We are experiencing a suite of odd and frustrating errors with Office products on our Macs. It started off small and has soon spread throughout our school district. The some of the most common errors are: With this error there were no other files ope... View more
I was wondering if there is a way that I can manage what my users see on the Finder Sidebar without using manage preferences. I tried to custom settings using an edited plist file but this did not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. View more
https://github.com/CSD-Public/stonix Stonix is a tool designed to secure unix systems including Macs running OS X 10.9.x and OS X 10.10.x. The code will be up shortly check it out and see if it is something for your organization. This is a tool used ... View more
Similar to when Mavericks was released, initially Lync would not pull the GAL down until Microsoft updated it in March 2014 with a fix. Deploying Lync 14.0.11 now with a 10.10.3 or to 10.10.x users in general (mostly 10.10.3), Lync installs properly,... View more
I searched Apple's website for a download but came up empty handed. Does anyone know if there is one available? If there is not, is there a way capture the download from the app store? View more
All, I'm looking for a way to get the user's home folder to show in the sidebar under favorites. Its a pet peeve , i know, but this used to be default and now its not. I've uploaded com.apple.finder and com.apple.sidebarlists plists and pushed out wi... View more
Hello I would like to put an alias that link to a server share.But i have some difficulties to do it. I have try to create a alias with composer but when i spread it. it keeps my login in memory... Any ideas please? Regards Maxime View more
I upgraded the image from 10.10.2 to 10.10.3 on the casper admin. I am using casper suite 9.65 but every since the update the imaging process freezes. Last time this happened I was on casper suite 9.62 and had to update it to 9.65 and re-create the n... View more
And the JSS (v9.72) doesn't see the drive! It also doesn't show it as having "Disk Encryption", yet it does. I had to FIleVault to because PGP would fail when trying to provision the drive. I've 15 other MBAs of 7,1 or 7,2 and none of them have this ... View more
I have the setting for the dark menu bar enabled. When in Composer, the menu bar changes back to not dark (black on white). However, when in any other application on my computer, the menu bar stays in dark mode. Depending on the desktop picture, the ... View more
Hi. Just wanted to get opinions on what protocols you guys use when hosting a server at Amazon AWS Should I setup a cloud DP in JSS, or just simple SMB File Share DP In your opinion what are the advantages of using a Cloud DP? View more
We are new to JSS and were using Profile Manager to manage our Macs before making the switch. In our old Profile Manager setup we had the Finder ‘Connected Servers’ setting to show on the users desktop. We are currently pushing out an Art Share to on... View more
Has anyone successfully gotten silent activation working with Smart Notebook 15 at image time? I've tried baking the site license SN into the package, when deployed to clients, it wasn't activated & had an error. Now I'm packaging the trial version o... View more
User has lost device then found it but we sent remot wipe, it hasn't kicked in yet. how to be sure it will not take effect. thanks View more
Hey guys, We use a personal key only on each Mac, but some Macs haven't been sending the key back to the JSS. We run deferred encryption, and I assume the reason we don't have the key is because they've completed the encryption at home so our JSS was... View more
We have had the GSX integration set up in our JSS for a while but starting using it a little more recently. Easy to get warranty info on mass computers using a group but doesn't seem so easy when you want to quickly find the warranty info on a single... View more
We are going through some heavy security changes here, and one of the requests is to limit internet access when outside the company (not on VPN) I would like to be able to do this via casper instead of using an application like Mcafee. Has anyone had... View more
Disclaimer: I'm not the author, just been poking around with this and think it's pretty neat. http://errorfreeit.com.au/blog/2015/4/28/dock-master4 View more
So we are looking to add 4 Mac Minis to serve as caching servers. 1 TB fusion drive or 256 GB flash storage (same price) I'm inclined to go fusion drive to allow for a larger cache. am I right or wrong and why?? I know flash storage is faster but I d... View more
Hello all, Ethan again! Still learning JAMF. I was curious, is there way to run inventory reports that show which applications are pushed to which smart groups? We (currently) are using JAMF to manage iOS devices only, so this request is specific to ... View more
Hi,I work for an MSP that has a school that may be rapidly moving to a 1:1 deployment. We are contracted IT and not in house. What kind of time requirement should I be setting aside for a technician for the initial deployment of 300 iPads and then th... View more
Hi, I recently built a Netboot server to image the computers in my environment. My Netboot image was created using AutoDMG and AutoCasperNBI. I use prestage imaging configurations based on serial number so the imaging process is as automated as possi... View more
Does anyone have any experience with packaging EndNote X7? We created a site installer which seems to work quite well (in the sense of retaining our licence and serial details), but I'm wondering how best to handle updates, and in particular how to d... View more
I'm trying to figure out a way to disable iTunes from launching when pressing the F8 play/pause button. We have hundreds of computers in our school district doing Smarter Balanced testing. The students are figuring out that pressing F8 will launch iT... View more
We have a lot of users that enable printer sharing on our corporate printers. And since they show up faster than the directory listed one, it creates a lot of tickets. i saw a couple JN posts on it and I kind of combined the EA and the disable script... View more
We have a number of applications that still require plugins for Chrome (Java, among others) and would like to have them turned on by default. This is possible by going to chrome://flags and enabling NPAPI plugins, but it would be nice to have a way t... View more
I wanted to check in and see if anyone has replaced a fully built-out Munki system with Casper, and if so, see if there are any tips or any advice on working around what seem to be some major things that would likely make my life much more difficult ... View more
Hi All, Does anyone know how to set 2 default home tabs in Safari? I know there is the manual way, but I am not sure of the syntax to use to get it to work. Below is what I have. Command: defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari HomePage... View more
When authenticating with an AD account that has full admin privileges in the JSS, Casper Imaging becomes unresponsive when clicking Image. Anyone else experiencing this or have a fix?I'd rather not have to make more generic accounts, nice to see who'... View more
