Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/new-imaging-tool/ ...alternative to instaDMG perhaps? View more
Hi guys I am trying to migrate our casper from an old mac pro (10.5.8 running 8.31) to a new xserve (10.6.8 running 8.6) YEsterday I think I made the mistake of installing a fresh 8.52 jss on the xserve then tried to restore a backup from the 8.31 ol... View more
One of my schools iPad was left in a car which was stolen and then the driver of the car murdered a teen. On the day of the crime the iPad was switched off, and I assumed wiped. Two days ago the iPad communicated with the JSS for an inventory check. ... View more
Location information is being reset to blank values when imaging with 8.6 or applying a quickadd package to a machine that is already in the inventory. Has anyone else noticed this, or know of a way to disable the location information being reset? View more
So I've been using this script to shut down any machines that were still logged in and in use after the MCX-supplied pmset shutdown time, and I was bonking my head for a few days why my logs were filling up with machines that then weren't shutting do... View more
Hello! Currently, we have a policy that is set to turn on Filevault with both individual & institutional keys. Unfortunately, Filevault will only work when used on a retina display Mac. When tested on a MBAir & a 13in Mac, it asked for password confi... View more
We're reimaging our computer labs for the Fall semester and I've run into a problem where some of our systems don't adhere to all the settings in the login window payload of our computer lvl config profile. We're running JSS 8.6 & OS X 10.7.4. The cl... View more
Is anyone out there using DeployStudio for imaging and Casper for management? We are new to Casper, and really miss DeployStudio for imaging. I know that we need to go all in to Casper, but don't think we can get everything where we need it to be by ... View more
When I image it seems as though only the computer name is getting set when I name a machine using the prompt in Casper Imaging. I'm not sure if this is the expected behavior - but -my- expected behavior (maybe a bit misguided) is that it would not on... View more
Hey All, I ran into a snag with about 850 computers not having a configuration profile automatically removed. I don't want to kill all profiles because then I will have to re-enroll all of those computers into the JSS. I only want to remove just the ... View more
We are new Casper users, and are re-imaging our DualBoot labs for the first time since moving off DeployStudio. Even though the checkbox to "re-image this partition if it already exists" is checked, and the log shows that it did install the selected ... View more
Everyone might already be aware, but I saw today in testing that an Active Directory bind object created in the Casper Admin Web interface, logs the password of the account used to bind to AD in clear text to the secure log on the client during the f... View more
I have a physical NetSUS server we started with, and an appliance. The physical server has a 250GB drive in it and has used 106GB storing updates. I can't rsync the data over to the new virtual appliance, because the OVF makes a 100GB drive. Can anyo... View more
What's the best way to get a script to run after an install/reboot from SS? I tried to bundle a FB package w/ the createOSXInstaller for ML, but the local accounts get messed up. I found that when I use just the CreateOSXInstaller w/o any additional ... View more
I've searched extensively but I can't find an answer. iLife was updated on our computers before I made the image and distributed it. When teachers attempt to update the iLife suite they can't because they don't own iLife. They can't take ownership of... View more
Has anyone managed to deny any URLs? Doesn't seem to work for me. Does anyone use any 3rd Party tools for this, i've got Sophos but they don't do this for the Mac. View more
As I've tested a 10.8 InstaDMG image, I've noticed that when Casper Places the image, Spotlight is off. 10.8 build coming down with .metadata_never_index set at the root of the hard drive. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do I need to add a script t... View more
I am having a problem where a policy triggered by every15 will run, but the package doesn't install. The policy log shows that the package was installed, but it wasn't. However, if I flush the log for that machine and do "sudo jamf policy -trigger ev... View more
Hey everyone. I would really like to have some solid management of Preference Panes for example, I would like certain Preference Panes disabled for all users except certain users or groups. Is this possible? MCX is just so clunky :( View more
We have acquired a small company in another city that has 80 or so Macs. We have run Recon and have brought those systems into our JSS. I will be installing a distribution point there soon. We intend to keep their current support guy for on-site supp... View more
Hello, After installing Java RTE 1.7.0_06 onto my MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.8.0) I noticed that Java 1.7.0 did not appear in the list of installed versions within /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences.app neither is java 7 the default environment w... View more
Hi EveryoneDoes anybody know a way of setting the Workgroup Templates location by editing a plist or similar file?I need to find a way of setting the template location without visiting each machine.I've looked in the com.microsoft.office.plist but ca... View more
For some reason lately when a device runs an inventory there is a process called softwareupdate that runs and fills the HDD, if you manually end the process all the free space comes back. I have manually run Apple updates and this process does not ru... View more
Is this possible using casper encryption configurations or do I have to script it using fdesetup? Cheers Matt View more
We've deployed a few hundred iPads and have only had this happen twice. When this particular user navigates to the Self-Service and tries to download any free app they're fine; however, when they've tried to download our two applications that were pr... View more
Hi. We used to deploy Adobe Air on Snow Leopard at login window using launchctl bsexec `ps auwwx |grep [l]oginwindow | awk '{ print $2 }'` ${PATHTOAIRINSTALLER} -silent -eulaAccepted This worked fine but broke with 10.7 and is still broken with 10.8.... View more
I update to jss 8.6 a week or two ago, and now macbook airs that have been working correctly for months have been losing there management accounts and local accounts locking user out from using them. any suggestions? this is only some of the airs, I ... View more
I made up a standard pkg for QuickAdd but it isn't installing Self Service. Any got any ideas why?? Cheers View more
Hi everyone, I was wondering how Casper Administrators are packaging and deploying XCode 4.4.1 in a lab environment? I have some faculty who are interested in doing some app development with students this year, so the request has come down for XCode ... View more
I had been using my distribution points local admin account as the the SSH account. But it seems the group that manages my servers have been monkeying with passwords. Is it ok to promote the casperadmin account on the server from standard to an Admin... View more
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