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Allow AD Group Admins to be Admins while Offline?

We use Casper Imaging to image all of our fresh MacBook Airs. Then we distribute the computers out to each user with only a local tech account on the computer. The user will authenticate over Active Directory and their account will be created. After ...  View more

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Enrolling in MDM - Only works sometimes.

I have an issue where some of my devices enroll with JAMF with the MDM configured correctly and others do not. If I go into System Preferences I can see the MDMEnrollment profile installed however when returning to the JAMF inventory the client is li...  View more

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installing software after image

I have a base OSX Page for 10.7 that I have been installing on new Macs with Disk Utility. I then install other software for example Flash player on after manually. What is another better way of installing software when deploying new Macs? Any sugges...  View more

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Prestage Imaging

I have brand new mac book air's and im trying to prestage them and when it is booting some of them are asking for a username and password and the others are booting in and automatically starting i have checked all of the serial numbers if they are in...  View more

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SSL Error has occured

I can't work out what is wrong with my JSS. My iPads are not able to connect when they are off of my LAN and I keep getting the following message: JSS Mobile Has Recieved An Error An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot...  View more

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Apple DLE

We are starting a 1 on 1 program this year and we have some 1 year old laptops that we purchased last year that we would like to upgrade the OS. I have imaged a few of them and I was wondering how to get the DLE terms to appear when the computer boot...  View more

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configuration profile compatibility

Is there a way to know which config profile settings will work in what OS version? I setup a profile to disable mass storage devices and on my 10.8 box it came down right after a reboot and was fine. I tried to add a 10.7 box and it wasn't listed und...  View more

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Problem with Command Line Installs

Hi,I am having problem with a few command line installer commands. The command is: /usr/sbin/installer -dumplog -pkg "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Resources/Packages/MobileDeviceDevelopment.pkg" -tgt / The results are: installer[31431]: Free spac...  View more

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Toggle Ability to turn wifi off

In network preferences / Advanced, there's a checkbox to "Require Administrator Authorization to turn wi-fi on or off" that I want checked ("true") for all of our computers on our network. I found the preferences.plist file that stores this checkbox ...  View more

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Bulk eBook Catalog import?

Is there a way to do a bulk import to he eBook catalog? I have a long list of eBooks entries to update or create and rescope. I'd love to be able to format a csv file with all of the fields and scoping information and import it.  View more

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iPad Deployment

Hi guys; quick question to those that are deploying iiads. In the case of supervised iPads, how are users backups handled? meaing you deploy an iPad to a student. student uses it to create something. Is it automatically backed up when plugged into th...  View more

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[OT] New Cross Platform Malware

just as an FYI ... there's a new Cross Platform attack...http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/equal-opportunity-malware-targets-macs-and-windows/ This is from the last paragraph in the above link.. Apparently the Windows version awaits instruction...  View more

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10.8.4 Mobile Account issues

Hey everyone, Reading online it looks like they added support/fixed issues resolving mobile accounts for everyone off AD. I can't get one to stick (Once I click the create button and logout/log back into the user, it stays network/managed) Has anyone...  View more

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Adding Plist data - base64 encoded

I need to add some plist data to com.apple.loginitems.plist as part of a software deploy and have been unable to successfully add the alias data and icon data. If I understand correctly, data is base64 encoded and needs to be decoded before added via...  View more

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SQLException from execute error for 'common_name'

I'm getting an odd error after my upgrade to 8.71 (possibly before, but I didn't dig into the logs too deep). I'm not sure how to diagnose or approach this error. It repeats every 1-5 minutes. 2013-07-23 10:10:35,476 [ERROR] [JAMFPreparedStatement ] ...  View more

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Mouse right click on iMac

An image was create for 30 iMacs using 10.8.3 for a computer lab. The image has been deployed to the iMacs but we have an issue where the right click of the mouse doesn't work. I can make it work by going to system preferences/mouse/ then select 'sec...  View more

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Software Update Script

I've been playing with some more robust ways to run softwareupdate than the built in implementation in Casper and came up with this. Modify as you like to make it work for your environment, it currently only works with 10.8 because 10.7 uses a slight...  View more

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Durable Removable MAC detection

I'm looking for a more durable way to detect Removable MAC addresses in the environment. Currently, I'm getting the name of the service from networksetup and hoping that they haven't renamed the service. However, I would have thought the number in ou...  View more

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[Request for feedback] Check Point Full Disk Encryption

Anyone deploying Check Point Full Disk Encryption on their Macs? http://www.checkpoint.com/products/full-disk-encryption/ Any feedback on experience, deployment, management, stability, reliability, etc...there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info o...  View more

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Application Usage logs - "No usage logs available"

Hi All, (JSS 8.1) Been tasked with pulling Adobe CS suite usage logs for all OSX users. I was able to to create a template in Licensed software management which does populated a licensed used count of 300 or so. However, when I go into Application Us...  View more

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User inventory?

Hey guys, I'm not sure if Casper has this functionality, but I was looking for input on something we're trying to do. We have a laptop program here at the school I work at and we're trying to find a better way of handling user inventory tracking. Sim...  View more

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Automated emails

Is it possible to schedule an email in JSS for any Smart Mobile Device Groups results. E.g. Send out an automated email every three days to those people who still haven't updated to the latest iOS. Thanks,  View more

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