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Deploying and Managing Mac App Store Apps

Hi all, As titled, I am looking for a solution for deploying and managing Mac App Store Apps during initial roll out and beyond.iWork and iLife is sorted through Base Image, more for software such as Evernote etc. Looking for a solution for both paid...  View more

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JDS on Ubuntu 14.04: No luck with WebDAV access?

Hi all, I've been trying to get a JDS install going on an ESXi VM of Ubuntu 14.04 - it's basically a plain Ubuntu 14.04 server install in which I'm running the current JDS for linux installer. This seems to work (but requires the apache2-utils packag...  View more

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Mounting shares with kerberos

I'm trying to mount some authenticated shares, but am having a helluva time. We have a NAS that we want to mount when the user logs in. These are shared student machines, and we have the mobile home directories set to expire on logout to keep the mac...  View more

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Create new AD user from Self Service

I'd like a way of being able to create a new computer user account from Self Service. We have recently encrypted our machines using Filevault which means we can no longer easily log new Freelance users in who dont currently have a account on the mach...  View more

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Maintaining Up to Date Recovery Partition

Hey all, Don't know if this has been covered before but I was looking into it. Is there a way or a best practice associated with maintain the Recovery Partition up to date after imaging a machine. I've encountered an issue that machines that have upd...  View more

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Managed app distribution issue

Hi, I have started trying to use the "new" Apple deployment method of distributing managed mobile apps through Casper. I am running 9.4. I am trying to distribute Notability. I have about 1400 iPad users, and purchased 400 licenses; many users alread...  View more

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JNUC 2014 - Looking for Hotel Roommate

I was (am ?) planning on going to JNUC 2014 from October 21-23, 2014 (Fly in October 20, Fly out October 24). I just got laid off and therefore, I am in financial lockdown. I can get myself to the conference. I am looking for someone who is intereste...  View more

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Force logout of Guest User

Currently we use the Guest User login on the library computers which works great but occasionally students forget to logout on their own. Normally we use the auto-logout if computers has been idle for more than 30min, but since Guest User has a dialo...  View more

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Create a Search for Blank Passwords

Is there a way with Casper Suite to create a search that will return Computers that have local accounts with a blank password?Following that, are you able to create a policy that would force the account to create a password?Thanks you for your time,B...  View more

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Recovery Partition 10.9.4 How to...

Hello All, I'm a super noob and just starting to dip my feet into the wonderful world of JAMF NATION! is it possible to clone a 10.9.4 recovery partition and if so what are some of the ways you guys like to do this? also is it possible to roll out th...  View more

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JSS API Bug

I have several scripts running that upload information to our JSS webserver. However, after updating to the current live version, I have noticed that when you curl something up to the server, it applies to all computers. Has anyone else seen this iss...  View more

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VLC Shortcut on desktop macbooks

I need to add this shortcut to 70 laptops. I would like to add it to everyones desktop. /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -f --video-on-top --no-osd http://10.5.1.12 VLC://quit any ideas would be great. Thanks  View more

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Casper Imaging "First Run" Script Bug 9. ?

I can't find any reports on this, but it seems there is a pretty obviously problem with run after reboot scripts in Casper Imaging. (9.xxx) The enrolment script is called by a launchdaemon, if the jss is not reachable, it's called again on a 5 min in...  View more

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Removing Restrictions Passcode on iPad

Is there a way in JSS to remove a forgotten RESTRICTIONS passcode on an iPad? I appreciate being able to remove the LOCK passcode (as long as the iPad is still able to connect to a Wi-Fi network). Now I'm hoping there could be a way to remove the Res...  View more

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Public Wifi

I have teachers that somehow keep joining a public wifi when they are in the schools and not the private one they are suppose to be on. We have config profiles so they can be on the correct one's. Is there a way for me to block the public wifi on the...  View more

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Safari Internet Plugins - save power settings

More of an FYI if anyone else needs to manage the Safari > Preferences > Advanced > Internet Plug-ins > "Stop plug-ins to save power" setting like I had to. After saving a copy of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist with the checkbox selecte...  View more

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Advantages To Binding Macs to AD

What are the real advantages to binding all our laptops to the domain? The only thing I see right now are problems with our laptop macs. The file shares I can still access even though my machine is not bound to domain. Am I missing something here? Ha...  View more

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Self Service at home issue

Hello all, I have a student that when he goes home the self service app does not work. He gets the following message: Self Service has Encountered a Problem Unable to access https://mdm.logosprep.org:8443//selfservice2/index.html?.............The req...  View more

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