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Admin Account

So noticing some problems creating a local admin account. It seems to be creating a folder called .Adminacct In this account it seems that it's putting a ? for iPhoto and the Downloads folders. Further it's not allowing you to go into CMD+, to setup ...  View more

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JSS 9.1 "400 Error"

Yesterday I upgraded my JSS to 9.1 from 8.71 and everything appeared to upgrade fine, but now whenever I try to log in to the web interface I get a blank page with the title "400 Error" after entering my credentials. I have tried this in both Safari ...  View more

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Ready or not - iOS7

So, I sat down today to config 100 iPads for students and lo and behold, Apple Configurator installs iOS7, but cannot add backup image or the profiles. Is there a good way to do this? Is Apple Configurator still the product to use to mass config iPad...  View more

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IOS 7 Find My iPHone security feature

With the new security feature in IOS 7's Find My iPhone you have to know the AppleID's password being used to wipe the device. What happens if a phone is lost and an AppleID is on the device with Find My iPhone, will it be able to be wiped from JSS?  View more

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Removing Office 2011

Hi, How would i completely remove Office 2011 on a network via Casper/JSS? I've found the 12 step guide to removing the software from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768/en-us Would i do this while running composer to create a package ...  View more

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iOS 7 Installing apps on supervised device silently

Hey, Has anyone tried this with success yet? I've enrolled a few supervised iPads running iOS 7 in the JSS (9.1) but I'm getting prompted for the iTunes account password when the app tries to install.I've setup the iTunes account in the settings of t...  View more

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Stop Students accessing Terminal

Has any one found a way to stop students from accessing the terminal? If so please let us know how you did so, Configuration profiles can block a whole folder at a time, but blocking the "Utilities" folder may stop other things from working.  View more

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And the hits just keep coming

Happy September...on the tail of my wireless authentication woes, another problem came up. I have machines that were imaged in 2 weeks ago, that tecahers used. fine. Now it seems each machine will not let one and only one user not login ( different u...  View more

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Self-Service on iOS7 opens in Safari?

Having an issue on JSS 9.1 where the new Self-Service opens in Safari (not self-contained). Fresh iOS7Fresh enrollmentIssue occurs Existing EnrollmentiOS7 OTA updatenew Self-service downloaded via inventory updateIssue occurs Existing EnrollmentiOS6....  View more

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Secure Drive Erase before Imaging

Has anyone implemented this? Not a full DoD wipe, just zeroing the drive before dropping an image. I assume I can run a script before the block copy of the DMG and prompt the tech to select the drive then run a secure erase. While on the topic, am I ...  View more

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Dashboard Graphs

Is anybody else having an issue in 9.0 where their Dashboard graphs are not updating properly? I have a policy that says 0 completed, yet when I click on the policy it shows me computers that say completed.  View more

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Risk of a Silly Question w/ Netboot Images

Taking a gamble here on what might sound like a silly question, but I figure its worth it :-) Can a netboot set be used for a wide arrange of machines, or do we need 1 for each type of hardware we have? We have a couple of netboot sets that we create...  View more

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HTTP error creating policy 8.64

Solved: I was getting an error in the JSS running on RedHat Linux when I tried to add a script to a policy. The error page came up with "HTTP Status 500, java.lang.IllegalStateException: Parameter count exceeded allowed maximum: 512". The solution wa...  View more

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Recon flushes policy history?

Hey, should Recon flush the policy history for computers that it locates? We are trying to locate machines that may have fallen out of management. Recon's network scanner found several, but many of them were machines that were already in inventory, b...  View more

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question to JAMF regarding the 8.7.x line

Will Jamf be releasing an update to the 8.7.x line to allow basic support for iOS 7 and perhaps AppleTV enrollments? It is our hope that such an update will come as a major upgrade to version 9.x is something that we in schools cannot do until the fi...  View more

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Upgrading to 9.01

We run an MSP-like environment with a single JSS and multiple remote Distro points on Mac Minis...Has anyone run into any weird post upgrade issues from version 8?  View more

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Best way to find plist properties to edit?

Hi! I was curious if there is a good way to go about finding the .plist files that have the arguments I would use to change the way the OS behaves. Example: I'd like a shell script to autoset the scrollbars to always on boot. I can write the script j...  View more

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alternative way to access network home directories

For a variety of reasons (some of which I understand, but many I don't) I can not get home directory mapping to work consistently with our macs that are bound to our AD. Is there an alternative way, either through scripting or through the JSS, to map...  View more

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Imaging Hanging

Hi, Anyone seen Casper Imaging only get as far as Setting the name and then hang on "Creating jamfHelper, Ensuring system files are hidden" ??  View more

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JAMF Casper Tool Set

Hello all! I am looking for someone who is experience in supporting the JAMF Casper tool set for a position I have open with a Metro Detroit Marketing Agency. If you are interested, please email me at dalexander@otterbase.com for more information. Th...  View more

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Packaging VueScan

I can't for the life of me find out where VueScan is storing its serial number information. I've used Composer 8.7 to scan for file differences to create a package and all that shows is the Application itself (of course) and a vuescan.ini and vuescan...  View more

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iOS 7 VPP Changes and Casper Suite

With iOS 7 being released today, I thought I would ask if anyone had any details on the VPP changes that are supposedly coming. AND if/when/how Casper Suite will incorporate the VPP changes. Assuming that MDM solutions even need to make changes I gue...  View more

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JDS replication to child JDS

Does anyone know the process that is invoked when a parent JDS is replicated to a child JDS? We can replicate the JSS to the parent JDS with Casper Admin,but the next step which is supposed to be automatic replication from parent JDS to child JDS doe...  View more

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Updating to 9.0.1

We are curious if anyone else is running into issues with their update to JSS 9.0.1 or if we are doing something wrong. Here is a list of what we are finding so far: App icons are all set to strange and random icons (see attached file) When I add a n...  View more

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