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Show computers left to run policy

It seems that display of computers left to run a policy is broken in v9.x. In previous versions I could select "Show Status" and it would show all the machine that had run the policy and all of those left to run it. That option is gone in v9.x and wh...  View more

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Policy to block renaming Macintosh HD

I Have a few scripts that point to /Volumes/Macintosh HD/.... because of this, if someone changes the name of the disk, the scripts fail. Does anyone know of a way to block a user from renaming the Macintosh HD or a safe way to send out a policy to c...  View more

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9.2 and Server Share Interruption while replicating?

Has anybody noticed any problems with server share interruptions while replicating since going to 9.2? It goes through the replication and will just randomly stop. a dialog box will pop up and said server connection interupted and I can either ignore...  View more

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Hey, This is my first post!

I'm new to Casper and will be getting certification in a couple of weeks. I wanted to know where I could go to learn about creating custom reports within JAMF and also with an external connection to Crystal Reports. I'm really looking forward to usin...  View more

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10.9 Self Service upgrade hide folders that open

We are on 9.2. I dragged the Install OS X Mavericks.app into Casper admin it creates Install OS X Mavericks.InstallESD.dmg. I then Cached that package onto a machine and created a self service policy to install the cached package. When I run the self...  View more

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Once per user policy to add dock item not working

Okay, I've spent time RTFM'ing and banging my head into a wall, it's time to ask for help: I am trying to make a policy that adds Self Service to the dock for every user. It either runs as part of the scheduled check-in or Self Service itself (for te...  View more

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MCX in 10.9 not playing ball?

So, we run everything with MCX, and just now, we have upgraded a few computers to 10.9 to test it out.Turns out the MCXs that were on the computer at upgrade time are still heeded, even if one wipe /Library/Managed Preferences, they do come back, but...  View more

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Transpak Package service

http://www.mspex.net/#transpak Anyone using this service? Thinking of trying it out wanted to get some feedback from the nation. I saw it being promoted at JNUC in one of the sessions. its 60$ a month, seems worth it for the time it could save for mo...  View more

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Your favorite Macintosh utilities and tools

on a daily basis, i use Carbon copy cloner, Onyx, Disk warrior, Data rescue 3 ARD, Drive Genius 3, what other tools do you use for troubleshooting or hardware verification like failing drives or even other methods you use for related tasks.  View more

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Unable to mount AFP shares

Hello, I've downloaded the mountNetworkShare.sh and set it up as a login policy for users but it doesn't seem to be mounting the share so I checked the logs and it seems to run without failing, this is the log message: *** Executing Policy Map MacSha...  View more

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Can't bind to AD in 10.9 Mavericks

OK this was brought up in another thread but as was suggested it is probably better in it's own thread so here goes. I've been testing deployment of Mavericks in our environment. I cannot bind to AD either with the JSS binding or manually. If I upgra...  View more

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Reposado and Server OS's

I am exploring a reposado sus and possibly a netboot server but the only info I can find states it runs on Ubuntu. Is there a way of running this on a server that is at Mac OS 10.8.5 or 10.9 Server?  View more

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ZIP packages not deploying

We upgraded our DPs with the migrate function of 9.2 C.Admin, which converted our pkg files to .zip files. Now when I try to deploy something, the policy fails. Any ideas how to resolve? Executing Policy 10.9 Mavericks...[STEP 1 of 4]Mounting Hoffman...  View more

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Mavericks is forked.

The new Retina 13 and 15 models ship with a post-GM build number. I have NOT confirmed whether the GM OS is sufficient for these models (only that the build number is different).  View more

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Java updates

My current machines have Java 7 update 25 installed. I am trying to push down Java 7 update 45. I created the package for Jave7u45 in composer and pushed it to a test machine by using a policy. The policy log states that everything went fine and inst...  View more

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UI for Unix from JNUC

I know I'm a few weeks late on this at this point. I took notes on this presentation, but maybe I wrote down something wrong. I think the presenter when he was talking about cocoa dialog and terminal notifier mentioned something like pleasewait.app. ...  View more

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Distribution Point vs JDS

We are getting ready to upgrade from 8 to 9 and I am thinking about setting up JDSs and replacing our distribution points. I was wondering what people using Casper 9 with JDSs think about them and give me some pro/cons.  View more

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Inventory Display Issues with CasperSuite 9

I just upgraded a staging server to CasperSuite 9 so that I could test it out prior to upgrading our production JSS server. Here are some of the issues I see with it. I've already spoken with my TAM and he recommended that I submit feature requests f...  View more

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802.1x over Ethernet.

This might be a stupid question, but when I create a profile via JSS for Ethernet with PEAP authentication and check the box for "Use Directory Authentication". After I click save and go back to edit the profile, the checkbox is unchecked. Therefore ...  View more

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Desktop Picture (Maverick)

Has anyone encountered an issue with specifying the desktop picture in Maverick via the managed preference? Looks like Apple removed the com.apple.desktop.plist so the preference doesn't work.  View more

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Mavericks, SMB2 and network share corruption

As posted by @bmwarren in my other thread about restricting 10.9's SMB to SMB1, there's been posts about Mavericks corrupting SMB share permissions. Has anyone else encountered this in their testing? I am extremely loathe to deploy this OS until i'm ...  View more

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Casper 8.73 & iOS 7 Enrollment?

In Casper 8.73 we're able to create enrollment profiles that target iOS 7, yet in the following JAMF tech article it states that version 9.0 and lower of the JSS cannot be used to create enrollment profiles for iOS 7 devices. We are planning to upgra...  View more

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JSS 9.2 and SafeGuard for Mac Automation (SGMA) - Sophos

Just received this alert from Sophos: JAMF Software Server 9.2 issue with SGMA 1.0.6 It has been brought to our attention that JAMF Software Server (JSS) 9.2 and SafeGuard for Mac Automation (SGMA) 1.0.6 may not be compatible with each other. SafeGua...  View more

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MySQL issue after Mavericks Server upgrade

We decided to upgrade to Mavericks and Server 3.0 on our Mac Mini server. The JSS didn't like that. Whoops. The upgrade also removed Java, and JCE, which was a semi pain to fix, but not terrible. The JSS is running fine now, but in System Prefs I not...  View more

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