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10.7.4 FileVault RecoveryKeychain issues

Following the instructions in "administering file vault 2 with casper suite", I created a package to assign a recovery key to our imaged workstations. After imaging my test box I activated the encryption manually and was presented with the message st...  View more

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Macs - Windows and Casper

Our school district is considering the use of mac computers only and using VM Fusion, Parallels, or Boot Camp for users that need to have Windows. What are your individual preferences for Windows on macs along with the ease of each for imaging with C...  View more

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10.7.4 Netboot and MacPro4,1

I'm having issues Netbooting the MacPro4,1 with a 10.7.4 image. Has anyone else had this problem, other stuff boots fine. I'm running Server 10.7.4 and Casper 8.5.2 Cheers Al  View more

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Updating a Smart Group criteria From the API

Hi All, Im quite new to Casper, only been using it for a little over 3 weeks but so far impressed. Im looking to build a 3rd party Auto software updater for small apps like Skype etc. Now I have all of that done, my script downloads the current versi...  View more

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Disable Entourage Sync Services?

Does anyone have a method for disabling Sync Services within Entourage 2008? Our goal is to block people from losing their Exchange calendar. It's becoming too common for our users to enable and they eventually lose all of their meetings.  View more

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Adding Applications after Imaging

Okay here's the problem I'm having right now. I started imaging a lab of computers this morning. While I was in the process of imaging I noticed that I was missing a couple of programs that my users want installed. I've since added those programs to ...  View more

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10.7.4 and Casper Admin

Hey everyone. I just downloaded Lion from the App Store and extracted InstallESD as I always do. When I loaded it into Casper Admin it tells me it is not a valid installer. Has anyone ran into this with the current version of Lion or a previous versi...  View more

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Casper Imaging Hangs when Netbooting

After netbooting, Casper imaging is hanging. There has been a connection error dialog (code Id 28) and also sometimes just the spinning beach ball. This seems to have started since applying a Tomcat SSL cert as specified in https://jamfnation.jamfsof...  View more

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Imaging questions

I need to make new base images for all our Macs this summer. I have a few questions I thought I'd throw out to the community to see if there were any better ideas than I have about how to go about it. I have Macbooks from the 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 eras...  View more

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User Profile Migration

I wanted to touch base with the community and see if anyone is able to assist in simplifying user profile migration of AD users from Mac to Mac. One point; average profile size is roughly ~150Gb. Currently when a user gets a new machine we image it u...  View more

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PDF Printer? Word Hyperlinks Lost

So this isn't a JAMF issue really, but I'm hoping someone in this community has seen this or can help. When saving a Word 2011 file as a PDF, specifically with a Table of Contents (with clickable links to pages), the hyperlinks are lost on the conver...  View more

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Mutiple Tomcat Instances

We would like to run multiple instances of Casper on a central server for different schools on our WAN. How do I set up individual instances each with their own data?  View more

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MBAir 10.7x

Recently (last couple weeks) we've been having problems with our MBAir images, it's not completing things like the domjoin or post install scripts, they are taking a long time to click through the disclaimer screen (click disclaimer goes away, then a...  View more

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MacBook fan running all the time after enrollment

So, I have enrolled about 50 MacBooks in our environment and have had complaints on just about all of them. Basically, once the machine is enrolled (which also includes an AD binding) and the user logs in the first time with the Managed Mobile (AD) a...  View more

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How do I Unmanaging the JSS server itself

I have a xserver that is running the JSS right now. At some point it became enrolled in our inventory but I no longer want it there and I don't want it managed. I know i could enter in the terminal command to remove the JAMF framework, but I just wan...  View more

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App push for iPad

Hello JAMF nation, I work in IT for a medical center and we have recently started deploying iPads out in our environment. I want to get some feedback on how others are handling application deployments via the app store. As we all know, Apple requires...  View more

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Disable Safari 5's Pop-Up Blocker via MCX?§

Hi All, I need to disable Safari's pop-up blocker. The older way of doing this does not seem to work on Safari 5.1.5 http://macmule.com/2010/09/25/disabling-safaris-pop-up-blocker-from-terminal/ the below works: defaults write com.apple.Safari com.ap...  View more

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Tomcat running hot

Hi all, I have contacted support on this but as it is the middle of the night there and the middle of the day here (Melbourne, AU) I thought I'd ask here in case anyone has struck this before. We are running 8.52 on a Win2008R2 VM. It has been runnin...  View more

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Casper Remote stops at "Verifying Computer's Identity..."

Using Casper Remote I have not been able to find a detailed error log. Can anyone tell me where it might be? Would it be on the Casper Server or the Remote Mac initiating the .dmg? In Remote the install stops at Verifying Computer's Identity..., so i...  View more

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App Catalog Management

I'm just curious how everyone manages their App Catalog in the JSS? For instance I work in a school district with 70+ sites and a lot of sites purchase the same app obviously using different VPP codes. So I'm starting to get 70 iMovie apps in my list...  View more

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Imaging Macbook Air - JSS not ignoring dongles?

I have the dongle adapter in the MAC ignore section of the JSS. If I recon 2 airs (with same ethernet adapter plugged in), they show as 2 machines in JSS. The ethernet address 2 is correctly blank/ignored. If I remove both machines from JSS and image...  View more

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Best way to ensure use of compiled?

We've got a compiled base image, but I've found a number of my packages have to be installed on a booted system. Is there a recommended way to ensure that I'm still getting the speed of a block level copy while at the same time being able to install ...  View more

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Change settings on existing NetBoot image?

Client provided us with a NetBoot image from their Casper infrastructure for us to use on our internal Casper infrastructure in order to mass image systems for them. The issue is that their NetBoot image is set to go looking for their JSS server, and...  View more

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