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Mac Antivirus 2012

Any thoughts / experience with corporate enterprise Antivirus solution on the Mac these days: I see good things from Intego Virus Barrier and can be deployed / managed from the JSS? We currently have Sophos (does not look that good), but I am sure it...  View more

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Disappearing Profiles Lion Computers

So I just started seeing computers that previously had many profiles installed just showing the MDM profile. Casper thinks all the other profiles are still installed however they are not shown in pending or on the client computer.Anyone else seeing t...  View more

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Self-Service Plugin bundles

Hey all, I was curious to know what other casper admins are using the plug-ins feature for? Currently we use it for easy access to our wiki, links to share point, and some helpful apple resources for new users. I noticed there was an ability to add a...  View more

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Delete SWF files script

Hello,We have many students playing SWF games on their desktops and in their documents is there any way I can put a script out that searches for this and deletes the files? Thanks!Nicholas  View more

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Prestage Install Failing

JSS v8.62 on Linux We've been using prestage imaging quite successfully for the last six months, until today. Now for some reason I have not been able to find, the autorun part of the imaging process is not working. The process goes like this:Fresh m...  View more

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Packing individual Adobe applications

We purchased educational volume license of CS6 Design Premium. We used AAMEE 2.1 to create separate installation packages for each application, because most students only need 1 or 2 applications, not the entire suite. We then put the packages on sel...  View more

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Upgrade to 10.7 or 10.8?

We are still on 10.6.8 and I plan on upgrading everyone to a new OS next year. Should I just upgrade to 10.7 or skip to 10.8? Or does it depend or hardware?  View more

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Lync .mkpg Not working once it is install

I have tried putting the Lync .mkpg into Casper admin, and deploying it via Casper Remote. It seems to install correctly, but when I start it I get a screen to accept or decline the licensing agreement. I select to accept and then Lync closes. I try ...  View more

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Mount multiple SMB shares at log in to desktop?

I'm trying to work out a script that will mount SMB shares and have them available on the desktop for the users. I searched around and did come upon a few posts that helped get me started, but I'm not sure where it's getting stuck now. My script look...  View more

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Restricted Applications in 9 Beta

Hello all, We put up a post a while ago about how the restricted software does not work on something that is renamed and for some reason does not catch the process name at all. (Confirmed by JAMF before it is questioned like it was before...) Was loo...  View more

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iOS app restrictions

Hi all. We have a school, where the students can purchase an iPad (from the school). They wish to be able to allow the students to use the iPad un-managed at home (as it is theirs) but then apply restrictions on the iPad in Lesson time. The main thin...  View more

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Dockfixup

I have a set of computers in a lab type of environment where I want the dock to be uniform on all machines and using my customizations. I currently have a package created for the dock items, and the following script setup to delete the com.apple.dock...  View more

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Deleting computers

What are the best practices and processes people use for removing computer records from the JSS when the computers leave the environment.Does anyone have any cool tricks?  View more

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SUS Appliance with 10.6 Server

Hello All, I am attempting to begin the process of testing deployments of Mac OS-X 10.8 client version within our environment. Currently we are running 10.6 server with OD and we were running our SUS on our 10.6 server. I need to find a solution to p...  View more

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Munki / Casper

I've been struggling to get system patches handled in a more (end) user friendly way for quite a while but usually come across one set back or another. I know many of you are utilizing munki and casper. I saw in the mactech weblink on the munki page ...  View more

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RPC timeout for netboot server

Hello Nation, I've been having netboot issues that started yesterday, when I verbose boot to any netboot image on my server i see the error RPC Timeout for server ###.##.#.### (ip address of my netboot server) Mac OSX 10.8.2 Server Version 2.1.1 I re...  View more

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Unable to purge from JSS (getting error)

We have a Smart Computer Group that contains computers we want to purge from JSS. For some reason we are getting the below error when we select Delete Computers. Is anyone seeing this? The admin has [x]Manage Smart Computer Groups and [x]Delete Inven...  View more

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mv -f

I ran a script from the Resource Kit to delete Adobe CS4 applications. It did remove CS4, sort of (it moved the pieces to /Library/Application Support/JAMF/RemovedFiles/). It also broke CS5 and CS6 in the process because it moved to entire Adobe fold...  View more

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Dockutil 1.1.2 issues with 10.8 Mountain Lion

Just wanted a sanity check. I was rolling with Dockutil 1.1.2 and 10.7 Lion running a user-owned launch item script that would manage the Dock once per user, per computer. It run beautifully with no issues whatsoever. Now after testing the exact same...  View more

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EA to detect Dalai Lama malware infection?

Hot off the press, looks like it's a twist on the Flashback malware that hit us a while back...hoping an Extension Attribute can flag any of our Macs that might have it. "We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without baco...  View more

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netsus on Redhat distro.

Does anyone know if the github netsus project will install on redhat? If not is there a documented method to setup the netsus environment using redhat as the base OS? Thanks.  View more

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Blocking Widgets

Is there a way to block widgets in Lion? We have students that are playing wdgt games and running other time wasting apps. Is there a policy or a script that could be run? Thanks Eric  View more

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Apple Software Updates in Mountain Lion

Apple Software Updates were easy back in the day....I had my own SUS and made updates available at my discretion and I the needed updates per hardware were only available to that hardware.Now, it seems that Mountain Lion gets all its software updates...  View more

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Adding OS dmg to Casper Admin

New to Casper, so be gentle. I am running Casper Admin 8.6 on Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I created another Mountain Lion image on a seperate partition and created a DMG of that OS using Composer. My problem is that is get an error message when I try to ...  View more

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System preference option for Profiles

I'm using MCX to hide certain system preferences. Everything seems to be working nicely until I tried to add a mobile profile. It tells me it can't open the "profiles" preference pane. But I tried adding com.apple.preferences.profiles to my list - bu...  View more

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