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Force Lock iOS devices.

Hello All, I was curios if anyone know of a way that users can force lock a device. I should give you a little background we have recently changed the "Require Passcode" to set after 1 hour, this was pushed by some higher level staff and we have othe...  View more

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Stolen Macbook reporting back to JSS

Three weeks ago we had a Macbook stolen. Recently it has begun reporting back to JSS. It only does so at login and logoff. So I created and deployed a Prey package to the machine but it fails to start due to a proxy/firewall. This proxy/firewall has ...  View more

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Application Usage Logs

When I look at the Application Usage Logs of any computer in our inventory, all I see are vast periods of time that are marked as Idle. I made sure that the setting to Enable application usage monitoring is checked (I even unchecked, saved and rechec...  View more

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#JNUC - Music

There was a few questions in regards to what artists were being played between sessions at the JNUC so I figured I would share that list and the reasons behind the choices. Since we are a midwest company every song that was played was from a local ar...  View more

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"write defaults" script not running properly.

Hey all,Theres a command I am trying to use as a script but for some reason, it doesn't run. JSS shows the policy as successful. #!/bin/sh defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkAuthorization UseShortName -bool YES We have tried running...  View more

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Self Service QuickLinks

rather than hijacking the previous thread - https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5712 - I figured I would create a new one. I think there's some potential for it, and I wasn't aware it even existed (shame on me for not reading the J...  View more

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Quick Managed Preferences (MCX) question

Hi all,Is a managed preference executed if it appears in the /Library/Managed Preferences folder? Or does it need to appear in this folder as well as update the plist that the managed preference is supposed to address. For example, I am using managed...  View more

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Network Link Conditioner Preference Pane

This isn't strictly a Casper related question but I hope there might be a Casper related solution! So here goes. We have a couple of developers using the latest Xcode who want to use the Network Link Conditioner tool. The problem is they have standar...  View more

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Optimize JSS

I wonder if someone has a set of guidelines to optimize the performance of JSS. I've seen hints about making Tomcat use more RAM, or having MySQL use bigger packet sizes, but I wonder if there's other performance tweaks out there. I can understand ho...  View more

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Capture 1 Pro display SN

Not sure why, but I can't seem to figure out how to display the SN in the inventory list. I set the search to display it, but it shows all of our SNs, but not which machine is using which #. Is it possible to display the SN next to each machine that ...  View more

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#JNUC #K12UserGroup

Please feel free to throw you email here and we can create some kind of user group. Great discussions we had to today. Look forward to more. Ryan Witt  View more

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#jnuc over overtime available!

If you are attending #JNUC and want more overtime with a cca, cma, cja, acsa to discuss anything let me know I am happy to help!Tweet @matt4836 or find me wearing a bright Jss(1.0) green shirt.  View more

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JSS Server and Java 2012-006

I would like to update Java on my JSS server to try to solve some memory leak issues that I am having, but I have been afraid to because of all of the issues associated with the new Java updates. My server is running 10.7.5 currently and I was wonder...  View more

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SCCM 2012

How does the feature set in the Jamf plug-in compare with the features in SCCM 2012 Service Pack 1?  View more

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Network Service spontaneous rename

Nasty one. At our site sometimes when we first image/recon a computer it sometimes screws up the names of all the Network Services. (e.g. Ethernet becomes Wi-Fi) This only persists as far as a reboot ... that so far i've seen. Anyone have similar exp...  View more

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Creating images with Self-Service installed

Hi there, I'd like to know how can I create an image to be deployed on students and staff computers with Self-Service installed on that. I'm asking that because we usually send the image to Apple so when getting the new MacBooks, they are already set...  View more

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Quick add package

I am new to jamf nation and casper suite and i would like to know how to create a quick add package. Can anyone help me do this. Thanks in advance.  View more

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Netboot across subnets with newer Macs

I was glad to hear that I wasn’t the only person at JNUC who was having trouble netbooting over subnets with new Apple machines! In order to netboot over subnets PREVOUS to Lion Internet Recovery being enabled on a mac, simply use the bless command (...  View more

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