Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
I just had a bit of a hiccup in my CC2015 deployment when I was rewriting some scripts and dmg's. I noticed that I had a double in my illustrator folder, and the stock joboptions weren't being deleted according to my script:So it looks like the Finde... View more
So we use the Global Protect client for our vpn. One of the issues we have with this is that the thing seems to loose the ability to reconnect after being constantly suspended or put to sleep by our laptop users. Its not enough to kill the process to... View more
Dear JSS Community, Just trying to see how everyone managing Java updates these days? Appears new releases of Java no longer have a .pkg file to drop into Casper admin and apply policy. I have tried using composer however this doesn't appear to work.... View more
Hi all, Is there an easy way to remove the Wifi Menu icon via Casper? I found a thread from a year ago but didn't really understand what was said in it and was hoping things might have changed since. Composer doesn't seem to catch it and there's noth... View more
Hi! We installed Adobe CS6 applications on our design lab computers following the guide posted here:https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=161 ... and Illustrator CS6 Version 16.2.1 won't pull fonts from the Fontbook when they are instal... View more
When you run the Office 2016 installer, you can click Custom and uncheck whichever apps you don't want. I want to deploy Office 2016 on Casper without Outlook and OneNote. If I just use the installer directly, I assume all the apps will install. If I... View more
HI Guys, any easy & simple apps to stay on the top right menu bar, so users can quickly lock their screen? thanks! View more
I am in the process of writing a short script and need your help. The script is pretty simple. The aim is to first search and see if a specified process (processName=$4) is running. If it is, echo a string that states that it is running. If the speci... View more
Hello! We use JAMF to manage our Graphics department. Most of the packages we build are plugins for After Effects. I've heard conflicting suggestions from colleagues/JAMF Nation discussions about the best method of packaging everything. We are in the... View more
Hi all I have been tasked with making an uninstall script to remove all Lync data and files for an user. This is primarily to resolve Lync issues we often have in our organisation, and we would like to have a working script that a user can just run v... View more
I am not sure what is going on but I have been pulling my hair out because I made a post install script in composer, and when I used a double dash it autocorrected it into a longer dash (??). It looked like a regular dash when I went back to edit so ... View more
Does anyone have any successful experience of this? I installed Prism v6 into /Applications, created a StartupConfig.xml file (as per the advice here) and placed this under /Applications/Prism 6/, then captured this in Composer. However, when I insta... View more
My colleague @Nielsen discovered this. One could add this in a script that get's executed after installation of BBEdit. defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.plist 'BBEditSerialNumber:11.0' 'SiteLicense'defaults write /Library/Pref... View more
Hi there, I'm trying to chain two steps to setup new computers :1/ Install Chrome and Slack, which have their packages auto generated, updated and cached thanks to autopkg2/ Once both are installed, run a script to set the dock in a clear state with ... View more
When I try to install using /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --applicationpath "/Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app" --volume "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" --nointeraction it returns Error: could not find OSInstal... View more
Hello! I am trying to package the GradeCam plugin for use by teacher workstations in our district, found here on step 2: https://downloads.gradecam.com/ The file is packaged as an .app, and the "traditional" approach of following through with the ins... View more
Hi I upgraded to 9.96 yesterday.Today i want to create a new quickadd package but i can't use Recon anymore.Simply not opening. Konsole says: Recon: Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting OSX 10.10.5 any Ideas?Also tested with another user, not w... View more
Worked this out with @rtrouton based on both his installation script as well as the one located at cobbservations.wordpress.com Wanted to offer Xcode 8 (requires OS X 10.11.5 or later) to our user population via Self Service. Downloaded the Xcode 8 i... View more
I have the macOS Sierra GM installed on a VM and any time I run the command: sudo jamf fixPermissions -verbose I get an error: Fixing Permissions... verbose: Error executing command: ( "/usr/libexec/repair_packages", "--repair", "--standard-pkgs", "-... View more
So this seems to be a computer specific issue, some laptops can install the DMG's and some cant. Removing the MDM and re-enrolling corrects the issue. Was wondering if anybody could possibly shed some light on this issue? View more
Apologies if this has been asked before....Im a little fried right now and seem to be going in circles... I have setup AutoPkgr successfully. I am attempting to test run a AdobeFlashPlayer.jss recipe and am getting an error of: 'Error Running recipes... View more
Just updated to JSS 9.96 and like every other upgrade I grab the Casper Suite folder, and put it here: "/Applications/Utilities" then I capture it from that location with the composer within the install DMG.When the files are pushed into composer the... View more
Hi i was wondering if anyone has deployed Parallels 12 with the following restriction Locking down what images they can use Password Protect it so new images cannot be created by users . i was advised i can do this by a console but i cant seem to fin... View more
Time has come to reach out to the community of experts. I'm trying to push out Egnyte Desktop Sync to all my client computers. The vendor package is a DMG that contains an Installer.app file. Just after some ideas on how to manage and deploy a DMG li... View more
I've been using our JSS (version 9.93) to push apps out to our labs (running Mac OS 10.11.6.) I have one app that has been giving me trouble - the Prinergy Evo client. It installed fine in the VM I used to create the package, but when I deploy it to ... View more
Good afternoon everyone, I have a question and I'm not sure if its possible. We have a couple of computer carts in a school with multiple users on each computer. Each one has the same multiple users, but each one has 5 users (one for each grade). I w... View more
Hi, everyone. I've recently joined an ad agency where we finally are upgrading about 40 Mac Yosemite users and a few Windows users (but using SCCM; not Casper) from Adobe CS6 to Creative Cloud, using CCP for packaging and Casper for deployment. This ... View more
Has anyone else noticed this? It's drives me mad, MAD I SAY. So bad I setup a separate mac just to download the software. View more
Hello all, I will get this out of the way.. I am a Windows admin, not a Mac guy, so this is seriously all new to me, and i am treading lightly as i try to learn Mac/Casper stuff. I have managed to figure out parts of Autopkgr and the likes, and every... View more
If you're a Casper Suite customer, this discussion may not be helpful or relevant. We're currently a Bushel MDM subscriber and we are still imaging our systems with a custom AutoDMG image (that changes monthly), which integrates some customization, s... View more