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
Now that we are able to virtualize OS X (legally), has anyone done any testing to see if Casper is able to manage these VM instances? Also has anyone been able to select Portable Casper Drive as target startup disk within the VM? PS, relevance...tryi... View more
Not sure if anyone saw this announcement from JAMF since it doesn't appearto have been discussed here yet: Certified JSS Administrator (CJA) Topics include: Installing and configuring MySQL for the JSS on Windows and Linux Installing and configuring... View more
Hi List, I'm just realizing that the AD plug-in, Mac OS 10.5 & 10.6, createsmanaged preferences for each AD user. These are stored in /Library/ManagedPreferences. There is a folder for the user's short name there and four.plist files: com.apple.dock.... View more
Did anyone figure out how to resolve the issue where using the ESDInstall.dmg in Casper Admin resulted in a machine that would only boot to the recovery partition? I know compiling the image works (just did it) but for testing I'd hate to have to re-... View more
I am only using Casper to apply MCX settings to our Macs, most of the settings are applied as I would like but it would be great if when a admin user logs on they get the option to bypass the MCX settings (for example we only allow certain preference... View more
Hi List, I'm not much of a scripter and pieced this together from the resource kitand google. It sets the computer name to a prefix and the last six digits ofthe serial number. I'm wondering what, if any, precautions I should takebefore turning this ... View more
Hi- To my knowledge, the JSS database uses RSA-128 with 1024bit keys to store machine account passwords in the database. While likely strong enough for typical use, in high security environments RSA-128 isn't looked upon favorably due to a recently s... View more
What methods you guys using for this? I am looking at a login hook maybe that uses the security command to add in our wifi passkey to that user's log in keychain. Thanks, Tom View more
Had the same issue with the 12.3.0 updater, just deploying the .mpkg as delivered by Microsoft, even if I tweak the permissions of the .mpkg before copying it into the JSS via Casper Admin, it mangles the permissions on the installed apps following t... View more
Imagine a policy chain of four policies (for example, "Preflight", "removeSW#1", "removeSW#2", and "installSW") with a manual policy trigger on each policy with a Run Command at the end of each policy that has a jamf policy trigger which leads to the... View more
Hey all- Has anyone else experienced any strange behavior with Lion's DNS not searching in root search domains? We have found that if we rely on DNS to provide the search domains for our machines, as we always have, it will only search the provided s... View more
I use Launch Agent and works well for all new and existing users. I have packaged all below as .pkg. You can send it using Policy, Remote, locally or ARD or from build point. 1 - you will need to load using launchctl command as postflight script #!/b... View more
Hello all,I would like to deploy Office 2011 14.1.3 update the same way I did in the past for version 14.1 and 14.1.2.I simply added the original MS installer (mpkg) to Casper Admin and created a policy to install it at user login. It sounds like the... View more
Has anybody automated a way of filling out the Username field? I have View more
Hi guys, I'm trying to recreate the behaviour of Munki/Windows Updater using Casper & jamfHelper. The jamfHelper commad has a delay option. Is there anyway to write the delay to a file, then after the delay passes manually trigger a policy? Regards, ... View more
Dear all,I would need to package Safari including the passwords saved (for a website to be auto login ).I know the password should be saved on Keychain. So I made a package including the Keychain of the user and Safari from LibraryStill not working.I... View more
Is it possible to use casper to dual boot Snow Leop and Lion? Or do I need to manually install one? John Wojda Lead System Engineer, DEI & Mobility 3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 Phone: (847)286-7855 Page: (224)532.3447 Team Lead ... View more
We are creating some portable Casper drives for our techs. Everything seems to work except... When invoking Custom Install option in Casper Imaging (where the tech would pick additional PKG installers). When a tech selects a PKG that has "Must instal... View more
Hi, I am trying to deploy a Konica Minolta Bizhub C35P printer in our school and I am having difficulties getting the colorsync profile to deploy with it. Deploying the printer driver works fine using Casper, but when I try to deploy the printer conf... View more
Is there a script that allows me to change the "admin" account password? Itis the administrator account on the client macs. Thanks,Kevin HillAlbany ISDTech Director / Assistant PrincipalLion Pride View more
Hi Folks, We are trying to deploy our Wacom Tablet software/driver to our Macs and I cannot find a way to install it either in a configuration using Casper Admin or remotely using Apple Remote Desktop. Anyone successful in packaging a Wacom tablet so... View more
How did you all remove the App Store from your build or users Macs? Did you only remove the dock item? Did you run a Managed Pref. in Casper? Did you only do a Restricted Software for App Store.app? Thanks . I wonder is this expected behaviour? Here are the details: MySQL db: 17GBJSS v7.31MacOS X Server 10.6.8 Regards Cem PS: I have tried to send it ... View more
Hi All, Our internal wireless network uses/requires 802.1x. I'm trying to export the correctly setup 802.1x Profile using the below: sudo networksetup -export8021xUserProfiles ~/Desktop But i get the error: ** Error: Error writing data to file. I've ... View more
I've been testing out InstallLion.pkg via Self Service and it works pretty well. The whole process is pretty straightforward. Just create a policy triggered by none (Self Service) add the InstallLion.pkg. The only thing I added to the policy is /sbin... View more
I just wanted to let any Lion testers know that /System/Library/StartupItems has been removed and that if you send packages there to be processed by a first run script you will need to create the folder prior to imaging. Casper Imaging kept quitting ... View more
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