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Casper 8.71 to 9 update frozen

Hi Guys, I started the update about 1.5 hours ago and the JSS seems to be stuck at "Updating encoding for applications (Step 2 of 3)..."How long did it take you to update? Any ideas?  View more

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simulating Tomcat or MySql freezing

Hi, In my previous place of employment we had intermittently experienced issues with clients getting stuck at the login screen waiting for policies if Tomcat or MySql had frozen or stalled on the server hosting the JSS. My current institution is unde...  View more

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Mavericks & Casper 8

Hi Guys, I was just wondering if Casper 8 is going to support Mavericks or if we'll need to start looking @ 9. Just looking @ my project plan & worried I might not be able to squeeze in full v9 testing. (Hoping a JAMFer will reply & that this post wi...  View more

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NetSUS Server 2.0 in now available

We have put out a new version of the NetSUS Server. The source has been updated on GitHub and it is also available as both an OVA and an installer. Added features: Support for Ubuntu 12.04 Added the option to install the NetBoot/SUS server using an i...  View more

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Firefox Bookmarks / Plugin install

Hello All, I have been reading through forums trying to figure out how to deploy Firefox in a lab environment. The tricky part is that the lab owner wants an extension installed, as well as some bookmarks on the machine. Here is the down and dirty su...  View more

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Winclone and Windows Pkg

i am having a problem with the pkg installer where when i issue the bless command it boots to windows but says no bootable device. any ideas. I used winclone to make a winclone image and then made a pkg from that.  View more

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Profile priority for iOS devices

We have all of our grade level Middle School ipads set not to allow installing apps or have the App store. I need to add an app to a select group of iPads. What would be the best way to go about that? I hesitate to make a change that would affect the...  View more

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Remote Management Active Extension Attempt

Hey guys. I have a script I wrote to use as an extension attribute to check and see if Remote Management is enabled on a machine or not. However, while it runs really well locally, it only returns 'On' when used in an extension attribute, even if I k...  View more

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softwareupdate as part of imaging.

I've written a script that changes the com.apple.softwareupdate.plist file to point to an internal SUS server which appears to work. I then run a softwareupdate which runs, the logs are showing the correct output. "SoftwareUpdate ToolCopyright 2002-2...  View more

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JSS auto start at boot Redhat 6

We are migrating our JSS to Redhat 6, is there a script or cron job that will start the JSS on reboot of the server? I can manually restart by restating Tomcat via the JSSDatabaseUtility but would like to have the JSS started automatically at boot.  View more

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Map Drives from AD - Unix genius challenge

Hi, Relatively new to this but making decent progress with help here. This script to map drives and printers is Brilliant and quite popular: http://macmule.com/2011/09/08/how-to-map-drives-printers-based-on-ad-group-membership-on-osx/ But it requires...  View more

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Software Update List - MySQL

Hey JAMFNationers! My company is working on building compliance reporting for our upper management and we need to be able to query the MySQL database that JAMF runs on directly. What we needs is to know where JAMF stores the list of Apple Software Up...  View more

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Windows deployment

I am having issues when trying to deploy windows using a pkg made with winclone. i get this error Your mac osx startup disk has no more space available for application memory. I think i have tried alot I have increased the netboot image size to 150gb...  View more

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Printers

How do i give the regular users access rights to manage printers without needing to authenticate with a admin user I use this script dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u admin -p -a $USER -t user lpadmin but it prompts for a password.  View more

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Apple Update- Request Timed Out

When my clients are off network and are trying to get updates from Apple, I keep getting the request timed out error message. See the whole message below. Any ideas? An error occurred executing the policy "Apple Software Updates" on the computer "Isa...  View more

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iCloud Documents Sync & Network Accounts

Has anybody figured out how to get iCloud Documents (for Pages, keynote, Numbers) to work with Network Accounts? It seems that there is an OS-level process that isn't allowing it — from system.log: Aug 19 14:56:25 Lab-238-15 librariand[31568]: [warn]...  View more

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Self Service and Frozen App Updates

I've followed the other threads about this but I'm falling short on what to do after I've turned off everything for Self Service but the iPads that tried to update these apps and became frozen are still stuck. Any ideas for how to force these to upda...  View more

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Has anyone packaged TextExpander?

I've created a TextExpander package in Composer. When I deploy it to a test machine it installs, but the license doesn't work (it comes up unlicensed). I'm not sure if there's a license file that's tied to the individual machine or if Composer just m...  View more

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How to view log Self service on a local macbook

Hello, We are working with an automated process where we don't control our self service yet. Is there a way where we can view the logs of self service on the macbooks to determine why a package isn't showing up. Thanks,Becky  View more

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Adding Visual Basic to Office 2011 Environment

Hi!I know we have some MicroSoft Office experts here: I have Office 2011 on my installed base of 10.7.5 MacBookAirs, but no Visual Basic included...I need to add VisualBasic as it is required on a newly purchased AddOn.Last spring I tried to just sna...  View more

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Profile Installation Failed

I have looked thru the boards but have not found a resolution for ; Profile Installation Failed - The server certificate for "myserver/enroll/SCEPProfile? invitation=xxxx" is invalid. I made sure that my certificate is the local jss, the date and tim...  View more

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