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
Hi People, I'm new to casper and have been going through this forum to get a better idea of how policies and scripts work but I'm having a problem with the below mentioned script (which I found here and and have modified it to work in our environment... View more
Has anyone successfully polled the VRAM information through an Extension Attribute? I have been trying the following script without success: #!/bin/sh vram='system_profiler -detaillevel mini | grep 'VRAM' | cut -d : -f 2'echo"$vram" The command works... View more
I finally got around to building a CS 6 package with AAMEE 3.1. Initially, I was impressed. Awesome! A native .pkg installer with VLA number baked in that I can slipstream right into my imaging environment. Great! I even copied the installer to the D... View more
Hello All,Our Digital Media department is thinking about moving from Final Cut Pro to Avid for next Fall. I would like to hear about any one's experience with Avid and managing it in a lab environment. We are meeting an Avid rep in a few weeks, but I... View more
So I have to deploy iPads spread out through various classrooms at different schools for student use. I'm planning on using one apple id per school. How is that going to work when I push the app out via management? I'm planning on purchasing enough c... View more
We've been fighting with slow performance when our macs are accessing Wintel & Netapp file shares. We've had M$ and Apple on conference calls and had countless packet traces done, but nothing ever came up other than Apple's SMB in Lion/MLion wasn't v... View more
Hi all, I'm working on our first remote cluster client deployment. So far everything seems to be going well, except imaging. (Oh, that little thing? :0 ) It seems that I'm having some NetBoot issues, where things are p-a-i-n-fully slow to start; Casp... View more
Sign in and sign out, and just regular asset management. I have JAMF and Web helpdesk but I hate the interface and login behind how Web helpdesk. I have been using our school library database for keeping track but with the amount of stuff that we are... View more
I'm currently on a trial with Casper and i'm having a problem with ad binding. When binding a mac onto our AD, all seems fine, except when creating a mobile account on login i get - "unable to create mobile account. There was a problem while creating... View more
Heads up and get your last orders... http://9to5mac.com/2013/01/31/apple-to-discontinue-mac-pro-in-europe-in-march-over-new-product-certification-standards/ “As of March 1, 2013, Apple will no longer sell Mac Pro in EU, EU candidate and EFTA countrie... View more
So today we are packaging GarageBand 6.0.5 (current version) for deployment, using a multi-user redemption code purchased by the company of course. On first launch it goes out and downloads roughly 1.2 GB of "extra content"...bah. I didn't see it in ... View more
I'm trying to make a template in the JSS for notifications using Terminal Notifier. I made this script quick to do some sanity checks, but it still doesn't work like I expect. Notifications don't come through for some reason.``` !/bin/bash HARDCODED ... View more
Hi all, Wanted to quickly share this with you all. I've found that a few computers on our estate had been set by people unknown to autologin which is a big security nightmare! A little digging, an extension attribute, a smart group and a script have ... View more
Hello everyone! We have posted Casper Suite 8.63. This release specifically addresses an issue with Restricted Software: Due to encoding issues in the JSS, the jamf binary was treating special characters as wildcards in restricted software processes.... View more
Does anyone know how to disable System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Advanced button -> Automatically update safe downloads list vis local MCX or Casper Managed Preferences? View more
Has anyone else noticed that the policy indicator "light" on the policies page falsely reports that the policy is active when client side limitations are used? If i use server limitations the indicator works properly. Maybe a feature request? View more
Am I right in thinking that with this option ticked under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Advanced that this enables the XProtect.meta.plist file to be updated by Apple? We had this update today to a minimum version of Java that isn't actua... View more
I am getting the error:The version of “Java” on your system does not include the latest security updates and has been blocked. To continue using “Java”, download an updated version from Oracle’s website. I am running 1.7u11. I found two posts earlier... View more
Had a couple of occasions where laptop users are on SSD's and they run out of space Thought i would share this #!/bin/bash # Get the currently logged in user user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4` # Calculate the users home folder sizes sizeU=`su... View more
Does any one know how I can package this in Casper to stop it from prompting the user to agree to the EULA and if they wish to make Reader the default PDF viewer? I have tried taking a snapshot with these setting already picked but it still seems to ... View more
Hey JAMF nation, I just noticed an issue with using casper remote to screenshare with our client machines . . . If you connect to the end user's account, there are no problems. But, if you connect using the hidden Casper Screensharing account, we're ... View more
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE;killall Finder View more
We already have an Office 2011 14.2.5 pkg we created with Composer and deliver via Self-Service, and is also part of our config in Casper Imaging. I am wondering how admins are handling the updates that come out, as in the recent 14.3 from 14.2.5. Wh... View more
I am using the Jamf bind to Active Directory and we are adding "Domain Users" group as a group that can administer the Mac for now. I am noticing the check box to "Allow user to administer this computer" keeps toggling off/on for users. I did see it ... View more
Hello everyone, I find that MDM more often than not is not working properly when I need to delete remote workers accounts. Does anyone have any useful solutions for deleting user accounts in remote offices without signing in as the hidden admin, with... View more
Hi all - just thought I would pass this along to the list, since Adobe is my most favorite vendor these days. We received this guidance from SHI when preparing budget numbers for our next fiscal year: Due to the release of Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe... View more
We have set it up for a certain user to send out messages to our other users via casper. This user has asked if we can make the message more pronounced by changing the desktop pattern of the end-user until they acknowledge the message, which then ret... View more
Just noticed on two recently imaged machines that I cannot change the computer name from the Sharing system preference, no matter which user I'm logged in as. Where you'd normally type is greyed out and the machines register in the JSS as "localhost"... View more
A week or 2 ago I added a 10.8 Netboot to our imaging options. Today, I realized one of our servers was out of space. Looks like the shadow files created from the 10.8 Netboot set are huge - over 1.5 gigs each. With our 10.7x Netboots, shadow files w... View more
Hi, Has anyone observed odd behavior during the JSS enrollment process of iOS devices? We are seeing weird things, in which devices do not always get the normal three profiles (CA, MDM, Self-Service), even though the final installation message on the... View more
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