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Bluetooth keyboards for iPad

We have a 1:1 deployment of iPads and the English department ordered bluetooth keyboards for use with typing assignments. We're running into an issue where sometimes they will get paired incorrectly, so I was wondering if anyone else has tried using ...  View more

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Help Removing JAMFNation Software

Hello JAMFNation,It's been about 2 years now since I've been at my school as I have graduated and the software my school had added onto out Mac's now needs to be taken off. I actually only realised it the other week and I've been on and off the phone...  View more

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Distributing iBooks to OS X via self service

There is plenty of documentation on ways to distribute iBooks to iOS devices, but I require a way to distribute iBooks to users' macbooks and self service would definitely be a preferable way to do this. I am currently using composer to package the i...  View more

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Casper CCA/CMA Classes in Milwaukee in August?

Hi folks, In addition to the JAMF classes available on their website, we are trying to get enough people interested to have CCA (Mac) and CMA (iOS) classes in Milwaukee sometime in early August (exact date dependent upon when we can commit). They wou...  View more

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Prompt to rename computer at enrollment

I'm assuming the best way to do this is through a postflight script? I'm enrolling several Macs into my new JSS - not imaging at this time. I'd like to get the computers name updated before they bind to Active Directory. Any suggestions / examples wo...  View more

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Mystery MCX behaviour

Now I've not updated the JSS from 9.2 so there's every chance someone will pipe up "known problem" which is fine. But it might well not be that and I'm missing something obvious. (Note this is all MCX and not configuration profiles.) I've been trying...  View more

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Firefox 30.0 Using JSS 8.73

I used to be able to package Firefox with no issue. We just want a vanilla install through Self Service for new students when they return in the Fall. I have tried just doing the copy to applications with out opening it. Fairly new to casper so just ...  View more

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Outlook Signature script from Active Directory

Hey, I'm just looking for a point in the right direction I'm trying to create a script that will make a signature for Outlook 2011 Here is what I have so far: #!/bin/bash # Create a variable for the logged in user user=`defaults read /Library/Prefere...  View more

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AAMEE & MAvericks

Has anyone gotten packages created on Mavericks for CS6 that will install correctly on 10.9? I am having the hardest time. After many failed attempts to even create the package, I got one created, but then it fails to install. This is all locally, be...  View more

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Shell Scripting Question

I've mostly scripted with PowerShell and vbscript and have no experience with shell scripting, so I apologize for the newbness of this question. I'm writing an extension attribute that has a line like this: ver='/usr/sbin/jamfds -v'echo "$ver Install...  View more

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Deploying SugarSync

Has anyone been able to successfully deploy SugarSync? The installer available on their website is a .app wrapped in a DMG. It appears as though this installer app is exactly the same (size-wise anyway) as what ends up in the /Applications folder. Th...  View more

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User Initiated Enrollment

My understanding is that there is no way to stop a user from deleting the MDM Enrollment Profile if it as and Over the air User initiated enrollment? Hopefully I am wrong or missing something???  View more

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licensed software

Hi, I have 13 copies of Boxshot 3D which all have different Serial Numbers.Do I need to create individual policies etc for each mac that is licenced? I have another 150 users coming up on another site and really don't wanna be going through this for ...  View more

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Slow login once FV2 enabled

We are currently seeing machines that have AD Mobile account take a very long time to login once the machine is encrypted and off the network. Our machines are bound to AD and, when they are not encrypted and off the network they take literally a sec...  View more

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Patching a system over VPN, no DMZ access

We recently put some boxes in a vendors location that only links back to us via periodic VPN access. Our JSS is not on the DMZ at this point, and our VPN connection is pretty slow to push packages... (I waited over 10hrs to upload a 5gb pkg before I ...  View more

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Language not changing?

I have a prestage image set up that installs Office and a couple other pieces of software. It leaves the OS that shipped with the Macs in place. I have two out about 15 machines so far that have randomly selected a language other then English (differ...  View more

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DS_store?

Hi, I've come across this a couple of times but I don't understand why some disable the DS_store creation on network shares? Does this give a performance boost?  View more

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Nvivo for Mac

I was wondering if anyone has successfully packaged Nvivo for Mac? Using a snapshot I install Nvivo and register the program, when I install the program created from the snapshot I get prompted to register again. It doesn’t seem to be keeping the reg...  View more

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Mass deploy OpenDNS via provisioning profiles on iOS

Hi All,Does anyone know of a way to mass deploy OpenDNS on iOS ? I know the umbrella app does it but that requires access to the device. Each profile seems to be uniquely generated and I was hoping to be able to mass deploy it via casper.Any help wil...  View more

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Casper Imaging - Automated HD Wiping - Apple Script

So what I did here is create a applescript app that we run before we start imaging with casper imaging. I saved the file as an application thus it can run without applescript editor. Sorry for my lack of commenting on what is done. See if you like it...  View more

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Wireless Authentication

Hello All - I'm working with a Steel-Belted Radius server + AD Authentication for wireless. I've setup the following: Created configuration profiles to deploy my certificates. This works. Both import successfully as trusted. Created configuration pro...  View more

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Netboot Image 10.9.3

I'm having trouble with my 10.9.3 Netboot image with Casper Imaging. I built my Netboot image based on the following articles:https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=307https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=313 When I run my...  View more

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Enable ALL Users for FileVault2?

i may not have looked hard enough, but is there a way to enable all users on each computer when deploying FileVault 2?And how does everyone handle remote support when a reboot is needed and filevault is enabled and the user has walked away from the c...  View more

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Prestage Imaging Lost All Serial Numbers in Scope

We did an upgrade on our JSS today, upgrading from 8.71 to 9.32. There were no issues with the upgrade process and everything appeared to be running smoothly. We did however notice that there was no Serial Numbers in our Prestage Imaging Scope. What ...  View more

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Inconsistent Imaging

As a school district we are prepping to get our new images ready for the summer time. We recently have been noticing inconsistent Netboot imaging with Casper Imaging. We upgraded our server to Mavericks back in April and that seems to be about the ti...  View more

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What's wrong with this script in Mavericks?

Hello, The script below works in Mountain Lion, but not Mavericks. We put this code into Automator as "Run Shell Script" and save it as an app. Users would double-click it to add printers. In Mavericks, it adds but when they print, it prints out garb...  View more

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