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Temporary Adobe Install Account

I just imaged a computer and when it restarted it booted straight to the hard drive and into a user account call Temporary Adobe Install Account. There's no indication that it's installing anything other than the fact that the fan is occasionally run...  View more

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mountnetworkshare.sh script error

Hi guys,I have used mountnetworkshare.sh from resource kit on my 10.6.8 clients and received an error: no such file or folder. The share still get mounted but it only shows the server name in the Finder. It does not map all the way to the actuall fol...  View more

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"This account does not have privileges to use Casper Admin"

Hi All, Just upgraded to 8.52 from 8.51 & am now getting the below error when launching "Casper Admin." external image link If i launch with shift held down & enter the JSS URL things work fine, then when i relaunch i get the same error.. anyone else...  View more

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Making a single AD user into a local admin

I'm trying to figure out the best way to make one AD user per system into a local admin. The idea is that the user to whom the system is assigned should be a local admin, but we don't want to extend admin rights to all domain users. I thought it migh...  View more

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Service Account for Active Sync connections in MDM

Is there a way to setup a service account for active sync connections?We are wanting to limit the allowed active sync policy to end users directly and are hoping we can use a service account to authorize the connection on the users behalf.As an added...  View more

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jamf startVNC

Wasn't there an option in the jamf binary to start up the VNC server by hand? It is not listed in jamf help anymore and I don't know when it went away. I want to try doing my daily work on Ubuntu 12.04 for a week or so and I need to be able to remote...  View more

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Partition 2nd hard drive

During the imaging process can I have Casper partition a 2nd harddrive that is in the computer. We configured all our Macs to come with 2 drives in them (Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD2). I see the partition tab when I create my configuration in Caspe...  View more

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Cant delete files from Casper Admin

I am using Casper Admin 8.5.1 and when trying to Delete an item in the list, Empty Trash, and Save the item is gone. I restart Casper Admin and its back again. Ive tried multiple times with multiple items, not sure whats going on. Any ideas?  View more

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Legacy Java Version in Lion

Nation, I am building a 10.7 image and I have a timekeeping web application that has to use a particular version of Java: Java SE 6 Version 1.6.0_26 . The newer version of Java Apple pushes out will not work with this pivotal system. Is there a way t...  View more

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Running a script in Casper

Hi, I am new to Casper and am having a problem running a shell script from Casper. The script works when run manually or when run from a JSS policy, but when run from Casper, it does not error out, but does not accomplish anything either. Below is th...  View more

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Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition

I'm looking for feedback regarding the free version of Sophos. We are new to JAMF and are just now setting up our production server and would like to implement virus detection. With 7000 computers in inventory and very limited funds (school district)...  View more

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SelfService Plug-In disappears

Hi, is there a command that will recomposite available SelfService-Plug-Ins (e.g. Crash-Plan)? Sometimes they disappear and it would be great to have them back. Cheers,Holger  View more

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Restart required reminder

Hi, I'm going to be rolling out updates from our SUS using Casper and it's working great so far with my test group using the basic settings that the JSS provides. I've been asked to see if it's possible to implement a message to users every X minutes...  View more

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Mountain Lion and Casper

HI all, Anyone got Casper Admin to recognise Mountain Lion as a valid OS yet? I am an Apple Developer and I must say preview 3 is brilliant, but Casper tools are not yet working. Would love to hear from anyone who has success stories or other unsucce...  View more

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Prohibit Internet Sharing?

Hi folks, I am looking for a way to prohibit enabling of Internet Sharing since it can be a pretty serious security risk. I was able to do it with Quest's QAS group policies, but we've stopped using that product. Is there a way to granularly disable ...  View more

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https Distribution Point

I am trying to set up https with username and password for our distribution point and i am getting an error from apache "Client used wrong authentication scheme 'Basic" I can not find where you set the auth type in the JSS. I can edit the apache conf...  View more

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Antivirus in an Enterprise environment

Hi- I'm interested in seeing what people use for their AV solutions. We currently use McAfee Security for Mac, but it's resource heavy and it's serviced by another department. (We're piggy backing for now on their service.) Thankfully, I have the lat...  View more

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Computer imaging Options

I am new to the Casper suit and wanted to know if it was ok to create my base OS image with the Apple disk utility application or do I have to use the Casper Composer application to do this.If you are supposed to use Composer what are the advantages ...  View more

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Self Service Plugins

I'm interested to know what Self Service Plugins people are using/have developed - or be interested in using - both web or plugin based.  View more

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ByHost Prefrences

Setting up a bunch of exam laptops for our upcoming IB exams here at the school and I am having trouble with the byhost prefrences. I need to take off some icons from the top bar and also add different language keyboards. Also all these machines are ...  View more

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Startup Disk Name

After imaging some machines, I noticed that each one shows the internal HD as "EFI Boot" when holding down the option key at boot. If I select it, it boots normally. Inside the Lion OS, it correctly shows it named as Macintosh HD. Why is it showing u...  View more

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Composer 8.52 bug

Hi guys I like to carry out version control in Composers source pane. For example if i drag Composer in the Source i will rename it immediately to some thing like Composer_8.52_v1.0 Unfortunately if you do this and build the pkg, it will fail silentl...  View more

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Final Cut Pro X updating

With Apple's new way of distributing the Pro apps, it seems I have to repackage each update for redistribution. Not so bad it seems at first, but I'm running into a bit of a situation. Initially deployed Final Cut Pro X 10.0.2Now we want to deploy v1...  View more

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Restricting Mountain Lion

Anyone got any ideas how i can restrict my mobile users installing Mountain Lion? There admins and due to being offsite i have to allow them access to Software Updates. I've looked through Configuration profiles. Does anyone else have this dilemma? P...  View more

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Imaging: where to start?

We are new to the Casper suite and have not yet completed our Jump Start. In the meantime we are trying to kick the tires and most of the things you can do with Casper are straightforward, but imaging is confounding me. Here are our needs: 1) Deploys...  View more

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Use external Certificate Authority for Casper MDM

Hello all, I try to use an external CA like EJBCA or Windows 2008 Enterprise CA. All the time I set up external CA under Public Key Infrastructure all seems to be fine, but when I enroll by URL an error message appears on my iPad 3. The error message...  View more

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