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Installing Recon?

Right now none of our Mac's are running the Recon tool. How do we install Recon on all of our Mac's? We'd like a script we can run on each, that would be the best method. But any method works so please let us know.  View more

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Enable Guided Access

With the upgrade iOS 6 came an interesting new feature for schools. It's called Guided Access. This is a feature that we would love to implement on a large scale at our elementary school without having to touch every iPad we have there (it's only 100...  View more

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has the jamf binary gotten corrupted?

Ok, so weird situation with several of the Macs here: I'm running a policy to detect the version of MS Office a Mc has and install appropriate updates, and on several I've gotten the following error in the policy logs for that Mac: /private/tmp/deter...  View more

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Find a Mac's Active Directory name?

How can I find a mac's Active Directory name from the terminal? I've got a bunch of macs with correct AD names and incorrect local names. I want to have the correct names in Casper Inventory. I know how to change the name of the computer, but I would...  View more

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Need Ext. Attribute for model name

Our inventory peeps aren't happy with the fact that Casper displays each model name exactly how Apple names it.. Meaning, they don't like "MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)" They just want it to say "MacBook Pro" or "MacBook Air" I've got the follwing ext. attr...  View more

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RSYNC Help needed

Hi All. We've recently rebuilt our Master Casper server to 10.8.2.. the Replica's are on 10.7.5. I've tried the below to recreate the SSH public keys on the clients so we can re-do the RSYNC connections unprompted when running a shell script via a la...  View more

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Java 2012-006

Anyone else affected by this update which removes the Java 6 browser plugin? We have a java web application that requires Java 6 and it is no longer usable after this update is installed.  View more

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Modify loginwindow wireless timeouts?

Is there any way to change the timeout value for 10.8 loginwindow configuration profiles attempting to connect to directory-based wireless networks on login? Seeing long delays on logins when connection to our WPA2E network at login fails to authenti...  View more

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2011 iMac vs 2012 MacBook Pro

All, I have been stumbling over this for the past number of days trying to make heads or tails out of this. Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated. When we received our 2012 MacBook Pros, we created the new 10.8.2 OS disk image off of ...  View more

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Push packages to specific Distribution Points

I have over 60 DP with several packages that exceeds a gig in size. Since all my schools don't need many of these large packages and also not to create a problem with the WAN, is it possible to select which DP will received what packages?  View more

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Turn off Band Steering in OS X 10.8.x

We've had complaints recently, mostly from the Retina MBP users, about poor wifi connectivity. The AP's logs are showing a Ping-Pong happening - which the vendor tells us is what it does when the machines are switching between 2.4 and 5ghz. It's my u...  View more

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NETSUS and 10.8

Is this a known issue that 10.8 updates aren't picked up by Netsus or is this just me? Also have people got client set up to recieve updates from Netsus? I was under the impression that it could use one catalogue but it looks like I'm still in the sa...  View more

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Extension Attribute help with Active Directory Query

Seeking assistance with creating an extension attribute that will collect the following info:For OS X 10.8sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/DynamicData/Active Directory/mydomain.plist | grep host This command returns the "last use...  View more

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Profile installed, but not enrolled

I am using Apple Configurator to supervise our iPads. I'm able to update the iOS, install needed apps, and add our wifi profile. After all that is finished I add the enrollment profile I created and downloaded from JSS. The profile is installed, I ge...  View more

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Problems applying Managed preferences

I'm trying to apply Software Update server prefs through MCX.My test machine isn't attached to the domain so I'm not have to think about conflict MCX prefs yet. Instead I get the following when I refresh - Parsing MCX Data...Applying Managed Preferen...  View more

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"Optimize Database Tables" corrupted my database

After running Optimize Database Tables, and I was the only one using the web interface, I received all kinds of errors and then the database was completely deleted after restarting Tomcat. I restored from a backup and all is well, but heads up in cas...  View more

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Troubleshooting APNS Client-side

Hoping this may help someone else - I was troubleshooting some client-side APNS issues this morning. Doing some cursory googling you'll find articles referencing to enabling logging with com.apple.applepushserviced (Like the dated reference on develo...  View more

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Installing Office 14.2.3 Update during Imaging with ML

Hey guys, i'm having a hard time getting the MS Office 2011 14.2.3 update to work during imaging with 10.8.2. My package consists of- Office 14.2.0 Installer- Office 14.2.3 Update- Office 14.2.4 Update- Choices.xml fileThese are copied to /tmp and th...  View more

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