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Making USB Recovery HD that can run Casper Imaging?

Has anyone been successful in creating a USB Recovery HD that will run Casper Imaging? I have a few subnets that can't reach my Netboot server, and I'm trying to figure out the best way for them to do multiple machines w/o having to tether to another...  View more

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Recon User Names

Hi, We use the following script #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/jamf recon -endUsername $3 to collect the username on a recon. The recon runs at login and at 12pm. Our users are all local users. I can see the machines are being reconned, but the username is wron...  View more

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Licensed Software XML Template

I've contacted support and they suggested I post the following question as they said it isn't currently possible . . . I've downloaded several xml templates from JAMF Nation, but none of them have mappings for additional information such as notes and...  View more

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Configuration Profiles

Greetings, I'm still in my evaluation process with Casper, and I have the latest version as far as I 8.52. I have about 7 or so computers in my JSS 8.5.2, with a mix of 10.7 and 10.6. My issue seems to be with Configuration Profiles for 10.7.x. In al...  View more

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Login Scripts when Fast User Switching is Enabled

Not sure if this a JAMF Bug or Feature or an Apple Bug or Feature, but thought I'd throw it into the community for some feedback. I have login policies enabled for our machines that mounts SMB network shares based on the AD-user. We also have Fast Us...  View more

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Netboot across VLANS

Hi I was wondering if anyone could make sense of this. Brief background: We are using Casper as our deployment software for Macs, DHCP server (Windows Server 2008 is a different VLAN to our netboot server). Our Macs are also split across a number of ...  View more

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Platform hardening on JSS Server

Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions on hardening the JSS suite and the Windows 2008 R2 server that it is running on? It is being run on a vmware virtual machine if that makes any difference. Thank you.  View more

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[OT] Office 2011 Aliases?

Is it possible to have Office 2011 recognize aliases like outlook on the PC does? we use flast@company.com and first.last@company.com for email addresses. So everytime I reply to all it always sends it back to me using 2011, but not 2010. Is there a ...  View more

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Upgraded server to 10.7.4 and now get 401 error

Hi, I upgraded our Lion server to 10.7.4 this morning and now when I do a jamf recon I get the following error. There was an error submitting the computer to the JSS. The JSS responded with a status 401. Anyone know the answer to this? Best wishes Mi...  View more

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Manually Update Reposado on NetSUS

What is the best method to update the NetSUS installation of Reposado. I don't think a "git clone" is best as the directory layout is from Greg's repo vs. /var/lib/reposado on NetSUS. Would a simple curl -O work? Of which files? - Justin (Reposado GI...  View more

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Configuration Profile Tool

I'm doing my first image testing with Lion. Imaging goes OK, but when a network(OD) user logs in they get a prompt for administrator credentials from the Configuration Profile Tool. Anybody know how to stop this?  View more

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Shorten enrollment url

I am about to enroll about 250 devices using OTA. All will enroll on my network. Is there a way to redirect so that users can type in something like mdm and be automatically redirected to my actual url with the port (https://may.domain.come:8443/enro...  View more

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World Wide Distribution Point Replication Latency

As I move to replicating my Master Distribution Point to the new world-wide distribution points on Windows Server VMs, I'm noting how long it is taking to replicate 20 GBs. Have any of you found ways to speed this process up? I have Casper Admin Pref...  View more

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Advanced search by Department

When I do an advanced search based on department, some departments that I pick return results, while some come back saying no computers found, even though there are. I just noticed this because I'm converting some machines to "Retired" status per htt...  View more

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MDM Best Practice for DMZ

Our iPad population has grown to the point where our JSS is looking like the solution for adding Mobile Device Management. However, the iPads would be for the most part, off our network, requiring a JSS instance outside our network in the DMZ to mana...  View more

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Adobe PhotoShop 12.05, Illustrator 15.0.3 and AAMEE

I've been trying to create a package using AAMEE for the new CS5 patches. Only problem is AAMEE only shows the past releases (12.0.4, 15.0.2). I tried importing the patches manually, but they still revert to the old versions. This did work fine with ...  View more

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Best way to manage energy saver prefs?

Is there a recommended way to manage energy saver prefs? I could run pmset commands as a login, or startup pref, but I was hoping to find a way to do it with plain ole mcx? I also noticed a few items in the dev kit, as well as some scripts - is there...  View more

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Loading and unloading profiles by location

I'm trying to get devices to automatically load our profiles when they enter our school (which will have restrictions, etc.), but when they leave our school I would like the profile to automatically be removed to revert their device back to full func...  View more

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WebDAV and One to One iPads

We will be deploying 3,200 iPads to students, both elementary and secondary. This will be done in three phases beginning in September and ending in December. I had an idea and wanted to know if anyone has gone down this road before or had any advice....  View more

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Self Service App Dependencies?

Can a self-service app installation be programmed with dependencies? My real-world example is that I just packaged both Adobe Flash Player (yes, I know, yuck) and Adobe Air. It turns out the latter is a plugin to the former. So I don't want users to ...  View more

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Items added to Casper admin showing up twice

I uploaded a disk image to Casper admin, and there are 2 entries for it. They have 2 separate IDs but when revealed in the finder on the share they both point to the same file. Has anyone else run into this and if so, why is it happening?  View more

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Smart Group to identify Mountain Lion Capable CPUs

I know there isn't an final "official" list yet for Mountain Lion compatibility, but has anyone figured out what criteria to use to create a smart group which will identify what hardware is compatible with Mountain Lion? I know the tricky part of ide...  View more

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Self Service Updates IOS mobile devices

Has anyone had a problem with updates being installed through self service on mobile devices. I can install the apps fine. It asks for apple id, password, and installs the app. When I look under the updates section in self service it lists my updates...  View more

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