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anyone else having 10.7

10.7 issues when trying to use a lion installed system and 10.7 Server tools with a 10.6.8 OD Server? I can't seem to connect at all from one computer but with my older computer (10.6.8) it works just fine... ![external image link](attachments/6d1742...  View more

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New Lion Recovery Utility

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433 Make your own and get rid of that Recovery partition. This may make deployment a bit easier for some folks knowing they have this option. Perhaps distribute a USB key with this on it with a machine instead of having...  View more

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10.7 OS package creation

Dear all, I made a Casper 10.7 Image using Composer to deploy via Casper Remote but it does not work.It just skips the dmg. I tried to CCC to the disk and this worksThanks in advance,Best, Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL HeidelbergTel. +49 (0) 6221 3...  View more

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Centrify Express

Any Centrify Express users here? Its free and its a complete re-write of the Apple AD bind it seems. I wonder if it would be worth it to ditch Apples own tool and move to this seeing as Centrify had AD working before Apple did :D  View more

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Determining a Mac's bindings

Hey folks, Trying to see if there is a way to determine a Mac's directory bindings remotely? I can touch each Mac remotely or physically visit each Mac, but there should be a good way of determining if a Mac's bindings are working correctly. Any thou...  View more

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Scripting /etc/authorization

Hello all. One of the things I've sometimes wanted to do is figure out how to do some text manipulation in /etc/authorization in order to allow non-admins to administer the timezone settings. Perhaps there is a better way, but in order to allow non-a...  View more

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partitioning drives

Hi,Does anyone have a script or know of a way I can partition a drive during Casper Imaging?? Eric GrahamSenior Systems AdministratorBFA PhotographySchool of VISUAL ARTS214 East 21st Street, 5th floorMailing: 209 East 23 StreetNew York, NY 10010-3994...  View more

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Binding Issues

I have a strange issue the networking department changed the passwordfor the account that Casper used to bind computers to AD, (they havesince changed it back) but now all the MACs that were bound with Caspercan't access network SMB share resources. ...  View more

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system_profiler hangs?

I'm using system_profiler in an extension attribute script to provide the location of all the preference pane files. system_profiler SPPrefPaneDataType | awk '/Location:/ { print $2 }' Generally speaking this runs every time without issue. On some sy...  View more

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Off Topic - PolicyBanner

I saw on AFP548 a video of them using a logo on their policy banner,when I tried to put our company's logo on ours and save as a RTFD fileit only displays a generic icon of whatever format the picture is in(.jpg, .tiff, .gif, .png) when I drop back t...  View more

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MacBook Air 2011 Image

I had read a post over on MacE about this and thought I would give it a try with the new MacBook Air. if you boot to recovery you can essentially install Lion to an external drive and you are able to extract the InstallESD.dmg for that model. Here ar...  View more

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MCX pref for Adobe Acrobat

I have turned on the self heal managed pref but it dose not work. I am running 10.7 and adobe acrobat 9.4.5. Is it working for anyone out there? would really love to get this working. I am a returning user to casper. Used it before and had to working...  View more

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Valid fields when using the JSS API

When using the JSS API, I find that I am unable to set certain fields, however there is no error. For example, when attempting to add or update a computer, I am not able to set Processor Type, Processor Architecture, Storage Information, or Local Acc...  View more

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Installing Lion Server in a VM

Just a heads up for anyone installing Lion Server in a VM that is running into the error message (Software Updates not available). The way to get around this is install a previous package of Server Essentials from the Apple Developer page, then reope...  View more

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prestage imaging

Hi,I'm trying to get the Casper PreStage imaging to work with some new computers and when I setup and power on a couple of MacPros it does not goto Casper Imaging automatically. Do I need to have it netboot first or should it netboot automatically?? ...  View more

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policies and hard drive quotas

Anyone use quotas? I only ask this because we are about to deploy 5,500 Macbook Airs with 60gig SSD drives in them. I guarantee my users will fill it with pictures, music and movies really fast. So I am thinking at some point I may need to push a pac...  View more

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Enrollment profile giving Invalid payload error

I am getting the message "The Profile is invalid. The MDM payload "Mobile Device Management" contains an invalid topic. I am using Ver 8.1 JSS. I am trying to connect my iPad 2 devices. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. **** M...  View more

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__OSX_Lion_is_a_POS...Now_SMB_ doesn't__work!

x10 on that. We had our Apple Sales Per… I mean engineer here recently and he said OD would fix everything. I think we can get away without it.--Matt Lee, CCA/ACMT/ACPT/ACDTSenior IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper Adm...  View more

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Lion Server DNS vs SL Server DNS

So I found an interesting thing when setting up a new server today. We use infoblox here and we do have some weird DNS registering issues (where the Macs get stale names but we usually can manually change it.) When installing a fresh Lion Server we n...  View more

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JSS Managed Preferences and Mobile Homes

Hello, first of all, I'm pretty new to Casper Suite (8.2.1) and Open-Directory administration (10.6.8-Clients and Servers), so please excuse my questions if they all seams obvious. I wanted to set password policies for all our users and I've already ...  View more

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BaseSystem.dmg

I'm trying to use the BaseSystem.dmg to lay down a 2nd partition orLion. I have in the parent config a 2nd partition created @ 2gb (whenyou install apple's default is 650mb), Journaled HFS+, checked This is arestore partition, selected the basesystem...  View more

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Post script goes in circles...

Sorry I have an image, ready to go everything is working but when I add a post script to fix up the firmware password, update a few setting and then trigger a few more scripts. But what happens is that it restarts then I have to login and it then pop...  View more

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OSX_Lion_is_a_POS...Now_SMB_doesn't_ work!

We're also seeing this. It appears to be that Apple has changed the way the domain is displayed. However, I'm finding that while I get the "green light" in the Accounts pane, I get a "red light" at the loginwindow, though no changes have been made. I...  View more

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Lion NBI, SL install

Is there any issues that anybody has run into when using a Lion NBI tolay down a SL image? I was able to load lion down w/o issue, but when I went to install SnowLeopard it just hangs on boot with the spinning pinwheel. When I do averbose boot, it re...  View more

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Cisco VPN client question

Has anybody found a way to toggle tunneling options in the Built in Cisco vpn client?In the Cisco client when you modify the profile, you can go to tunneling options, and there are some options for encapsulating, or not, and using udp or tcp, and mos...  View more

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