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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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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

Hey Casper listers... I am new to Casper (we just bought and installed a couple weeks ago) and I am having difficulty with Photoshop Elements. If I use the "Adobe" method in Casper Admin, I add the dmg and go to the 'options tab' and select "this is ...  View more

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possible to image with no JSS?

I think this has been covered before, but is there a way to netboot and image with out the server being able to connect to the JSS? Just curious... Thanks  View more

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Smart group by boot volume name?

Is there any way to create a group by boot volume name? In the inventory details it displays the name, but I don't see where I can add it for a smart group. Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School...  View more

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Network users can't access Documents

In testing the final steps before imaging 700 Macs, I found that my test users can't access their own Documents folder. It gives an "insufficient access privileges" error. They're pretty heavily managed with WGM, but I hadn't noticed this problem dur...  View more

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time bomb accounts - exchange program

Greetings. This only peripherally addresses your question, and goes against what you said about re-assigning computers, but I thought you'd find it interesting as a different approach. The idea was synthesized from two facts: 1) the techs didn't like...  View more

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time bomb accounts on a smart group

So, the last two years of our 1:1 has been fun. There is one problem that I have though that takes up a lot of my time and there is no good solution. That is when I give out a spare laptop to a user while theirs is in for repair. These laptops are in...  View more

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10.4 vs 10.5 server for test environment

Hi- I'm going to be setting up a test environment on a second xserve. Basically, another JSS. 2 questions about this: The hardware I have available has 10.4 server on it. Is there that much of a difference, that I should go with the cost of upgrading...  View more

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Self Service network port

Hi- I was looking over this article:http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=034 I noticed that it doesn't mention specifically what port Self Service uses to communicate with the JSS. I'm assuming that since it's using HTTP rendering for most o...  View more

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KVMs

Sorry for the off-topic post, but I figured that this is a group that wouldhave some information and opinions on the subject.I have inherited some aging data centers, and I'm trying to update them. Doyou have a brand/model of rackmount, Xserve friend...  View more

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Uninstalling jamf from host

We are currently having some issues with host systems (intel running 10.5.6) that are freezing when casper runs inventory or other ongoing policies. Looking at the log we see: Feb 17 17:00:00 mac1064 com.apple.launchd[1](com.jamfsoftware.task.enforce...  View more

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Creating Boot Camp Installer via Casper

I am currently trying to setup a BootCamp install configuration withinCasper, so I can easily deploy Windows in a dual boot config on ourMacs.. I have been reading through the Resource Kit, and it's not looking alltoo bad, however I do have a few que...  View more

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deploying ARD Admin

We have had our fair share of problems with ARD admin. I have written a script that completely removes all components of ARD admin. I also find a nice little app that will copy all your saved files and preferences of ARD admin. So you can set up ARD ...  View more

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Prohibit copying from /Applications

Hi y'all, I've been racking my brain for the past couple days on this one. At my site we issue each student a 4 gig flash drive, and a problem I'm having is that students are copying apps out of the /Application folder (and other folders) and onto th...  View more

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Finding computers managed by a certain account

We have some computers in our JSS that got Recon'ed by a specific LDAPuser who is no longer here. Is there anyway to identify all computersthat are not managed by a certain account? When I search inventory I onlyhave the option to see if the computer...  View more

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Setting default user items

I have a task that appears to be answered by Composer (or it should be) where I need to set the default web browser and home page for the end users at our location. I configure my local admin account as I want it then launch Composer. There is a tab ...  View more

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Timing logins and applicaion startup

Greetings. At my site, we are experiencing a maddening issue wherein 1) sometimes (network/mobile) users are unable to log in (or, they log in but can't access their home folder, or, logging in is really slow), and 2) Office 2008 applications crash. ...  View more

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imaging Macs

Hi All, what I recon Casper could do with is a EFI Pre-Boot Environment Application, then there would be no need to boot from a network or from an external drive, An EFI Casper Imaging Application could allow you to image the mac from the EFI. And as...  View more

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user defaults

If you have a .plist file that is treed-out...multiple levels, what is the syntax for modifying a value on a sub-level? Lets say that it is structured as so: Root- Dictionary 1- Dictionary 2 - Array 1 - Item 1 - Item 2 defaults write somepreffile -di...  View more

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CasperVNC

Hi All, I'm having problems with Casper VNC, i can observe or control a computer using Casper VNC. however when i close the window and Casper remote says it is Stopping the VNC server on the client, Casper remote halts, it gets the spinning ball and ...  View more

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local drive imaging

is anyone imaging machines with a local drive?? i've tried syncing a few times to an external fw drive and can't seem to get casper remote to recognize the data correctly. casper admin seems just fine but casper remote sees most of the packages as un...  View more

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Disaster Recovery

I'm looking into implementing Disaster Recovery and wanted to see how userson this list go about doing this for JSS. Currently have two serversdedicated for JSS use. One is the production server running JSS andrepository for all data/packages. The ot...  View more

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HTTP and the JSS

Hi, I dont use HTTP for my distribution points so in the JSS web i have it turned off for my distribution points, however everytime i load the jss setup utility and login to the server it turns on the http, Does anyone else get this and how do i stop...  View more

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Menubar Items

Hello, I have deployed an image for 11 iMacs but have had a tough time getting rid of menubar items. They are removed when I am booted from an external drive containing the partition I image, but after that image is deployed to all the iMacs I get Ti...  View more

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Stuck print queues

anyone figure out a way to clear local print queues en mass? Having an issue where a lab full of machines will all stop printing when one or more stations sends a bad job. These are local queues managed by WGM. Right now, I am hitting every machine i...  View more

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mass deploying server

I know this has been asked before but I am looking at different methods of installing OS X server at our work. It seems like one of the ways that on paper may work the best is just creating an image of the installer DVD and then using the bless comma...  View more

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Limiting bandwidth consumption from Casper?

Hey guys, I've got an issue where updates pushed from Casper are taking all available bandwidth to a remote site. Has anyone dealt with this issue before? I'd imagine the easiest way to deal with it would be to limit the connection speed from the ser...  View more

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dummy receipts, maybe a question for miles

Another one, Maybe for Miles, Can you index a dummy receipts, i am guess that because it contains no contents that it cannot be indexed? I have tried to index a dummy receipt, Casper Admin says it has indexed and it then shows up as YES to index and ...  View more

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failed to verify disk

HI chaps Another tester for you. How many of you get disk verified failure on your macs when running the maintenance policy? /usr/sbin/jamf is version 6.01 Executing Policy Maintenance... Updating Prebindings... Fixing Permissions... Fixing ByHost fi...  View more

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failed policys

Hi Chaps, If a policy fails to execute i can get it to send me an email, however is there anyway of getting it to add the failed computer to a smart group? For example the maintenance script fails on disk verify and id like to create a smart group ba...  View more

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