Hello nation, So we discovered vShare today. I am still a pretty new iOS/OS X admin so I wasn't aware that something like this existed. Apparently users can download an App via a website like vshare dot com and get access to an illegitimate App store... View more
We have been using VMWare Horizon for a few years now to connect our MAC users to a VDI session. We have added a second connection server now and are trying to add it to the connection list but it is not applying correctly in the package. Instead of ... View more
Hello All, Thank you in advance for reading. I've read a few different posts on here about adding printers using a script and before I did so I came up with my own to add about 50-60 printers to a bunch of machines. It is as follows: #!/bin/bash # Re... View more
Hi All, This is much more logistics than tech, but I'm curious how organizations handle purchasing and budget for computers/tablets/phones. Does equipment come out of IT's budget?Does equipment come out of the individual business unit/department/facu... View more
So during our build process we like to activate file vault at the end of the build process. I have a package that makes sure the recovery partition is there...creates the users that are needed for FileVault. Then I run the following command to enable... View more
We are on our 3rd year of rotation on our devices, they have been signed out of iCloud by each user when turned in, so no account is associated with the device. Each device has been reset, then put into Recovery mode and refreshed through Apple Confi... View more
I am looking to create a Smart Computer Group which targets all Mac laptops in my environment that are not encrypted. Specifically, I would like to isolate those which have Solid-State Drives (SSD) and EXCLUDE disk drive types that are using older, r... View more
Hello, We use SuSE Linux for all of our Linux servers, so I was wondering if there is a way to break apart the install to see what gets installed. I am relatively certain that since this will run on Red Hat, installing on SuSE should be fairly straig... View more
I was looking for a way to turn some of the power save features off through Casper and I was looking at the Energy saver section of Configuration Profiles. I see "put the computer to sleep after" and "put the display to sleep after", but the range is... View more
Is it possible to retrieve a list of devices based on a Site?When retrieving a list of all devices, no site or anything related to a device's building/site is being exposed through the api. See the XMl below: 2 6 iPad iPad dd1dff5d598e3fce####16288... View more
I've been hoping someone with the organizational skills to start up a user group around Columbus would do so. I won't be able to make it on the 27th, but hopefully soon! View more
How can I make an ebook available in self service without requiring our students to provide an Apple ID? The default method just provides a url for the app store item so then the student has to provide an Apple ID to download it. Is there a method th... View more
So in reimaging a lab yesterday (2012 MacBook Pro 13") I found that the enrollment script was either never created, or that it was complete jargon and not written to the drive correctly. My first guess is that I should have deleted them from the JSS ... View more
I discovered that end users with Standard User permissions are freely able to install any and all system software updates via the App Store.app - including updating from 10.10.4 to 10.10.5. How can I block this? View more
Hi, We'd like to generate a report of all our current hardware configurations currently managed by Casper. (not a list of all computers but only the different models) So the list would be something like a list of models with there various different c... View more
Hi, What is the best way to add printers into Casper? I have my policies and smart groups scoped out correctly.. Can the same PPD file be used on multiple printers? If so, which PPD file is to be used? What is the PPD folder on the Casper server used... View more
I am trying to run a secure browser for state testing on three labs in the school. When I open the browser I get an unknown error message: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made."The NWEA support team had me 1.... View more
We're looking to get DEP rolling for the sake that sometimes machines seem to wander off, but we also use the wipe and reload method for deploying machines. so, any issues with using DEP and the wipe and reload method? anything we should watch out fo... View more
We discovered a small problem where instead of a ColorSync folder inside of the user template and therefore, inside of student’s home folders, we are seeing a text document called, ColorSync. There MUST be a way to remove this single document and rep... View more
I was helping another JSS install figure out why their imaging was taking 1h40m while ours was only taking 15m. Turns out the issue is that theirs was installing and ours was block copying. I let them know that was the issue, and they asked what the ... View more
We are managing our MacBooks for the school district with Casper. What we have noticed is that the local printers that are not managed but plugged directly into the computer, are duplicating (sometimes in the hundreds). The question is, have any of y... View more
This is a strange question... but can anyone think of a way to limit access to a Self Service Policy to only the assigned user of a machine in the JSS? So if User A is the assigned user of Machine A, and User B is the assigned user of Machine B. I wa... View more
Hi there, I have a new user configured in the JSS with the exact same permissions as everyone else, but for some reason when he gets to the point in Casper Imaging when he clicks Image, the app just hangs and doesn't move forward. When I log in, it w... View more
No matter what I have tried, I cannot install any JSS upgrade on a test system we use using the MSI installer. The error is "There was an error creating the Tomcat Windows Service" followed by (as you might expect) "There was an error starting Tomcat... View more
Hi I'm creating an update script for the application Dropbox.app. Now I would like to grab the version number from https://www.dropbox.com/install. I tried with following shell command:. #!/bin/sh latestver=`/usr/bin/curl -s -A https://www.dropbox.co... View more
we have a request for some AV exceptions from an internal developer. They want to exclude javascript, ruby, html, and other source code type files. I'm not super familiar with the security aspects of allowing those unchecked or what virus makers typi... View more
I now have a test JDS instance and a test JSS, everything is on CentOS 7. Although the JDS works for imaging of MacBooks via a netboot server and an afp share on the JDS to pull down the packages for imaging, I don't think the JDS is communicating to... View more
Hello. I have 19.2GB of jamfbin files in my MySQL folder. They are actually named jamfbin.00123 (the numbers change) and there are multiple files created per minute for no reason I can find. Each file is approximately 15MB and there is an index file.... View more
Hi: I'm trying to recreate some actions that we had in Apple' Profile Manager for iPad in JSS. We are a college and make use of VPP to push apps to student's personal iPads during the semester. After the semester, we withdraw the apps so that we can ... View more
I'm currently trying to update Mobile Device ConfigurationProfiles' exclusions scope In order to do this, the following steps are being taken: Read the Mobiledeviceconfigurationprofile (in XML). Modify that configuration profile (Add a mobiledevicede... View more
