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Customizing Firefox Updates w/o Losing Bookmarks

Hello All, I'm in a bit of a predicament and seeking your advice. I would like to keep our environment of about 400 macs updated with Firefox as Mozilla releases updates. My goal is to update Firefox on each machine without losing everyone's personal...  View more

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Flash + MS Office updates

Hi, We are having difficulties with deploying Adobe Flash player update 16.0.0.305 and also MS Office updates. I have seen previous posts of copying the .app file from the Contents folder of the flash pkg and then launching that with a script however...  View more

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Disable Network Mount

Right now it takes about 2 minutes to sign into a computer that is not on our internal network. The reason I think its taking that long is because its looking for an AD/OD/MDM server and is trying to mount the users network drive at login. Is there a...  View more

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External device tracking

Hi A a newbie this may be a daft question. Can Casper log if a USB drive has been attached to a mac, and if it can, can it then track what files are copied to or from the mac? Thanks John  View more

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Casper Suit and the App store

Hi I manage around 100 macs with Casper Suite and I was wondering if theres any way to make it that people download install apps from Self service rather than the App store. Does anyone have a process in place for this? If I just run a script to dele...  View more

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How to extract year over year statistics from JSS?

Hello, Management wants historical reports, i.e. year over year growth statistics for number of Mac computers, number of apps, and pkg deployments. Is there any easy way to extract such data from the JSS for specific timeframes, in this case year ove...  View more

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Best method: Reporting specific machine info

We've been having some issues with various different things, and I have been wanting to start having the users logging specific values when a bug happens to them, Date/Time, IP, currently connected mac address, just useful tidbits. I was thinking a b...  View more

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Machine running policy multiple times a minute

Macs in our environment are scheduled to check in every 30 minutes, but I have one that is running the same policy job 3-4 times a minute. I've temporarily disabled the policy to halt the flood, but how can I correct the check-in period on the proble...  View more

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Open Directory Binding Issue

Using a policy and a directory binding I am trying to enable authenticated directory bindings to Open Directory servers. On a test Mac I receive the following errors: Using SSL: Error: The binding was not successful: dsconfigldap verbose mode Using s...  View more

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Netboot, a JDS, and imaging on 9.64

Has anyone else had their imaging process all screwed up by 9.64? On 9.63 (JSS and JDS), I could netboot clients, image from the JDS, image over target mode, etc. I just updated to 9.64, and now imaging won't work at all. Casper Admin can mount the J...  View more

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Updating Java to version 8.31 issues

I am building/creating a package to update Java from 7.60 to 8.31. Package is created in Composer, dropped into Admin, policy created in Casper. When the package is run on client machines it returns as completed successful, but nothing happens to the...  View more

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Configuration Profile Security

This may be a simple question that I'm just missing the answer for. I'm about to switch how we give access to our network so it is done by configuration profiles. In the interest of not needing to change the password every time an admin leaves the co...  View more

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Who still uses RSS on JAMF Nation?

Hi everyone - We're looking for some quick feedback about who is still using RSS on JAMF Nation. Since Google Reader was discontinued on July 1, 2013, we have seen a significant decline in RSS usage. Because of this we been discussing the possibility...  View more

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VPN connection customization

Hi Folks, I have a requirement to create VPN connection at 200 Macs which I'm able to do so via Configuration Profiles. However I also need to make sure below two settings must be applied along with VPN connection Checkbox for "Show VPN status in men...  View more

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Upgrading JSS/JDS to 9.64

Hey JAMF People, So here is what I have going on...I have my JSS and 9 JDS's on RHEL, I upgraded the JSS to 9.64 (I was on 9.63 before) and now I would like to upgrade the JDS's as well, but when I launch the .run file I get the message that files on...  View more

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JDS not deploying image

Hi all, Recently i upgraded my JSS and JDS to 9.64. According to the release notes issue 'D-005796' should be fixed. But still i can't image from my JDS instance, we get the following error;--There was an error. Could not find an existing configurati...  View more

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Supervised Apple TV Screensaver

Hi Guys! Random Apple TV question. Is it possible to set a screensaver other than the three that are provided by Apple? I'm attempting to set screen savers that point to specific flickr accounts on multiple Apple TV's but I've noticed that the option...  View more

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Upgraded to 9.64 and now imaging hangs

I just upgraded one of my JSS to 9.64 and now when I use target disk mode, and connect a disk it asks for the hostname and then the whole GUI dies. stops counting time, wont respond to any clicks. Anybody have 9.64 imaging working in target disk mode...  View more

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