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Login username and password

Can somebody please help me to understand why 2 of the same hardware and software machines would give 2 different results. these were both imaged and bound to an ad with casper imaging but look 2 different ways. One uses the profile picture (which is...  View more

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Show keyboard input menu on FileVault encrypted Mac

Hi everyone, acutally I got the problem, that on FileVault encrypted Macs the input menu for keyboard layouts won't show up in the boot screen. The setting for the keyboard input menu is located in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow with the ...  View more

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delete individual keychain item

I have a situation where i need to deploy a new printer. no problem there!only problem is user needs to authenticate trough AD printserver.this means there is a network password in the users keychain named printerc0(x). does any of you know how to re...  View more

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Smart Group on FileVault 2 status?

I'm not sure if I'm missing anything, but is there a way to build a smart group off of the FileVault 2 Status from the Storage information? In the Computer information from Inventory, I see the status if I click on the Storage section, but if I drill...  View more

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Login Window profile locks computer name

When creating a configuration profile to set login window preferences, I discovered that the client is prevented from changing the Computer Name, even if "Set computer name to computer record name" is not selected. Is this a bug? or am I missing some...  View more

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Disable Updates Checking in FileMaker Pro 11?

A few groups we support need to stay on FileMaker Pro 11, so we're packaging for deployment. We want to stifle the update prompt (image). When we capture ~/Library/Preferences/com.filemaker.client.pro.plist then toggle the update checkbox in FileMake...  View more

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Unable to install Lion on new iMac Late 2012

We got some new iMac Late 2012 machines in recently and in the interest of keeping all operating systems the same (Lion) and not having four machines only having Mountain Lion to start off a frenzy of "gimme gimme" and forcing us to prematurely insta...  View more

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FileVault2 in a lab environment

I have been doing some research into FV2 to see what it would take to encrypt all of my machines, but all of the information seems tailored for use in single user environments. What about multiple user environments? I have a lot of machines that are ...  View more

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Updating jss

I am about to update my jss server and am having trouble finding what I need to back up first etc... before installing  View more

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network accounts in JSS inventory

All our Macs are bound to AD via Centrify. For an upcoming security audit, I need to generate a list off all AD users that have admin rights on their Macs. Right now, JSS only shows local accounts - https://www.evernote.com/shard/s57/sh/c3adf68b-73d1...  View more

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Self service - set network time.

I have a number of users who let their laptop batteries run down to 0% and their Date/Time resets to 2001.They cannot unlock their date/Time system prefs because they do not have admin passwords.They cannot VPN to the home office because VPN doesn't ...  View more

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FileVault2 or McAfee?

Has anyone done a recent bake off between FileVault2 and McAfee for FDE? We have enterprise Windows support for laptops and they use McAfee for FDE. If we introduce enterprise support for OS X, should we expand our McAfee to support the Apple family ...  View more

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Installing files into ~/Applications

I've been speaking to a colleague at another company about how they deal with installing applications that needs to be updated often. They manually add a /Applications folder under the users home folder and then install the application in there. They...  View more

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Disabling Word 2011 Compatibility Check

Hi guys, Has anyone come up with a way to configure a preference to switch off the "Check Documents for Compatibility" option in Word 2011? Excel has CRAutoCheck in com.microsoft.Excel, and Powerpoint has CompatReport in com.microsoft.Powerpoint... h...  View more

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GLPI and Casper

Anyone have any experience Importing Casper data into GLPI with the GLPI web services plugin? I though it would be a breeze once I got the plugin installed and I could make a simple bash script to do Cron Imports/Updates nightly. I'm quickly learning...  View more

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Single Sign-On for Mac OSX Safari

Does anyone know of a way to pass through through AD login creds from a bound machine through to Specific Sites in Safari? This would be in relation to Mac osx 10.7 and 10.8 any help would be appreciated. I have seen mention of whitelisting but have ...  View more

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Script help/suggestions

A number of our newer Macs are unable to Netboot (seems like any that shipped with Lion or higher). We have gone through the iphelper stuff but no luck. That said, I wrote a down and dirty script to repartition the disk, install the Recovery OS, rebo...  View more

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