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Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta is now available!

Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t...  View more

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Search Domains

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

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Office 2011 14.1.3 update - deployment fails

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

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Delay policy execution

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

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Safari packaging

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

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Dual image?

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

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Portable Casper drive - a couple issues

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

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colorsync profiles not installed with printer

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

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Reset Admin password

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

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Wacom Tablet Packaging??

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

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App Store removal Snow Leopard

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 ![external image link](attachments/ab5dd690b...  View more

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802.1x device/user auth

Has anyone worked on 802.1x configs where you've attempted a device AND user auth? I've only ever configured user based setups – so I'm a little unsure of how you'd go about configuring for both. Regards,Matt Bentley  View more

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Menu Bar Items

How can I just have the clock and the volume icon show in the menu bar for any user that logs on? I have created a Menu Bar Item package with composer using my local admin account and then set this to fill the user template, but whenever I log on as ...  View more

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setting default user picture for local users?

Hi guys, Any idea how to set all local accounts Login Window user icon? For nw accounts, i swap out /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgentPlugins/loginwindow.bundle/Contents/Resources/DefaultUserIcon.tiff with my company one.. but can't seem to s...  View more

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802.1x Login Window Profile Replacement 10.7

I'm trying to get a 10.7 equivalent to the Login Window Profile used in 10.6. I have a user based one that works, but it doesn't get the proper Kerberos ticket on wireless. They all show 1953 as the year. Apple has mentioned using the Server Profile ...  View more

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Repairing tables takes forever!

Hi all, I had a broken database and I am running repair tables and it is taking forever (so far 2 hours). 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

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802.1x User Profile import & export issues

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

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Self Service and InstallLion.pkg

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

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Lion and Startup Items Folder

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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[off topic] script help?

In an effort to simplify our jobs here, I want to integrate our macs inw/ our PC admin rights process. To do so I need to write a login scriptthat will grab computer / user information, append it to a URL, andsubmit the URL to a website, then take th...  View more

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Computer Name in Inventory Problem

I am having a problem in my JAMF inventory, we are using version 8.22. Ihave 8 computers who are showing "No Name" for the Computer Name in myinventory list. At one time all computers showed their proper name, thisstarted at the end of school last ye...  View more

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Netboot image

Hi I was wondering if someone could help with this, we have created a netbootimage (10.7) and in the process of uploading it to our Casper Server(running 10.6 Server) but it seems that the netboot image will not importusing netboot installer. Will I ...  View more

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FW: system preferences not applying

Hi Guys,I'm not having any luck with packaging adobe air or flash, using casper composer as well as AAMEE from adobe,Any suggestions and or directions will be appreciated Andrew XenophontosMoriah College  View more

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10.7 netboot

With the new Netboot Automator script and whatnot - is it normal for ournetboot images to NOT have the 3d Casper Suite logo for th edesktop anymore? Ours is turning out like a 'full finder' experience. There's a dock and youcan launch any of the apps...  View more

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Hidden Casper user not-so-hidden on 10.7.1

I'm running into a weird issue with 10.7.x Macs and a Casper 8.22 QuickAdd package. In the QuickAdd's post flight, it's set to create the management user as a hidden user. Despite the account's ID being less than 500, the account is showing up clearl...  View more

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DigiNotar CA breach

Apple released Security Update 2011-005 today in regard to this. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4920 j---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Client ServicesInformation Services DepartmentMIT Lincoln Laboratory244 Wood StreetLexington, Massachusetts 0242...  View more

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Casper with Aerohive Network

We have recently deployed about 275 iPads to our high school students. Weuse [ http://www.aerohive.com/ ]Aerohive for our wireless network. We have been experiencing very strong instability. At a specific locationof the school, the iPads are complete...  View more

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Fwd: Screen/video issue

Just wanted to report back that I figured out what was causing this strangeissue: a known firefox bug that occurs in older versions of the browser.Installing the newest version fixes it. Seehttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660118 for more...  View more

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Change Proxy?

I am still on Snow Leopard, how can I push out a proxy setting change to all of the Macs? ![external image link](attachments/18db81a54a724c0a9d70330b185562b6)Neal Smith | MAC Systems Engineer | Perrigo IT  View more

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