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MDM Enrollment Failure

OK, the enrollments are not really failing. The users are stopping in the middle of the process. Once they finish installing the root certificate, they are taken to the "Install your MDM Profile" screen. This screen looks so much like the initial ins...  View more

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MySQL Cluster vs Replication

I'm standing up two servers, one as the main JSS, the other will serve as a failover. Failover is being handled by 3DNS. Should the master entry stop responding, the secondary (tertiary etc) entry will take over in DNS. My question is this: Due to th...  View more

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displayMessage (No) Button Option

Hello i'm using "jamf displayMessage" to show the user a message before a installation begins to run a the logout: jamf displayMessage "Installing software, please wait..." When i run this command it will show the message and also one "OK" button. Bu...  View more

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System accounts showing in inventory

Hello all. I was looking through some inventory info and noticed that we have a LOT of accounts on machines in the computer details > Local User Accounts. I'm fairly sure I used to only see real user accounts and not all of the system accounts. We're...  View more

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UIDs and Word 2008

Okay- I have some users who are still using word 2008, they are networked users with their home directories mapped to a 2008 server. Whenever they try to save a document it tells them there "has been a network or file permissions error" and doesn't s...  View more

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Casper 8.5.x postinstall script

Hi All, Below is an example of the NEW postinstall.sh from Casper 8.5.x... there have been a few posts logged here.. so in the absence of a KB i'm posting it here with Line Numbers. My Image has a manually triggered policy (line 32)... this policy in...  View more

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OT - Officeformachelp.com - Outlook setup script

I saw others post links to the http://www.officeformachelp.com/ page, so I'm hoping that someone has gone through this already :) I followed their deployment guide (with your help to fill in the confusing bits) for Outlook 2011, and everything is wor...  View more

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Reposado branches setup in JSS

dI have setup a Reposado SUS and have two branches I would like to serve up. One is testing and the other production. In JSS, under Settings> Servers> Software Update Servers I currently have something like reposado.dept.university.edu:8088. My quest...  View more

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Office 2011 packaging

Since we are finally getting ready to deploy office 2011, I decided to make an official package for it. I've been following teh scripted steps in http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/administration/deployment/casper/ Some of the stuff is a little w...  View more

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Preparing Firefox for deployment without Composer

I would like to remove the Composer step when preparing Firefox for deployment. We only deploy the .app, I chop out everything else in Composer, replicating a manual install (Mount DMG, drag to Application). My first thought was to use an After scrip...  View more

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Authenticate against multiple AD domains?

Haven't tried it since 10.6.x (need to track down users to be a guinea pig), but seeing some posts about searching multiple domains got me thinking. Is 10.7.x able to authenticate against more than one domain? Currently we have 3 primary domains (don...  View more

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Uninstall Adobe Products through Self Service

I am attempting to create uninstallers for everything that I created installers for. I have gotten to the point where I need to create uninstallers for the Adobe CS5 applications and I am not sure if there is anything special that I need to do. We, o...  View more

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Outlook Archive (pst) Block

I may be mistaken but I thought that there was a MCX setting or something that disabled Outlook archives from being created. We are letting users know that we will not be allowing them to archive emails locally on their Macs, but I need to enforce th...  View more

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Off Topic: VPN

Hi all, Posting this here cause I can't find anywhere to go ... I use JSS MCX policy to populate the Mac built-in VPN with our relavent information and works great! Thing is, occasionally the VPN menu icon gets 'stuck' per say.You click and release o...  View more

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Login Redirections

Hi Guys, I'm pulling my hair out trying to get Login Redirections working through MCX with Casper.I did have it working at one point, then it stopped. I know the preference is being received by the client as I can see it in /Library/Manage Preference...  View more

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Current Network Extension Attribute

Does anyone have a good solution to returning the current AirPort network as an extension attribute that works on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air hardware? The trouble I'm running into is that on a Lion machine, I can't get "AirPort" information from the...  View more

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QuickAdd PKG fails to install on 10.7.3

I noticed this error after imaging a computer and running the quickadd package in a post script "uses a depreciated pre-10.2 format (or uses a newer format but is invalid)" So I then imaged the computer without the post script and ran the quickadd.pk...  View more

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10.7.3 AD logon not recognizing "short" account name

Hi all, I have finally started my Lion build.I am using Casper AD bind config in Casper Admin and this has worked very well in 10.6.8. We use it at imaging as well as through Self Service. However I have an issue/s with 10.7.3 as the unresolved link ...  View more

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Bind script not working with 8.5x

Since we upgraded to Casper 8.51 our bind script has stopped working under Lion. (haven't tried SL). Basically the script just sets the time server then binds to the domain. This morning I setup Casper 8.52 and tried to image a machine. I checked the...  View more

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Configuration Profile distributed certificate trust settings

Hi All, We deploy our Internal Root CA Cert via a configuration profile. this seemingly sets it's trust settings to "Always Trust." We also have a cert for our Lync server, this is signed by our Internal Root CA.. however, it's trust settings are set...  View more

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NetSUS Appliance on Hyper-V

Just wondering if anyone has had success getting the NetSUS appliance running on a Hyper-V VM? Background: We are using Hyper-V to host Win2008 R2 servers in our environment. Our JSS is on one of these VMs and running quite happily. We have a lone Xs...  View more

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Update MDM configuration profile

Hi Everyone,I have a .mobileconfig profile installed(installed using IPCU) on the iPads which contains our network setting. Recently I updated the profile with the renewed certificate and plan to push it to all the iPads. I am wondering what’s the be...  View more

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