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Using Casper Binding with AD - Help!

Hello all, My company and I are brand new to Casper and I've been testing different functions of the suite to see what we can utilize. I'm trying to get the built-in AD binding feature to work but it keeps saying the policy has failed when I attempt ...  View more

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Use DEP to keep stolen computers enrolled

It just dawned on me after a couple of Airs have gone missing or have been stolen recently that we could use DEP to keep those devices enrolled. The info is certainly out there on how to reinstall the OS and thus remove the jamf binary. Are there any...  View more

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Smart group for finding each OS X versions

I want to create 4 separate Smart groups, each based on the OS X.? version (lion, mountain lion, mavericks, yosemite) that could be installed on the mac. Each OS version will get a certain driver installed. I came up with the following simple one lin...  View more

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Block Tor Browser

Okay, so how do you block Tor Browser? I can't get it to work. I've tried using the Process name in Activity Monitor: Tor Browser, I've tried using the app name: TorBrowser and TorBrowser.app. I've tried /Tor Browser, /TorBrowser, /TorBrowser.app, an...  View more

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Encrypted External Backups

I'm have an incredibly frustrating problem on my hands and I'm hoping someone has an idea of what direction I should head in. I recently rolled out a large number of Time Machine drives to my company and created a Self Service policy that automatical...  View more

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Yosemite/9.63/losing Distribution Point

I'm finding that, after creating and adding anywhere from 1-3 pkgs to Casper Admin and then indexing them, the application is freezing and losing connection with my master distribution point. I can force quit Admin but have to reboot my Casper machin...  View more

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Deploystudio Network Storage for Image

I can't use the existing repository for capturing a new image as it's saying it's full.Can i setup a network share as the location for the image to be captured in Deploystudio? If yes how would i go about it?  View more

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Updating iWorks on Yosemite

In Mavericks, to deploy iWorks to users on an imaged machine I would take a new machine fresh out of the box, take a copy of iWorks on that machine, and then package those up and deploy them with the image, it would allow the user to update those app...  View more

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Enforcing screensaver settings

I built a custom attribute / policy that ensures my screensaver settings are always on and I wanted to share.Feedbacks are welcome.The actual screensaver settings are set via a Profile to ensure it kicks in after 5 min.What my script does is ensure t...  View more

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AD BIND after enroll ??

Just curious, I haven't tried it yet but I have a mac enrolled but NOT AD Bound. I am going to now AD Bind it via 'directory utility'. Afterwords will the JSS recognize it then being AD Bound and update its record from Not AD Bound to AD Bound ?  View more

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Removing User Accounts/Home drive at logout

We are using Yosemite 10.10.2 with Server App 4 with Profile Manager, we bind our computers only to AD.Does anyone know of a way, perhaps a script, to remove all user profiles or all user home drives at the logout?In the Profile Manager there is a se...  View more

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Web restrictions on student owned iPads?

I'm trying to think of creative ways to institute some baseline adult content filters beyond what Apple's API currently allows (namely, the blocking of content in the App, iTunes, and iBooks stores) on student owned devices. Have any of you come up w...  View more

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Auditing Installers?

How are people auditing there installers? How do people track down this file system object was installed by this or these installers? We are using radmind, to manage the OS and software distribution and we can quickly and easily track down what insta...  View more

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Sign Quick Add Package

Does anyone know the proper certificate format to sign a quick add package? I'm using a .pfx and it doesn't seem to be correct... is .cer correct?  View more

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CasperCheck

Hey JAMF People, Is anyone using CasperCheck? I have the script configured, I have the launchdaemon plist configured, I have the policy configured....perhaps I am just making this more complicated than it has to be....but for the life of me, now I ca...  View more

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Apple Schema extensions

Has anyone implemented the Apple Schema extensions for Active Directory? The reason I'm looking into this is that we login to our Mac's with our AD accounts. If for some reason we need to unjoin and rejoin the domain our UID changes and any files own...  View more

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Wifi Menu Icon

Does anyone know of a tried and true way to remove the wifi icon from OS X 10.10? Our lab machines are always connected to ethernet so we don't want to give them the option of using wifi. I have a script that runs that will turn off wifi but the icon...  View more

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WiFi script for 10.10

I have been using this script to add an SSID and password for years. From JAMF's resource kit: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProductFile.html?id=135&fid=570 Doesn't seem to be working in 10.10 when I use it as a pre-boot action. I get error...  View more

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Time frame before removing machines from JSS

Hi All, I wanted to get an idea of how the JAMF world was handling this... So basically I am curious if anyone has a method of keeping the computer inventory in the JSS clean, for example if a machine doesn't check in after so many days/months do you...  View more

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Patching OpenSSH in 10.9x and 10.10.x

Hello all, It has come down from our IT Security team that the OpenSSH that is part of OS X 10.9.x and 10.10.x (currently listed as OpenSSH_6.2p2) needs to be patched to version 6.6p or higher. The methods they suggest to take care of this sound less...  View more

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Anyone have a script for de-provisioning a Mac?

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem... currently when an employee leaves the company or gets a new machine, the old machine is usually just shut down and stored, then later either e-wasted or re-issued to someone else. I have at least 100...  View more

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