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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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Custom Trigger Every 2 hours

Is it possible to setup a custom trigger for a policy to run every 2 hours? I would like my computer naming script to run every 2 hours to verify computer names. Thanks! --Matt LeeFNG Sr. IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Ca...  View more

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Feature req

I would like to see the model identifier (keep model name as well) in the JSS. anyone else? ![external image link](attachments/3c57963254c34beba8f3074305596f40)![external image link](attachments/aa059015e54d40deb259fc39cd530e82)  View more

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Inventory collection, timing

Kind of a newbie here, should be a simple thing.... I have a policy for all managed clients to update inventory once a day. A few days ago I added an Extension Attribute to the Inventory Collection prefs to retrieve the last user, and it works. But, ...  View more

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Full-Disk Encryption

Is anyone out there using a FDE product, with Macs that frequently change users? What products are you using, and would you recommend it? We have been using CheckPoint, but we have relatively few Macs; each department is assigned some number of Macs,...  View more

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Bluetooth Q.

I have a requirement to make sure no file transfer happens via Bluetooth. Any app, driver, kernel-extension etc that may be used to do this should be disabled. I thought removing kernel extensions for Bluetooth would be a quick win but that seems to ...  View more

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GSX Lookups Failing

Within the last year we made a change away from our corporate GSX accountand onto our own account. Ever since that time I've been unable to dolookups from Casper. I've checked the documentation for the requirements,and it appears everything is fine o...  View more

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Remote Login and Remote Management

Is there a way to prevent all users including admins fron turning offremote login and remote management? Jason Kong Apple Support SpecialistQueens College DH-154Office of Converging TechnologiesJason.Kong at qc.cuny.edu718-997-5993  View more

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Thursby Dave License code

Does anyone know how to get the Thursby DAVE license code used on the machine? Either the DVxxxx number or the full number? Is that stored somewhere I can query against? Thanks--Steve Flanagan  View more

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Fwd: Maintaining a wireless connection

Just found the Require Admin For AirPort On/Off managed preference. I thinkthat will do the trick. Tatian *Tatian Greenleaf**Associate Director of Technology*::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*Saint Mark's School(415) 472-8000 x1014* --...  View more

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Maintaining a wireless connection

Is there a way -- via a managed preference or script -- to re-connect to awireless network whenever airport is turned off? We have students who areturning off airport in order to avoid being observed by remote accessapplications (e.g. Apple Remote De...  View more

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Looking for Office 2011 SP1 deployment suggestions

I'm getting ready to deploy Service Pack 1 for Office 2011 and I'm running into a couple obstacles. I've listed them below to see if any members of this listserv has suggestions: * It's really big. From a remote location it might take an hour to down...  View more

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programatically add firewall exceptions?

Is there a way to add apps to the firewall via script or something? Currently we are deploying a copy of the preference file during theworkflow, but for new apps coming out - we don't want to have to keepredoing the firewall file. John Wojda Lead Sys...  View more

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Importing Preferences - Why Force User Level Only?

I needed to be able to force lab machines to use external devices only for their mobile homes, (aka: external accounts).. problem is, the key values in com.apple.MCX that control this behavior aren't part of any template or Manifest Destiny project. ...  View more

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Quickbook 2011 Updates

Anyone have an easier way to manage Quickbooks 2011 updates?This one is painful when people self manage. If you are using the server version, they lock themselves out when they do the suggested update. Thanks--Doug Hanley doug at mac-tek.com - 702-39...  View more

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Macs and CIFS/SMB shares

Hi All, forgive me if this forum is not the right place to ask this question. This isn't specifically Casper related, but there's plenty of Macintosh wisdom and experience floating about, so maybe someone can help. We are using ADmitMac on all of our...  View more

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Reposado

Has anyone else tried out Reposado? I'm thinking if I want to set this up I will have to use MCX to force the settings. The default folder structure is not the same as Apple's SUS so setting it up via policy might be tricky. So far it's a great alter...  View more

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Suppress Applications

I am working on the Application Inventory reporting as Mac Refresh is going on. the goal is to exclude applications, binaries, etc., that are buried deep within application folders. For example, I'm seeing a lot of this when looking for application r...  View more

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Embed custom new user profile

Has anyone done this? I've been doing this with limited success (copying preferences to /system/library/user template). I didn't know if anyone has any tricks to this or not. I've always copied files from a profile to the user template folder and giv...  View more

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Off Topic Casper vs. LanDesk

I need to give a rundown to executives at my work what Landesk can't do that Casper can. I know the big ones like Extension attributes, Packaging, etc.. But I wanted to see if anyone out there had anything else they can think of since I am drawing a ...  View more

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Extension attribute : list mail accounts from Mail.app

Hello ! Just to share a very dirty extension attribute : #!/bin/sh currentUser=last -1 -t console | awk '{print $1}' echo "defaults read /Users/$currentUser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail | grep Username | awk '{print $3}' | sed -e 's/([";])//g' ...  View more

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Wireless SSID Help

So i know this has been asked before but it was a couple of years ago. At my school we have 1 SSID for the entire district GISD Wireless. My problem is i can tell it to connect to the ssid at first boot but when you restart it does not remember the p...  View more

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firefox and cck

So I am going to post this here as well.... I am repacking up Firefox 4 for the newest image. I want to add in Public Fox, which password protects Firefox from anyone accessing the preferences. I want to install it globally, and I want all settings t...  View more

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VPP xls

Good morning, I'm currently testing something, using Gift codes instead of VPP for iOS purchases. Could anyone send me a VPP xls file that I could import in the JSS ? (please strip the codes, of course) Thanks in advance -- Francois Tiffreau | IT ope...  View more

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Create home directory on partition drive

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help with this query or perhaps suggest abetter way of doing this. I basically want to create 2 partitions on our Macs and have thefirst partition for the OS and the 2nd for the Users home directory, thisway we coul...  View more

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Wireless network config.

Looking to configure the airport settings to join our wireless network. Not sure how to create that policy. Thanks in advance. Kevin Hill - Albany ISDSent from my iPhone  View more

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dylib error, w. combo 10.6.7, FirstRun failure

I've been able to reproduce an issue in Casper Imaging, where a known good 10.6.6 base install then has the 10.6.7 combo updater applied within the workflow of the configuration. This apparently causes a problem with dylib (much like this: http://www...  View more

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Directory Bindings

TGIF Everyone, I have been working on getting our directory bindings working as intended. We have implemented the "Magic" or "Golden" triangle approach with our Mac clients and Mac server infrastructure. So, I went into Casper using the JSS web servi...  View more

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Restore Partition to Image "on Wireless"

Hi, Several of our schools are accommodating larger class sizes by addingwireless machines in their existing wired labs. Parents want to know whywould wire labs, when we could "just do wireless".As we add to our meager wireless network, I know that t...  View more

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