What type of asset recovery/tracking software do you folks use? Basically we are a medium sized school district considering going from just a few hundred iPads to doing an iPad 1:1 pilot program, and I'm trying to cover all the bases. Sure there is Find my iPhone, but that was primarily designed for consumer use from what I know of it. I want to see what other folks in both the enterprise and the EDU sectors are using. If you are using Find my iPhone, feel free to tell me about how. Privacy policy and issues with tracking? Do you folks not track the devices and handle it through your legal department (i.e.. a signed contract to receive one)? Feel free to discuss this asset management aspect in any way you feel is relevant. Thank you in advance.

Is it just me, or do you have to quit and re-launch Admin for this option to reckognize a newly-added package?

Are any of you out there in JAMFNation are using custom /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.jamfsoftware.task.1.plist for different groups? In the environment where I am I have three production groups that I'd like to change the check-in times from every 1/2 hour to once a day. (presently they have scripts that run on startup - check-in and then remove the framework - problem being - machines don't get restarted often...) Also thinking of setting a report day/time. Would there be any issues you could think of setting this schema up - besides installing the plist as a post installer script?

I get the impression that it's not possible to do this, but just wanted to confirm: Is it in fact possible to get 'Removable Mac Address' information via the JAMF REST API? Thanks,R

We have a script setup that prompts to enter a new computer name. It runs after login after imaging, and the account logged in is the local admin group that is setup somewhere in the process. I am trying to make a newer image that functions the same way as the existing one, but I'm not sure where to place this script. It is placed in Applications/Utilities after image and I believe is removed after it runs. Sorry if this is a basic question. I have tried reading the documentation and doing some searches but I am having trouble understanding the way imaging for the Macs works and unfortunately no one else here knows.

Ok here it is; I have sent this to over 20 people on this list so far and still I have been asked for it. So I have decided to post it here. It works just fine for MacOS X 10.6.x built-in CiscoVPN. You can also use it with Casper Policy for quite deployment. You can get the logo from the link below for Self Service.http://rocketdock.com/addon/icons/14259 Please read the beginning of the script for instructions. Script can do with the tidying up I guess... Enjoy Cem #!/bin/sh # This script configures built-in VPN (Cisco IP Sec) for logged in user. Server, Shared Secret, DNS Search Domains and Web Proxy # Requires JAMF framework and "yourcompany VPN.networkConnect" package to be installed to the "/Applications/Utilities/" first. This file will be removed after. # To edit this script, do "command - F" from your keyboard and use "Replace & Find" function from your favourite text editor. # Simply replace "yourcompany" to your co

Hey, guys: I've set up a Mobility Configuration Profile to "Create mobile account when user logs in to network account" for our Open Directory (10.6.8). Of course, being a User Level profile, this doesn't get applied until after first login. So the first time we log in with a network user it creates a network account, then the Configuration Profile gets applied, so the next time we login, a proper mobile account gets created. This is okay, but is there any way to get the mobile account on first login? Lemme know your thoughts! Michael

Hey Guys, Has anyone run into an issue deploying CS6 Web and Design Premium as part of a configuration? I normally deploy CS6 as part of a configuration when rolling out a computer lab, but since I upgraded to Casper 8.64 I will not deploy it anymore. The process takes its natural course, up to the point when the machine reboot to finish installing the software in the adobeinstall account, which installs other application in the configuration like Symantec Endpoint Protection and ADmitMac, then just reboots without deploying CS6. Here is the error message I am seeing from the install.log: Mar 24 01:46:11 ADT-MLDESK-01 installd[5995]: ./preinstall: AAMEE Installer : Exit code of AdobeDeploymentManager is (79) Mar 24 01:46:11 ADT-MLDESK-01 installd[5995]: ./preinstall: AAMEE Installer : Exit ... Mar 24 01:46:11 ADT-MLDESK-01 install_monitor[5999]: Re-included: /Applications, /Library, /System, /bin, /private, /sbin, /usr Mar 24 01:46:11 ADT-MLDESK-01 installd[5995]: PackageKit: r

We're about to flip the switch on a load balancing situation, which is the "best practice"? Change DNS entires on the network so that the load balancer takes the name of the previous master JSS? Or change the JSS URL within JSS itself under Global Management Framework Settings to the current Load Balancer name? We're trying to do this as seamlessly as possible with clients not re-enrolling into JSS. The first choice I worry about other services that maybe using the original DNS name and breaking (i.e. my distribution point replication scripts), but with the 2nd option I worry about having to re-create new certificates for the new load balancer and things internally with JSS that I'm not aware of breaking when I make that change. Thoughts?

Does anyone have a successful script that imports a prebuilt VM into Fusion While keeping the list of vm's that are currently in vmware.? The deploy documents from vmware don't work and the jamf ones don't talk about this.

Hello. I noticed that the existing Guideline to package VMware is not up to date to the latest version 5.Can anybody tell me how version 5 is packed via Composer? Thanks a lot.

I've created a test windows distribution point. Made local accounts for both casperadmin and casperinstall. I've replicated my main distribution point to the test distribution point on the windows vm with CasperShare on drive D. I was pleased when it succeeded... When using a boot drive that kicks off Casper Imaging, I see the site, but it can not mount it... My debugging showed that I can mount the CasperShare on the VM using my credentials (smb://servername/CasperShare), but can't using either casperinstall or casperadmin. Do we need a service account in order to be able to mount these shares over the network?

Does anyone know if the github netsus project will install on redhat? If not is there a documented method to setup the netsus environment using redhat as the base OS? Thanks.

Just a friendly heads up that Java 7 Update 25 has been released. http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=78698

We're trying to migrate our Workgroup Manager preferences to JSS and we're not finding managed preference templates for a lot of our WGM settings. Here are a few of the keys I've found in our WGM configuration that I can't find equivalents for in JSS. Can anyone help me find these? *com.apple.finder- ComputerViewOptions_Arrangement- ComputerViewOptions_IconSize- ComputerViewOptions_ListIconSize- ComputerViewOptions_ShowRelativeDates- DesktopViewOptions_Arrangement- DesktopViewOptions_IconSize- IconViewOptions_Arrangement- IconViewOptions_IconSize- ListViewOptions_IconSize- ListViewOptions_ShowRelativeDates *com.apple.LaunchServices- LSHandlers- LSHandlerContentType- LSHandlerRoleAll *com.apple.mcxprinting- AllowLocalPrinters- DefaultPrinter- RequireAdminToAddPrinters- RequireAdminToPrintLocally- ShowOnlyManagedPrinters- UserPrinterList-Raw- FooterFontName- FooterFontSize- PrintFooter- PrintMACAddress- RequireAdminToAddPrinters- RequireAdminToPrintLocally- ShowOnl

We slapped together a crude Extension Attribute to gather Outlook 2011 Identities folder sizes.We know this can be shorter and "smarter". Any advice from the scripting uber-gurus? :) #!/bin/bash echo "<result>" UserList=`dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 > 500 { print $1 }'` for u in $UserList ; do results=`du -sh /Users/$u/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/* | grep -v "[Back" | grep -v ".plist"` echo $u $results done echo "</result>" exit 0

I'm trying to create an OS Package for 10.8.4, but I'm not having any luck. When I initially ran Composer, it would be mounted and I could select that to build the package with. After trying to create the package, Composer closes without any messages. I saw the dmg file show up momentarily once, but no trace of it since. After restarting, when I open Composer now it is not mounted, so I am getting a message "There are no available volumes on this computer." when I select Build OS Package. I have tried mounting my Casper share also but it doesn't become an option in Composer. I tried searching around, but I couldn't find anyone having the same problem. Has anyone tried or been successful creating an OS Package with the last tools and OS versions?

I downloaded Adobe CS5 Installed Products.composer from the jamf website I cannot get this to open in composer how do I do this?

Hello, jamf nation . . . I've been happily using an MCX setting to enforce the password prompt when machines come out of the screensaver through 10.7.4, but it appears that the current dev build of 10.7.5 and retail 10.8 no longer respond to that setting.Has anyone found a way of turning that setting on and not allowing users to turn it off on those OS revisions? Is this possible to set with a configuration profile? The MCX I currently use: Domain: com.apple.screensaverKey Name: AskForPasswordKey Type: integerApplied as: User Level EnforcedValue: 1 Edit: forgot to mention that this only applies to machines imaged with 10.7.5 and 10.8. Machines that have had this MCX set on a previous OS rev like 10.7.3 that are then upgraded to 10.8. or 10.7.5 do continue to have the checkbox greyed out. Weird!!

I have been having this issue with binding my computers to AD via Casper Imaging and I wanted to see if there was a solve. I have been looking at the discussion board, but it seems that I havent been able to find the problem. First, this is what I am trying to do: Using Casper Imaging:- I have a base image that I am using that has a Wifi Profile installed in the Admin account. It is a System level profile. We are using Radius and have it set to install a certificate from AD and stores a randomly generated wifi password in the keychain- I have a configuration setup in Casper Admin to install the image and bind the machine to AD. - Casper imaging is on its own network segment and all of the machines are connected via ethernet to image. The problem:- The computer doesn't bind to AD at imaging time - I have gone into the logs and I get the following error: "An error occurred binding to Active Directory: dsconfigad: The plugin encountered an error processing request

Any advice would be greatly received... I have a user in a remote site that needs to see the Casper Admin Management Framework Under Settings in our JSS, but I do not want to grant full management to the user. Can anyone point me to the correct combination of access Privileges to grant this? As I can't seem to... Thank you, Neil

Is it possible to use iCloud as an SMTP relay? I've used the correct credentials and settings from this KB: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864, but I keep getting the "Unable to verify SMTP Service" error. Thoughts?

Anyone know how to disable Multicast Advertisements in Mountain Lion? This used to work in 10.6 but can find anything on Mountain Lion http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3789#

I mean, really? Timeout is set to a very high number, and no changes made to JSS, but Safari is acting like it had ganja brownies for lunch. Is there a known issue? How do we stop JSS from timing out in Safari? Don

Basic question. We will be using configuration profiles to bind our machines to AD and pass them over to the Certificate Authority on our new AD server to pick up a 802.1x cert (root - machine level). (As per this thread https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=209). My question is; "Does this require the JSS to possess a CAL? from everything I know about AD (not much) it won't, but I didn't know. If anyone could give me an idea I'd sure appreciate it.