We have a package that works perfectly when installed via policy/Remote, but doesn't work correctly during imaging. That's fine by me. We can just push it when needed. I'm certain either myself or one of the other techs on my team will forget that at... View more
Hello, folks - Trying to set up some HP printers on new or re-wiped computer installs - in this case, HP5200 DTNs and an HP p3015. Also, in our environment, we are using DNS names via IP printers - LPD. Not sure what the best way to go about this is,... View more
I am looking to only do this for Teacher machines for now. I want to make use of AutoDMG to keep our BaseOS up to date easily. Is there any recommended workflows to do this that still allows us to install all the software they need as well as allow o... View more
Hi All, looking for some feedback on Recon.exe Are there folks using Recon.exe for the windows side to have a unified inventory?I had done this at a previous position and it worked well.What are the current limitations of recon on the windows side, o... View more
We use Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 r2 (SCEP) as our Mac antivirus. I have not been able to successfully deploy SCEP. I create a package for SCEP using Composer on a clean Mac. I then deploy it with a policy from the JSS (I've als... View more
We have a number of different Macs from 'old' Mac Pro's (Early 2008), through a range of MacBooks to iMacs etc. all of which we can neboot and image, I also have a USB external boot drive configured with Casper imaging which also works with our Macs.... View more
OSX 10.9 and 10.10 Macs in a corporate environment. I've finally got a mechanism in place that is designed to check the uptime of the computer it is run on, and if the uptime is greater than 14 days, it then displays an applescript "nag screen" to as... View more
Hi all, We use Windows print servers queues with our Mac clients. Printers are installed with the LPD protocol. Printing works OK, but sometimes we run into driver compatibility issues. Is anyone using IPP for printers from Windows server to Mac clie... View more
Hi all, i wish to do a CCE an CJA in Munich at the end of 2015 or beginning 2016.But these courses are not available in Munich because to less people are interested in that. Are there any people out there who want also to do these two courses in Muni... View more
Hey guys, as mentioned in another discussion, we have problems when multiple accounts with the same name exists in a AD structure. Situation is the following: The issues started when I created additional accounts in another AD forest. First, I had on... View more
I'm in the process of replicating functionality from a Mountain Lion OD server with WGS, to JSS' configuration profiles. Most of the functionality I need is there, with the exception of passing on the network users credentials to the login mount of a... View more
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to delete a system before imaging again with Casper. We have things that are dependent on running 'once per computer' and we have found that when we image a machine and then image it again (even with a differen... View more
Hi We are starting the process of implementing Casper Suite at our largely Windows based business. At this time we have a number of Macs out in the wild and are looking to bring them under control, plus offer a range of Macbooks to certain department... View more
Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone had a simple solution to fixing keychain problems when the end user has multiple machines? Regardless of how he changes his password (we aim for users changing their password on their own machine) it only messes... View more
How can you export the Outlook 365 My Computer Archive files? I have a user that is migrating to a new Mac and wants to transfer these files from Outlook 365 on his old Mac to Outlook 365 on the new, but I do not see a way to export the My Computer a... View more
What a pain in the butt! Are these steps correct, is there any way for the student to restore from the same backup about to be deleted, but have the iPad change state from supervised to unsupervised? Back up device to iCloud Delete device from JSS De... View more
I did a GET on departments on the JSS and one of the departments has an "&" in it which is converted to "&" (without the double quotes) in the XML file. I want to eventually use that same value when I do a PUT into the JSS. However I wanted to know w... View more
Does anyone have any experience with packaging Maple 18? We're attempting to package the product in Composer using a standalone purchase code (primarily because we want our laptop users to be able to use it at home) using the advice here but getting ... View more
Hello Everyone, Our next monthly Twin Cities Mac Admins meetup is set for May 21st from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at mono in the Uptown neighborhood in Minneapolis. This user group is for Mac admins from all industries and experience levels and is a chance to l... View more
Hi All, While wondering about a way to automated the removal of departed users from casper I wrote a script that uses the REST API to accomplish that.It relies on the python-jss module and finds all users without a computers assigned to them and remo... View more
Hello Community, Our primary engineer accepted a position with another company and I have taken his position. I am learning all things Casper and diving deeper into Mac Administration. We are currently working on a project to move our server infrastr... View more
Hello Community, I am new to Casper and this community. Our primary engineer accepted a position with another company and I have taken his position. I am learning all things Casper and diving deeper into Mac Administration. We are currently working o... View more
I wrote a script and uploaded it onto casper admin. I want to make some changes to it, but I can't seem to find it on my local machine that I created it on. For packages in Casper Admin, I can reveal in finder. How do I find out the location of the s... View more
Hey all, I am working on an after hours project in which I am trying to pull a password from Keychain. The command I am using is: security find-generic-password -wl "com.squirrels.Reflector-2" While this command does give back the correct data when r... View more
Hello! We just created a new Yosemite image. I just replaced 10.10.2 with 10.10.3. The images here are all basically identical except for a few minor items. However, our Yosemite image refuses to bind to AD while our Mavericks image continues to work... View more
I've been trying to get the new Sonicwall Mobile Client to automatically include our vpn settings. I've used composer to capture new files and modifications and built a a package, but yet when it is installed with both FUT and FEU selected, nothing h... View more
Having a funny problem with a Mac that recently upgraded from 10.8 to 10.10 via Self Service (following the JAMF method) So we have a departmental exemption for Systems Preferences that gets applied against all 10.10 Macs. (enforced via configuration... View more
Hi everyone, I am working on a plan to implement Netboot/SUS servers across 5-10 sites in our environment, and a coworker asked me if the NetSUS could be a single application server with multiple distribution points (like the JSS/DPs). In this scenar... View more
Greater Philadelphia Mac Admins - Walnut Street meetup June 25! Thank you Sergio! :) Don View more
