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Site Admin advice

Does anyone know of a way or if it's possible to give a group people access to policies, but only allow them to have access to update the scope of the policy and not allow them to change anything else. I am looking at ways to give Support Staff acces...  View more

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jamf encryptDisk- What is the recovery key?

So, I was playing around with enabling FV2 using the JAMF binary today, and I noticed that the personal recovery key appears to be generated, but there's no obvious way to figure out what it is. After running the command, stdout echoes simply "Recove...  View more

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VPN & JAMF

none of our automated processes (config profile updates, patches, policies) seem come down when a user is on VPN. We can manually push processes and policies over VPN, so we know they can hit it...(not sure how to force a config profile refresh - sug...  View more

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API account

I was thinking that "back in the day" one must have privileges to use the API but within 9.3 I don't see this explicitly pointed out. My questions are:1) Most of my API calls are GET so perhaps I would need to create a read-only account that touches ...  View more

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Zombie print jobs

Not sure if anyone else has come across this but I'm seeing an issue where machine will randomly start sending print jobs that had been successfully sent to the printer weeks or months ago. The jobs will continue to send regardless of how many times ...  View more

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JSS Proxy

We are running into an issue using the App Store Search within the JSS. Our searches time out because they are not able to to get out since our firewall is blocking the request. We were able to open the 17.x.x.x block for the APN to function and I fo...  View more

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HELP: API Put to location/username

I am looking for syntax help on how to PUT the within ../JSSResource/computers/id/$ID/subset/location using curl. Any ideas? I should also state that I must use BASH to accomplish this task.  View more

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Office 2011 Updates

Hello everyone, I have a little issue with MS Office 2011 updates on casper. I'm still using MS office with 14.0.0 and i have to do all updates. Actually i have to run the 14.1.0 update and 14.3.9 on some clients computers ( i can't pass directly to ...  View more

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Restricted software notifies once only!

Hey all, It seems that if I take an app, uTorrent for example, and restrict it with only a Message, the pop up box displays the message once and only once. Any subsequent launches of said restricted app no longer display the pop up message unless the...  View more

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Management Tab

I am experiencing an issue. If I search for a mobile device and click on it to view it, I get a page that loads that displays Inventory, Management, and History tabs. If I click on the Management tab, it loads a page that is completely blank. It does...  View more

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Are you sure you want to send? - Outlook 2011 Applescript

I'm looking for a way to display a message after the send button is pressed in Outlook 2011 when a message is sent to a specific recipient. Something like, "Are you sure you want to send this message?", in order to prevent messages from being sent to...  View more

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Is There a Package File Size Limit in Casper 8.73?

We're running Casper 8.73, and Casper Admin crashes when uploading files. It seems to be intermittent, but consistently does it with our newest Adobe Creative Cloud installer. The installer is 16.41GB as it contains the entire Adobe suite - my questi...  View more

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One Policy Multiple Commands

Any one ever tried to execute more than one unix command in a single policy? We have a self service policy to update inventory. I'd like it to run both a JAMF Manage & JAMF Policy at the same time. Right now, I think I can only run 1 of those command...  View more

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Self Service script to delete InDesign Preference File

I've been having an issue with InDesign in a lab where the students use a network home directory(AFP). Occasionally, InDesign crashes when a student tries to open it. It seems to think that the preference files are in use somewhere even tho they are ...  View more

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Hot Corner

Is anyone here using Hot Corners to Launch Screen Saver as a n MCX ot CP? if so, can you share the key, and setting. I tried to create one using com.apple.dock using key wvous-tr-corner to no avail. if anyone can share some tips, would be great.  View more

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Never booted casper imaging nbi ??

I want to use/System/Library/CoreServices/System Image Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/imagetool to create *never booted* custom netboot sets that run Casper imaging from the App store Mavericks install app.I have been very successful creating net install...  View more

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[OT] Mobile Scanning Devices

If there are folks here that use mobile scanning sleds attached to iPod Touch/iPhone devices, could you please contact me? We're evaluating a few choices in this area and could use some real world feedback. I respect your time and privacy and appreci...  View more

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System Image Utility quits unexpectedly

I am trying to create a nbi, System Image Utility only quits unexpectedly after I drag the "Configure Casper for NetBoot" automator action from the workflow library? I can run through the process without a problem until I drag the "action". Has anyon...  View more

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Anyone running the JSS in a VM?

Wondering if anyone is using Linux VMs for their JSS, or for other components of the system? If so, how's the performance? Any issues that would indicate it being better served by its own hardware?  View more

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Could not mount distribution point

My casper share it called "casper_share" i have some self service policy's falling and logs show error below: Executing Policy Change This Computer's Name...[STEP 1 of 4]Mounting SMB Share to /Volumes/casper_share 1...Error: Could not mount distribut...  View more

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Extension Attribute for Document Folder Size

I'm hoping someone can help our school district out with creating an extension attribute to poll our staff computers for the size of their Documents folder. Or some other way to do it entirely? We're looking to determine storage needs for backup purp...  View more

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JDS Ubuntu 12.04 Tips

I couldn't find any information for setting up JDS on Ubuntu 12.04 so I thought I would share with the class. Make Sure that the hostname of your JDS and the hostname registered in JSS are the same.(This is case sensitive) Make sure that you replicat...  View more

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