Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
Hello All,A few departments on Oregon State's campus are starting to want to have iPads for use in the classroom and for student checkout. My group is being tasked to support these devices. We want to start off this service on the right foot and deve... View more
So just a quick polling here for the masses: We've got plenty of older Macs on our network that still require some patching. And we've got plenty of new computers which we image that already have those patches. My question is: what methods do you all... View more
I've created a configuration in Casper Admin for the new iMacs I'm installing in my Communications lab. The iMacs have 1TB hard drives and need to be split in to a 1gb Restore parition, a 250gb Boot partition, and 750gb media partition. I've created ... View more
Sparing everyone the circuitous path that has led me to the question posed in the subject line, does anyone know of a way to accomplish this using policies? I have been unsuccessful thus far in forcing a dock.plist to all of our user accounts (existi... View more
Hi all, [ERROR] [Configuration ] - Error creating class for type 'com.apple.loginwindow'java.lang.Exception: Unable to add "Login Window" to payloads I dont know what happened to my last post, but has anyone come accross this, and is there a fix for ... View more
...no wonder Apple loathes Java (and Flash). We are deploying a 3rd-Party-App that requires Java. We decided to kill two birds with one stone and push Java 1.6.0_41 first, then the 3rd-Party-App afterwards. Success is about 80%...but 20% show this er... View more
Hi all! I was just wondering if anyone has upgraded their clients to 10.8 with Casper and without user interaction? Right now, I have it available in Self Service but now I want to force it on everyone who has failed to install it themselves.Tips? Ad... View more
I'm having an issue after upgrading to Office 2011 v14.3.1 (14.3.0 also has the same problem). I can no longer get exchange accounts to setup, I just get an 'authentication failed' message. This worked with 14.2.x, and what's worse, it works if I loa... View more
I have a Perl script I am trying to push on login using Casper through an http distribution point for a client. The first challenge was that the link had broken which I resolved through article 116 of the kbase. Now I'm getting a 403 forbidden instea... View more
I wanted to start a conversation and see if any admins out there are using puppet or chef in there environment in addition to Casper, how are they using it, and what they are finding is the better tool for them for which situations. For instance, I'v... View more
Hey All, Came across this the other day. http://bryson3gps.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/using-box-com-as-a-casper-share/ Wanted to say thanks to Bryson. Up and working great! View more
It's worth noting that in the case of a Fusion Drive, the typical approach to unmounting a Recovery HD partition as outlined in the KB article for deploying 10.8 will not work. Recovery HD will not be disk0s3, or on disk0 at all. I'm considering anot... View more
We're having to restart Tomcat every so often, so I'm wondering if there is a problem with the Tomcat launch daemon? Does the below match anyone else's Tomcat launch daemon? If not, care to post yours? :) We're running a 1st generation Intel Xserve (... View more
I have a 10.6.8 machine that keeps throwing the above error when policies run. Here is a log from a simple dock item policy: Sending Wake On LAN command...Opening SSH Connection to 128.135.205.148...Accepting authentication method...Authenticating...... View more
Hey all: I'm new to the scene so please be understanding if this is basic stuff. I had an HTTP Distribution Point working from a Mac mini running 10.8 Server (the same one running JSS and everything else Casper). It was working fine but I was asked t... View more
Hi all, We are having a different issue now that is showing up in the log. We are getting this message every 10-20 seconds posted to the JAMFSoftwareServer.log file. [ERROR] [Configuration ] - Error creating class for type 'com.apple.loginwindow'java... View more
When the SCCM plugin is configured properly, what is the nature of the data flow? Does the the transference flow directly from the JSS DB to SCCM DB, or is a file copied to the SCCM server which is then in turn imported into SCCM? If the later, I'm w... View more
Hi all, We are suddenly seeing a very weird behavior with our jamf server. We have to constantly restart tomcat because it becomes completely unresponsive, this happens multiple times a day. We even went as far as setting up a new jss and the behavio... View more
I have successfully captured the "Dock" .plist using Composer "User Environment" (as a DMG). Uploaded it to Casper Admin and selected "Fill User Template" I am pushing this out via Self Service, and for some reason, when I login as the user (AD Centr... View more
I built a custom EA to look for Mountain Lion computers that need firmware updates based on a script I found in an old post by Miles Leacy (Thank you Miles!). It looks like this #!/bin/shfwupdcount=softwareupdate -l | grep -c -e Firmware -e EFI -e SM... View more
Hey guys -Has anyone built an extension attribute or a shell script to identify users w/ Remote Access capability? I've started on the script below: #!/bin/bash #returns com.apple.access_ssh or com.apple.access_ssh-disabled SSH_users=$(dscl . list /g... View more
We have a handful of printer models in our environment. When we were putting them in I went through and created printer entries for every printer in our complex, however it seems random ones don't want to come down via self service. While they do ins... View more
I would like to provide a .mobileconfig file to our remote Mac (not iOS) users that pre-populates the VPN settings for our organization. I have generated one and it works all except for the fact that I cannot get the profile to properly control the s... View more
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/it_security-hacking-patches-standard_edition,1-927.html Six days following the release of yet another security patch for Java, an independent security startup identifies two new serious vulnerabilities in Java 7. Ora... View more
Hi All, Java is driving me up the wall, I have the latest 6 2013 (1.6.0_41) update and it installs OK as a PKG, a prerequisite for Symantec AV live update (go figure...) however we have an application that launches a jnlp file that needs the Java web... View more
We're having a bit of a problem. We use Trend Micro as AV for the macs - but it seems to not want to install if Java 7 is on the system. Anybody know if there is a way around this? Installation failed. The installer reported: usage: dirname path find... View more
Recently I checked the computer records and found thatthere's no applications in the application details (which was there before) of the inventory for some machines. And there are no errors found in inventory update policy. If I do a manual "sudo jam... View more
I've added an application to the login items of all users. When they login they're prompted to "Allow" access to an Application password within the logon keychain. If the user "Always Allow" then they don't get prompted again. I'm wondering if there'... View more
Get your update on folks...again... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57571468-83/adobe-issues-emergency-patch-for-zero-day-flash-vulnerabilities/ View more
RT @mactech @MacTech and @Microsoft teaming up to offer @OfficeforMac Accredited Support Professional credential at BootCamp.... http://t.co/42ZHhs0Lle View more
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