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Unmounting Recovery HD with Fusion Drives

It's worth noting that in the case of a Fusion Drive, the typical approach to unmounting a Recovery HD partition as outlined in the KB article for deploying 10.8 will not work. Recovery HD will not be disk0s3, or on disk0 at all. I'm considering anot...  View more

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Tomcat's Launch Daemon question

We're having to restart Tomcat every so often, so I'm wondering if there is a problem with the Tomcat launch daemon? Does the below match anyone else's Tomcat launch daemon? If not, care to post yours? :) We're running a 1st generation Intel Xserve (...  View more

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HTTP Distribution Point - not working

Hey all: I'm new to the scene so please be understanding if this is basic stuff. I had an HTTP Distribution Point working from a Mac mini running 10.8 Server (the same one running JSS and everything else Casper). It was working fine but I was asked t...  View more

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Log Messages

Hi all, We are having a different issue now that is showing up in the log. We are getting this message every 10-20 seconds posted to the JAMFSoftwareServer.log file. [ERROR] [Configuration ] - Error creating class for type 'com.apple.loginwindow'java...  View more

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SCCM Plug-in data flow

When the SCCM plugin is configured properly, what is the nature of the data flow? Does the the transference flow directly from the JSS DB to SCCM DB, or is a file copied to the SCCM server which is then in turn imported into SCCM? If the later, I'm w...  View more

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Tomcat has to be restarted often

Hi all, We are suddenly seeing a very weird behavior with our jamf server. We have to constantly restart tomcat because it becomes completely unresponsive, this happens multiple times a day. We even went as far as setting up a new jss and the behavio...  View more

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EA for Firmware Updates

I built a custom EA to look for Mountain Lion computers that need firmware updates based on a script I found in an old post by Miles Leacy (Thank you Miles!). It looks like this #!/bin/shfwupdcount=softwareupdate -l | grep -c -e Firmware -e EFI -e SM...  View more

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Printers via self service not working

We have a handful of printer models in our environment. When we were putting them in I went through and created printer entries for every printer in our complex, however it seems random ones don't want to come down via self service. While they do ins...  View more

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VPN configuration profile help on the Mac side

I would like to provide a .mobileconfig file to our remote Mac (not iOS) users that pre-populates the VPN settings for our organization. I have generated one and it works all except for the fact that I cannot get the profile to properly control the s...  View more

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More Java exploits found...

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/it_security-hacking-patches-standard_edition,1-927.html Six days following the release of yet another security patch for Java, an independent security startup identifies two new serious vulnerabilities in Java 7. Ora...  View more

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Java 6 and Java 7 web plugin

Hi All, Java is driving me up the wall, I have the latest 6 2013 (1.6.0_41) update and it installs OK as a PKG, a prerequisite for Symantec AV live update (go figure...) however we have an application that launches a jnlp file that needs the Java web...  View more

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[OT] Trend Micro / Java 7

We're having a bit of a problem. We use Trend Micro as AV for the macs - but it seems to not want to install if Java 7 is on the system. Anybody know if there is a way around this? Installation failed. The installer reported: usage: dirname path find...  View more

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Keychain ACL question

I've added an application to the login items of all users. When they login they're prompted to "Allow" access to an Application password within the logon keychain. If the user "Always Allow" then they don't get prompted again. I'm wondering if there'...  View more

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MacTech announcement [OT]

RT @mactech @MacTech and @Microsoft teaming up to offer @OfficeforMac Accredited Support Professional credential at BootCamp.... http://t.co/42ZHhs0Lle  View more

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User Initiated Enrolment process for standard users?

JAMF Guru's, Our organisation is trying enrol all pre 2012 Apple hardware using the self enrol process. The problem is a lot of the users don't have admin rights which is required to install the quickadd.pkg. New apple hardware isn't an issue as out ...  View more

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CrashPlan PROe training class

Just curious because a lot of people on here seem to use Crashplan, have any of you gone through the 3-day training class in Minneapolis? It looked interesting because I installed PROe for almost all my clients about 6 months ago and would like to le...  View more

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Changing the JSS address

Hi, So the big start of our massive JSS infrastructure upgrade is starting this week. One small detail to sort out and that's how to change the address that our clients are looking for the JSS. We're going to have our new address and our existing add...  View more

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Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Self Service doesn't end

I configured the policy using the process for Pro XI here.I've only tested on one machine. it's a 10.6.8 MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010).I ran the Self Service and the progress bar finished and then went to barbershop stripes. Grey barbershop stripes in m...  View more

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Disable Auto updates Acrobat XI

I am trying to figure out how to disable auto updates in Acrobat Pro XI. I used the Adobe Customization Wizard to streamline the serial number as well as suppress the EULA and registration prompts. The Customization wizard does not have an option for...  View more

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Auto Setup Mail 10.8.X for Exchange with current user

I'm looking for some setup examples to automate the process of configuring Mail at login to use Exchange with the current logged in AD account, OSX 10.8.x. I see some managed preferences in the JSS but they appear to be a little dated. Is anyone doin...  View more

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