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Jamf Pro 11 Beta is Now Available!!

Hello Jamf Nation! If you haven’t heard the news, Jamf Pro 11 is here! Featuring a new interface, ADDE, DDM software updates for iOS, and more! How to join the beta: Enroll in the Beta Program under Product Feedback at account.jamf.com. Once enrolled...  View more

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Jamf Pro Beta Server Maintenance

Hello all! Access to the personal Beta instances you are able to request when you join the Jamf Pro Beta Program will be unavailable for an extended period of time over the coming weeks for maintenance. We'll let you know when they're back online! Th...  View more

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v7 and managed prefs

Hi, I have upgraded to v7 and it has gone very well. I have one issue with Managed Preferences. It seems to me that I can only add one preference at a time to a time to a policy. I save it and it takes me out of the template and I then have to go bac...  View more

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Adobe

Sorry if I'm being redundant, but I've created my Adobe CS3 installer package, and at the end of my test image, I see the screen appear telling me that the image is finishing with the Adobe install. However, when I log into the machine, the apps are ...  View more

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Tips on shrinking netboot image

Greetings. I was wondering if any of you have tips on shrinking the netboot image that Casper Imaging runs off of. I made a minimal leopard install (ie. OS with no printer drivers, languages, or X11) and created a netinstall set with Casper NetInstal...  View more

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Casper Suite 7.0 Released This Week

Hello everyone- Casper Suite 7.0 has been completed! Everybody should be getting an email with information by Friday afternoon. If you don't receive an email by then, or have pressing needs to upgrade sooner, please send an email to: blaine at jamfso...  View more

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Server is not responding

Has anyone received a "server is not responding" error while imaging computers and using the bindtoOD script to secure bind them? It was working for a couple days, now it's not. Nothing has changed server-side, and I have to manually un- and re-bind ...  View more

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Image too big?

Our base (somewhat monolithic) image has gotten too big to put on a 40GBhard drive. The compressed image file is just over 13GB and is around25GB once installed. We are imaging with Casper Imaging using bothstandard imaging and multicast streams. Bot...  View more

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Software Categories

I am looking for a cleaner (and better) way of categorizing/organizing oursoftware within Casper Admin, so I am curious what everyone is using fortheir software Categories? Especially as I would like to make better useof Self Service, I'd like for it...  View more

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Casper Admin not able to mount Fileserver Share

Dear all, Here is something that happened to me yesterday.I installed the Beta 7 of Imaging and uninstalled it (basically did a Restore).Since I could not access the JSS website (using LDAP) I decided to start Workgroup Manager and change the passwor...  View more

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imaging mac

Is anybody setup pxe/netboot in the environment where window buildserver are already running pxe and if pxe for mac is turned on, it willthen interfere with windows devices? Toufiq YakoobCTS (Client Technical Services)Sears Holdings Corporation Infor...  View more

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Casper Imaging 7

Dear all, where do I need to copy the Imaging Casper 7 file on the server so when I netboot I can use this?I already updated JSS to 7 many thanks Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL HeidelbergTel. +49 (0) 6221 387 8444Fax +49 (0) 6221 387 8517email: lope...  View more

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New to Casper - got tips?

Hi all, I'm getting my feet wet with Casper suite with a Mac standardization project in a large corporation. I've been using ARD to manage about 500 Macs across the USA, Europe and Asia and am now graduating to the Casper Suite with a master JSS, and...  View more

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Adobe images

Is there documentation on installing particular pieces of software off an Adobe CS3 disc? I just want PS, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat Pro, not the entire disc image. Do I just install them as I would any other software using Composer? Jeffrey ...  View more

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Adobe CS3 Deployment Issues

We are looking at deploying CS3 this year via the Casper method. We have created the master dmg of the Adobe Master Collection and setup an Adobe Install of just PhotoShop CS3. The script seems to run at reboot, (A box comes showing the Casper symbol...  View more

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jamf process using a lot of CPU

I have a couple machines that the jamf process seems to use quite a bit of CPU cousing the user to complain. In one case, i am seeing to jamf processes running. and it is bouncing betweeen 19% and 55% cpu usage. (this one has been running for 5 minut...  View more

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Secure binding

OK, having the same problem I've been having for a little while. I cannot, under any circumstances, get computers to secure bind to my OD master. I just wiped out my OD database, and I just reimaged a computer with the secure bind options in the scri...  View more

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JSS Setup Utility

Anyone have the JSS Setup Utility basically freeze on them if they try and do anything other than restart a service? CPU goes to 100 and I can only force quit it. j---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Infrastructure and OperationsInformation Services...  View more

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Desktop & Screensaver pref pane

I have a strange problem- I recently created a new Macintosh HD.dmg image and now, all of themachines I image I have blank Desktop & Screensaver preference pane.(see image 1) If I control-click, it halfway comes back... but all the entries areblank. ...  View more

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Mpkgs

You can just drag .mpkgs straight into Casper for installation too, right? Not just .pkgs? Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School of Los Angeles1901 Venice Blvd.Los Angeles, Ca 90006(213) 381-512...  View more

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10.5.7 On Casper Server ?

Have many of you moved their Casper Server up to 10.5.7 yet ? No problems ? All is well ? We still pretty much have all our OS X servers at 10.5.6 Roger Corbin  View more

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Packaging and Installing iLife 09

Just starting to look at iLife 09 installations. I think I have read here that a number of you have been successful with using the mpkgfile right off the DVD for installing iLife 09. I have heard that you just need to remove the ' from the file name ...  View more

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CS4 and Exit Code 7 (again)

Hey All- I'm working on next year's lab load and set up some Adobe CS4 installers as per the KB article (modifying the xml filenames). I try to install just after image time and all of the installers fail with "Unable to complete the silent workflow ...  View more

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Imaging errors

Does anyone else get Imaging Errors reported back by the JSS? I get quite a few and I can seem to determine why. It is sporadic. I happens at multiple sites, mostly when trying to image several (up to 10) computers at a time. The error is like this: ...  View more

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Scripts repeatedly running post image

Hello, I have a weird scenario for everyone. We imaged some 30 teachermachines about a week ago, all intel iMacs with the same config. 2out of those are repeatedly running the scripts that are set in thatconfig to run after reboot. Unfortunately I'm ...  View more

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CS4 woes

So, I must admit, I've been a dummy. A co-worker of mine solved my Flash CS4, Adobe exit code 7 problems. I was missing 1 digit in the serial number. d'oh. :)---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Infrastructure and OperationsInformation Services Depar...  View more

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logout or shudown issue

Dear all, Still same issue.Since my Jss is internal, when I am outside my network and I try to logout or Shutdown the JAMF daemon tries to connect to the JSS server for logout or shudown policies and this takes between 2 or 3 minutes I tried the appr...  View more

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Dual Boot - Time Sync Issues

Just when I thought I finally had my Dual Boot deployment all dialed in.. Iran into one final hurdle! Has anyone else had issues with the clock being out of sync when switchingback and forth between Mac OS X and Windows Vista? (Both Operating systems...  View more

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