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Inadvertent lockdown of screensaver settings

Hi Folks, New Casper Suite user here. I'm working on a rollout of Casper at my company and I've hit an oddity with trying to control screen saver security. It looks like the collective wisdom is to manage this by script and I've put together one that...  View more

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Preconfigured user profile for lab environment

When I was doing Windows support, I had the luxury of being able to use mandatory profiles to keep lab profiles with specific settings in order. Students don't have their own accounts so it was easy to configure a profile exactly the way an instructo...  View more

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Automating Extensis UTC font sync

In my quest to speed up the time my clients take downloading fonts from my font repository server on initial conenction, I have been asking around if there is a solution to "cache" the fonts during or post imaging. The process of connecting to the fo...  View more

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Scope of discussion

Playbook Automation of JSS Infrastructures:Is the scope of this presentation going to be consistent configuration and automation of JSS installations? For instance: a managed service provider want's to deliver the same JSS configuration to all it's c...  View more

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9.52 Glitch or my mistake?

I just spent an hour fixing an issue, don't know if this is a bug or my mistake: Added 27 new iPads to the JSS Did a search on the iPad numbers I assigned in Configurator The search found the 27 iPads I clicked on the "Action" button at the bottom. I...  View more

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JAMF Recon command not updating certain info

I have a script that worked perfectly the last 2 school years so probably pre-Casper 9. Since we upgraded to Casper 9 mid school year last year. This script figures out who the current logged in user is and then hits Active Directory to get their AD ...  View more

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iTunes App Sync managment

I was wondering if there was a setting somewhere that allows me to set whether or not an iPad will install apps that are sync'd with iCloud.  View more

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Uninstall ClamxAv

Anyone already have something put together to completely Uninstall ClamXav (engine, app, etc). I have come across the EngineRemover.command. Just wondering if anyone has something all inclusive already. Prepping Sophos 9x deployment. thx, John  View more

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Management Tab Showing Up Strangely

Hi folks, Was hoping to get some direction on an issue where the management tab doesn't load properly. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1zru2evtgue3zdw/Screenshot%202014-10-07%2010.42.14.png?dl=0 I expected to see what smart groups they were a part of etc. ...  View more

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Deleteing Issue Casper Focus Classes

The format we used for the SiS importer must have been wrong, because when it was done, we had almost 23,000 classes. So I tried importing classes again and using the "Delete Existing Classes" check box, but it just runs and it's at 0% for a long tim...  View more

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Self Service showing wrong User's credentials

After upgrading to Casper 9.5.1 (from 9.31), I noticed at least one (possibly more) machines showing the wrong login credentials. This machine is showing the login credentials in Self Service for the machine's previous user. It was re-imaged and the ...  View more

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Justall casper and JSS

Hello, I am new to casper and JSS. What will be my next step? I want to start doing imaging and adding computers not sure how to do it ? can any one help me  View more

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Linux Distribution Point sync issues

I'm trying to sync a master distribution point to child distribution point. I keep receiving an error "File does not exist on the master distribution point". I can see the dmg file on the master distribution point and permissions look fine. Both dist...  View more

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Just got this error caching Adobe CC

has anyone seen this and have an idea of how to remedy it? Seems to only be doing it on machines that are caching the package over a wireless connection. cp: /Volumes/CasperShare/Packages/Adobe_Master_Lab_Install.pkg.zip: Input/output errorcp: /Volum...  View more

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Mobile Account, No AD Home folder path

Hi all, I talked with JAMF Support and do not think this is possible, but curious if anyone has found a way. For Home Sync with an AD user, is it possible to define the "Local path" of the home folder elsewhere if it is blank in that users AD account...  View more

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List all Ethernet Interfaces

Is there a way in terminal to list all interfaces of a certain type? For example, In System Information under the Network category i can see a Type column which has values of AirPort, Ethernet, and PPP (PPPSerial). I'd like to be able to list out eve...  View more

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Microsoft Word- Disable Spell Check

Hello everyone, We have situations for our school where we need to turn off MS Word Spell check for when kids take final exams. We use laptop carts totaling 160-200 MacBook Airs. These are used throughout the year. We tried to make a composer package...  View more

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Ongoing Policy - Best Practices

I would like to install application packages to each machine one time, but then have them available via Self Service continuously in the future in case they need to be reinstalled for any reason. What is the best way to do this? Do I have to make 2 s...  View more

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Smart Groups and Dashboard

I'm the process of migrating the lab configurations I inherited so that students are not using admin accounts. Does anyone know of a method where I could configure a smart group that could contain a listing of computer systems with users logged into ...  View more

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Adobe Reader Update

Newbie here, where do I find the actual Adobe Reader 11.0..09 update? When I try to download it on my test machine, it just automatically installs through Safari. I need to download so I can put it into Casper Admin. Thanks.  View more

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