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Directory Binding in Inventory

A client of mine would like to find out which of his client machines is bound to which OpenDirectory Server. Is someone in possession of an Extension Attribute to get this information from the client machine?  View more

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Filevault 2 and password?

I'm currently testing out FileVault 2 on one of my test machines and so far it's pretty straight forward. But there's something I can't understand or get my head around. When I use the private recovery key to unlock a drive it prompts me to create a ...  View more

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Continuous integration - Jenkins?

It sounds like if you setup Munki with a Jenkins CI server you can get some pretty cool auto-packaging and deployment done. Has anyone gotten this to work with the Casper suite? Figured I'd poll the nation before I gave it the ol' college try...  View more

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Install Apps After Mountain Lion Upgrade?

Hello, We are looking at the process for upgrading our Lion MacBook Airs to Mountain Lion and have run into a situation where an application needs to get installed right after the Mountain Lion upgrade for logins to work properly. Is there a way to q...  View more

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Macs are finally first class citizens!!!!

I just had to make a post bragging a little. After almost 5 years of begging, pleading, blood, sweat, tears, and long nights of banging my head against the desk IT Management has finally acknowledged the need to start handling Mac purchases and offer...  View more

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Office 2011 excel spell checker

So we've been deploying office 2011, with a slightly repackaged version that incl SP3 back in March. It just came to my attention that Excel's Spell Checker errors out ("Cannot initialize spelling checker.") when you try to use...the only customizati...  View more

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Problem Building DMG from source - Composer

So, I'm trying to package up the behemoth that is Apple's Logic Studio 2. Using Snapshot in Composer v8.7 on a MacBook Pro running 10.8.3 with 250GB available Disk space. Everything went well, no issues until I clicked the "Build as DMG" button.At th...  View more

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Focus V's Supervision

I am running a 2-1 program where our students have an iPad mini and MacBook Air. I can get Casper Focus running on all these devices (after adding the Apple Supervision Profile). My issue is that the students can no longer manage their iPads through ...  View more

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Enable ARD script for 10.8.3

Anyone have a script that is working for 10.8.3. the resource kit script was working but now it is not adding users to the "only these users" box. Got a modified script to try from someone else, it adds the user but does not set any privileges. If an...  View more

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Generic Filevault 2 passphrase?

Hello All! Is there a method in existence to create a generic pass phrase for filevault on a multi-user machine by script or by policy? With the possibility of enrollment at log in? Pipe Dream? Any info helps! Thank You!Dave CaseJohnson & Wales Unive...  View more

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Primary identifier for Machines- is this changeable?

It seems the IP address is the primary identifier for machines. If a machine changes IP we cannot remote into it until the inventory is updated, which is once a week (by default, of course). Is there a way to change this primary identifier, and if so...  View more

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Enforcing Computer Names

I think I'm losing my mind (the hair's already gone, so it makes sense that it'd be next...) We've been using Casper for three years to manage our first pool of 1:1 laptops. It's almost time to replace these laptops with new ones, which is happening ...  View more

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Merge files via Script

Hey.I'm facing a small issue that I want to fix.We deploy VMWare Fusion and Virtual machines via Self Service. Under /Library/Application Support/VMware/VMware Fusion/Shared it saves a file called vmInventory that lists the virtual machines that are ...  View more

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SugarSync

Has anyone sucessfully deployed SugarSync using Casper? We have used it for the past year, and love it, but they require a manual install for updates, no PKG solutions. Thanks  View more

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Maxon Cinema 4D R14 Package Building

Just a quick note, I had searched previously and not located many articles about this software. There is an awesome article about how to allow others to invoke the NetRender part of C4D on other locked computers, but I was wondering what was a known ...  View more

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Pre-stage review and recap

I am new to Casper. I have been searching through the articles and found a few that dance around my issues, but most end with everyone throwing their hands up and saying "I quit using Pre-stage imaging". If that is the best solution then there is not...  View more

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Avoid One-Time Setup of VMWare Fusion

Hi. Due to the reason our users are non admin Users we want to avoid the One-Time Setup process of VMWare fusion after we have installed it.We can not do the Mass deployment as suggested in http://www.jamfsoftware.com/libraries/pdf/white_papers/VMwar...  View more

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OSX Network Access Reporting

My colleague and I were trying to figure out a way to log when our Mac client's connect to our school's wireless so that we can see (and generate reports on) how often they are bringing their MacBook's to school (hopefully everyday!). We've run into ...  View more

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HTTP Distribution Point

Hey all: So i have a 10.6 server working as, among other things, a distribution point. It's working fine over AFP, but I'm trying to set it up as HTTP. The problem is, it only seems to work if I set Everyone permissions to Read on the CasperShare. I ...  View more

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LDAP pass variable without Uppercases

Hey everyone. I am running the current command at login to track LDAP and login: sudo jamf recon -endUsername $3 How can I pass the username with all lowercases? I have tried: #!/bin/sh sudo jamf recon -endUsername $3 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' This is an ...  View more

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JSS Computer exporter Python XML file

Hello, So we are trying to run this python computer exporter the xml one. After we run it, it gets to about 700 machines and we get this error. COMPUTER:JSS Computer Exporter (Python) USER$ ./compexport_xml.py JSS Computer Exporter JSS Address: 127.0...  View more

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