Hi guys, I'm thinking of upgrading my environment to Casper 9 on Mavericks (I really like the sound of the Caching Service). Main question is: Do I upgrade Casper first, and then OSX? Or OSX first and then Casper? Has anyone else done a similar upgra... View more
I'm having an incredibly difficult time with HomeSync for all sorts of reasons. My exclusion rules that I set in Profile Manager don't get followed, it's generally slow and unreliable compared to our PC's... I could go on. What do you all use to sync... View more
Any other JAMF users that have ran through an upgrade to 9.x that set logs to 'do not flush'? We set our VNC and Casper Imaging logs to 'do not flush.' During our test upgrade from 8.73 to 9.31, the logs stay in place, but over night they are wiped o... View more
Hello Everyone, Our school is about to deploy macbook air's to all incoming students. I am looking at during our distribution to be able to just hand the device unopened to the students and allow them to setup the device during a "bootcamp" session w... View more
Does anyone know how to remove/delete an identity preference from the keychain by script? We set security identity preferences by: security set-identity-preference -s Now how would you delete one? the man page for security only specifies: set-identit... View more
I need help with importing a certificate in system keychain and then installing a package and then dragging a .zip file into system preferences to the Sophos safeguard settings panel. I have tried snapshots but that only seem to kindof work for the c... View more
Has anyone created a smart group that includes JDS servers? I'm thinking I likely need to create an extension attribute that identifies those systems which have the jamfds.conf file on them (unless their is a easier way). View more
I was just watching the recent JAMF webinar on imaging workflows and I am intrigued by the "no imaging" option for new machines where certain policies are set to run right after enrollment completes. Imaging has always been a pain point for my techni... View more
Apologize if this was answered before, I searched admin guide and forum, but no dice. Am I missing the checkbox to force individual policies to use AFP/SMB in 9.x? or was that functionality lost in the upgrade from 8? View more
I have tried a few different scripts to mount a network share on user desktop, When I run it inside terminal it works. When i use the script in casper it does not. Has anyone had any luck with this.#!/bin/bash mkdir /Users/$USER/Desktop/mnt mount -t ... View more
I've looked through several discussions including rtrouton post http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/managing-mavericks-filevault-2-with-fdesetup/, but i'm still scratching my head. All devices are encrypted with FileVault some with the JSS en... View more
I'm trying to take my SG and exclude machines in a dev group I have. however I'm getting the following error when I try to save:A computer group cannot be indirectly defined in terms of itself: Java 7 Update-->Patchoo - Java 7 JDK-->Java 7 Update The... View more
Unfortunately that gives users who now have [EDIT] site admin [/EDIT] access to that also have access to "Database Table Status" which is bad. Here is why...the dialog box users get when they hit "Database Table Status" button: "This is an intensive ... View more
Recently migrated to JSS 9.31 and for our Help Desk we are starting with Audit template (full READ access), and adding rights to create/edit/delete searches. Somewhere along the way these users ended up with Inventory Display Options write access...i... View more
Hi guys, So, we're in process of getting all our VPP codes converted to managed distribution licenses (some of them already are converted). Right now, we are planning to do it like this: - convert VPP codes to managed distribution licenses (already i... View more
I have a policy to trigger at 'check-in' with the execution frequency to run 'once per computer', I am curious to know if this policy fails to run appropriately (registers in the JSS as failed) will it know to run again or has it already registered t... View more
Hi guys, Got an odd issue here that driving me up the wall. I have a policy defined to update the Flash package on clients if it's out of date. The policy runs, but on about 75% of the clients it errors out with this: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 8.73 E... View more
We upgraded Mavericks from 10.9.2 to 10.9.3 and upgraded OSX Server to 3.1.2, after the upgrade the MYSQL stopped running. The SQL Server Startup Status error is "The MySQL server installation was not found. Please make sure the /usr/local/mysql/bin/... View more
Hello everyoneI'd like to get some advice on how to improve my imaging workflow with Casper Suite and any other scripts. So here goes: I have a base OS image captured from a fresh MacBook Air, iWork is included, I have a user creatively named "user" ... View more
Hello, JAMF people. In case you didn't notice, Apple released Java for Mac OS X 2014-001 today for 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572 The update contains Java 1.6 update 65, which was released by Oracle on 2013-10-15. This strik... View more
Hello people of the nation, I am attempting to deploy a custom dock and also a custom screensaver provided by a third party company and am in need of a little help. First the dock, On a second machine, I captured a dock arrangement using Composer and... View more
Hey everyone. I've started planning an upgrade for 1200+ Macs over this summer and wanted to find the most efficient way to deploy the images to the computers with very little intervention from the technologists in the field. I figured the less they ... View more
I'm thinking I'll make a feature request for this, but I just noticed this. I got a new MBPR (yippie) and am installing apps through self service (a good test to see how everything is working). I installed the AV that requires a reboot. However I am ... View more
Hi folks, Wondering if anyone has any experience with this. Client had registered their JSS with DEP but it was never going to work, as their JSS was not publicly exposed/it had a private .lan DNS hostname/URL. So, we changed the hostname, configured... View more
Okay here's the scenario...I was wanting to create multiple config profiles to perform different tasks, and I am not sure if that is possible. As an example, lets say I want to limit where the students open their applications,(i.e. ) /Applications an... View more
Hi Folks, I'm making progress working up to replacing our monolithic DeployStudio imaging with Casper. I'm having trouble with our custom User Template. In 10.9.3 the user template (for English speakers) is located at: /System/Library/User Template/E... View more
I have a Netboot OS 10.9.3 (13D65) with Casper 9.31 installed. On my Mac mini 4,1, equipped with a 6G SSD from OWC, Casper Imaging cannot unmount the mini's internal disk for erasing. I cannot erase the disk/partition the disk when using Disk Utility... View more
Hi all, Kyle Bareis and I will be hosting a DEP/VPP briefing & discussion, similar to recent ones we've held in Minneapolis- Apple’s new DEP and VPP deployment programs represent a significant innovation in the practice of iOS management. When paired... View more
Running into an issue where our policy installs are failing left and right unless, we are logged into a local admin. Looking at the policy logs, in the JSS it appears that the Casper Share is failing to mount unless you are logged into a local admin.... View more
I've been looking into our options for deploying and updating iOS apps, as well as the OS. I have only been able to presume the following based on the research and testing I have done. I am looking for confirmation that what I have found is correct a... View more
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