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New Macs and Adobe Illustrator

Hi All, At one of my sites they are having problems with new macs and Adobe Illustrator CS6. They are crashing inconsistently. It's a weird case as there are some users who have no problems, however a user who has just been handed a New Mac Pro is ha...  View more

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Office 2011 how to propagate registration name

Apologies for bringing up something that has been covered here before, but the solution still seems rather opaque to me as I have never used MCX for anything. We have about 200 Macs in labs and now that we are using Casper 9.61, I would like to stop ...  View more

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Creating Hidden SSH Accounts Using the jamf binary

Using the steps on this thread https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=147 for OS X v10.7.5 When I run the command on the MacBook:defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool YES seems to work. However when...  View more

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Change audio input/output through Thunderbolt connection

I am looking to push a script that changes audio input/output if a specific device is detected connected to the Thunderbolt interface. For example, we have an external mic speaker device in our meeting rooms and currently end users must remember to c...  View more

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GPS Tracking Solutions for 1:1 Devices?

Hello, What do you guys use to track your iPads or MacBook Airs that have been lost or stolen? Just wondering what some of you have done to meet that requirement in your environment or school district. Thanks, as always, for your input.  View more

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Prepare and Setup 125 new Macbook Airs, Tips? Tricks?

In a few months my district is getting about 125 new Macbook Airs for teachers to use. (Replacing old Macbooks) What is the most efficient workflow to get these up and running? Would I image over the new OS or build onto it? Just looking for a direct...  View more

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Resetting Once Per Computer policies

Ok. I'm quite new to managing OS X, but I have a test machine that we're running our policies against and I would like to know how to reset the Once Per Computer policy setting for this machine. I've tried running "jamf flushPolicyHistory" but the po...  View more

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Computer repair history notes

I know this has been discussed many times over, but I'm curious as to what everyone is using for keeping a record of repair history for their devices. I would love to use the JSS for this, but am currently limited to an Extension Attribute text field...  View more

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Can we disable keyboard shortcuts in 9.6?

I'm all for keyboard shortcuts in operating systems and software and live by them. I even consider those on the Mac to be superior to those available in Windows environments. I'm finding though that in JSS they are incredibly irritating because they ...  View more

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Disable "Move" hot key in Mac OS 10.9.5

Hello Mac geniuses of the JAMF Nation! We have been plagued by a pesky modifier key combination for as long as I can remember command + drag = move. Apple included the "Move" command many many years ago. Most of the time it doesn't bother us but ever...  View more

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Setting up Apple SUS from scratch

I am being tasked to setup a SUS server having never ever done so. Where is the best place to look to get started on this? Anybody else ever had to do this with no prior experience? Again any information here would be greatly appreciated.  View more

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Mounting Network Drives with users at home?

Is there a way for when a user goes home that the script i have to mount network drives does not run because it doesn't see our directory? I am sure there is a check that can be done but not being script savvy am not sure how to write it. Any informa...  View more

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Centrify Package

Does Anyone have any familiarity with Packaging Centrify client 5.2.1 I have tried to use a standard composer process however it doesn't grab the system preference pane. It does seem to install most pieces but we use the system pref. pane quite frequ...  View more

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Search Web History on Clients

So we recently had someone printout some documents that seemed slightly questionable and I am looking for a way to see what computer may have been on a specific website by searching web history. Anyone know of a way to search web history for Safari/F...  View more

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Making a pseudo guest account

Because of some conflict with configuration policy we are not able to enable the guest account on student computers. I am trying to work around this by making a pseudo guest account wherein a template is created and after every logout the system dele...  View more

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Casper Rollout/FV2

Hi all, quick question. I've joined a new firm and they're looking to roll out Casper. Part of the roll out will be encrypting all Macs using the Casper FV2. We already have some Macs encrypted and were wondering how these would integrate in to Caspe...  View more

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Automation of AD binding

In our environment, we have had two significant and persistent issues. Our primary devices are MacBook airs, and we image them using external drives. The image has consisted of an 1.) an OS and 2.) a package which installs a firstRun script and it's ...  View more

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"Not found on server" false error.

Hello fellow Jive Mo-Fo's. I've been running into an issue lately where a policy will run and attempt to install a script or package but report that it can't be found. Here are the steps I take to verify the file exists: Confirmed the file exists on ...  View more

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Crashplan Extension Attributes

Has anyone had any luck using them? Either the ones you select New From Template or ones you can download and install from jamf nation? We're using Casper 9.5 and CrashPlan PROe 3.6.3.2. None of them seem to produce any results(the only one that work...  View more

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afp548

afp548.com has been down all weekend and still is down this morning. Anyone know of the status? Hopefully they're not defunct.  View more

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Active windows are losing focus?!

I have a strange thing going on here:Every 30sec or so, my active window loses it's focus. I'm not sure how, what or when this started to happen. Also, i cannot find out where the focus is "going to". I've been keeping an eye on the console to see if...  View more

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Local Account and Management Account

Just trying to get a better understanding on how local and management account works. If I setup a new local account (username and password) with admin rights and then I setup a management account: Management account gives me the options of set a new ...  View more

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OT: Automation Makes Us Dumb

http://online.wsj.com/articles/automation-makes-us-dumb-1416589342 In recent years no doubt we've all heard of the impacts of automation. I decided to share this here because largely what we do with Casper is automate. To me, being the Casper admin p...  View more

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Anyone customizing the OS X Yosemite login window?

As we all know, OS X Yosemite removed the apple logo at the login window. I used to replace this logo with a company branded logo. That no longer seems to work. I was hoping someone may have a solution for this in yosemite. I appreciate any input. Th...  View more

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Reduce timeout for mobile accounts off network

Does anyone know how to reduce the timeout for accounts off network when bound to active directory? It currently takes an additional 1 - 2 minutes to log in. I believe the system has to time out first before using cached credentials. Any help is appr...  View more

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