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Blocking application on 10.8.3 Firewall

Hi.We provide some applications through Self Service where we want to deny the traffic for it on the systems firewall. We tried the following to block the application sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/APP.appApp...  View more

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Track Down Stolen Computer - Using Prey

Hi Guys I thought id share this with you, some of you might find it usefull. Let me say im no expert and there maybe a better way but this worked for me. Sometime ago we had a 27" imac stolen which was sporadically checking in with Casper. We kept fo...  View more

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Moving clients between distribution points

Is it possible to move clients between distribution points? We have no distribution points in our environment today, but I would like to add DP's in the future. If a client is relocated to a different facility, can their agent be easily reconfigured ...  View more

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Casper Remote Failing to deploy Parallels

I'm having an issue deploying the most recent version of (Parallels Desktop v8.0.18483.860857). This pkg was created following Mass Deployment guide provided by Parallels as this activates out Enterprise license with their server in the process. I've...  View more

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Management Account - What have I done wrong?

Hello,I've been plugging away at getting things ready for deployment and I have now realized I have an issue with my management account. 1) For imaging, in the configuration under Management I am specifying a username, password, create if does not ex...  View more

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Microsoft Endpoint Protection 2010 for Mac

Our school district recently eliminated Altiris for PC client management and Trend Micro for AV (yay!!). We are using Casper for our Macs and now SCM for the PC's. Trend Micro was a major PITA, especially for the Macs. With our EES agreement, we now ...  View more

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Creating valid Smart Groups

I am wondering, how does one know for sure what a valid field element is for a smart group criteria? Since a selection box is not presented giving available options, I have so far done it based on comparisons to the inventory values. But, I am curiou...  View more

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Accidentally replaced JSS APN instead of renewing

I was careless and requested a brand new APN certificate instead of renewing my existing on on my JSS. Can anyone tell me what real life implications this will have? We do not have a ton of clients managed via config profiles but there are enough tha...  View more

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Master Password Not Set

Hi,Sorry if this is dumb question. I am still getting us prepared to rollout Casper and I am trying to make sure I have things in order. I've noticed in inventory that 'Master Password Set - No' is displayed. Is this referring to FileVault or is this...  View more

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Thunderbolt ATTO 10G Adaptor PXE-Boot

Hi Guys I am looking to roll out in a facility iMac's with ATTO Thunderlink 10G BaseT adaptors. What I am wondering is if on the clients am I able to use non internal NIC's to establish a PXE boot session with a Casper Server. I am thinking this is n...  View more

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Seattle JAMF Meetup

Howdy, In the hopes of getting to know other Seattle area Casper Suite users, 74bit is hosting a JAMF Nation meetup on Wednesday, June 12th. So, if you’re in the Seattle area and are interested in attending, please come out to VESSEL (624 Olive Way, ...  View more

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Scoping Office AutoUpdater updates?

Hi, I'm looking for a way to scope the Microsoft AutoUpdate 2.3.6 to a smart computer group but I am not sure if there is a way since the AutoUpdater does not reside in the /Applications folder. If you don't know where it is, it's located in /Library...  View more

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Slow Netboot from NetSUS appliance?

I'm curious to know how long it takes for other people to NetBoot from the JAMF NetSUS Appliance. My NetBoot image is ~7.79 GB and takes about 3.5-4 minutes to get to a point that I can login to Casper Imaging. The NetSUS server is in our datacenter,...  View more

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UNC Path from AD need unchedked

This is my first large scale MacBook deployment and I am having a few issues I hope someone can help with.First one:I am binding to AD, but I do not want to pull the desktop folder to the mobile computers. If I uncheck the "Use UNC path..." option in...  View more

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Image with Radius Wireless before logging in

How can one make the 10.8 image auto connect to Radius Wireless before logging in, so that users are able to authenticate over Wi-Fi. After authentication, it should switch to using their AD credentials to access the network. We would not like them t...  View more

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Restore iCloud backup and Apple Configurator

It is funny that you can't restore iCloud backup on iPad once the iPad is all setup. I am in a situation where students have started using Unsupervised iPads and now we need to make the iPads supervised because we want the teachers to use Casper Focu...  View more

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Casper 8.7 With System wireless Profile Not Working

I have just upgraded a clients casper to 8.7. Now none of the Macs will join the wireless. We have system 802.11 Profile. Profile is populated with a default wireless account details, certificate and proxy. I have tried to recreate the profile with a...  View more

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Packaging Adobe Shockwave

Has anyone been successful creating packages for Adobe Shockwave without performing a snapshot? If possible, I'd like to not lose the installer logic, so I'd prefer not to have to snapshot the install. I don't know if it's because they've baked thing...  View more

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Self Healing

Who out there is using Self Healing on their packages? How are they finding it? Any pitfalls? I'm trying to find a way to keep computer apps concurrent. This seems like a good way of doing that.  View more

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Java 7, Java 6 & 10.8

Unfortunately we still have a few apps that require Java. I was hoping we could get away with just one version of Java, preferably Java 7 when deploying our image this summer. Then we remembered 32bit Chrome won't run Java 7. Now I'm realizing it app...  View more

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FileVault 2 with UserData /Users on a separate parttiion

Has anybody been using Filevault 2 on a system with multiple partitions and one of those being mounted at /Users?if so are you actually encrypting /Users and getting it to automount?I thought at one point FV2 was going to be Whole Disk Encryption, bu...  View more

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NetBoot Issues..

I've created a NetBoot image for my newer 10.8.3 machines to boot to but when I NetBoot them I see a circle with a line through it. I've seen this before and creating a new nbi from the newest machine has seemed to fix the problem. All lower models i...  View more

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Re-enrolling machine with quickadd

When I re-enroll a machine by pushing out quickadd to machines that are enrolled (changing managment account and casper server) I get errors is there a better way to do this? The installer reported: 2013-05-10 08:41:15.776 installer[540:6003] Package...  View more

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Google Drive as an AD home folder

Hey everyone! Looking for anyone who has had experience making this work. We are looking at all options to make AD mount a students Drive (folder) as their main home folder. We are also open to this being done directly, or through an intermediate ser...  View more

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Installing VPN Profiles using Self Service

Our company is a support company. It's difficult to keep up with all the VPN settings for all of our different clients so we've devised a way to install the VPN profiles on the Mac using Self Service. It's not full proof, and requires a small amount ...  View more

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MDM Capable Showing "No"

Hey all,We just noticed an issue where clients who have an MDM profile and are running 10.7.5 or later are showing up in the JSS as MDM Capable No.It does't seem to affect the machine as profile management will continue to queue up any changes to be ...  View more

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APN issue

Currently, we are able to create configuration profiles and have them pushed to computers outside of the network but not to computers that are on our internal network. I assume that this means that we have an issue with APNs connecting to our interna...  View more

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Moving JSS into the DMZ

Hey there, best community in the world: We have Casper set up on our internal network, everything working pretty much as we like it. The request now is to make Self Service available to our users outside our network. I've read the article at https://...  View more

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