Hi all, I have an issue with needing to support new 10.8.2 machines with both FCP 7 & FCP X. Has anyone come across needing to do this? If so can you give me pointers or advice to consider while doing this. Cheers.

Hi folks, I have the possibility of completely re-architecting the JSS setup we have here as the current one has certain drawbacks. So if you were going to completely redesign your JSS set up, what would you aim for in your design?

Hi People, I'm new to casper and have been going through this forum to get a better idea of how policies and scripts work but I'm having a problem with the below mentioned script (which I found here and and have modified it to work in our environment) When I copy it to a workstation and run it through terminal as sudo it all works.But when I create a policy and have the script copied via Casper Admin only the MCX removal files portion of the script is working. The deleting of the home directories doesn't work. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me. Thanks in advance for view and assisting! # Loop through users with homes in /Users; exclude any accounts you don't want removed (i.e. local admin and current user if policy runs while someone is logged in) for username in `ls /Users | grep -v admin | grep -v Shared`doecho "Removing user profile: $username"# dscl . delete /Local/Default/Users/$usernamerm -rf /Users/$usernamedone # Rem

We have some students who for various reasons have had iTunes restricted on their computers. In certain cases, we would like to restore their iTunes privileges but put limits on when they can access the application. I have looked at various options within Casper and have not found a way to do that. Is it possible to limit the times during a day a user has access to a particular application? If so, how? Thank you.

Here's what happened... I had an iPad 2 with a bad display so I backed it up to my computer and took it to the Apple Store. They exchanged the iPad for a new iPad 2. I've restored that iPad from the backup. Here is my problem... 1) When I boot the iPad it tells me I need to set a passcode (which was a requirement of one of the profiles the old iPad had) but when I go into settings I don't see any profiles installed. 2) When I try to enroll the iPad, it downloads the CA Certificate Payload and MDM Profile profiles but it doens't install the Self-Service app and Casper just shows the UDID and no other information for the device (it says it isn't enrolled). If I wipe the iPad, set it up as new and enroll it, everything works fine. Is there some way to get rid of the phantom profile that it seems to be installing with the restore so that I can get my data back and enroll the iPad or am I out of luck?

Hello All, I am testing the install of CS6 with policys. I created two packages to test. 1. CS6 Web prem with the updates installed created with AAMME 3.1 and 2. CS6 Web prem with no updates with AAMME 3.1. The policys I have in place are: 1st policy to cache, 2nd policy to uninstall cs5 and restart, & 3rd a policy to install from cache With I push the first PKG (with updates) with the above method I get two policy logs for the computer: 1st stating it was successfully installed2nd The install failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.) From there I check the console logs and I see errors for indd error code dw023 For the 2nd pkg (no updates) with the above policys method again two policy logs: 1st stating it was successfully installed2nd The install failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.) I che

I am getting the error:The version of “Java” on your system does not include the latest security updates and has been blocked. To continue using “Java”, download an updated version from Oracle’s website. I am running 1.7u11. I found two posts earlier today on Apple's forums of people experiencing the same issue beginning this morning. Are any of you guys seeing this?

Has anyone successfully polled the VRAM information through an Extension Attribute? I have been trying the following script without success: #!/bin/sh vram='system_profiler -detaillevel mini | grep 'VRAM' | cut -d : -f 2'echo"<result>$vram</result>" The command works without a hitch when I use it in Terminal.

Does any one know how I can package this in Casper to stop it from prompting the user to agree to the EULA and if they wish to make Reader the default PDF viewer? I have tried taking a snapshot with these setting already picked but it still seems to ask the user. Also I have also tried the Adobe Customization Wizard XI however on the Mac it only appears to be for Adobe Acrobat, not Reader. It always prompts for a serial code. Any other suggestions?

A week or 2 ago I added a 10.8 Netboot to our imaging options. Today, I realized one of our servers was out of space. Looks like the shadow files created from the 10.8 Netboot set are huge - over 1.5 gigs each. With our 10.7x Netboots, shadow files were under 200MB. Any suggestions? I used the following 2 articles to set up 10.8.2 Netboot. Otherwise, imaging is working as expected Creating NetBoot Images for Use with the Casper Suitehttps://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=307 NetBoot Error: Startup Disk is Almost Fullhttps://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=198 (I did 15 gig) Any help greatly appreciated.

I'm configuring a new instance of Casper at another office location, similar to the one I'm already running at HQ. Problem I've got is that the machine being imaged never finishes up behind the jamfHelper full screen lock. Looking at the clients jamf.log, the last entry is 'Deleting home directory for adobe install...' Subsequent reboots sends it right back to the full screen block also. EDIT: and then after letting it sit like that for a few hours the jamf.log did move on to 'Checking for policies...'. So why so damn slow.... Casper 8.6, 10.7.5 image

General query on Linux JSS 8.62. Anyone else have random spontaneous loss of a mac's department and/or building configuration? If so, what did you find it was? A quick check of our database shows nothing wrong.

Hi All, I'm seeing on a baseline image we have of 10.8.2 a strange issue. After building the image and removing the waste, any user I log into is missing the Finder Menu bar. Either re-starting Finder or opening another Application fixes it. Any one else see this?

I can see that you can pull the OS Build version by running "sw_vers -BuildVersion" from Terminal. I would like to gather the output of this or all the info from "sw_vers" as an extension attribute to build smart groups on. What would be the best way to get this into extension attributes? I see you can build it via a script but still getting into OS X scripting and any help would be appreciated.

There is a discussion over at the AAMEE forum... http://forums.adobe.com/message/4980541 Don

All,When a new OS X machine does a web URL enrollment via the JSS and runs the Quickadd.pkg, is there a way to instantly run a policy? Currently the only options I see are: logout, login, 15 trigger. I really don't want the end user to have to perform a logout or login and not wait 15 minutes for the policy to execute. Any insight or help would be appreciated. thanks

Hi gang, I was an early and successful adopter of Adobe's AUSST tool back in the 1.0 days and had it up and running here no problems. Now, we're looking to recapture the magic from scratch. So I'm setting it up on our Lion server (10.7.5) and not migrating data from the earlier version. Web Serving is already turned on and working (we're also hosting reposado successfully) and I've tried creating both local and SAN-based directories to house the Adobe updates and making sure we have web serving permissions routed to those directories. No love. When launching the command-line tool, we're getting the following error: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/PDApp/Enterprise/utilities/AUSST/AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool2.0.app/Contents/MacOS/AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool2.0 --root=/Volumes/SAN-storage/AdobeSuS * Enterprise update server set up tool 2.0.0.14 for CS 5.0 and CS 5.5 Adobe Updater * Copyright 2009-2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserve

Hello JAMFers, So I am curious if anyone has any experience with running commands from a policy. Basically, my employers have requested I have a video download locally to all managed clients, and have them auto-play the video on a certain day of the week until the end of February. Making the policy to get the video on everyones machine was easy enough, but I am having inconsistent results with the policy I created to run the video. The command I am using is: osascript -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player" to open "Macintosh HD:System:TAX_Center_2013.mp4"' -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player" to play document 1' The weird part is if I run this command manually from terminal, it plays the video every time without fail, but when the JSS tries to run the command, I am getting an error I am unfamiliar with. Running command osascript -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player" to open "Macintosh HD:System:TAX_Center_

I was puzzled as to why spotlight no longer worked on newly imaged machines. After a little digging I found that they all had a .metadata_never_index file at the base of the root directory. This file is put on the disk after imaging during the "Set Name to xxxxx" task. Has anyone got any ideas why this might be happening? Currently working around this by scripting the removal of this file at first boot. Cheers Matt

This really shouldn't be so difficult... Obviously I have several 10.8 clients that are going to need their updates. I just upgraded our dev server to OS X 10.8 (we move slowly here), and despite following Apple's KB articles on the subject here: http://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/10.8/#apdA35B7054-9A0B-427B-9B90-8028A1F0A421 and krypted's article here: http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/using-the-software-update-service-on-mountain-lion-server/, I cannot seem to get the darn thing up and running. I've checked the URL that I'm setting as the CatalogURL in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist: CatalogURL = "http://cletestmac:8088/index.sucatalog"; a softwareupdate -l from the terminal yields: The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1011.) I tried changing the CatalogURL to CatalogURL = "http://cletestmac:8088/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog"; and softwareupdate -l y

Hey all: Completely new to the scene so forgive my ignorance. Right now I'm just trying to build a few configurations (Casper Admin) for imaging new machines. We need Java 7 update 11. I've downloaded the dmg from Oracle's site and done snapshots in Composer to create a dmg package. I upload this into Casper Admin, etc. But when I'm imaging this test machine, all the applications get installed but Java 7 update 11. There's no Java preference pane in System Preferences, and I'm getting Missing Plugin messages in a browser. I've tried with just a base OS and only the Java plugin, but still no go. I assume I'm missing something obvious. Any ideas?

Anyone know how I can enroll a Mac OS 10.3.9 computer into Casper 8.62? I've tried the Quickadd package, I've tried Recon, nothing seems to work. Recon gives a Connection Error: "A connection error occurred: jamf binary failed to install."

I recently purchased Winclone Pro 3.7 to help with deploying dual-boot labs with the Casper Suite, but I am having a problem restoring the Winclone image. Here are the steps I use to create the image:0) Partition the HDD with 3 partitions: Macintosh HD, Data Disk, Bootcamp (I remove the recovery drive so Bootcamp is disk0s4)1) Configure my Windows image on the Bootcamp partition2) Reboot to Macintosh HD3) Use Winclone to create an image of the Bootcamp partition4) Winclone -> Tools -> Make Self Extracting5) Upload the .winclone image to Casper Admin6) Double-click on a configuration in Casper Admin and make sure the three partitions are listed there7) Double-click on the Bootcamp partition and choose to install the .winclone image (ticking re-image this partition)8) Save changes, then netboot a machine and install the configuration Everything seems to install fine, but when the machine reboots out of the net boot, it just boots to a white screen and instead of the Apple logo the

Our 10.6 clients have a separate partition that we push the user's home folder to. Since upgrading to JSS 8.62, we've found that policies that use the "Fill Existing Users" option no longer update the home folders not on the startup partition (worked fine in JSS 8.4). I'm wondering if there's a new JSS setting I've missed. Any thoughts would be appreciated... thanks!

Hi guys My colleague and myself aregoing to an event in December about Adobe Creative Cloud. From what I gather for an enterprise, sales peeps are going to try and sell me Creative Cloud Team Ready. Its for existing TLP customers (were clp!!!) To instead sign up to Creative Cloud Team Ready to pay for licensing on a monthly basis, reassigning licenses, access to new software and cloud storage and sharing resources. Does anyone know anything about this? From what I see so far its management seeing the word "Cloud" and start wetting themselves with excitment of this current buzz word when.... I have CLP I have AAMEE I have AUSST I have RUM If Creative Cloud Ready doesn't work for the above 4 main Enterprise Adobe administration tools, why should I bother convince managment of this licensing option regardless of "cloud"