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.

Gawd please let there be bacon at JNUC. http://youtu.be/xSVO5VloDlc

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.