Do I need to upgrade MySQL to 5.5.x before I upgrade the JSS to 8.51?I am running JSS 8.43 on Mac OS X Server 10.6.8.I am currently running the version of MySQL included with OS X, 5.0.92. Eric

When trying to setup a clustered DMZ server as a computer only JSS I get thebelow error: Could not write to /Library/JSS/Tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml Any ideas? Both servers are 10.7.3.

Hey all, I wrote a script to add users to a certain dscl group and I was wondering how can I get an interaction pop up that says "Please Type in your Name" and the name is then saved as lets say $name?

Hiya all, Anyone install "Security Update 2012-001" & "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7" and survive the reboot?Running Server 10.6.8 and the JSS is 8.4 Thanks in advance, -pat

For folks that have operations distributed (globally?), what have been your decision points when determining if you need a DP in a remote office vs the users there simply coming back to your JSS for their needs? I'm talking things like available bandwidth, latency etc Thanks!

Hi Gentlemen,Recently I have problem netboot new iMac. They seems to ignore the netboot server but my old iMac stills works. I was told I need to update the NetBoot Image so it can recognise the lastest hardware. I am not quite sure what to do at this stage. Can someone point me a direction or any other suggestion?Thanks.

Remote login is on and remote management is also on, but I do not know how to script in Computer settings and set "Anyone may request permission to control screen" and also "Show Remote Management status". I need this so when I go to control users machines it will ask for permission. Thanks

I have a custom script that I cobbled together to determine if the PolicyBanner file is in place. This is then scoped against to install the PolicyBanner via a package.http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4788 The original version of this script works just fine. As soon as I added the <result> brackets and input it into the Extension Attribute (data type=string, populated by script) it doesn't seem to work. Testing the logic by removing/renaming the file does not update in the Inventory report.Anybody care to tell me what I did wrong? :) #!/bin/bashls -alh /Library/Security/ | grep PolicyBannerif [ "$?" = 0 ] then echo <result>Yes_PolicyBanner</result>else echo <result>No_PolicyBanner</result>fi

Can anyone give advice on how to display a dialog/notification to users which includes a clickable URL? displayMessage and jamfHelper are not working out for me, unless I'm not using the right syntax or formatting. AppleScript? thanks,Darrin

Hi folks, we use Casper to get Informations about installed Plugins for indesign CS5 and Incopy CS5. My Problem is how to get the Version of the Plugins if they are build as a framework? That means the Info.plist is not in Contents but in Versions - A - Resources. Any ideas? Hope you understand what I mean. Thanks Thorsten

Does anyone have a quick rundown of the pros and cons of using vendor pkgs as opposed to making a snapshot pkg? Aside from lacking something like JAMF DMG's ability to set preferences for new and existing users by populating existing and new user prefs - are there other pros/cons to using vendor packages vs. snapshot pkg/dmg?

Hello everyone! Our CSO has tasked us with installing Sophos(V7.3.9) onto our iMacs on our network. Our consultant has created an MPKG that has our settings included within it. I am trying to install it onto a test machine and I have had little to no luck on anything. I can successfully click through the install, but with 50+ machines to hit, that would be a little tedious. I have taken the MPKG and uploaded it onto Admin.I have set it to FEU and FUT. Policy install/Imaging- I can't get it to install. The logs state that it can't find the directory "/Library/Application Support/JAMF/Downloads/Sophos Anti-Virus.mpkg" and exits. The permissions for that are system RW ad that is it. I don't know if it would be in my best interest to script out a pre-install permission change/ownership script for that directory and have a postinstall revert to the original settings. Composer- When I add it as a source, there are a slew of added scripts that come

* Can't BROWSE for Windows Printers * Good day to all. Our Macs are joined to our AD domain. Our Windows Server printers are shared out through AD. Our Macs used to be able to browse for the shared Windows printers in the Add Printer dialog within System Prefs. Now, all of the sudden, our Macs cannot browse the Windows printers. Only a few printers show up. This happens on both 10.6 and 10.7. I didn't change anything on the Macs so I'm not sure what the problem could be. Apparently the Windows clients can still browse for printers. Do you have any ideas?

With Apple trying to convince publishers to move their software to the app store I'm finding myself in an awkward situation and wonder how others are handeling it. Vendors are producing apps that I can't seem to legally purchase in quantity let alone distribute. Apple's VPP codes work great on their products but what happens when I want to purchase a quantity of paid for software? Worse, I want to distribute it to students at my Academy who don't have admin rights on their computer. Sure I could approve their users so that they could download whatever they wanted from the app store without requiring administrative access, but that's not really something that we're totally comfortable with though we are 100% for the students owning the apps thereafter (BYOD Program currently) This is not primarily a technical issue (though it's a component). Has anyone had any creative thoughts on how to handle this legally AND efficiently?

Hello, How do I have an app launched after it is installed by Casper remote without user interaction? Running "open /path/to/app.app" or "sudo -u [shortname] open /path/to/app.app" in a pkg postflight.sh didn't work. Running "sudo -u [shortname] open /path/to/app.app" from the advanced tab in Casper remote works sometimes, however running this command from a script does not. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

Hi all, I have a couple of 10.7 clients with two partitions on the internal disk. "Macintosh HD" with OS X 10.7.3 and a "Users-Volume" Partition with the user home folders. I can't use Casper Imaging out of the box to partition the disk, because it has already two partitions and Casper doesn't seems to change anything. For sure, I could walk from machine to machine and use the Carbon Copy Cloner feature to create the Recovery HD with an external disk. But I would love to find a way using Casper Imaging/Netboot. Thanks, Yann

Hello, I have been crafting an Apple Software Update policy this week and have run into a few issues. I am running a reposado master with cascaded slaves for remote sites. I have set the update servers in the JSS for the various network segments. I have two policies so far and a smart-group that searches for machines with more than 0 updates available. The first policy just notifies the user that they have updates available and to launch Software Update through Self-Service. The second is the Self-Service policy that is set under packages to "Set Server" and "Install all Software Updates". The first policy works just fine and notifies the user. The second policy works, however it still pulls the updates from Apple rather than one of my reposado servers. I also noticed that it doesn't modify /Library/Preferences/com.apple/SoftwareUpdate.plist. Should it update this for you, or does it use another method? I will open a ticket with JAMF, but was wonderi

Hi Guys, Any idea how to have the setting: Show a message when the screen is locked that can be found under the security preferences pane, enforced via mcx? I've the loginwindow text either enforced via MCX or a config profile, yet this setting is not ticked?

Hello everyone, On all of our Lion machines we're unable to mount an AD users network home folder. The network homes will not mount with the AD plugin or manually through the Finder. We could always mount network homes through Finder in Snow Leopard. Personally, I think it's a permissions issue on the Windows server but I'm not exactly sure how things should be set up on the Windows side of things. Have any of you had this problem? Jamie BellApple Technology SpecialistThe Westminster SchoolsPh: 404-609-6345

I see the Limit this policy... option when applying policies. I know it says users but does this apply do AD computer groups as well or only user groups?

Getting this error when trying to load Casper Remote "The server that Casper Remote received data from does not appear to be a valid JSS. Please verify the address and try again." All our computers that use casper Remote are getting this error now. Casper Admin and the JSS both are working fine, but nobody can launch Casper Remote. JSS 8.43 - Has anyone seen this before/can offer any assistance? RegardsJohn

Hi, I need to set up self service at 3 different sites, with a total of 200+ users. However, I need to restrict the applications each users can see and install in self-service. Some of the applications we are using are on a per user based licence and we don't want everyone to be able to just download these as they feel like it. Can this be done with the current groups that are set up in AD (as the casper suite is integrated).or do i need to set up a separate group structure just for self-service. And counting in this being quite achievable, can I please be provided with a basic how-to just to get me started as I have only started working with Casper for a couple of weeks now. This would be a massive help.. Thank you!

Another \\- NOT A CASPER ISSUE \\- but one hopefully I'm the only one facing### We are in a dynamic dns project here so users can get to their systems via its name. The goal is to parallel what they are planning to do in the windows world on the Mac. What they are planning to do in windows - in the Advanced TCP/IP Settings (windows) - on the DNS Pane: Radio button - Append these DNS suffixes (in order) mycompany.com prod.mycompany.com client.mycompany.com Have the dns suffiix for the connection be: client.mycompany.com,Register this connection's address in dns (checked) Use the connection's dns suffix in dns registration (checked) I have no problem getting the search domains to systems. I don't know how to get these systems to register with DNS (yet)There are 10.6 and 10.7 clients around the company. This command below fails under 10.6, /usr/bin/net doesn't exist in 10.7:/usr/bin/net -n mycomputer -W client.mycompany.com -P ads register I fo

I'm using the following to try to extract computer information out to an XML file. Via Terminal (command wraps in this box): curl –u username:password https://jss.domain.com:8443/JSSResource/computers/name/jafuller674382/subset/General&Location&Extention%20Attributes –o "/Users/jafuller/Desktop/jafuller674382.xml" I need to get the data from the General tab (works), Location tab (doesn't work) and Extension Attributes (doesn't work). Can you clarify what syntax would be needed here?

Has anyone tried making the Lion InstallESD.dmg as the OS image for Casper?I know you we can deploy Lion via Self Service but I want to use the InstallESD.dmg at the Imaging Configuration. This is what I have done already;1.Upload InstallESD.dmg into Casper Admin. 2.Clicked the Info tab and select the "This file is a disk image containing an installer (Mac OS X or an Adobe Installer/Updater)" option. Configure the Imaging configuration with InstallESD.dmg as the OS and firstBootScript to run 'At Reboot' for admin user creation etc.. Imaging went fine but after the computer restarts it goes to Lion Setup window showing "Use English for the main language". Anyone tried this method and had any luck?