How is everyone doing their bootcamp deployment? I've been banned from using Casper Imaging to do it (!) so i'm wondering what people's methodology is out there. In particular how are people overcoming the fact that Bootcamp Assistant requires an off... View more
Hey all, I'm trying to verify if a Mac to be reimaged is already in active directory. We autogenerate a new name for the mac each time it is reimaged, and I don't want it binding to the AD with an old name, so I wanted to check the name against AD be... View more
Yo.. Using the steps here: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=173 we're deploying Mountain Lion to our clients. Yet our help desk would like to be able to by pass the steps in the installer where you have to select which drive you'd ... View more
I must be missing something. I want to search for computers that have no output for certain EAs, and I can't get it to work. I can see a computer clearly in Inventory that matches my criteria but doesn't come up when I do an advanced search with a bl... View more
Hello all, I had a nice setup of the Restore partition. In my testing I find that it is imaged with 'Configure Auto Login'...I need to turn that off! That's the last thing I need and I can't find a way to 'UnConfigure' it. O_o View more
I have a fresh new Mountain Lion iMac (10.8.3) with Server app installed running only Software Updates. I have successfully connected client computers that are now happily receiving updates for every program except iLife apps from my SUS. I only have... View more
I'm working on a 10.8.3 image to be deployed using NetBoot and Casper Imaging. When building the image I can get everything so it's working fine. Network users can log in and access the appropriate resources without error. I've used Apple's Disk Util... View more
Hy, After updating the jss to 8.6.4 we see an issue that powerpc computers G4 imacs and ibooks can still do a jamf recon and the recon is also transferred to the mss, but a jamf policy -trigger every15 results in a could not connect to the jss.Here a... View more
Hello I have at Mac Pro that I use as a sever with bounded network cards and a fiber channel card that hooks it up to our storage. I don’t use any internal storage on the workstation but there is at standard sata hdd connected. When I installed this ... View more
Hey all,So I have been trying to remove the default setting in 10.8.3 to require a password during wake from sleep. I can acheive it through an osascript which also seems to work when I use it in either Casper Remote(advanced tab)or in ARD unix code,... View more
We've recently had a rash of systems that suddenly cannot talk to the Active Directory Domain. We haven't identified exactly what's happening, but the symptom is that the user cannot change their password from the Accounts Preference Pane, being told... View more
Hi all,Im trying to set up self installers for for my creatives and we used AMMEE 3.1 to do this, but getting an error: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 8.63Executing Policy Install CS6Design_Install...[STEP 1 of 2]Mounting afp://10.242.120.195/CasperShare ... View more
I am relatively new to jamfnation while i have been a customer for a few years. My question is: Is it possible to host a 10.8.3 netboot image on a 10.6.8 server and if so how can one get there? I have tried building a base image and using that as my ... View more
We are looking to use homebrew to make installing some things easier. Has anyone done a mass deploy of Homebrew? View more
Hi All, I've searched around online and haven't found a solution yet so I thought I'd post here. Does anyone know if there is a way to change the file association for Firefox so that PDFs download and open (with Preview or Adobe Reader) rather than u... View more
In our educational environment, we use our web filter to block any access to the Chrome store (for purpose of blocking game installs), but this unfortunately also blocks the installation of the many useful extensions within the Chrome store. Has anyo... View more
We upgraded from 8.52 to 8.64 this week. All is well except when we netboot, when casper imaging (8.64) launches, it sits while trying to communicate to https://jss.company.com:8443 (I forget exact verbage). It sits there for maybe 30 seconds on a gi... View more
I just installed Office with our Volume license installer on a clean OS X 10.8.3, then 14.1.0, then 14.3.2. The last update blew away the license, leaving me at the serialization wizard on first launch. It were as though no license had ever been pres... View more
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way of remotely disabling Lion/Mountain Lion's dictionary lookup gesture. I tried changing the value TrackpadThreeFingerTapGesture found within com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad to 0 but it still ... View more
Recently I've been running into a problem with Casper binding to AD.If I try to bind a Mac to AD, and it already has a computer record in AD, it will fail.This scenario comes up if you are rebuilding a Mac that was bound to AD. I have "rebound" other... View more
Are we allowed to do this? I can't find any documentation from Apple to say we cant. http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/MacOSX_10_8.html View more
I know there has been many discussions around giving people temporary admin. I build two scripts, one will give the user admin access and create a plist. The plist will kick off 30 minutes after it is added by the first script. The plist will run a m... View more
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We've experienced some trouble with our smb printers pausing, and would like a way to be alerted when they do. I've got a potential fix in place, but with hundreds of computers, located in several different buildings, it's hard to know if the problem... View more
Is there anyway, for policies, to scope an exclusion list? IE: I'd like to have FV2 encryption deployed to all machines EXCEPT a select group/smart group. Thanks View more
In the process of purchasing about ~120 new Macs that are assigned to employees by Serial Number. We use a naming convention that includes their Department, Room Number, and Username to name these machines. I wanted to use PreStage imaging to load in... View more
We recently had a user upgrade his MacBook Air to OS X 10.8.3 (from 10.8.2). After the upgrade, policies in SelfService would fail immediately. There have been no Policy Logs captured for the failed events. I had the user reinstall the 8.62 QuickAdd.... View more
Hello! I am collecting some logs for a vendor for troubleshooting purposes. There are a lot of jamf logs from the every-15 check-ins. Is there any way that I can temporarily kill the jamf process for my login session on a single machine so that I can... View more
Hello All, We are about to roll out SEP (symantec enterprise protection) to both our Win and Mac machines on campus. Based on some of the other posts I have SEP packaged and included the "sylink.xml" file based on if they are labs or workstations to ... View more
Goal : Create a script to hide hidden files to be delivered by a policy Attempt: Created a text files and entered the following defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSEkillall Finder Renamed to .sh Does not seem to take. What am I miss... View more
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