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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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Best practices for smart groups to differentiate users?

Hi everyone, We're new to Casper and are trying to figure out the best way to address a few issues. We have a select number of machines that are "presentation laptops" that we want to loosen up energy saver settings on, but keep the majority of our m...  View more

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upgrading to 8.52

Hi all, I'm always behind with my updates but it seems I need to run this one cause we now got Adobe CS 6. Just read the Requirements list of the JSS Installer that my JSS box needs to have MySQL Enterprise or Community 5.5 My jss has Ver 14.12 Distr...  View more

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mountNetworkShare script and ExtremeZ-IP

Hi all, I have been using the above script with smb shares on our Lion OS and they work fine for the most part. I would however like to take advantage of the Extremez-IP setup that my predecessor installed and has been running with 10.6.8. Thus I'd l...  View more

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Mobile Home Sync - File Level or Block Level?

Hi JAMF Nation I am looking at speeding up the Home Sync time (background and also login/logout). Although 10.7 Lion Server has the 'Server Side File Tracking for Mobile Home Sync' feature which might be useful, hence which leads me to this question:...  View more

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Active Directory Password Expiration Script

Not sure how many people out there have this problem, but many of our users rarely log off of their machines. This is a problem in an environment that has Mac's bound to Active Directory which need to abide by certain password expiration policies. Es...  View more

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Reading Directory Attributes

Using "dscl" to read a multi value attribute is causing me some trouble. I'd like to be able to read "dsAttrTypeNative:otherLoginWorkstations" but due to the multi value capability, I haven't been successful in doing so. Example: dscl /Active Directo...  View more

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Tomcat 7 won't start after Java update

I am running Casper 8.52 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 OS. A Java update was accidently pushed to the server and the machine has Java 7 update 4 installed. As a result Tomcat 7 will not start and the JSS Web application is inaccessible from a web brows...  View more

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Safari Off via Smart Group

So we're finding that we are not in compliance with state mandates because we are not currently filtering internet content on the iOS devices as they leave district. Currently all devices (mixture of iPad and iPad 2) are being used by administrators ...  View more

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Bulk upload of location details for IOS devices

Hi all, long time reader first time poster here. At the school whjere I run the IT support, we are about to have some 1200 iPads managed by Casper for use by students. Each student has their own Active Directory ID (bound to the JSS) that has been sh...  View more

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