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Assign to user taking long

Once on the "Assign to user" page of enrollment, i'll enter in the AD User ID i wish to assign to and click the search button. I've noticed that it takes several minutes to come back with a checkmark. I was thinking this could just be the JSS taking ...  View more

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Smart Groups

I have a confession: I spend way too much time in my MDM and WiFi dashboard. I love to poke around and see what knobs I can turn learn more about how the pipes are connected. One of the things that I heard was the "secret sauce" of the Casper Suite w...  View more

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Flash 14 Deploying to Clients

I just downloaded the Adobe Distribution license for Flash. I went to the download link provided by Adobe and downloaded install_flash_player_14_osx_pkg.dmg which says it is the version for System Administrators. There is another version... not label...  View more

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Which Tool to use to create a NetInstall Image?

Can someone explain the pro's/con's of using each of these tools? I've never used any of them, but have seen various posts recommending the use of each: Apple System Image UtilityCasper NetInstall CreatorCasper NetBoot Automator Action If relevant, a...  View more

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Ignore Ownership on this Volume - Composer Behavior

While creating OSX dmg in Composer does Composer take-off the subject check from the Volumes. For instance, if we are using "Macintosh HD" image to create an OSX image then would Composer take-off the "Ignore Ownership on this Volume" check from the ...  View more

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Populate computer asset tag with csv file

Hi, I have a csv file like that: serial_number;asset_tag I want to update the asset tag for computers with mysql queries. I can't find where is stored the computer serial number in the db.I found there is a table computers_denormalized, so I updated ...  View more

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Who can unlock a FileVault Encrypted Drive

Excuse my ignorance… I have a pilot group for FileVault on some Mavericks MacBooks. I have a couple of questions. I apparently mistakenly understood that only pre-ordained users could unlock a FileVault encrypted drive. In testing, I find that even a...  View more

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JDS 9.4 on RHEL 6.5

JDS 9.32 had an issue where it assumed that your ethernet port was eth0 even if that was not configured or active. Looks like that is fixed in JDS 9.4. Great Job JAMF Software.  View more

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Vancouver JAMF User Group

Hey All, Haven't seen much traction on if people want to attend. I'm co-hosting this with my colleague in Denver. Feel free to sign up and meet some other admins in the vancouver area.Light refreshments will be provided.- RD  View more

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iOS Inventory updates not happening

I have a number of devices that are not getting inventories pulled every night. When I do a blank push or inventory update to a specific iPad, it just sits there in pending and never resolves. I'm still new at Casper so I'm not sure what to troublesh...  View more

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MCX, Configuration Profiles and Login Scripts

Hi all, I am currently working on getting my login scripts working via a configuration profile. I am using Casper 9.32 and only bind to Active Directory. Workgroup manager and Caspers Configuration Profile for 'Loginwindow" under "scripts" says the f...  View more

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Forced Password Renewal blocks Screensaver

HiI have setup a profile that forces the user to change his local account password every 30 days. This works perfectly fine except for the situation where the machine is in Screensaver in the moment the password change request is initiated. When this...  View more

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Root JDS replication

Is it possible to defer packages when replicating to the root JDS? We have some big packages and do not want these to replicate during the day. It would be nice if you did not have to do a full replication at one time. We ran into an issue with our r...  View more

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Mount Hidden Network Home

We've run into an issue with the AD Plugin and mounting of network homes that do not have a directly visible path to the folder (but do have traverse rights). I ended up writing this with the help of Apple and Googling. I wanted to share it here in c...  View more

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Display a message to Users

Hello, I have a weird question. I was wondering if there is a way to display a PDF (or something similar) when a user first logs in to their computer. I am looking for a way to send messages to users outside of their email, since students are not the...  View more

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AD Password Interval

Hey all,Wondering what people use to set their pass interval when binding to AD? I had been using a script to set the pass interval to 0, but it looks like its not performing correctly. my initial script just had: sudo dsconfigad -passinterval 0 Now ...  View more

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[OT] Need help with removing MCXs installed by Munki.

Hi, I just started a new job about a month ago and the previous tech had a handful of Macs managed by Munki. I have no experience with Munki at all, so forgive my ignorance. Unfortunately, he did not leave any documentation behind. The problem I am h...  View more

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Extension to record execution time of Recon

I'm not sure how easy/possible this one is. But i'm curious to know how long inventory updates are taking on each machine. It'd be nice to have an extension attribute that could put a line in like "Inventory Run Time: 76 seconds" for each system. Why...  View more

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Allow cookies for specific websites in Safari 7 & 8

Any idea on how to "whitelist" an intranet site to allow cookies without setting the Safari > Preferences > "Block cookies and other website data" to never for all sites? I found that the cookies are stored in this db ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binary...  View more

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JSS 9.4 - Cannot distribute managed apps

I've got a serious problem regarding managed apps. I've purchased apps selecting the "managed" option. I received notification from Apple that the apps were ready. I've scoped them to a group of iPads. Users see then in Self Service but when they try...  View more

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Map to a specific user on a computer

Hi everyone!Random question... I am working with some library software known as Follett-Destiny. We are trying to get this program to automatically sync with our PowerSchool program. The way this is done includes the following: PowerSchool creates a ...  View more

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NYC Metro JAMF User Group : Quadrophenia

hey All, starting to run out of good thread names :) Hoping to get together a slightly later than originally intended 4th meeting of the NYC JUG. I have been away and have not had a chance to pencil anything in until this week. Tentatively, Is Septem...  View more

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Another (very small) GUI text misspelling bug

So...this has been there since at least 9.31. If you go to the Users tab and search for a user in the database. Click on the user result that comes up and on the left side under VPP Assignments. Under that it may list "34 Assignmentss" The two se's o...  View more

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