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Propagating ACLs

Hi all, Thought you might find this useful. I got frustrated with having to use Server Admin to propagate ACLs and had a need to do this from the command line, so I wrote a script to walk a directory tree, looking for explicit ACEs and the propagate ...  View more

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Warranty End Extension Attribute

This is in reference to the previous thread here, https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=4270 . I believe this has been working fine, but currently none of my systems are showing warranty end dates. Is Apple's site just down temporari...  View more

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Whats the connection ....??

I've just deployed a QuickAdd package to our macs which has coincided very nicely with a problem with the MS Office suite (2008 & 2011) which is giving read-only and permission errors. My question is, is this coincidence or is there a link between th...  View more

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Mac OS client checking in, but not reporting

I have a few clients for some reason stopped reporting (Last Report), but are still checking in (Last Time) on their normal schedule. I corrected one yesterday just by removing the framework and reinstalling the client, but I would like to know why t...  View more

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NetBootSUS Appliance Setup Problems

Hey, Everyone! I'm hoping you can help me with my latest issue I'm having. Our Xserve that previously had been hosting our NetBoot volumes has been having more and more frequent hardware failures. As a result, we decided to offload the NetBoot duties...  View more

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Setting Firmware Password

I have some new hardware that I need to setup with firmware passwords so people cannot boot from USB. I read through the Setting EFI Passwords on Mac Computers (Models Late 2010 or Later) article, but it doesn't say anything about using Casper Remote...  View more

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Strange NetBoot issue

I'm sifting through the NetBoot logs for clues, in the mean time one of our NetBoot servers is being moved to the server room so it's connecting directly to the switch (proper segment of course). Has anyone seen this strange "throbbing" (as it was de...  View more

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A Admin User Question

We use AD to authenticate our users for login. The users should be made local admins during the account creation (when they 1st login to the Mac). In the district this works fine. When the user gets a admin prompt they can user their username. Howeve...  View more

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Problem uploading App Store App as In-House App.

Hi, I read through an earlier post https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3945 about uploading app store apps into the JSS as in-house apps. I have been successful doing this with most .ipa files. However, there are a handful of apps ...  View more

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Software Updates best practice

Hello all, So looking for some advice.. we have an 10.8 SUS on our inside network and a mix of 10.7 and 10.8 clients..We would like to use our SUS to push out updates.. Ideally we would be able to promt a user, have them install and then restart with...  View more

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How to reuse iBook VPP codes

After distributing an iBook with VPP codes through Casper JSS to a set of iPads, how do you release a code for use on a different iPad? For a school, how do you release the codes at the end of the year for reuse the following year? Thanks for the hel...  View more

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Password Issue

We have passed out all of our 1:1 machines to students and have run into an unusual issue. They can't change their password. We set up their accounts via Casper and the computers are locked down some what, but I can't find where this setting is. They...  View more

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Binding Issues- Illegal character ' "

I keep getting this issues. I'm running Lion as OS. All my computer have the computer name syntax "Computer 1" . Error: The binding was not successful:Illegal character ' ' in Computer ID, configuration cancelled.dsconfigldap verbose modeUsing sugges...  View more

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Brand new MBPro not booting

I just receive a new MacBookPro 13". When I try to boot to CasperSuite I only see a grey screen with the Apple logo. All new updates are installed, on server and device. I also received a brand new Imac 27" and that one is working perfect! In a few w...  View more

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Extended Attributes Recon Windows

I'm reasonably new to Casper and even more so when using Recon to inventory our PC's. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to use the extended attributes for Recon on Windows machines? What I'm trying to achieve is Active Directory field...  View more

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Third Party Application Auto Update

I am looking for an script which will run Microsoft Autoupdate.app and search for available updates. If updates available script will list out all updates. then with the help of script if we update the Microsoft office.  View more

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Font Agent Pro

We currently have a large (300 user) installation of Universal Type Server, managing just under 9,000 fonts. We sync with our Active Directory server that has around 2,000 users in over 1,000 groups. The program has had huge issues with AD integratio...  View more

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Find My iPad Features

Does anybody have any solutions that have the same features as Find My iPhone? We need to be able find the location of our iPads based on the iPads location services, play a sound, send a message, and set a new passcode....preferable all in JAMF. Tha...  View more

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Casper Admin 8.6 - Inserting extra "https://" in URL

Anyone having a problem with Casper Admin 8.6 whereby after opening Casper Admin 8.6 and simply quitting it without any other action taken results in an extra "https://" being inserted into the url string in com.jamfsoftware.jss.plist?? I've submitte...  View more

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ML FirstBoot scripts & iCloud

So recently (last week or so), I noticed that on the ML builds, the machines restart after the initial casper portion (normal), and reboot to the adobeinstall (normal), but now when it logs into the adobeinstaller to run all the stuff at reboot, the ...  View more

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ML FirstBoot scripts & iCloud

So recently (last week or so), I noticed that on the ML builds, the machines restart after the initial casper portion (normal), and reboot to the adobeinstall (normal), but now when it logs into the adobeinstaller to run all the stuff at reboot, the ...  View more

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Cannot configure my netinstall

Running 10.7.3 serverCasper 8.4New Computers = iMacs and Macbook Pro's running 10.7.4. In the past I was able to make a Netinstall for 10.6.8 and was able to netboot and reimage my client computers but now I have 10.7.3 computers and the old netinsta...  View more

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