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installLion.pkg problems.... user accounts deleted

thus far, we've had only one problem in running InstallLion.pkg via self service or by policy: although it does, indeed, update macs from 10.6.8 to 10.7.4, the problem (as some of you have already experienced) is that apple's installer deletes any lo...  View more

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Apple Configurator Sync Station replication

I have posted a blog entry about cloning an apple configurator sync station. It has been suggested I post to Jamf nation about it. I will link to it here as to not keep up more than one discussion: http://ipadmike.tumblr.com/post/27505756737/cloning-...  View more

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Server issue

We've had and outage on our virtualized environment which includes my instance of the JSS. They've gotten everything restarted, but now that my server is back up I'm noticing some problems with the JSS. If I go to search the computers or mobile devic...  View more

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Two versions of an app scoped at two level

Hi JAMFers, I recently encoutered a problem while running a test :A version of an app, add in the Mobile device App Catalog, is scoped to a single iPad.A former version of this app is already scoped to two static groups.The iPad running the test isn'...  View more

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Amazon for offsite distribution

I want to see if anyone has tried anything like this before and how exactly they were able to pull it off. We have several packages that are pretty large in size and we want our users to be able to download them offsite via self service. However, we ...  View more

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MBPs do not see new SUS URL

My JSS with SUS ran in a local Network with no Public Static IP until recently. I am running latest JSS on a 2009 silverwhite MacMini with 10.6.8 Server the Public Static IP points to a subdomain. When I amended the Network Setup, I connected the Pub...  View more

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JAMF Nation Groups

Is there anyway for a group of people with a common connection to have a thread on JAMF nation? I'm finding myself in need of a sounding board for Mac integration into Active Directory. Is there a place on this website where I can target people who h...  View more

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New retina mbp does not netboot to our server!

Hi everyone new to Jamf but loving it so far. Little background: We currently have Casper setup (latest version) on our network and it has been running for about 6 months with no issues. I have been able to net boot our machines (both 10.6.8 and 10.7...  View more

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NYC Casper User Group

Sign up at http://jamf080912.eventbrite.com New OS new Casper Suite should be out. Event: NYC Casper User GroupWhere: Tekserve, 119 W. 23rd StWhen: Thursday August 9, 6-8PMSpeaker: Chris Czel, Systems Engineer, JAMFTopic: OS Deployment  View more

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Acrobat Provisioning Tool

I am having issues with the Adobe Provisioning Tool for Acrobat X. I have followed the JAMF Guide to the T. Created the Package for Acrobat X, uploaded and configured it in the JSS. The installer works fine via a triggered every 5, Self Service etc. ...  View more

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SCEP configuration profile variable.... are there any?

I start the getting the SCEP configuration profile to work within ourenvironment now. But I think it requires variable to generate thecertificate the way we want it. It seems to be a lack of info regards variables to automate this.For example:If I pu...  View more

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Existing BootCamp partitions

I've been using DeployStudio to image our lab computers (dualboot). When we needed to re-image, it would re-partition the drive, and install new Mac and Windows images. With Casper, the workflows seem to only want to re-partition the Mac HD without t...  View more

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OT: Mid-2012 MacBook Air OS Build Number?

Okay so Apple's article here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159says I should be seeing 11E2520 on our brand new 13" MacBook Air (Mid-20120) but it looks like I've actually got 11E2702. Can anyone else confirm this? Thanks  View more

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[OT] Storage Arrays

We are acquiring a MacPro for some video editing / streaming. The users are asking for an 8TB Raid Storage for "video streaming". The mentioned the promise pegasus 8TB RAID storage, but the MacPro doesn't come with thunderbolt and I haven't come acro...  View more

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read access for everyone to Distribution Points

the Casper Administration Guide recommends that sharing permissions on Distribution Points be set for 'everyone' to 'read only'. Some of our more 'industrious' users appear to be mounting the distribution point and downloading DMGs to try and find se...  View more

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inconsistent search results

this could just be the db i'm working with here, but i've noticed if i do an advanced inventory search like this: operating system LIKE 10.4 i get ALL the hosts in inventory. using 10.4. or 10.4.x yields the same results. smart groups are not similar...  View more

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Managed Dock and placement of icons

We're new to JSS and all it's wonderfulness, so if I'm missing something, I hope it's nothing obvious. We're moving from Apples WorkGroup Server to JSS to manage preferences. I added the Dock items for some of our most commonly managed apps into Admi...  View more

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JAMFhelper Script Output

I currently have a trigger which is called by a self service policy to unjoin from AD, rename the machine and rejoin it on our domain. I would like for our techs to receive some type of status update while the script is running. So far, I have tried ...  View more

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Create an extension attribute with an osascript

Hi everyone, Running into a slight snag here collecting some information from an application as an extension attribute. This is the script I am using to populate the EA: #!/bin/sh ## Only run this script if the computer has CEDPro on it if [ -e "/App...  View more

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Remote Schedule bug

I tried to set up a scheduled package install today at 12:00 pm. At 11:20 am it said Time Remaining 12 hours 40. If I scheduled it for 1:00 pm it said 1 hour 40 minutes.  View more

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iPad Support and Management Best Practices

Hi All, My first post on JAMF Nation...yeah! I'm in a K-12 school district and we just started using Casper in April to manage our 6500+ Mac desktops and laptops around the district. We are planning to start adding some iOS devices this fall and I am...  View more

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Papercut authentication via AD

Does anyone have experience distributing papercut printers (running on a Windows print server) via Casper to Macs? The problem I am having is with authentication on our AD domain. On the Windows computers, a user logs in using AD credentials, and is ...  View more

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Upgrade FF keep Bookmarks

What's the best way to upgrade FF and keep the bookmarks and stuff? In going through the other threads, there was suggestions to maintain the default folder, but we have such a variety of machines and potentially an unlimited number of defaults folde...  View more

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