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Casper Share Replication Problem

So i am having this issue where every time I replicate my distribution points, there are several Winclone images that are replicated each time. This only happens with certain .winclone files. The images dont seem corrupt as they image correctly. My m...  View more

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Mobile Device Profile for Gmail

Hi all. Has anyone been able to set up a mobileconfig profile to automatically set up a gmail account? We use Google Apps, and want to be able to provide a 1-touch setup through self-service to import all details into the built-in mail settings. --Na...  View more

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Open Application in 32bit mode for all users.

Hi everyone, I'm being forced to deploy SilverFast scanning software in our Graphics and Photography labs. Due to Epson not providing 64bit drivers for most of their scanner models, Silverfast needs to be opened in 32-bit mode when connected to the E...  View more

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Script Needed: Desktop Wallpaper Path

I am looking to create a script that would create a user defined Folder in System Preferences > Desktop and Screensaver > Folder Path. I believe I've tracked down the location where this value is defined. I'm wondering if I could use a defaults write...  View more

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Casper Create a Managed Preference Profile

I created a Managed Preference profile to be pushed out to our test macbook pro before we roll them out. I imaged the computer with casper and started up and entered a username into mac setup that created a standard user. Now I would like to push a a...  View more

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intermittant LaunchAgent issue

We meet again, JAMFnation . . . . Today's question is about my ADPassMon launch agent.Generally, it works fine. But about 20% of the time on a user's first login, OS X brings up a window asking me to locate System Events.app. Once I browse to CoreSer...  View more

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Help me understand OS X Config Profile deployment

On the cusp of releasing 3000-ish Macbooks to our students for the 2012-13 school year, and just discovered a major bug with 10.7.4 mobile users with Managed client settings via the "golden triangle". I was going to wait till next year to implement P...  View more

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mountnetworkshare script on 10.8

Hey JAMFnation, I've been using the mountnetworkshare script from the resource kit to mount user's network home directories in 10.7.x successfully for some time now- i did have to do some changes, since as supplied by JAMF it'll fail on any username ...  View more

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Managed Preferences/Policies not applying

So this is getting frustrating. I've been working with Jamf about this issue and I stumped them so I'm putting it out here. We have an active directory environment for our macs and we cannot get the managed preferences or policies to apply to our net...  View more

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script help!

I am getting this error for the script below – any ideas?:attribute status: eDSAttributeValueNotFoundDS Error: -14143 (eDSAttributeValueNotFound)attribute status: eDSAttributeValueNotFoundDS Error: -14143 (eDSAttributeValueNotFound)/private/tmp/LionA...  View more

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$3 equivalent for AppleScript

Using my first AppleScript on login and wondering if there's an equivalent to using $3 in bash. Right now I'm finding the current user with a do shell script to look at the owner of console. Is there a better way?  View more

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boot up to Capser

I ran a Mac disk utility disk on a Mac-Mini. So my hard drive has been wiped clean. How do I boot up to our Casper server to pull down a new imaage?  View more

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Any chance AT ALL that JSS could be freezing my Macs?

In the last week, we're having a high number of Macs catching the spinning ball of death after login. Most of the time they'll see the menu bar before freezing up, sometimes they'll see the dock. I've turned off all login/logout hooks and startup ite...  View more

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Enabling Location Services in Mountain Lion image

Enabling Location Services in our Mountain Lion image has been driving me crazy. After some googling and playing with fseventer, I was able to throw together the following script that works in our image workflow at reboot. #!/bin/bash launchctl unloa...  View more

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iOS 6 and Casper 8.7?

Now that iOS 6 has been finished, is there any information on when Casper 8.7 will be released and what new iOS management abilities will be present with iOS 6? -Thanks  View more

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Target Mode Imaging

If someone out there has already posted an answer to the following scenario, I apologize for the repeat. I could not come up with a search of JAMF Nation that revealed anything like that. I'm getting ready to deploy a few hundred MacBook Airs. They p...  View more

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1st Time Group Setup Best Practices?

I'm looking for some "best practice" information about putting our iOS devices into Device Groups vs User groups and enrollment into groups. * Is it best practice to build a new group for every textbook deployment or specialized app deployment? Seems...  View more

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Basic Scripting question

I'm tinkering and trying to make life easier with scripts. One that would help is the ability to use SHIFT+COMMAND and a keystroke. For my COMMAND only scripts, I'm using something like this: osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code...  View more

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login password expiry prompt

The Background: I'm an absolute newbie to everything Apple and Casper! We are on a new Casper setup running iMacs in a primarily Windows domain, I am a Computer Aided Design Manager with reasonable IT knowledge and background but all in Windows. We h...  View more

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Desktops are driving me mad.....

In 10.7 does anyone know where the number of desktops you have is located? I mean I disabled mission control about a month ago but some students had already 50+ desktops, now it is disabled but they still have every desktop that they created and they...  View more

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need help with wifi script

Hi guys I am tryin to blocked some certain SSIDs. I was wondering if someone ca help me with variable for all the SSIDs. so far this works #!/bin/sh # Prevent Access to RLSPOT001 SSID=`/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A...  View more

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Extracting inventory data via the API

I need to develop a method for our Windows based Asset team to automatically retrieve computer inventory data from the JSS (delimited text), for importation into another system. I'm not a programmer, and I could get one if I have to, but It looks lik...  View more

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JSS Mobile Broken?

Just completed our JumpStart. Installed JSS Mobile, can access our inventory/policies, but attempting to create a new policy (though it lets you go through each step) fails to save the policy to the server. Is JSS Mobile policy write broken? Seeing t...  View more

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