I need to change the local admin account's name and password. What is the best practice for this? I was thinking about creating a policy with a new local admin account with the new account name and new password. Once that has been pushed out and veri... View more
Does anyone know if there is a version of Auto Update Magic/AutoPkgr for those of us that use JSS in the cloud? I was digging around yesterday and couldn't find much info on it. Thanks!!! View more
This is not a Casper question but has anyone figured out how to parse the new serial number format to get the date of mfg out of it? Thanks much. View more
I got a few policies, the majority of them using configuration profile and a few using managed preferences. From time to time when students are using their Macbooks, a message windows keeps popping up asking for administrator username and password. S... View more
Hi All, Trying to provision an iBooks format file to an iPhone 6+ running iOS 8.4.1 and having no success. I pulled the following from the iOS device console log. iBooks Author files may only be installed on an iPad. iOS 8.4.1 does have support for i... View more
In our environment we have a small number of white Macbooks which for financial reasons we could not replace this year. They have 2.4Ghz procs w/ 2GB of RAM and 5400rpm drives. After imaging several of them with 10.10.4 Yosemite, we're noticing a VER... View more
All, I am attempting to install Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard on an iMac Intel (27-inch, Late 2012) running OS X 10.10.5. When installing the suit from Self Service, I receive the error below. It's worth noting that this package has been well-te... View more
Here are the manual install instructions:Make a new folder in ApplicationsCopy the file into the new folderlaunch terminalchange directory to the new foldersudo ./csia -ienter the local admin password when prompted Is there a way to automate all of t... View more
If there are way to set the app store to only be available during certain hours? I would like our students with laptops to NOT be able to download anything during the school day. Liz View more
Hi everyone, We are seeing a few iMacs getting stuck on a white screen & Macbook pros getting stuck on a black screen on reboot after the 10.10.5 upgrade - is anyone else seeing this? The cause I'm finding is the Policy Banner does not display at log... View more
So let me give you a little background first. We are a new shop with Casper and we have been working with starting to encrypt our laptops with FileVault2 . We have got all of the setup and everything done. What I have been looking for and I haven't b... View more
It has a ".app" installer. I'm thinking of using Snapshot in Composer. Has anyone successfully gotten WebEx plugin to work properly if using this method? View more
Is anybody else using Rackspace Cloud Files and having problems uploading files larger than 5GB to Rackspace via Casper admin? This started to be a problem for me in JSS9.72 and 9.73 is still broken. JAMF support have verified there is a bug (D-00786... View more
We have recently carried out a lot of work on our AD and some of the old LDAP servers have been removed. I am catching up with various systems that need to point to the new servers but am unable to delete old entries in Casper. I'm currently running ... View more
So, this is strange. We have a user who can log into her machine.But when it goes to sleep and re awakes, she can't login. She has the security setting for requiring password on wake. It should be the same password as her login, but it does't work. H... View more
As we got JSS updated to 9.73, Casper Imaging stopped working. After choosing the Configuration and providing my JSS account credentials I get the error message:"Unable to create the invitation. Check to make sure you have permission to create an inv... View more
I'm trying to get auto login to work using an AD account. So far it has been hit and miss. Some work fine, some don't. Here is what I have been doing. cp -R /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj /Users/studentchown -R student:"Domain Users" /Us... View more
I have ran into an issue where I added a new configuration profile for a wireless network. Now when I re-image using Deploy Studios the imaging process hangs at Installing Quick Add package. I tried recreating the quick add package via recon. I tried... View more
I'm trying to make a config profile that gets on wifi via a TLS cert obtained from an AD template. The profile installs, but Cisco is denying authentication because radius shows the computer is as the PKI ID assigned by the JSS instead of he actual H... View more
All -Looking for some help here as far as a script to add multiple AD groups to the OS X AD Plugin. In our environment, historically, rights to numerous items are granted by adding all users to a specific AD group, this is for easier support as well ... View more
Am I just going insane or can you no longer scope a self service policy to an AD group in 9.73? Pretty sure I was able to do so in 9.72 View more
I've been trying to download the full 10.10.5 installer from the Mac App Store using the same process I've used many times before with previous versions, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I go into my Purchased tab to see that I've already do... View more
Hello. I'm working on a brand new, cloud-based JAMF install for Mobile only. I have 2 issues, 1. On every device the Self Service App constantly re-installs itself like it isn't fully installed, but still opens. When it opens, it always says "Can't c... View more
Our next meeting is this coming Thursday, August 20th. Of note, our own Jesse Shipley will be demoing his new self healing tool for the JSS to eliminate bad or missed checkins. View more
HR would like new employee Macs to come with Chrome bookmarks to various onboarding tasks and other important websites. Short of individually bookmarking each Mac before it goes out, what are some good suggestions for a script, package or config file... View more
Hi all- In case you haven't heard, we're doing this thing called App Transport Security which generally improves the security of data in transit by making it easy for developers to take advantage of the current best practice for encrypted sessions. A... View more
I'm curious to hear what other system admins are doing in terms of Mac labs and whether or not you are deploying Yosemite, Mavericks or even older operating systems like Mountain Lion. On the hardware side of things, we have about 200 Mac systems run... View more
Does anyone have a script that iterates through all members of a local group? I currently have this: #!/bin/bash result=`dscl . -read /Groups/com.apple.access_ssh | grep GroupMembership | cut -d ':' -f 2 | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//'` echo "$result" But, some... View more
I want to bring up a list of all machines that don't show email addresses. If I run a blank query, it deletes that option since you haven't specified anything. If I enter "email address is not like *" then it still returns everything (machines with A... View more
Does anyone know how to disable Force Touch and Look up & detectors on the new retina MacBooks using profiles. I have played around a bit of it and I found out that it uses a plist called com.apple.AppleMultiTouchTrackpad.plist under the user's libra... View more
