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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J...  View more

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Casper and AAMEE questions

I have a question about AAMEE (Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition) - the app that bundles up the Adobe installs into native .pkg format installers. I have a case open with Adobe's support, but I'm going on a 3rd week of "support" without le...  View more

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casper community site

just glanced at some of the postings about setting up a community site, so pardon me if you've already discussed this. why not setup a google code project or use github? both are free, have wikis, and support both ticketing/bug reporting and version ...  View more

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ASUS Error

I know ASUS is not the most popular atm.. But I thought I'd see if anyone can help me.. We've a master ASUS which cascades updates to other ASUS's. Currently, something has broken & we're seeing errors like the below in the logs for all updates.. So ...  View more

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What do you do here?

1) How many Macs do you manage?This building 890, Casper managed in our district, 1800 2) What percentage of your job is dedicated to Mac management?90% 3) If you're not dedicated to Mac management what other types of work doyou perform?Anything the ...  View more

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Patch management through Casper

Hi- Feel free to contact me directly off-list, but we're looking at doing full patch management through Casper. What are folks' experience with this including patch cycles, time required for the process, best practices etc. Thanks!--Jared F. NicholsD...  View more

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Lion and Casper apps.

Hot on the heals of all the Lion chatter; Looks like Self Service, Remote and Recon open/operate normallyComposer and Admin throw up an error indicating that 10.4 or later is required. Nick Caro Senior Desktop Support Administrator Phone +1 212-839-1...  View more

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Create External Facing JSS

I have an external IP and domain, however, I have no idea how to setup theJSS to be able to work with the external network. I would appreciate anyadvice that can be provided by those who have experience working on this. Thanks,-- Glenn BurnsComputer ...  View more

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What is it you say you do here?

Hi Guys, Just a few quick poll questions if you don't mind. If you're willing can you answer three questions for me? 1) How many Macs do you manage? 2) What percentage of your job is dedicated to Mac management? 3) If you're not dedicated to Mac mana...  View more

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logging...

Hi, Is there a way to log all changes and the users that made those changesto the JSS? John McLaughlinTechnical Support SpecialistNewton Public Schools  View more

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Lion Dev Preview available

Quick note from: http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ Lion ServerSimply a better server.Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion. It's easy to set up your Mac as a server and take advantage of the many services Lion Server has to offer. Here are just a ...  View more

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Resource Kit, DNS and Search Domain scripts

I haven't looked at the Resource Kit scripts recently, however I do know you can specify multiple DNS servers in the networksetup command line (at least in 10.6):On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Daniel Behan wrote: networksetup -setdnsservers (interface)...  View more

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Upgrade to Casper 8

Hi- We're going from 7.21 to 8 in a few weeks. I thought I saw something about the jamf binary now using a plist instead of a conf file. Is there anything on the client end that I need to do in order to make the transition smooth? Thanks j--Jared F. ...  View more

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Tracking Computers

We have a student who checked out of school but failed to check in theirMacBook. I was wondering if anyone knew if there is a way to track thiscomputer using the Casper Suite now that it is off campus. Thanks,-- Glenn BurnsComputer TechnicianSnyder I...  View more

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Script to Analyze 'last' Data

Ok, this is an offshoot of the other "Script Priority" topic I startedearlier today. What I'd like to do is calculate what user has been logged into thecomputer the longest. Not the last, most recent user. So far I have aPHP script that processes the...  View more

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Script Order / Priority

This has probably been brought up before but I couldn't find anything inthe archives. Anyway, I have a policy setup to run two scripts that needto be run in a certain order. They are named in alphabetical order.However, there is no consistency to whi...  View more

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"Volume name" change blocks Casper Imaging

Hi all, Is there a way to specify a "partition" (eg /dev/disk0s2) in a Casper Imaging autorun rather than a volume name. If a machine's System Volume has been renamed or a previous image attempt failed subsequent runs of Casper imaging will all fail ...  View more

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netinstall image size

Hi, Can I modify the netinstall image create by casper netrestore to be smaller? Mine is 10 Gb, and I guess I do not need the extra Applications on it, maybe only Casper Imaging I did this from a clean install of an iMac thanks in advance cheers Carm...  View more

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March training in Minneapolis?

Anyone else going? j--Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Client ServicesInformation Services DepartmentMIT Lincoln Laboratory244 Wood StreetLexington, Massachusetts 02420781.981.5436  View more

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MySQL root user question

I am going to be setting up integration with jamf and webhelpdesk and have a quick question regarding security. "Allow Network Connections" is enabled for MySQL and it is listening. Not knowing much about MySQL, I'm assuming that I need to set a pass...  View more

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Increase idle timeout on JSS?

Is there a way to increase the time interval before the JSS logs me out? ------------------------------Tom TubbiolaSystems Admin/Design ITTtubbiola at oakley.com949.900.7705  View more

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Populate Username via Script

I have a script that analyzes the `last` output and calculates the userwho's been logged into the computer the longest. This is the best way ofdetermining who uses the computer without manually specifying them. Atthe moment, the script runs as an Ext...  View more

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epson printer drivers

Hi,We've been having a problem with epson print drivers and casper imaging. We're running 10.6.6 on clients and server, when imaging machines with Casper using a .dmg of the print driver and the epson updater v. 7 that we created in Composer, the pri...  View more

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Software Update Server via Network Segments Problem

I'm having an issue with our Software Update Server config. We accidentally set our SUS up on a bunch of machine that shouldn't have it. We did this by assigning a software update server to a network segment. It then assigned this server to all the m...  View more

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Adobe audit for software licenses

Hi I was wonder if anyone could help, is there a way to use Casper to retrieveadobe licenses for audit purposes beside using Casper's License Managementfeature. perhaps in a script form Thanks Abz -- Los Angeles · Detroit · Toronto · New York · Londo...  View more

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Locking Down Firefox

Does anyone have any experience in locking down Firefox preferences??Working in a school district, we have a lot of VERY clever youngsters, andit would be helpful if I could set certain preferences, and then lock themdown, or even password-protect th...  View more

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Customizing info shown in mouse over data window

I was wondering if there is a way to customize the information that comes up when you mouse over the info icon while viewing a list of machines? Particularly I would like to see a list of local user accounts added to that pop up window. Thanks,Tom---...  View more

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packaging up Glencoe text books

Hey everyone, This is an academia specific question about Glencoe digital text books. First off, to rant, this company is horrible. They create their text books with some flash front end app that loads PDFs and the flash executable is hard coded to t...  View more

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