Hi All, Just upgraded to 8.52 from 8.51 & am now getting the below error when launching "Casper Admin." external image link If i launch with shift held down & enter the JSS URL things work fine, then when i relaunch i get the same error.. anyone else seeing this?

I'm looking for feedback regarding the free version of Sophos. We are new to JAMF and are just now setting up our production server and would like to implement virus detection. With 7000 computers in inventory and very limited funds (school district), we are looking for a stable, but cost effective solution.

Wasn't there an option in the jamf binary to start up the VNC server by hand? It is not listed in jamf help anymore and I don't know when it went away. I want to try doing my daily work on Ubuntu 12.04 for a week or so and I need to be able to remotely control Mac GUI without enabling standard VNC preferably. Basically I was thinking to ssh into a machine run 'jamf startVNC' or whatever it (was|may have been) and then run the Remote Desktop Client in Ubuntu. Any thoughts? EDIT: just tested it on a machine and got this $ sudo jamf startVNC Password: The vnc server does not exist at /usr/sbin/jamfvnc ooooh I see, Casper Remote is passing it off to ScreenSharing.app now. hrmm...now what?

Im having issues packaging VMware fusion 4. Ive tried packaging with and without the serial baked in as well as the .release updates to no avail. I had no issues with V.3 Any help would be much appreciated.

Morning glories!!! My jss is 8.4 on Server 10.6.8 and wondering if I could update without the Java Jitters. Thanks in advance!! -P@

Hi Guys, I'm not sure what's happened to our OSX Lion configurations but none will compile anymore. I would like to have added a screen capture of the very long error dialog that Casper Imaging displays but I couldn't work out how to do this. Anyway, I've managed to extract the relevant details from logs. The Casper Imaging error dialog showed the following: Fri Apr 20 14:54:19 Packaging iMac jamf[449]: Installing OSInstall.mpkg...Fri Apr 20 14:55:20 Packaging iMac jamf[449]: Installation failed. The installer reported: installer: Package name is Mac OS Xinstaller: Installing at base path /Volumes/Base OSX Lion NBIinstaller:PHASE:Preparing for installation…installer:%0.000000installer:PHASE:Preparing the disk…installer:STATUS:Verifying the destination disk…installer:%0.000000installer:%0.803461installer:%2.434731installer:%2.434731installer:STATUS:Calculating space required to install Mac OS X…2012-04-20 14:54:42.136 installer[491:908b] Looking for system package

We've been providing reports for some of our analysts, and the Last User data is being questioned as it contains reboot, etc. These are mostly Wintel techs. Is there a way to take the exisitng Extension Attribute and exclude any Last User criteria that isn't really a Last User? Of course I mean if reboot is the Last User, the Extension Attribute should be intelligent enough to show the second-to-Last-User. ;) #!/bin/sh lastUser=`/usr/bin/last -1 -t console | awk '{print $1}'` if [ $lastUser == "wtmp" ]; then echo "<result>No logins</result>" else echo "<result>$lastUser</result>" fi The Wintel techs are like "Why it this so difficult to do on a Mac?" I'm like "Why are Wintel boxes so ugly?" LOL Don

Ok, any script gurus here who can help us cobble together an Extension Attribute to capture and display the OS build number? Please point me to any existing method if I missed it. :) Here's what we have: $ system_profiler | grep "System Version: Mac OS X" | awk '{ print $6 $7 }' 2012-04-19 13:51:15.146 system_profiler[13331:60b] CFURLCreateWithString was passed this invalid URL string: '/System/Library/Image%20Capture/Devices/TWAINBridge.app' (a file system path instead of an URL string). The URL created will not work with most file URL functions. CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath or CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPathRelativeToBase should be used instead. 10.7.3(11D50) The very last part of the output is what we need...not sure what the goobleygook stuff is before it. Is there a better way to get the desired output (in this case "10.7.3(11D50)")? :) TIA Don

Mac has 10 partitions. I know I logged in using my AD account on partition #4. So I image partition #5, and I get this prompt when it's done imaging. How do we prevent this prompt from coming up? AD binding settings do not prompt for user account to be created locally...this seems to be "finding" other accounts on other partitions that are in AD and prompting to allow?! external image link

This script written by Rusty Myers https://github.com/rustymyers/warranty/blob/master/warranty2.sh Can be used with ARD to check the status of a computers warranty. Any way to use it as an Extension Attribute to have it display the status I would think we can just not too sure.

Has anybody tried to compile a new OS of 10.7.3 with Casper 8.43 and gotten it to work? We are still currently using our 10.7.1 compile (last one we were successfully able to make), with recovery partition patch and 10.7.3 layered on top. While this works - it's slow to add and would be nice to cut them out.

We have had some Macbooks come back from repair. They were originally deployed as Snow Leopard machines, but we are now imaging with a Lion image (10.7.3). It was my understanding that we should be able to simply change the image configuration in the Autorun Data to match our current configuration for the particular school we are re-deploying to and netboot. This does install the correct image yet... The issue that we are having is that an old version of the JAMF binary (8.0) not the current (8.4) is being installed on these MacBooks that were already a part of the JSS and were imaged using the updated Autorun Data. This is in turn preventing the Macbook from updating in the JSS and Casper Remote is unable to push scripts to these machines. We are also unable to run a successful recon from the macbook terminal. It gives a "This request requires HTTP authentication" error from the server when it attempts to write to the JSS. We have attempted to delete and recreate the A

I have yet to play with the current version of Self Service, but the HTML piece is not working in 8.4. Does anyone know for sure if that has been resolved?

Is there a way I can remove the auto-run setting from clients via the JSS? This past summer we checked the box for auto-run to remember the settings for reimaging, but now want to strip that so that doesn't happen at reboot/reimage. Any assistance would be appreciated.

I am trying to Net Boot to one of my distribution points in another state and I have a question. Right now the distribution point is syncing with the JSS, so it is getting images and scrpits, etc.. But the Macs cannot see the .nbi file to net boot which is located at the main location. Does each distribution point need the .nbi file loaded on it locally or should it be able to net boot from the .nbi file I have on our main JSS?

I scoped a profile to a smart group and a network scope. However when the device no longer meets the criteria the profile stays. Am I doing something wrong?Thanks!

I just threw this together - mostly as an excuse to play with named pipes. It will tell you if one of the big 3 browsers or non-hidden users are infected with Flashback. *IF* I actually find it anywhere I will come up with something to remove it. #!/bin/bash app_list=() mkfifo result_fifo cat < result_fifo & exec 3>result_fifo echo "<result>" while read -r -d $''; do app_list+=("$REPLY") done < <(find / ( -iname "google chrome.app" -o -iname "safari.app" -o -iname "firefox.app" ) -print0 2> /dev/null) for browser in "${app_list[@]}"; do defaults read "${browser}"/Contents/Info LSEnvironment 2> /dev/null && echo "${browser} is infected" >&3 done for username in $(dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 > 500 { print $1 }'); do defaults read /Users/"${username}"/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES 2> /dev/nu

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Hello, We've just upgraded to the Casper Suite 8.51 and I have a question about the new 'Target Mode' imaging. Is it possible to use Casper Imaging 'offline' to do target mode imaging? Ie, you have the images/packages locally, but no network connection? I fired up Casper Imaging to test this out and was prompted to enter the JSS address and my username/password. We've frequently found ourselves in situations where we need to image computers locally, but without internet access. Thanks, Jeff

I am trying to find a way to reformat a large number of intel drives that were set up with APM formatting while they go through the imaging process. Anybody else run into this one in the past. I have played around trying to get diskutil to do it but no luck changing the underlying formatting.

Hi All, When trying to deploy packages via HTTPS from one of my distribution points i get the following error: "The package does not appear to be on the server (400)" When trying to deploy scripts via HTTPS from the same point I get the following error: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' Things works fine via AFP, also the URL given in the error log works fine copied into Safari on the same macs it fails on... ideas? I've followed: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=158 & https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=116 to no avail. symlink looks good as do permissions (casperadmin owner rw, everyone r only & casperinstall cal r only). 10.7.3 server & client. JSS 8.5

I was curious how everyone is getting data (video clips, pics, docs etc..) off of an iPad to share with others? Right now in my school district, we are just plugging them into a PC and copy/pasting to SMB shares or whatnot. Has anyone used a 3rd party tool (like http://www.accellion.com/) as a "Enterprise" cloud solution?

Hi- Minor annoyance, but thought I'd ask the community in the event someone has run into this or could stand to be warned from it. So I had a proof-of-concept JSS setup in Ubuntu 10.04 as prescribed by the JAMF documentation. I stood up a JSS on Windows 2008 R2 (also as prescribed by the JAMF documentation) yesterday and after wrangling IIS into compliance, migrated my database from Ubuntu over to Windows as prescribed in the documentation for backup and restore of the database. Everything looks like it came over perfect (including repointing clients to the new box and the computer's info picking right up where it left and file attachments to computer records) with the exception of icons in Self Service. They're all broken now. I can certainly re-upload and re-set them, but has anyone seen this? I assume they're in the DB somewhere. Update: It should be noted that in the policies in the JSS web interface, they're displayed properly. It's only in Self

Is there a way to show ~/Library by default on Lion machines?In the User Templates it is unhidden,so the hidden flag must be set when a user account is created. I know that i can change it on a per-user basis,i'd like to change it system-wide though if possible,so when a user logs in for the first time his ~/Library folder is already unhidden. Currently the only way i see to accomplish this is a separate policy running the chflags command on login once per user. Any other ideas?

So since Lion I have always just used CCC to create a base image. I have since decided to use InstallESD and the recovery partition with the new JAMF additional features. Issue is no matter what article I see about InstallESD nobody has a 100% solid answer. I tried InstallESD + JAVA and no matter what when compiling the image it errors out. What is the JAMF supported method for modular imaging with Lion?