Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t... View more
Has anyone else experienced issues upgrading to OSX 10.8.3 with multiple user accounts? It seems that our testing leaves the account that performs the upgrade fine on a given system, but all other previous client accounts reveal a plain grey screen w... View more
Just as an FYI for anybody that followed: http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/administration/deployment/casper/ If you swap in the 14.3 installer for the main office package, your choices.xml file will change. RDP & Messenger are removed.. View more
Has anyone deployed the Junos Pulse Installer through JAMF? It's a simple installer package, but we can't get it to work without requiring the user to reboot? We have to do a load of a LaunchAgent in the users context. The funny thing is, the script ... View more
This is a new installation for me, I am relatively new to the product. I built a bunch of self-service packages, and tested a few deployments with no issues, this has been working fine for about a week. Today it seems out of nowhere the apps installe... View more
Anybody else ever see that their inventory searches and their smart group numbers are different sometimes? Did a screen shot of the inventory, setup smart group exactly the same and got the wrong # of computers in the smart group, but the right numbe... View more
Hey Guys, I want to get ready for the upcoming Beta release on Casper Suite and one of the requirements is to have the server on 10.7 or later. Our current environment is on 10.6 (both Test and Prod), I went ahead and upgraded test to 10.8 but I'm su... View more
This script uses plistbuddy to create com.apple.LaunchServices.plist in the /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj user template. Run this as after in imaging post-flight. If anyone has any feedback to improve the script I'de love to hear it. En... View more
I have a specific need to disable the Check for Updates Automatically in the Java Control Panel across multiple computers. I can successfully build the plist/dmg and distribute it via Casper. However, when the Java control panel is opened, the contro... View more
I need to change the default font to Arial in Office 2k11 for Word, Excel and PowerPoint on all the Macs in our environment (new & existing) and was hoping someone had some suggestions on how to do this. Has anyone else done this before? What would b... View more
I've created a quick 10.8.3 BaseOS image using Composer to capture it, uploaded it to our distribution point, tried to use Casper Imaging to lay it back down and it gets stuck on "set Name to" and the screen just says Creating jamfHelper... The image... View more
Amy Pearson and Bryson Tyrrell from JAMF Software will be hosting a webinar on March 19 to discuss iBooks and iBooks Author. This is the second webinar in our "Transforming the Classroom" series, and we're excited to build on the previous topic to di... View more
Hey, guys: I have a policy that I want to install Office 2011 14.2.3 and then apply the 14.3.2 update, but it always installs the 14.3.2 first (and fails, obviously) before installing the suite (which succeeds): Installing EN Microsoft Office 2011 14... View more
Whenever I create a branch in the NetSUS appliance, I test it by copying the URL into a new window, and I always get a "The requested URL /content/catalogs/index_catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1_test.sucatalog was ... View more
Hey guys, We are using MDM profiles on our machines and 10.8.2. We have noticed in a few occasions that some of the profiles will disappear. For example the Device Profile "Baseline" will disappear and only Network Baseline and MDM enrollment will re... View more
So we've been having issues at our work because Xprotect seems to be disabling java forcing us to upgrade. While I've been working on getting Xprotect to stop this, seems like every update they re-activate the Xprotect. So the question is, once I pus... View more
Hey guys, I am trying to figure out the best way to mark the machines in some type of "retired" status. We have users who will leave the company or what ever and then the machine gets shipped back to our processing center. The thing is the machine wi... View more
I'm looking for a programatic way to be able to set that setting in Date & Time. Any ideas? View more
Folks, just wanted to let y'all know that the meeting with the Apple security folks went very, very well. Unfortunately, pretty much everything is under NDA. I'm not even sure if I'm able to say who was there. However, just trust me. View more
Following releasing OS X Mountain 10.8.3 build 12D78 to developers earlier this week, Apple today released 10.8.3 to the public with a number of new features and enhancements. One of the more notable new features is the ability to redeem iTunes gift ... View more
I've created a script to mount a disk image for 10.6 which installs onto my target drive while being netbooted using Casper Imaging. The installation seems to work very well and also installs the 10.6.8 combo updater but after the installation is ove... View more
I was pleased to find out that the Office 14.3.2 update only requires 14.1. Microsoft's KB and download links state conflicting information. The download site claims a requirement of 14.1 while the KB claims you need 14.3.1 installed. http://support.... View more
I searched yet didnt find an answer.How do I set Firefox to disable auto updates using Casper?Thanks for any assistance. View more
I'm working on cleaning up our licensing for Parallels as we have a few different license keys that have been used over the years. I'm trying to build an Extension Attribute that either provides me the key or tell me it's "wrong". If the license key ... View more
Hi All, Just wanted to post a question and see if anyone has a solution. I am currently working in a school district and we are getting a few request for in app purchases. We currently use the VPP program and manage apps with our JSS. Does anyone hav... View more
Installed NetSUS appliance in my vmWare ESXi environment. It works. Downloaded all software packages from Apple. Created a branch called "Mac" which contains every package there is. Set a client's CatalogURL to "http://netsus.[mydomain].org/content/c... View more
Every time I try to upload an extension attribute XML file from jamf nation it hangs and never uploads. Does anyone know why this would happen or how to fix ? Thanks,Jeff View more
Has anyone been successful in getting this functionality to work with with Server 2.2.1 and the JSS? Thanks in advance!! View more
MS13-026 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-026Vulnerability in Office Outlook for Mac (2813682)ImportantMicrosoft Office 2008 & 2011 for MacKnown deployment issues: NoRestart Required:NoPub disclosed/exploited: No/NoApplicable... View more
Hi there, I wanted to reach out and see what others were doing if anything for MySQL replication? I'm weighing the pros and cons of having a MySQL replica with all of our JSS instances' databases ready to go in the event of a server failure vs just s... View more
We have made a decision to no longer manage software updates and just have our clients go directly to Apple. What is the best way to revert the existing managed preference (which currently points to our Casper server) back to Apple? Thanks in advance... View more
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