile. I built my netboot image per the JAMF instructions on an external USB3 drive, ran composer, than used SIU to build the nbi. I made sure the build numbers were exactly the same, and then copied it up to my netsus server's NetBoot folder. Double checked the files by running an md5sum on each one to ensure they matched up, and they did. However, when I attempt to boot the system I get the following error: boot file path: IPV4(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/MyNetboot.nbi/i386/x86_64/kernelcache'... Error loading kernelcache (0x17) If i take the drive I used to make the image, it will boot on any machine I currently have available without an issue. I tried rebuilding the nbi three different times, yet I'm still getting the same error. What am I missing?

Our library lab likes to use the desktop picture as a means to advertise upcoming events. The Windows computers are set to look to a network share, to which the library staff have write access. That way, the staff just drops the image in the folder, and it changes the desktop. On the Mac side, I've been using a Casper policy to push out the image and the com.apple.desktop.plist file, but I'd like something more akin to what the Windows side does. The Macs are bound to AD, and I have been pushing the .plis to /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. -tep

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I've never had issues installing Flash updates prior to this (using the Adobe Flash Player.pkg located inside the Adobe download) but I'm getting errors on test machines like: Installer: Install failed: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. I thought it was Gatekeeper at first so I shut that off and am met with the same result. I'm able to install via the GUI Installer just fine. Anyone else seeing this?

Anyone have a good method or suggestion on how to collect Java version on clients? My method (which isn't working) was I wrote an extension attribute. But...even though the command works manually on the client, no information is collected in the JSS. I've verified that the client is executing the Extension Attribute by examining an output file after performing Recon (sudo jamf recon -saveFormTo /pathtofile). I see my other Extension Attributes - and I see that it runs the Java attribute - but no information is being collected. Here is my attribute:Data Type: StringInput Type: Populated By Script #!/bin/shecho "<result>java -version</result>" When run locally (manually) you get this output:java version "1.6.0_29"Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11-402-11M3527)Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.4-b02-402, mixed mode) Any ideas on the best way to get the Java version in Inventory? Thanks! Sean

When searching the inventory of the JSS 8 (and prior), the search feature used to allow me to search, for example, 'lab' and everything with 'lab' in the device name would appear. Now I'm finding it difficult to quickly search out an iPad, say I need to provide a serial number of said device, without running a report. In 9, it seems that searching 'lab' will not provide a list of devices with 'lab' in its name unless that is the entire name of the device. We frequently use the search to find repaired device serials numbers, etc. by searching device name. We have configured our iPads so that they all contain student's graduation year and student's name in the device name field which made searching exceptionally useful. Is this an intended function or is there a feature somewhere from 9 that I can change the search box back to 'like' if that is the case?

I have a physical NetSUS server we started with, and an appliance. The physical server has a 250GB drive in it and has used 106GB storing updates. I can't rsync the data over to the new virtual appliance, because the OVF makes a 100GB drive. Can anyone help witha) Resizing the partition on the applianceb) Removing the unneeded updates?

So it looked like a simple idea. Use /System/Library/CoreServices/System Image Utility.app to create a NetIntall.nbi that will run my Casper QuickAdd.pkg. So follow all the rules with a fresh Install Mavericks.app from AppStore (10.9.2) with customization to add the package (and automate the install). Install works but comes back and says that it can't install some packages on the target drive (/Volumes/Macintosh HD). I went on to try scripts, other install packages but nothing is working. I did even rebuild the QuickAdd.pkg and make it relocatable (the first one was not) and hard code the paths in the postflight script (also changed it to post install script and built flat). Anyone have this working or any ideas how this might be made to work?

Hey all, Recently, I took over the primary administrative role for JSS/Casper Admin. I am having my first bout with Adobe products. Let me tell you...it is not fun. EDIT: I suppose I should mention more information. I am running Casper 8.73. I used AAMEE to package the original DMG up so that I could deploy it with JSS. I was wondering if any of you might have run into this error in the past and could provide some insight. /usr/sbin/jamf is version 8.73Executing Policy Adobe InDesign CS6 Test...[STEP 1 of 3]Mounting afp://jss.cerner.com/CasperShare to /Volumes/CasperShare 2...[STEP 2 of 3]Copying Adobe InDesign CS6 PKG_Install.pkg...Installing Adobe InDesign CS6 PKG_Install.pkg...Installation failed. The installer reported: installer: Package name is Adobe InDesign CS6 PKGinstaller: Upgrading at base path /installer: The upgrade failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.)[STEP 3 of 3]Running com

I’m looking for a solution to prevent the Messages application from launching between 7:50 am to 2:15 pm Monday through Friday. What is the best solution?

For new machine deployments, I'm looking to move away from Casper Imaging and go to a self-enrollment (user or field tech). So after the user/tech boots, downloads the QuickAdd, enrolls, and triggers the deployment policy via the Enrollment Complete trigger; how do you destroy the first account that the user created? Seek and Destroy user ID 501?

i re-imaged two machines as normal (10.6.8) but first deleting the machines because i had to rename them. It seems ticking the always managed account is not turning on ssh it just set permissions for you admin account but doesn't actually turn it on and so lots of things fail! I have logged in manually and enabled them. Also in JSS i cannot what ever i do recon these two machines now! I have even gone to the extreme of jamf removeFramework on them but get error. Then looking in the JSS i have all details for the two machines blank even computer names etc.

I tried to boot the newest MacBook Air from a standard 10.8.4 imaged external drive (thunderbolt, and USB) and it got the universal "no access" symbol. So back to the drawing board creating a new image from scratch. Anyone else experience this? I guess there is some internal significant change in architecture that prevents the booting from previous hardware.