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Jamf Pro 11.4.0 Beta is now available

Hello Jamf Nation! This release is in support of the Apple Spring release. We have several exciting new features including beta MDM support for Apple Vision Pro, Self Service initial app detection, Support Digital Market Act app restriction, and more...  View more

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Deploying CrashPlan Pro

I customized my CrashPlan installer and it works fine when I install CrashPlan via Apple Remote Desktop, but not through Casper. It's the same package. I dragged it into Casper Admin, assigned a Category and saved changes. The installer log shows no ...  View more

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Deploying Adobe CS3 and CS5

Hello all, we are having troubles with the license breaking when includingboth Adobe CS3 Master Collection and Adobe CS5 Master Collection in the sameconfiguration. The following are the specifics: Adobe CS3 Master Collection built using Composer 7.1...  View more

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Disabling Safari's Pop-Up Blocker

HI all, We need to disable the pop-up blocker in Safaris for a new financial system to work.. any ideas how to do this? I can't see any options for managing the pop-up blocker in the safari plists & composer has captured nothing. Grey Communications ...  View more

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Office 2011 Deployment

Microsoft have released the Office 2011 suite early to some large accounts via licensing.Microsoft.com As such, I wonder if anyone has any tips on how best to deploy this suite?Grey Communications Group LimitedRegistered No. 1795794, Registered in En...  View more

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JSS Update Best Practices?

Hey all, I'm still in the early stages of implementing Casper across our district, with the following having been done to date: • Installed the JSS - version 7.2.1 • Updated nearly all our local school servers to 10.6 and configured as Distribution p...  View more

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[FEATURE REQUEST] Exclusion groups in JSS

Oh well...to keep the Feature Request momentum going... We need a way to exclude groups of computers from policies. It's easy enough to create Smart/Static Computer Groups (*), but currently there's no option to "exclude" a group from a policy. Our c...  View more

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JSS Web Server Feature Request

Hi there. I'm not sure if this is the place or time, but I have a little feature request for the JSS Server. When you're working in the web interface and then leave it sit for a bit and come back, it tells you that your session has expired. This is v...  View more

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shift from jam.conf to com.jamfsoftware.jamf.plist

HI,I just upgraded from 7.2.1 to 7.3.1. (skipping 7.3 due to bad timing :)I am preparing a package to update Recon/SelfService on clients. I plan touninstall the previous version and then install new.Wondering how I should handle the move from "jamf....  View more

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Retired Macs and licensing

Hi, Could you tell me how to achieve this with existing version of Casper Suite 7.31 (I think potentially future request): I have a smart group in JSS for Macs hasn't checked in for 90 + . I would like these Macs to move to retired zone and release t...  View more

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Printer issue fixed......

I had not deleted printers in the JSS that already existed with the samename. Once deleted and Trash emptied, I was then able to add printers. Thanks Jason Weber! -- Jim FryeDistrict Technology CoordinatorUpper Sandusky E.V. SchoolsUpper Sandusky, OH...  View more

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Not able to add all network printers

I have 5 network printers (HP) that I would like to add to the JSS and the"Add Printer" tool does not see them even though they are in my printers onmy laptop. I have been able to other printers to the JSS via this method,but not the remaining five. ...  View more

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If you do a lot of Composer snapshotting...

...you can't go wrong with an SSD. My "testbed" machine is a new Intel Mac mini Server (which normally ships with 2 500 GB drives). Spent an additional $160 and purchased a 60 GB OWC SSD. Disk I/O is lightning fast - the complete CS5 install is under...  View more

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Scripting the Restricted Apps rules

I've been struggling to find a way to effectively block the running ofP2P apps on our school network. A few points: 1) the network analysis tool we were using to do this at the networklevel no longer works since the P2P detection signatures have chan...  View more

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feature request...

Hi, I'd like to submit a request to have MCX settings created for Firefoxbrowsers. It's tedious having to constantly update dmgs with settings tobookmark new urls and such. John McLaughlinTechnical Support SpecialistNewton Public Schools  View more

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Uninstall SAV 10.2.3 through script provided by Symantec

Hi All,I am trying to uninstall application Symantec Antvirus (SAV 10.2.3) using casper policy.For that i am using an net booted image of Mac OS X 10.6.4this uninstall script is been provided by the Symantec itself.Manual uninstall is working fine wi...  View more

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Casper NetInstall Creator 3.2 - Machine name error

Hi all, I already posted this to the Resource Kit, but I figured I'd checkhere too as this is somewhat urgent. I just updated to version 7.31. I've used the CNIC 3.2 to create aNetInstall image for us, and it is booting the machines properly and logg...  View more

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Imaging a Mac Mini aluminum

At JAMF Support's request, I am posting this question here. Has anyone attempted imaging one of the new Mac Mini aluminum machinesusing Casper 7.31? The 10.6.3 rev of the Mac Mini aluminum (10D2235) is newer than the 10.6.3combo update from Apple (10...  View more

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Adobe Reader 9

How do you all deploy this? Self healing and admin rights are annoying. The developer of this digital text book hardcoded their app to use Adobe Reader, which sucks. I think I may actually try to hack this text book to make it so that it just uses pr...  View more

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Printers missing after policy...

I know there have been a couple threads about deploying printers already,but I couldn't seem to find behavior like I'm seeing... I've got a policy setup that is supposed to deploy 13 printers to our entirecreative services department. It's set up thr...  View more

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[Released] Re: 10.5 to 10.6 Server Upgrade

Clean install! We tried to upgrade, which we have never done on a server os, and we will continue to clean install in the future. Ended up formatting, installed clean 10.6.4, reinstalled the JSS, imported the database and we were back in business. We...  View more

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10.5 to 10.6 Server Upgrade

I'll be upgrading our XServe from 10.5.8 to 10.6.3 and was wondering if anyone knew of any hiccups I may run into during this install? Would it be better to do a clean install and restore Casper information from a Time Machine backup or do the upgrad...  View more

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Reporting ARD status

I see in the Resource Kit an excellent tool/script for enabling ARD ona machine. What I'm looking for is a way to determine whether a userhas disabled ARD. I see "Remote Login" as an option in the Extensions Attributestemplates, but my understanding ...  View more

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new nbi issues redux

OK, So, my new nbi file seems to be working now. I think something Unix-wise changed and I had to alter one of my scripts. So, my 10.6 image works and on the 2 macbooks I imaged, worked fine. However, now I am imaging some older Macbooks with my 10.5...  View more

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Sophos Issues related to ??

Hello all. We're having issues with some of the machines that have been imaged in the last 6 months frequently re-installing sophos daily. I'm not sure if this might be related to our use of casper for imaging, but the machines that have this issue h...  View more

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new NBI doesn't mount CasperShare

Long story short, I have 10.6 only machines now, so I have a 10.6 image and 10.6 nbi file. So I created a new image new nbi and when I netboot it no longer mounts the casper share, so nothing actually gets copied. If I quit to terminal and do a ls -a...  View more

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Adobe's AUSST

I saw an earlier post that this wasn't working.I'm going nowhere with it.The best I can get is "command not found" or "file or directory does notexist".Has anyone got thru the "root=" part yet? Thanks,Bob Bob Johnson Systems Manager I Southern Graphi...  View more

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