Can anyone with one of the newer adapters confirm if Apple put the mac address on the packaging or device anywhere via barcode? I suppose it's too ugly to hope for this. We just ordered a whole bunch and dreading plugging them in one by one to get mac address for JSS.

I'm still testing the distribution points I've built out on Windows VMs around the world. Finally have some Macs that I'm testing on the other side of the world.... The issue is I had is a package I pushed failed using http distribution from one site. I've turned off http distributions, and smb is working fine at the site. It is not the usual problem as the symlink in /Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/CasperShare does open the folder D:/CasperShare I was able to test another of my sites yesterday and pushed a package and http downloads worked just fine. I built the sites the same way after the server team prepped the VMs... Any hints as to what I might not be seeing? Thanks in advance.

Is SSH enabled in the SUS appliance by default? If not, has anyone enabled it? I'm trying to download open ssh but our proxy seems to be getting in the way...

Okay, this may sound a bit odd given my shell scripting experience, but I need help. It's probably something stupid. Here's the script I've got: #!/bin/ksh # Filename: mountShares.sh # Purpose: Mount file shares automatically with Kerberos ticket # Author: Jared F. Nichols user=`ls -la /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4` server=`dscl . -read /Users/$user | grep SMBHome: | cut -d '' -f 3` jamf mount -server $server -share $user -type smb defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '<dict><key>tile-data</key><dict><key>file-data</key><dict><key>_CFURLString</key><string>/Volumes/$user</string><key>_CFURLStringType</key><integer>0</integer></dict><key>showas</key><integer>2</integer></dict><key>tile-type</key><string>directory-tile</string></dict>' killall Dock The gist is

I feel like I'm missing something really simple. The Admin Guide nor a jaunt through the Nation here reveal information on creating a custom trigger. Is there an article I'm missing that explains how this feature works?

bonus points for the alliteration in the subject??? Just curious if anyone is getting clever with how you scope out your App installs within self service. I'm debating if it is worth it to create smart groups for machines that do not have an app installed and then limit the scope of that Self Service policy to that group. So basically if you don't have Firefox installed you will see it available in Self Service but as soon as you install it (and fall out of the 'no Firefox' smart group) it will no longer show up within Self Service. Worth the effort?

Hi guys,I'm having problems apply Configuration Profiles to our 10.7.2 clients, they just wont apply.I've met the requirements from the Admin guide but I'm confused why none of the preferences are seen, what is really interesting is when I select a scope and try to add a Individual Computer nothing is listed even though I have 10.7.2 client recorded in the JSS. I've created a group and added a test 10.7.2 client to it to scope the Configuration to it with no joy! Running JSS 8.43 Any help would be greatThanks!

Hey all, I went to log into the NetBoot/SUS appliance today with credentials I had changed from the defaults and I cannot log in. I have been able to since I set it up last week, however now I can't get in. I also didn't get an opportunity to disable some updates, so it filled up the 100 Gb. I provisioned for storage. Could that be some of the issue?

I'm trying to get the status of a policy using the API and a script. I can't seem to extract the text I am looking for. I'm using curl to read the XML curl -v -k -u API_username:API_password https://jss.example.com:8443/JSSResource/policies/id/17 It comes in a long single-line string that I've placed some below. From that string I'm hoping to read what's between <enabled> </enabled>. I can't seem to figure it out. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><policy><general><id>181</id><name>ZombieComputers</name><enabled>false</enabled><trigger>every15</trigger><trigger_other/><frequency>Disabled</frequency><offline>false</offline><category><id>20</id><name>NetRender</name></category><date_time_limitations><activation_date>2011-08-30 16:00:00</activat

What is the exact behavior of the "Automatically Image this Computer the next time Casper Imaging is launched" checkbox? Is it a toggle, or does it reset after the imaging takes place the first time after it is checked?

Has anyone written an extension attribute to pull the file system format of the boot volume, i.e. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) vs. Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled), etc? This may be overkill, but SEP v12.1 apparently has an issue with the "case-sensitive" option - and I thought I'd nip an admittedly unlikely nuisance in the bud, if possible. I believe I can work something out with diskutil, but thought I'd see if others had solved this before...

Setting up a bunch of exam laptops for our upcoming IB exams here at the school and I am having trouble with the byhost prefrences. I need to take off some icons from the top bar and also add different language keyboards. Also all these machines are offline, no internet so was thinking of installing the required byhost prefs after imaging and then as a post flight to run the jamf fixByHostPrefrences -target but its not working, it doesn't actually put the UUID but the MAC Address. So asking the community, have a renaming script kicking around or ideas on how to use the jamf bin 10.6.8 macbooks new (but discontinued) Cheers

I'm setting up an Active Directory connection and it is asking for a service account. What are the minimum permissions the account needs in AD for LDAP functionality?

We have been trying to setup or JSS for Mobile Device Managment, we have used the Push Notification Certificate assistant to generate and import our APN certificate into JSS, the JSS says the push notification has gone through but it just sits on pending. We have allowed the ports OUTBOUND TCP 5223, 2195-2196 from our Apple Server to Internet. When the device enrolls it comes up in Inventory but does not show up all the inventory details, just the UUID of the device. So i went looking in the logs to see if that would provide me with some idea of what is going on and these are the errors i'm getting: 2012-04-11 09:45:06,909 [ERROR] [APNSQueueManager ] - An exception was raised while attempting to send a push notification to device: 35416879c45980ed8c3207ced4cd3e5782011cf62012-04-11 09:45:06,909 [ERROR] [APNSQueueManager ] - Exception (class javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException): Received fatal alert: decrypt_error2012-04-11 09:45:06,909 [ERROR] [APNSQueueManager

OK, so I'm sure we won't have a problem booting the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display (MBPRD) using the Thunderbolt/Gigabit adapter. Will the adapter work with existing MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models? The spec seems to imply so: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A#compatibility Compatibility Mac OS X v10.7.4 or later Thunderbolt-equipped Mac computer Hoping we can drop-kick these Apple USB/Ethernet adapters... ;) Anyone try this out yet? Or is it too soon to know? PS, yes I just ordered one but might not get here for a few weeks... PS2, and yea, I'm sure we'll need to exclude these in JSS too... Don

We have encountered several scenarios in which profiles are not properly installing after a machine is re-imaged. In the JSS, it will show that the profile has been successfully installed in the time since re-imaging (Completed Command in Management History); however, there is no profile on the machine. Restarts don't seem to help. What we have done to successfully fix this is: remove the computer from the JSS and use the QuickAdd package (I believe we created this with Recon) to add the machine again. This appears to work. Is there a way to fix this on the server side so that we don't have to manually remove and QuickAdd computers after we re-image?

Sorry if something like this has been posted before. I did a couple searches but didn't really see anything. I work for a school district and this summer we are re-imaging all our labs and any classroom computers for upgrade purposes. Our issue is 1) we currently only have one distribution point, and 2) most of the switches these devices connect to aren't gigabit so imaging even just a half dozen computers at a time can take hours, and the more you add, the slower it gets. My question is, would it be possible to set up a Macbook Pro / iMac / Mac Mini as a distribution point and move this computer around to different rooms (mainly the labs) to possible speed it up slightly as well as relieve some network congestion?

Does anyone know if it is possible to launch the Acrobat updater from terminal or a script? I am trying to see if it is possible to script this and have it in Self Service so that standard (non-admin) users can just run it to make my life easier. At the moment i am not having any success. Jody any chance of making Acrobat easier to manage?

We are brand spanking new to Casper and our Jumpstart is in a few weeks. I'm setting up a Mac Mini OS X 10.7 server and running through the Casper Admin doc. It wasn't clear to me if I needed to install Tomcat, but since it wasn't part of Lion, I decided to install the Tomcat binaries from tomcat.org.I installed it in /Library/Tomcat, but then I read the in the Admin Guide that JSS installs Tomcat in /Library/JSS/Tomcat. Should take out my Tomcat install?

I'm able to pull database and table info from MySQL but not sure how to do a full inventory dump, including applications information. Is there a clif note floating around that we can reference? I'm a little rusty from my Xinet days, but I was able to pull the database and tables as shown below. Thanks,Don $ mysql -u jamfsoftware -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 11751 Server version: 5.0.92-log Source distribution Type 'help;' or 'h' for help. Type 'c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | jamfsoftware | | test | +--------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> use information_schema; Database changed mysql> show tables; +---------------------------------------+ | Tables_in_information_schema | +--------------

I want to pull a report to see the network status, or Active Directory binding for the active machines in JAMF. I was looking at extension attributes and just tried to pull an advanced report showing AD under display but it seems to be unreliable. Is there any extension attribute or way to poll the machine to see if it is joined to the domain.

Hi Jamfnation- I'm a netSUS appliance newbie, and I'm having trouble with the Java 2012-004 update that was released yesterday. Basically, I've enabled that update on the appliance in my root branch, but clients are not seeing it.If I enable or disable other updates on that branch, the changes are reflected on my clients, so I'm at least fairly sure I've got my branch url correct.Anyone have any ideas on this?

I added a URL "plugin" in Self Service. It's my webmail login page which is hosted on a 10.6.8 server so it's just the default SquirrelMail page. The text boxes for username and password come up black in Self Service but they come up fine in Safari. Anyone else seen this???

So, I'm trying to do some /etc/authorization shenanigans that I can't get sorted. Spent like 3 hours on this last night. Our Macs are bound to our Active Directory, users are setup as a mobile account. They will NOT have admin rights (woooo hooo). The problem is, many of them travel. So, changing things like date and time and timezone are things they're locked out of as they're not admins. In comes /etc/authorization shenanigans. Here's my issue: I can't seem to get the ability for local users in the admin group (don't plan for them, but there may be a case for the need to have one) AND AD accounts to be able to unlock the pref (and other ones that I want to do like Energy Saver). I've tried changing the group that can unlock to "everyone" but that doesn't seem to be working. (10.7.4 here). If I log in as an AD user and do an id -g, "everyone" is indeed listed, but it doesn't seem to actually work. So, I though

I'm having problems net booting to some devices now. I've got a new Mac Mini with lion but i need to redo the net install image. It seems that the Casper Netinstall app thats in the resource kit doesn't work with 10.7. Anyone know where to go with this? I've seen some people mention about a new Casper Workflow!