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
Im trying to create an auto login user in 10.9.It worked in 10.8 but doesn't seem to work in 10.9. I've created a pkg with the following files but no luck:/etc/kcpassword/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist I have also tried Per Olofsson'... View more
Hey Everyone! Kind of in a pickle here and I have been working on this issue for quite some time but wondering if anyone else out there might have something. In the mornings (at about 8:05AM) my JSS will not load on the web browser until I go over to... View more
So I can successfully upgrade machines using the "drag and drop" of the installer into Casper Admin per the steps from the following document: http://resources.jamfsoftware.com/archive/Deploying-OS-X-v10.7-or-Later-with-the-Casper-Suite.pdf My questi... View more
We have a request to load adobe font folio on some machines. We typically don't deploy fonts in our environment - so I was wondering what the best practice is for something like that? View more
I need to transfer my ARD lists to another machine, but none of my instructions seem to be working with 3.7.x, anybody have a quick how-to handy? View more
This isn't a specific issue, but I'd like to know from people who have experience with AD bindings and MS domains if could give us advice in the form of "if I knew then what I know now, I would have done XYZ instead of ABC". The whole reason we bough... View more
Does anyone know how to get Acrobat to stop prompting the user to become the default app for opening PDF files? I do not want it as the default, and I want it to stop bugging people. View more
Hi everyone - has anyone figured out how to change the background image used for the Mavericks login window? There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do it, and, my favorite free tool for doing this, Loginox, doesn't work with Mavericks yet, most like... View more
I am sure there are other methods to uninstall Symantec Anti-virus from a mac via Casper Policy, but this one works for my environment. I just thought I would share. On your source computer (by source computer, I mean the computer that you use to bui... View more
We have a notebook program for students which contains a customized user account/profile. At this time we are doing it in a brute force way though: creating a user account with the wallpapers, etc. we want and then manually copying that user's User T... View more
I have followed the instructions on how to create a minimal base image:https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=313But my Mavericks.dmg created with Composer is 23GB. I even used monolingual to delete the language packs first. Where is thi... View more
Hi there!I am trying to manually add some computers into Casper. Could someone please help me accomplish this? Thanks! View more
I know this is a bit off topic, but I have two jobs, and one is at a small school at night being their mac admin. They recently decided to ditch the Mac servers because they thought they were causing all of the issues we have been experiencing. After... View more
I'm looking for ideas/best practices on remotely retrieving log files from a client over the internet. I would like to have a Self Service policy that grabs and zips up the requested log files. Once compressed, I have had a few thoughts on where thos... View more
Hi, Found a variant of Minecraft that puts an invisible folder at the root of the local AD users home folder. It creates a folder called ".minecraft". I am not very good at scripts, and I don't want to accidentally screw things up. I know you can do ... View more
I have deployed 10.9 using an image without Apple ID. Every now and then the users get a prompt to sign in with their Apple ID - the "cancel" button has to be clicked on some machines at least 8 times before the window goes away... Did you find the d... View more
I wanted to ask a general question of the group, to see if there is a 'best practice' out there. If you have two environments (production and a development), how do you go about making sure the changes you made in the development are implemented the ... View more
Just curious how some of the rest of you who manage larger environments deal with making changes across numerous configuration items within the JSS. For example if you needed to rename a large number (>10) buildings or a vast number of departments du... View more
I'm linking this to article https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=8483, this would be a continuation of sorts. Also sup'd short for SupervisedAC short for Apple Configurator So we started out by installing iOS 7.0.3 on an iPad right ... View more
We need to give our users the ability to update their password for TimeMachine backups and thought I would share this link I found this morning. http://www.afp548.com/2013/10/22/modifying-the-os-x-mavericks-authorization-database/ View more
I have a couple iPads here that I've just unboxed and enrolled into Casper. When I try and download a paid app from our Self Service web clip, a Terms & Conditions window appears very briefly (less than a second) and then disappears (fades away). The... View more
When we first started using Casper earlier this year, my boss asked me if it possible to "brand" Self Service. I dug into JSS and was able to customize the icons and rename the app to 3Ci Self Service. Now that we've upgraded to version 9.2, the bran... View more
Incase anyone wants to make USB sticks with 10.9 easily here is the link. http://liondiskmaker.com/?p=200 View more
It's me again! I wanted to know if anyone has a quick way to modify the Cisco anyconnect installer pkg to include the default VPN server info so the user does not need to add this themselves and pretty much makes it a zero configuration install. I do... View more
Hi everyone, I figured Id post this here due to having the eyes of highly skilled Apple admins and maybe someone will have a simple solution. I do not current admin a managed environment with Casper (we are working on implementing it). I was at the J... View more
JNUC 2013 inspired me to dig right in this weekend, when I got home. First up, creating Smart Groups for computers with out of date flash, java, silverlight, Chrome, Firefox etc. The create a policy to install the latest version on any computers in t... View more
Hope I did not overlook posted knowledge on this.Our users are using the same AD-account on Windows and on OSX machines.We have our Mac network-userhomes on a SMB fileserver (Windows2008R2).Some applications seem not to be happy (Firefox 24, Adobe PS... View more
Trying to open Self Service.app from a policy. Essentially have SS open in the background and have a window displayed telling people they should really update their system. Half the systems it works on, the other half it doesn't. Using the "run comma... View more
The Flash Player 11.9.900.117 from Adobe Distribution site offers an installer for System Administrators. So far my testing shows it's the pkg we've been waiting for...- mount the dmg - Renamed it "Adobe Flash Player (11.9.900.117).pkg"- Dragged the ... View more
Hello, our organisation currently runs about sixty percent of our desktop and mobile clients on OS X - ranging from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Our clients are bound to an Active Directory domain with the .local domain name suffix. This, as everyo... View more