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DEP Setup

Can someone tell me what to do after we have the DEP setup? We have created the PreStage Enrollments, not sure what the next step should be? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.  View more

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REALLY odd issue with SMB CIFS Shares

So here's an odd one. We have some offsite shares created on VNX servers created as just cifs shares. Whenever I mount these shares (which use AD credentials to provide permissions), they mount but show up totally empty, until I drag and drop somethi...  View more

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Jailbreak device detection

Sensitive and already open discussion on many occasions, but I think essential to really manage the deployment of iPhones in a commercial society and the associated business risks. Since the removal of the detection jailbreak detection in iOS API's, ...  View more

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Missing variables in script

i have a script that creates a few scripts on the users computers.and one of the scripts seems to pull the variable out of the script. any idea how to fix this? This is what i write: #Creates the script that the Launchd will call to make the popup ec...  View more

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Imaging Configurations

As we prepare for our arrival of new macs next month, wiping/rebuilding current machines as well as the update process for our students and faculty this summer, I am building a new 10.9.2 Configuration in Casper Imaging very much the way we did for l...  View more

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How to manage printing preset?

Hello, I would like to manage the printing preset of my computer. I found that if I copy the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custom presets.plist from the computer model to the new one it work. But it don't work from a 10.6 to a 10.9 OS. I...  View more

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Pre-stage Enrollment Process

I overall seem to have gotten the DEP process to work, but I'm unsure of some things here 'n' there because I've gone about it more haphazardly than usual. Here's what I've done: Add iPad serial via DEP website In Prestage Enrollment I've edited the ...  View more

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MCXtoProfile

Does anyone have a copy of this I can download? I have no access to Git at my job.  View more

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Config Profiles - How to redeploy after reimaging

Being admittedly a bit new to working with configuration profiles, one glaring issue has recently come up for me for which I'm not sure of a solution. It seems that if a profile was previously installed on the computer, Casper does not redeploy it af...  View more

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Script at Login Issue

Hey Guys How does one deploy a script at user logon per user but only once or is it better to push it out as a script that is deployed on a machine level. Essentially were working with a ChromeSSO script and we want all macs and users current and fut...  View more

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Keynote 6 and iPhoto 9.5

Hi There, New to Casper. As more and more apps are released via the app store, it feels less obvious how best to deploy applications like Keynote 6 and iPhoto 9.5 via Casper. Has anyone been able to successfully package these two apps? Should one jus...  View more

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JDS 9.31 Linux installer getting stuck

Has anyone else noticed that the 9.31 JDS Linux installer gets stuck at 'creating JDS directory structure'? # ./JDS-Linux-Installer-9.31.run Verifying archive integrity... All good.Uncompressing JDS Installer..........Starting the JDS InstallationChe...  View more

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Casper Imaging on VMWare Fusion 6

Odd "feature" I've encountered in VMWare Fusion 6. If you net boot an OS X VM and use Casper Imaging to deploy, it'll deploy the OS and it's own stuff ok but any other additional packages have their ownership completely screwed up. Usually the files ...  View more

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Packing .app not sure if it worked

Has anybody tried packaging the Red Giant Software's ShooterSuite 12?The vendor install is a .app installer, I took it and dumped it into the /private/tmp folder and did the installer -pkg. It seemed like it worked, but when I launched the app it sai...  View more

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SMB Distro Issue

We're having trouble mounting the SMB Share for Casper when loading any of the Capser Suite Apps, the IP is reachable, the machine name resolves and the file share/access permissions are correct too but Casper Admin says otherwise please advise. Ive ...  View more

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Thin is in? Anyone thin imaging instead of standard?

As long as we've had JAMF, we've done standard imaging: reformat or partition the drive, install the base OS, software packages, settings, AD bind, etc. But ever since 10.8 came out and forked the OS, I've started to think that thin imaging might be ...  View more

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NetSUS kills Apple NetBoot on Network

Hello, I'm experiencing an issue where if a network with local OS X netboot servers is added the the NetBoot page, the local NetBoot servers stop working (Clients cant boot to their NetBoot sets). If I remove the network, local NetBoot servers begin ...  View more

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Before script seems to run at end of policy

I'm stumped on one thing that's preventing me from moving to a policy based new machine deployment process. My deployment policy has about 25 packages and scripts. I have two before scripts that must run first. The first one is simply a jamfHelper fu...  View more

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New Apple Deployment site

2 weeks ago I was successful in adding some devices to test with Apple's new OTA deployment site. You can add iPads by serial numbers. Now when I attempt to add devices I get this screen. Is anybody else receiving this? Thanks for any info.  View more

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Get iOS devices updated with new JSS server name (non DNS)

We have a New Mac Pro that will host our JSS and run Netinstall. When we set our current production server up last year we weren't using a DNS name in the JSS URL. I know, what were we thinking? I got all of my Mac devices point ed to the DNS name (h...  View more

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Execute Script when target is removed from a group?

Is it possible to create a policy that executes a script when a target machine is removed from a Static Computer Group? For example: I have scoped a policy to install Firefox on any machine placed in a Static Computer Group called "Firefox". However ...  View more

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Clean Up & Deleting Old Packages

Searched around a bit but no luck finding my solution yet. I want to reduce my footprint in the JSS for the amount of space my packages are taking up as I prepare to add a distribution point with Amazon AWS. Packages folder is nearly 77 GB. I deleted...  View more

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Netboot query

Do you have to use a Mac os Server to Netboot or can you utilise another windows flavour if so any suggestions so they can exist on the same machine as the .JSS ?  View more

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lpadmin: Unauthorized / Windows printing / Equitrac

Hi We have implemented Equitrac within our organisation to manage our printers and make use of Followme printing.Iv'e rolled the print queues and drivers out using Casper but all of our users are complaining that they have to input their credentials ...  View more

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Mavericks and editing /etc/hosts file

It seems as though Mavericks is ignoring changes to the hosts file. I use: sudo vi /etc/hosts Make changes as necessary and then run sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder and sudo dscacheutil -flushcache (just in case) But the changes to the hosts file are...  View more

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General Question Regarding Permissions from SMB Share

Hi, Just looking for some advice. We map a SMB folder that sits on a NAS server for the users once they login.A user has been given the permissions in the folder, but accessing on a mac client says that access is denied. Am i right that it's an issue...  View more

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LDAP ISSUE

Hey There, We're trying to setup the AD LDAP binding to allow the Casper 9 suite to query AD and we're having some difficulty and are getting the following message using this name :- CN=*,OU=Domain Management,DC=ad,DC=*,DC=com Error: javax.naming.dir...  View more

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