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We have imported our Casper 8.73 database onto a DEV JSS server in order to test upgrading to Casper 9.x. However, we want to first verify that we have a fully functioning 8.73 cloned environment. We've made most of the recommended changes for migrating to a different server, but we when attempt to enroll a device: https://dev-casper.mydomain:8443/enroll I get prompted for credentials (as expected), but then after hitting "Login," it redirects me to https://prod-casper.mydomain:8443 to download the PROD QuickAdd package. Where is this enrollment QuickAdd package download URL found in either the JSS or the jamfsoftware database? I did use Recon to create a QuickAdd.pkg specific to our DEV environment and it's sitting in our DEV CasperShare/packages/ folder, as I'm assuming the enrollment process downloads it from the CasperShare. Server: Mac OS X 10.8.5Casper Suite 8.73

Hello, I should preface by saying everything I know about Mac Administration I've learned in the past 5 days, and I should probably mention this is an Active Directory integration. Our users reside in a server 2008 R2 active directory domain with a single domain controller (it's a small office). Currently (it's Windows right now) they write roaming profiles and folder redirects to a synology diskstation in our wiring closet. I'd like to point the Mac 'profiles' to a share I've setup on that diskstation. I've been tasked with getting a fully functional Casper / JSS setup up and running. Part of this is getting 'mobility' running. I think I can discern which directories need to be synced, but I have no idea how to make this happen given the interface I'm presented with in the mobility configuration profile. How do I define a destination disk, and how do I define a separate directory for each user? I've looked all over but the

Dear Friends, Good morning. I am in the process of making a 10.8 image use with Casper Imaging. I am looking to create an image that only show’s Casper Imaging and not the rest of the Finder. What I am looking to emulate is the user experience that the Deploy Studio Netboot Set gives. Has anybody “removed” or suppressed the Finder in this way? If so how did you go about doing it?

Hi there, I'm trying to check in a script if the screen of a user is locked. I don't want to display a message with jamfhelper while the screen is locked so other users could click the buttons of the message (for example installing software updates with reboot). One attempt is to use something like this: import Quartz; d=Quartz.CGSessionCopyCurrentDictionary(); print d (source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11505255/osx-check-if-the-screen-is-locked)This works when testing on a local machine but does not work with ssh or policies. I only get back "None" as a result when using it with SSH or Policies. The other possibility i found is to check if the screensaver process is running. But this does not work when the display is going off because then the screensaver process stops too and the message is displayed immediately after revoking the display. Does anyone has a working solution to check if the screen is locked? Thanks.

Hi. I know there are tools out like Packages that allow you to modify the Installation process of an PKG as you would like to have it (text and background).Is there any way to do this on for example the Quick-Add package? Thanks,Maik

I want to create a customised OSX Installer that I can use with Casper imaging to get a really clean install of OSX onto each mac. My workflow would be to get the latest point release, use CreateOSXInstallPKG to bundle it with a couple of packages and roll it out using Casper Imaging. Is it the case that this method can only be used to upgrade a mac to a newer operating system as opposed to installing on a formatted disk? How would I use Casper Imaging to get this pkg to install against a blank hard disk?

Before I submit a bug. Can anyone out there running 9.24 confirm that you can't clone a configuration profile?

Hi there, Has anyone had any success running GUI scripts through the Casper Suite as part of a recurring policy? I'm writing a script to automate the migration from a WPA2/PSK network to a WPA Enterprise network in an environment where the endpoints are not domain joined. The problem I'm running into is the part of the script that's responsible for clicking the AirPort menu bar icon and selecting the preferred SSID is not executing when run as part of a policy. I can make the exception by modifying the TCC.db SQLite database from the script if I run the policy with a manual trigger from ARD, (ARDAgent is given access to control the computer). It also works if I run the script manually from the command line. I've tried making exceptions to the TCC.db database for com.jamfsoftware.jamf.agent, com.jamfsoftware.task.Every 15 Minutes, com.jamfsoftware.jamf.daemon, and com.jamfsoftware.startupItem. I've also tried wrapping the script in a payload-free package and m

We have using that we want to be able to use Caper Remote but not have full access to everything in the JSS database. I am trying to figure out which privileges need to be given to the users, an LDAP group. They were given everything from Auditor and Enrollment as well as everything under Casper Remote. When users try to use Casper Remote to install a package or just tell stations to install updates they receive the following error: “There was an error creating resources on the jss”. What could I be missing? Is it having trouble creating the logs?

Anyone having issues uploading large file to Casper Admin? We use JDS as our distribution platform, when uploading the Mavericks installer it fails with an error 500, which I can't find any details of, also logs look ok. Any ideas? I did find about manually adding a file then running sudo jamfds inventory, but this seems like a walk around not a fix.

I have deployed 10.9 using an image without Apple ID. Every now and then the users get a prompt to sign in with their Apple ID - the "cancel" button has to be clicked on some machines at least 8 times before the window goes away... Did you find the daemon or something like "defaults write com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool true" to kill that prompt?Or is it practicable to enter a single corporate Apple-ID in a base image for deployment - just to get rid of the prompt? Thanx for you help and thoughts!

So we have just ordered 1850 MacBook Air computers for our school district. Now apple is gonna asset tag and image them at the factory with a image I have made. So it will have the JAMF helper on it. Apple will then send me a file with all the info from the computer (asset tag, serial #, Mac address, etc.) I know that when come on online on our network they will report some of this info but the asset tag and who it assigned to will have to be entered manually. Is there any way to import the file that apple sends me so that info will not have to be entered manually. Thanks,Brian Weeks

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in an environment where end users have administrator privileges? We are currently throwing around the idea of making users admins and restricting a majority of software and apps, like terminal and Torrent applications. We currently don't have a dedicated Casper person to update and manage packages and it also would be a big perception booster for IT. Also, a major portion (read: all) of our end users aren't very savy with the computers - which is another reason we are really considering this. Can anyone think of a reason to not allow end users admin access if we add a blacklist of applications and have smart groups that show us if anything changes? I would love to hear opinions and criticisms!

Hi everyone! I know its possible to create a smart group based on com.jamfsoftware.osxenrollment. However at the moment, all of our machines have currently been enrolled this way. What I plan to do is to separate the process for user initiated and recon enrolled machines however I'm having to do it by excluding the UI group from existing policies but at the moment thats excluding all my currently enrolled machines too. Is there an easy way to remove com.jamfsoftware.osxenrollment from the install history with a script? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Dave

I upgraded my JSS to 9.01 from 9.0 on my Casper OSX 10.8.4 server last night its about midday today about 12 hours and it still says JSS Start up : Checking for tables to rename anyway to resolve this issue? thanks

Has anyone been able to get SCCM 2007 R2 Task Sequence Media (i.e. WinPE) to boot via USB on an iMac? For imaging our dual boot iMac labs we currently use DeployStudio (but are beginning our move to Casper next week) for the Mac side and SCCM for Windows. However, as we only have SCCM 2007 R2 and not R3 or 2012, we don't have the option of pre-staged media. I've seen plenty of posts about how to use pre-staged SCCM media to install dual boot Macs using Casper and WinClone, but to use that we'd need to upgrade SCCM so would like to confirm there isn't another way before we commit resource to that. Currently we use CDs but this is slow, and trickier now given that new iMacs don't have optical drives. We've had to rule out SCCM PXE boot as it conflicts with Netboot and other services on our network. We've previously had no luck getting SCCM USB's to boot on Macs, hence us having to resort to CDs.

We have no managed profiles, no configuration profiles, no policies set at login or log out. What boxes do I need to check or uncheck to make that stupid pop-up window go away and my staff not take 1 to 2 minutes to log into their macs. This is actually ticking me off and its my program! LOL I have worked with JAMF tech support on this issue 2 different times and they have not been able to tell me what is causing this either.

I was wondering if anyone on the forums is using the JAMF SCCM plug 2.0 and what their experience has been so far. We are in the middle of getting it configured and it has been somewhat difficult. If anyone has any tips or undocumented workarounds please post or contact me off list. jbush (at) expedia (dot) com

Casper Admin is not showing the dock item for Google Chrome. I have tried running Casper Admin on multiple Macs with Chrome installed with no luck. Ctrl-click - options - leave in dock did not make a difference. Does anyone out there know how to get all dock items to show up, or perhaps a workaround?

We are looking to have a script run at logout that rsyncs the data from a Users (AD user) local Documents and Desktop folders to their shared drive that is already mounted on their system. The script that I had gotten working in terminal works well as it rsyncs the data just the one way from the local to the user share. I think though I need to modify it to use the $3 variable so Casper understand to run it on user logout and not system logout as this keeps failing. I may also think about trying to have it rsync the contents of desktop from the share back to the local desktop on login. We are doing this specifically for our elementary school students so its almost like redirection without using redirection lol. Any help would make me very grateful. Here is what I got with help from Ben Greisler:#!/bin/sh#By Ben Greisler ben@kadimac.com July 23, 2012klistuser=whoami #echo $klistuser pathb=$(echo `dscl localhost -read /Search/Users/$klistuser dsAttrTypeStandard:OriginalHomeDirect

For some reason, the JSS has started pointing machines to an incomplete URL for Apple updates. We use Apple's default, no SUS has been configured in the JSS but this is the log I get, both using policies or with the Remote app. Setting Software Update Server to http://:/index.sucatalog for all accounts... Installing all available Software Updates... Result of Software Update: Error: Could not connect to the server. Software Update Tool Copyright 2002-2010 Apple I've run the command sudo jamf removeSWUSettings just in case but since manual update works, I doubt it has anything to do with the machine prefs. I'm running out of ideas… Thanks

I have a user that wants to install AEM 7.1.1 (December '13) on his CS6. I ran Adobe RUM, but he said it didn't update to the 7.1.1 version. I so went back to AAMEE and told it to create an update pkg. The AEM only updates to 6.0.8. So I took the downloaded copy of teh AEM 7.1.1 and told it to add update, but it wouldn't because it wasn't supported by that version of AAMEE.

I feel like I'm missing something simple here.I'm imaging Mac laptops with Casper imaging. After installing a custom OS, my configuration is set to install Office 2011 followed by a couple of update packages.The configuration finishes and everything except for the updates get installed. Only base Office gets added. I'm using v 9.2 of imaging. Priorities seem to be set right too. Am I missing something? Thanks.-John

Is there a way to search for computers by Application version? I want to know which computers do not have Google Chrome version 33. I see you can search by Application but not by a specific version.