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Jamf Pro 11.1.0 Beta Now Available!

Hello Jamf Nation!Jamf Pro 11.1.0 Beta is now releasedWe're excited to announce that this beta includes Remote Assist and macOS Self Service Onboarding along with many other features and fixes. How to join the beta: Enroll in the Beta Program under P...  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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Imaging Suite v7 Beta

Hi all, Just downloaded the beta of the new v7 Imaging Suite. Does anyone know what new features are in v7? The release notes are fairly sparse... CheersDan-- Daniel FarnworthIT ManagerThe Creative Partnershipdaniel.farnworth at thecreativepartnershi...  View more

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Admin Printer

I'm working on a base image and I figured out the CUPS for the pause printing etc. But how do I unlock the preference pane so anyone can add a printer? I changed permissions on the preference pane file and that didn't work.Kathie IorizzoLower School ...  View more

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Computer theft - successful return

Just thought I'd pass along a good news story for a change... We had a Mini stolen from one of our schools. Using information from the machine's inventory reports being submitted back we were able to trace the machine's location to an ISP and the pol...  View more

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jamf takeSnapshot

Got a million dollar question here: from the binary $ jamf help takeSnapshot Usage: jamf takeSnapshot -target -saveTo [-modDates] -target The target drive take a snapshot of -saveTo The file to save the snapshot to -modDates Have the snapshot inclu...  View more

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Virtualization

Anyone running Casper in a virtualized environment? Pros/cons? Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School of Los Angeles1901 Venice Blvd.Los Angeles, Ca 90006(213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Sup...  View more

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Am I Managed?

Hi- I'd like to make some sort of small change to client machines to indicate that their computers are managed, and possibly, to what level (e.g. Patches only or patches and software management). I thought of making a Dashboard widget, but I'd want t...  View more

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Casper archives

The search function works for me, though I would expect more than 92 hitswith a search query of 'Casper'. Sean  View more

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Adobe CS4 Updates

Hi- Has anyone had success in deploying Adobe CS4 updates with Casper 6? My prior gymnastics rebuilding the setup.xml file didn't work. I'd hate to resort to diffing it. j---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Infrastructure and OperationsInformation S...  View more

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casper archives?

The search engine on the casper archives site doesn't function for me.Anyone else? -LAUREN NICHOLASUser Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & musicph. 610 861 1633lpnich...  View more

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forum? -> serverfault

Back in our 'forum?' discussion nearly two months ago, I mentioned that a site called serverfault was coming. It is here -- http://serverfault.com -- and is a great place to ask and answer sysadmin/IT questions, and have the best answers (and questio...  View more

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Script to remove old accounts or home directories?

Throwing another post out here.. Kind of following the last post referring to a training lab.. In thislab the computers will also be bound to AD, but will not be making a'Mobile' account. However even though there is no permanent accountcreated, ther...  View more

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Enable-Disable Guest account on 10.5.x

Curious to see if anyone has a simple way to enable or disable the Guestaccount in OS X 10.5.x? Our base install has this disabled by default, but we will be putting ina few training labs where the guest account would be handy. We do not have a WorkG...  View more

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dock problem

John, Don't know if this will help, but here is another iteration to try. I thinkyou definitely want to run the defaults command as the user, so using su .In my experience when doing that, I have always used the following syntax(your kidspiration ite...  View more

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dock problem...

Okay, so this is the latest status on my dock problem. I have this scriptwhich I can run locally on any given user and it will create a dock itemfor any of these programs that are present on the system. However, itwill not work if I launch it through...  View more

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Home dir opening on first login

Does anyone know what causes the User's home directory to open in Finderon a first login? I thought it was tied to the WindowState key incom.apple.finder.plist but now I don't think thats it. Basically I'mtrying to avoid having this open up the first...  View more

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dmg left on user's desktop?

I have a package or two that leave a dmg file on desktops of users. hasanyone seen this before and know what I might be missing? (I don'tthink this matters, but currently, I'm seeing it with my Filemaker Pro10 dmg file) thanks. -LAUREN NICHOLASUser S...  View more

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Disable Parental Controls

Ok, so I have a site that decided to somehow manage to turn on ParentalControls for all of it's AD users.. My problem is finding out a way todisable or turn off the Parental Controls from all accounts. (Of courseby enabling this feature, people are n...  View more

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Casper Remote Freezing

I'm having a weird problem: on some packages, Casper Remote will freezeat "downloading package x" but when I look at the logs on the JSS itsays it's completed successfully and also on the client, it hascompleted successfully. I have to force-quit the...  View more

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Sidebar mounted disks (Ryan Harter)

I have run into this problem in the past, and have found that, although the admin runs the risk of interrupting a transfer, a simple killall Finder command will get rid of the remnant disk icon. Just enter killall Finder in the final policy window as...  View more

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10.5.7 printing

Anyone using a 10.5.7 image bound to OD using managed printers? I'm getting an authentication error and can't log into machines. Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School of Los Angeles1901 Venice B...  View more

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Sidebar mounted disks

Hi- Are people having problems with disk images not being removed from users' sidebars when they're done deploying? They're not mounted but stick in the sidebar. The only way to get rid of it seems to be by dragging it off the sidebar. I'd like to ha...  View more

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scripting

John, One thing you will definitely need to do is to put double quotes around anyvariable that has a value that contains spaces. So for instance, in yourexample for kid_pix, you used double quotes when you assigned the value tokid_pix, but not when y...  View more

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scripting...

Hi, I'm trying to get my script (which works locally) to deploy over Casperand it's not. I'm trying to determine whether there are certaindirectories present and, if there are, run a command to install an iteminto the dock. I have used the built-in p...  View more

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10.5.7 server

Wondering if anyone has upgraded their Casper/JSS server to 10.5.7 yetand, if so, if you did that via SWU or by manually downloading andinstalling the upgrade. Thank you - and Happy Friday! Jeff JohnsonTechnology CoordinatorGlendale-River Hills Schoo...  View more

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Linux deployment

Dear all, have you ever tried to deploy Linux image back to a mac ? What do you use to make the image of the linux partition? Would "dd" be too slow for 40 machines to be deployed at the same time on a 1Gpbs network enviroment? My main goal is to hav...  View more

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wake macs via network

Dear all, I would like to be able via Casper Policies to power on computers, let mac start (with a delay) and then make a dd or a winclone for deploying a new image of linux or windows.I will have a triple boot with rEfit has anybody look into this? ...  View more

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Recon on 10.4.11

Dear allI encounter a little problem with some imacs 10.4.11.When I run recon as admin, I cannot click Submit since is grayout anybody has a solution for this thanks in advancecheers Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL Heidelberg  View more

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