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Configuration Profiles - How does this work?

I've read through the 8.3 manual and made sure I have all of the pre-requisites met that are listed. Yet when I create a config profile, or import one from the iPhone utility, I cannot see any of my 10.7 machines in the scope. What am I doing wrong?  View more

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Configuration Profiles 802.1x

I am trying to get the configuration profiles working to deploy 802.1x to lion machines. If i send the .mobileconfig file everything works great. That is of course not a good deployment strategy. My issue comes from importing that into the JSS. It do...  View more

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Icons for Self Service plug-ins not appearing

I'm testing 8.31 and plan to upgrade our production JSS to this version in a week or so. I've been playing around with Self Service URL plug-ins and I'm having a problem getting the icons to show. The plug in name, "IC Help Desk" for example, shows u...  View more

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Mass deploying Dropbox question

Does anyone do this? What is your method? If you drop the app in /Applications it will still ask for admin credentials upon running. It payloads some info at first run into /Library I believe. Thanks,Tom  View more

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Problem with complex installations in Lion

Hey Casper Braintrust, Have been having some odd problems with some complex installations to 10.7.x systems. Specifically with my Xcode installer and Checkpoint FDE. I created these to create a temp folder in the /tmp location and place the required ...  View more

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OT: TouchFire for iPad

Hi- This looks awesome. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the-screen-top-keyboard-for-ipad---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Client ServicesInformation Services DepartmentMIT Lincoln Laboratory244 Wood StreetLexington, Massach...  View more

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Managed account credentials issue.

Hello At our location we have multiple admins, and when we recon we use our individual admin kerberos account credentials. As passwords expire, we do an inventory search for all computers, take action on results, and edit management accounts option t...  View more

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low UID users not migrated on 10.7 upgrade

have any of you seen cases of < 500 accounts not migrating with 10.7 upgrades? specifically, a client is seeing issues with hidden admin accounts with low UIDs and homedirs under the non standard /var/home. expanding the previous dslocal archive crea...  View more

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[Off-Topic] netboot from macbookpro6,2

Got a weird issue, got a MBP 6,2 that I'm trying to netboot from. I cansee it hitting the NBI in the logs, then just goes silent. When they hold down Option, then press N, the 10.7 shows up, they selectit, then they get the spinning globe then boots ...  View more

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Issues with Infoblox?

We are looking to start rolling out InfoBlox in our environment, however since the PC side is 60k strong, they never thought about the Mac side. I've only recently heard of InfoBlox and not really sure what it does, can you point me in the direction ...  View more

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Switching to Certificate-Based Communication

All: JAMF support says I'll be fine to do this and I don't necessarily doubtthem, but I also wanted to hear from anyone out there that's done this in aproduction environment. To push policy to my 10.7 clients, I need to enable certificate-basedcommun...  View more

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Allow non admins to change Network preferences.

I have a script that has been working for 10.6 that unlocks Network for non admins, but it doesn't seem to work with 10.7. Anyone have any ideas what it takes to make it work in 10.7? Below is my current script I am using for this. Thanks!Alan #!/usr...  View more

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McAfee Security for Mac 1.1 and first run install

Hi- I have MSM 1.1 marked as install at first boot and it's failing to install properly. Has anyone else run into this? I've compiled my configuration and after laying down the disk image, the package in /System/Library/StartupItems/FirstRun/Resource...  View more

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Tips and Tricks: Tweaking MySQL

Out of the box MySQL leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you want to scale your JSS up for a more robust and larger client base. Since the JSS can be ran on many different platforms and not every platform is the same you will be looking at edit...  View more

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Tips and Tricks: setregproptool

So, if you are missing the setOFP ability from the Casper Suite, and want to automate firmware passwords at either post image or in the field with scripts you can do so with this command. This is due to Apple changing the hardware and firmware on all...  View more

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Mac Computers are reporting but not checking in.

Hello, We are facing problem in our environment as some of the Macs are reporting sending inventory to JSS Server after we run QuickAdd Package but not Checking in (Calling).I tried running recon from the terminal but it says Certificate is not trust...  View more

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Script for Outlook?

Hi all, Off topic, sorta, but anyone know/have a script that can change/edit some fields in Outlook 2011.I have an AppleScript I found that can do so (with a little bit of hair pulling). I'm pretty sure AppleScripts don't behave like Unix scripts in ...  View more

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MCX in JSS or OD?

I don't know if it's something I'm doing or just a lack of understanding onmy part. But, I've attempted to use the MCX functionality in the JSS andhave had mixed results. I understand the basics of how to create policy,scope policy, etc in the JSS. B...  View more

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Tips and Tricks: Example post image script

So, here is my post image script in example format. Take what you want and run with it. Post any modifications that may help people here. #!/bin/bash ######################################## # This is a post image script for student laptops # This sc...  View more

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Managed Pref's, WGM or both

We were going to implement WGM, but then purchased Casper. As we can manage preferences in Casper, I am not sure if we'll need WGM for anything at this point. Just curious what everyone else is doing. Is one easier/better than the other? Is anyone us...  View more

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Wireless Access Point for iPad 1-1

Hi all, Just wondering what people are using for iPad labs or 1-1 deployment.I'm currently testing a SonicWall NSA with SonicPoints for my 1-1 but I need to set up a roaming cart of 30 iPads with a plug-able WAP. Any thoughts? Regards,Ger...  View more

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ARD and Recon

Has anyone seen Error 1 when running the recon command with Apple Remote Desktop?  View more

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Auto populate LDAP in JSS

I'm trying to automatically get user information entered in from LDAP. I've seem some ideas on how to accomplish this using `last` and other scripts. Anyone have a solution they could share? Thanks,  View more

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JSS Database Utility woes

Hey all, I'm trying to import a backup of my JSS into a test environment. My goal is to have all of my MCX in a new environment. The JSS Database Utility is erroring out partway through. I have part of my inventory, but none of my policies or MCX aft...  View more

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JAMF Nation

Many of you may have already heard we have been working on acommunity website which we now call JAMF Nation. The website hasdiscussion features similar to this list, with many more additionalcapabilities. If you have not yet checked it out, we are ex...  View more

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Removing all clients from the JSS

Hey all, Is there a command that can be run on the JSS to remove all client entries? I've got a test server that I'm managing a few test boxes with, but I want to do a database restore from my production box (which will include all of my clients from...  View more

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Determine if update requires restart

Hey folks! I'm looking for a way to easily determine if a software update package from Apple requires a restart. Since I always have a battle with my users to get them to restart and run updates, I'd like to start forcing updates of items that don't ...  View more

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