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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J...  View more

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Casper Feature Request (scripts & man pages)

Hi, On 30 Mar 2010, at 19:24, Thomas Larkin wrote: While we are doing feature requests, and I love the script Idea. In fact, if I could just copy/pasta a working and tested script in say a dialog box in the JSS and say, this is a script in X (perl, a...  View more

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Entourage

Anyone having problems with Entourage 2004/2008 mass of users getting message 'The folder Inbox cannot be synchronized with the server' You must empty the cache for the folder before it can be synchronized again. Message comes up on all Inbox, calend...  View more

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Feature Request: Nested Smart Configurations

Support guys, devs, and fellow admins: In my Casper environment: a multi-office, multi-department, creative enterprise, I have need of the the ability to build Configurations, Smart Configurations, and Sub-Configurations underneath; nested smart conf...  View more

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Users permissions

All, I have copied user data to a new computer using these commands. 1. Login as an admin, open Terminal and use the following to push the userfolder to the external drive: rsync -aEv /Users/ /Volumes/ExternalHD 2. Then use Casper to wipe the drive a...  View more

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Upgrading your JSS to Mac OS X Server 10.6.3

Hey everyone, We've recently discovered that the Mac OS X Server 10.6.3 update includes an update to Tomcat 6.0.24. Unfortunately, this update also means that the server.xml file that is installed at /Library/Tomcat/conf/server.xml is replaced, which...  View more

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10.6.3 and JAMF command not working

We are finally in the process of using 10.6, due to several issues and testing with apple we think we may have a working system with 10.6.3. So I am testing my image and when i run the command line to force a policy or install a policy no matter whic...  View more

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Adobe Reader 9 deployment - Deleting the Older Versions

Hi, We need to deploy Adobe Reader 9 to all our machines. Requirement is "Policyshould delete older versions of the Adobe Reader before installing the newversion".We are packaging Adobe Reader 9 using Composer. There are multipleversions of Adobe Rea...  View more

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10.4.x + Admitmac v3.x + Printers deployed via Casper

We are doing a printer deployment and we came across a group of 10.4machines using admitmac v3. When the printers are deployed throughCasper (7.1) they get an error about NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED, or SAMBAaccess denied when they try to print. When I s...  View more

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Custom extension attributes?

It's great so far. It's helped me determine who has PGP installed, and what VMs are out there. Scouring the admin guide, it's not really clear how to specify a custom attribute. What data am I looking for to report back? Good example would be to know...  View more

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iPhone app

Anyone using the iPhone apps? I see a Recon for iPhone app to gather info... an a JSS Mobile app for getting info from the jss Is there a Casper Remote app? I suppose if it is possible to create policies in the JSS Mobile app you could create individ...  View more

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Memory utilization monitoring

So Apple has their own implementation of the sar command and I was wondering if anyone here has had the chance to figure out or somehow collect data on memory utilization in their Mac env. Specifically we're looking for machines that top out over a h...  View more

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SSH Ports

Hi All - I don't think this can be done yet, so I suppose this is a feature request. I want to be able to change the default port used by SSH with Casper. Port 22 just seems so...obvious. If I just missed this setting, could someone please let me kno...  View more

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Casper Feature Requests

Since we are talking about feature requests, I have my own list of itemsthat I would like to see. I know some of these have already been requestedon the list, thats exactly why I'm sending this now. Would be nice to hearothers opinions of these reque...  View more

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Feature Request-Email to users

After reading Craig's message about posting feature requests here... I will post a recent FR that I submitted. In the "Location" section of a record in the jss we can fill in email addresses of your users. I would like to be able to use this info to ...  View more

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follow-up: Retail DVD, Mac OSX with Casper Imaging

Gang, Picture attached. Original post is below. The good folks at Jamf, helped provide the solution for how to image a Macusing the retail DVD image that boots correctly AND also includes thefirst-boot set-up wizard. The solution was to go into the "...  View more

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Compiled Image not installing

Hi Everyone, We have a configuration that, by itself, works fine, a little slow for installation, but it works. We have tried to make it a compiled image in order to speed up the block copying process. Instead, the image will not install. It erases t...  View more

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LDAP Issue

For some reason our LDAP server seems to work on and off with the JSS. Does Casper Log this connection information anywhere so I can troubleshoot this? Anyone else had this issue before? Thanks!Noah SwansonImaging SpecialistEnterprise Desktop Service...  View more

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FR: Self Service Buttons and Text

Hello, Right now on the 'Featured' (Home) Self Service screen, or a categoryspecific screen that lists all the possible policies, you have the word'Install' at the end of the line. Attached a screen to make sure you knowwhat I'm talking about. Althou...  View more

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JSS Address

Hey All Just wondering if there is a simple way to update the JSS server address on all the clients?We first installed the JSS without DNS - so the clients all have an internal ip address as the JSS address. I would like to replace it with a fully qu...  View more

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Changing .nbi name

Hi Everyone, Happy Tuesday to all. When I started using the Casper imaging app for our imaging, I started out with the app being installed into an .nbi that shows up in startup disk as Snow Leopard. This isn't terribly descriptive, so I want to chang...  View more

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Final Cut Studio 3

I know that some people were having problems with this, and I don't knowif it was ever resolved. I was able to successfully deploy Final Cut Studio 3 with a Volume licensewith the method below. I don't know if it will work with a single userlicense. ...  View more

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Policy to update field in database

Hello All Have just upgraded to 7.2 - so hopefully my other query will resolve itself! My next query is, that I need to suck some data into the Casper database, so I can query it and spit out some reports.The data I want is, Firefox/Safari/etc histor...  View more

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help with a custom query

I'm trying to pull data from the JSS db to show the total number of instances of a given app within a department. I'd like a simple report, something like the licensed software totals but that includes three columns, possibly like: Department Applica...  View more

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Firefox 3.6.x

Hi, I just tried to install 3.6.2 over an old Firefox 3.5.x and found it just quit. After some investigation I have to delete profiles.ini. If I do that what are my users going to lose? I know they get a setup screen again, but are all the settings/b...  View more

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Entourage Setup Script

Try copying and pasting this into AppleScript Editor and see if that does what you want (changing myExchangeServer to what you want to set it to): property myExchangeServer : "my Exchange Server" tell application "System Events" tell application "Mic...  View more

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Firefox 3.6.2 fixed for opening Casper Remote Log

Dear allI just updated to Firefox 3.6.2 and the issue with old Firefox 3.6 that could not open any new window via an external application (like Casper Remote Show Log) looks like it has being fixed.could somebody else please confirm? thanks a lot, Ca...  View more

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