Sending Wake On LAN command...Opening SSH Connection to 10.226.56.109...Authenticating...Successfully authenticated.Verifying Computer's Identity...The MAC Address has been verified.Checking Operating System Version...Running Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E2617)Verifying /usr/sbin/jamf.../usr/sbin/jamf is current (8.52)Verifying /usr/sbin/jamfvnc.../usr/sbin/jamfvnc does not exist.Verifying /Library/Preferences/com.jamfsoftware.jamf.plist...Preparing Policy...Executing Policy 2012-09-06 at 5:56 PM | andres.triana2 | 1 Computer...Downloading BOM for Computrace McCann LatAm 2.pkg...This Apple Package did not have a valid index.bom file. Assuming it is a flat file package.Downloading http://10.226.56.36:80/CasperShare/Packages//Computrace McCann LatAm 2.pkg...Error: The package could not be found on the server.Submitting log to https://10.226.56.36:8443//...Finished.

Hello All, I am trying to push the latest version of Java that Apple released just a few days ago. I thought it would be enough for me to download the .dmg from apple, remove the .pkg file and drop that into composer and make a new .dmg file. When I assign this to a machine and check the logs after a while, it appears to have run, but Java doesn't appear to be on the machine. If I check the Jave Preferences in Utilities, I then get prompted to run download and install Java from Apple. What am I doing wrong? Joe

The last couple days our JSS Server has had problems with Tomcat becoming unresponsive overnight after a VQ_LOWDISK warning on the OS volume. Restarting Tomcat brings the JSS back online and with a cursory look at the server I can tell that there's a lot of hidden files on the volume, but there's still about 10GBs of free space. I haven't had a chance yet to do any investigating, but wondered if anyone else had seen this behavior before. Server has been up and running for almost a year without issue. Thanks! Xserve - OS X 10.6.8 Server, JSS 8.4

Hi folks, I have combed thru the white paper on Mtn Lion using FV 2.I see how the target user is chosen at the time of deployment, either mgmt acct/current/next user. Keys are generated stored based on any of those 3 settings. What I dont see described is how continued administration is done. For example if I wanted to add/delete a user or AD group on the fly, how can that be done? Can that be done?

I'm having trouble getting passed the setup assistant prompts for MS Office 2011. I've used the pre-made template settings to create keys for username, initials and setup complete but it doesn't seem to matter in 10.6 or 10.7 operating systems. Has anyone else had this trouble? Any help would be appreciated.

HiHow can I find the passhash for running a recon command like this:/usr/sbin/jamf recon -username 'username' -passhash '%e4%cg%k&%d9%oo%%%%%' Thanks!

How do I go about having self service check the macine for software, and if its installed (prior to self service installed) to hide the option to install it again?

Hi guys I am having a problem with mcx sidebars in 10.8.1 and was wondering if anyone else found the same problem Scenario Step 1 So I did the normal thing with an os of setting the finder and sidebars and finder preferences and dragging mounted server volumes to the favourites section of the sidebar of the finder. I then logged in as root and copied those prefs to the User Template, captured with Composer, corrected permissions, created pkg and added to the build. Step 2 I am using WGM for MCX and noticed that after the build and the user loggs in mcx works because I can see some managed settings taking effect. The problem is in the sidebar I do not have showing the mounted server volumes. Please note to rule anything out I am only using mcx to manage the login window, login items and to disable the home sync for mobile accounts and that is it I am not even touching Finder mcx or importing sidebard prefs. Step 3 If I unmount the mounted volumes and then mount them again

Looking at this -- http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/critical-java-exploit-spreads/ -- and wondering if anyone out there is crafting policies to disable Java in the various browsers of choice. We're thinking about it. Thought I'd see if anyone else is doing anything before we start getting serious about it.

Hi everyone, I'm new to the world of Casper and have setup a trial of 8.6 while I wait for the product to be purchased at work. I've setup policies and smart-groups and have linked the LDAP Server Connections to our internal AD server which works fine for delegating permissions to who has access to the web portal of Casper. Question is how do I go about setting up a package to deploy to a end user based on the computer object being part of a AD group? All Mac's are bound to AD and i'd like to replicate the way we deploy packages on windows with Casper for Mac users. The idea behind this is that our service desk reps only need to add computer objects to defined security groups in AD for the application to be deployed. This is how it's currently setup for our windows users and it works well. The Self Service portal will be expanded in future but for now we are only going to host printers and possibly some freeware apps while we manage package deployment for l

Hi Everyone how do i use JSS to put the app file on all user desktop. Need instruction in detail cause i am a beginner.thanks in advance

Hi all, I am looking to set up an Inventory Search to identify system running our Windows Image for I can set up a smart group of those particular systems, I am thinking I will need an Extension Attribute - has anyone done something similar to this before? Thanks Matt

Hi, I'm from Portland State University. When I re-image computer, their names are not set. ComputerNames are blank and HostNames become localhost. Can you tell me what did I do wrong?

Hi everyone When trying to make a shockwave package using composer v8.6 it's not overwriting the version thats already there. When I delete the file from Internet Plugins folder it installs fine. To make the package I have tried dragging the pkg into composer and also creating a normal snapshot. I'm fairly new to this and Mac admin in general is there something I’m overlooking? Thanks in advance.

We use AD to authenticate our users for login. The users should be made local admins during the account creation (when they 1st login to the Mac). In the district this works fine. When the user gets a admin prompt they can user their username. However, I'm hearing that when they go home, this isn't working. Does the Mac authenticate to AD each time?

I'm sifting through the NetBoot logs for clues, in the mean time one of our NetBoot servers is being moved to the server room so it's connecting directly to the switch (proper segment of course). Has anyone seen this strange "throbbing" (as it was described to me over the phone) icon, when holding OPTION key at reboot (since holding N does not work)? Once the NetBoot server is moved and I have access to the NetBoot logs, I'll have more info, sorry for posting early without the expected details... :) external image link

After distributing an iBook with VPP codes through Casper JSS to a set of iPads, how do you release a code for use on a different iPad? For a school, how do you release the codes at the end of the year for reuse the following year? Thanks for the help.

Hello Everyone! I am having a major issue when running my enrollment profile (from the JSS) inside configurator. The issue is that the devices (30 in a cart for this example) do not all have a WiFi IP address when it tries to apply the JSS enrollment profile. The issue is that when you reapply a supervision (IE changing apps or anything) in Congfigurator, it RE-installs all the profiles I have checked. When it reinstalls the WiFi profile, all the WiFi radio's drop the SSID, and then all at once they move to re-obtain an ip address, then because of having no inet connection the enroll profile fails. If a valid WiFi signal is NOT required for this to work correctly, please let me know. Currently my JSS Enroll profile contains a SCEP payload. Again if this is not required, any help would be great!

Anyone having a problem with Casper Admin 8.6 whereby after opening Casper Admin 8.6 and simply quitting it without any other action taken results in an extra "https://" being inserted into the url string in com.jamfsoftware.jss.plist?? I've submitted to support, but thought I'd chuck it out there.

I'm hoping this is an easy question and perhaps something I missed in the JAMF documentation. Is there a way to target extension attribute collections to specific workstations for testing purposes? Thanks!JS

Hi Folks, we have a problem with Casper Imaging NetBoot on a Lion-Machine. We configure a basic OS X Lion, using System Image Utility, choose this configured Lion as the Image-Source and adding the CasperImaging Workflow to the end. We can start from this Netboot-Image, but no Launchpad, no autostart of Casper Imaging. How do you solved it? Thanks,Holger

We have several Distribution Points. For some reason Casper Imaging is defaulting to the Master Distribution Point. In other words the Use Distribution Point popup menu shows the Master even though the Mac is on the same subnet as a different Distribution Point. I seem to remember Casper Imaging being intelligent enough to auto select the closest Distribution Point? We are still on Casper Suite 8.43 (let's not go there)...I checked JSS settings and I don't see an option to "Always point Casper Imaging to the wrong Distribution Point". [color=blue]<tongue-in-cheek>[/color] Is there a setting I'm missing? Do I need to feed Casper Imaing a café latté for it to wake up? TIA Don

Since it was brought up in another thread, and someone else mentioned they are seeing this on occasion, I though it best to start a thread for it. Since moving to a Windows based SMB distribution point, I am seeing the following error, specifically with a logout triggered policy: Error: Could not mount a distribution point The shares are fine in terms of permissions because they can image fine. These are AD bound Macs running 10.6.8. At login their AD SMB network share mounts, and we mount two additional SMB shares with policies. None of those shares point the same box as the distribution point. This one will drive me nuts if I don't get it sorted out.

I have a room full of Lion 10.7.4 machines. They were imaged and joined to 2008r2 AD a few months ago. I'm in the process of reimaging them, but they won't join the domain. All I get is the "Node name wasn't found. (2000)" error. This happens if I do it from terminal with jamf bind or if I do it through the the Login pane. I went back to a machine that was on the domain, and I unjoined it and tried to rejoin, and I got the same error. I've checked the date/time on everything. I've tried deleted the AD computer accounts, and I've tried prepopulating the AD computer accounts. It has randomly worked a few times, but I can't figure out the pattern. What else can I do?? School starts on Monday... --Daniel

When I image it seems as though only the computer name is getting set when I name a machine using the prompt in Casper Imaging. I'm not sure if this is the expected behavior - but -my- expected behavior (maybe a bit misguided) is that it would not only set the Computer Name, but the hostname and the local hostname to match. Am I way off here?