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
Hi all, After seeing so many threads about creating extension attributes, I was wondering if there were any resources out there on how to create them from scratch. I'm sure I could probably come up with reasons to create them in the future, but don't... View more
Hello all, I wrote another Extension Attribute and thought I'd share it. We needed a reliable way to report the mac address for Airport cards. We had laptops that were inventoried while on wireless. The "MAC Address 1" under hardware on the inventory... View more
Hi Ben. Thank you! Yes, that's exactly what I needed. Worked like a charm. Now I can search our database for windows machines whose "Last Report Date" is more than 7 days ago. Very helpful to have that field in the mix. Graham. PS - we have a small L... View more
We have a request from one of the clients we support to deploy EnCase software to the Mac environment. Has anyone here used Casper to deploy this? Deployment is to mixed 10.4/5/6 Macs running mix of PowerPC/Intel architecture. Was hoping to hear from... View more
Hiis anyone also having issues with 10.6.6 and casper 8? I cannot open Composer, the Remote gives me errors and I need always to start it with "ALT" press to put again the JSS address, etc many thanks in advancebest Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL He... View more
OK, I need to RTFM but where do you modify auto run data in version 8? View more
Hi Everyone, I am doing some research on best practices for our student computers along with our faculty and staff computers. Has anyone developed a best practices for management of computers and software? Is there a published white paper by Apple or... View more
As promised. Regards,Ben TomsIT Support Analyst GREY GroupThe Johnson Building, 77 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8JST: +44 (0) 20-3037-3819 | Main: +44 (0) 20 3037 3000 | IT Helpdesk: +44 (0) 20 3037 3883 View more
Hey all, new to the list. I didn't see anything in the FAQ or kbase, thought I'd ask here. Is there any sane way to mass deploy MacPorts? I could of course snapshot the system changes but I'm afraid of system specifics creeping in and making a finick... View more
Scenario: 1000 deployed laptops. All users are admins. Our AUP clearly states that they are not allowed to install Boot Campor virtualization software. I can (and have) easily detect a Parallelsor VMWare installation, but have not yet figured out how... View more
Anyone know an example I can use to create an Extension Attribute for the Report Date field for PC's, yes PC's? My PC's use scheduled tasks to send inventory to the JSS and when they do, their Report Date field gets updated in the JSS inventory. I wa... View more
I'm curious what this list has to say about my ideas... Any comments? Questions? Critiques? View more
Hello all, I know it is Administrators' nightmare to give admin rights toUsers....but here we are dealing with adults and we attend to give adminrights to people, if there is a business justification for it. One of the engineers sent this command to ... View more
Hello! Hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend :) I have searched around quite a bit online as well as through the manual but I cant seem to find any steps for installing a Valid SSL Cert into the JSS. I have acquired a valid SSL Certificate,... View more
Is it possible to boot to single user mode on a Mac with PGP enabled? I'm being told it is possible, but I've never been able to accomplish this. Any one know of an answer? Noah SwansonImaging SpecialistEnterprise Desktop ServicesPhone: 309-765-3153S... View more
Classification: UNCLASSIFIEDCaveats: NONE Allen, I saw that issue as well with our images. I was not able to resolve theproblem with the image we were using. I found the issue occurred whenwe were using monolithic images, as opposed to modular images... View more
From time to time I will get the error, Warning: ASR encountered a problem. See Jamf.log for details. Reverting to installation using ditto... What are things that typically cause this? I read the KB article on jamf's site, but when I did a scan in D... View more
Just wanted to see how/if people are using the Casper Suite to handle the imaging of their servers. While you may not be "managing" them, I'd like to hear from anyone that is usingthe Suite to image and set them yup for initial use or DR purposes. Th... View more
Hello, Because I'm entirely lazy and dependent upon JAMF to do everything for me(thank you), I had an idea for troubleshooting. What is one of the first things you SHOULD do when troubleshooting aproblem or an install on a computer? Look at the logs ... View more
Hello all. I could probably find this somewhere in the documentation, but figured I would ask here: What causes the extension attributes to be updated and how often does it happen? The reason I'm asking is that I created a policy scoped to a smart gr... View more
i've met greg. he's a nice guy, but he's involved with munki, not casper. i suggest you catch up on their mailing list instead: http://groups.google.com/group/munki-dev/topics i think it would be helpful for people on the casper list to look outside ... View more
Hello all, Can anyone point me in the right direction to create/build a new smart group from a report? Example: We're running CS3 on our Macs and recently distributed CS5. Some departments manually installed CS4 during the interim. I can see the CS4 ... View more
We put in a call to ActiveStorage to ask if they plan to provide an alternative to NetBoot and Apple SUS. The sales rep told me he would bring it up in their next meeting. If it runs on Linux, and if what folks have been saying about NetBoot and Appl... View more
Task Server in ARD is pure failure. Queue up more than one task. If Task A fails or stalls, Task B never runs. I agree with Nate, having clients "check in" like Casper, Munky, Puppet, etc., is pure brilliance. Don View more
bryan, if you have an OD master in the mix, manage it that way. if not, you can probably use Casper's local mcx to do the same. otherwise, check out dockutil: http://code.google.com/p/dockutil you can add a folder pretty easily like so: dockutil --ad... View more
We haven't seen this in our environment. We are also blocking the App Store in this manner. What is the string you entered for the Restricted Software? -- remo del bello | systems administrator | thedesignory | w 562.753.0783 | remo.delbello at desig... View more
Hello all, I want to add a folder to a user's dock -- the user's Library/Printers folder -- and I'm running into a problem. All our users (myself included) have our home folders on a Data partition. I can manually create the dock item fine, by openin... View more
^^^ Please ignore this ^^^ All, I was wondering if we could compile a list of issues that we've seen introduced in Casper 8. Who wants to start the list off? Thanks. View more
Hello, I would like to know how to uninstall a .app file. It is an old EFI Print Server Application called EFI Job Monitor XF.app. It is not a .DMG or .PKG that I created and I am not real familiar with scripting. Thanks! Neal C. Smith IV View more
Hello everyone! This is somewhat OT:We are in the testing phase of Active Directory (Win v.'08r2)implementation, also using ExtremeZ-IP (v. 7.1x14). In my test environment, I have managed preferences enabled globally, in myframework settings.Automoun... View more
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