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Parallels 6 vs VMWare 3.1 query

I know MacTech did a review and shows Parallels 6 is better than VMWare Fusion 3. The review focuses on performance. Our challenge is to decide on which preserves our ROI best. If performance is high but support doesn't answer emails or calls, then o...  View more

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Volume Purchase...

http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/ The App Store features thousands of great business apps designed todeliver immediate benefits for your company. With the App Store Volume Purchase Program, your businesscan tap into the potential of these world-clas...  View more

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AAMEE

So I use AAMEE to make a package and it creates a folder on the desktop. Do i Use the PKG in the folder or do I create a DMG from the folder somehow. If the answer is the second, how does one go about doing that? -- Experts claim that 72% of all stat...  View more

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Run Apple Software Updates after Imaging.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a method to have Apple Software Updates automatically run right after an image or re-image from Casper. I just upgraded to Casper 8.1, and I'm not sure if there is a method available now that wasn't present in 7.31. I kno...  View more

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Will Lion break the JAMF client?

This is more of a heads up than a fact about Lion. I can't comment about a upgrading to Lion, but when user upgraded from ourenterprise 10.5 config to 10.6 themselves, the JAMF binary was there but thehidden admin account disappeared. That might happ...  View more

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Admin account

Hi Folks, We are trying to find a way for us to create a single local admin account that we can move to each Mac we image or deploy. This way the standard settings that the admin account would use are present on all of our Macs. The idea is to keep t...  View more

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Arrange icons?

Greetings, everyone. After we install a bunch of software at imaging time, the icons in the/Applications folder are a mess. Is there anyway to fix that? (I havetried a few things, such as trying to deploy or delete .DS_Store files, butit never really...  View more

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AD Bindings Screwing Up

Is anyone else having an issue where a computer is bound to AD, the green light is on saying you are bound, but you can't login unless you bind and unbind? Is this a known issue??? --Matt Lee, CCA/ACMT/ACPT/ACDTSenior IT Analyst / Desktop Architectur...  View more

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Single Sign-On

Around here, we have been talking about getting rid of ADmitMac when we implement Lion, and switching to the builtin AD plugin. But by now, our users expect SSO functionality in many areas of the OS that ADmitMac provided "for free". We're talking ab...  View more

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Self Service Applications

In our school district we would like to take the purchasing of Apple Applications away from the site. We would prefer the site notify the IT department and we would make the purchase, and then make the application available in the Self Service applic...  View more

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compiling configs - non OSX dist points?

Is anyone who is using non OSX distribution points able to compile their configs consistently? We have had weird issues when compiling on anything except OSX Server (using built in storage vs. storage array) and I'm wondering if it's just us or if no...  View more

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Portable Homes with Casper 8.1

Hello, My school district is brand new to casper and we are trying to seteverything up so we can get on with imaging. We seem to have an issue whenit comes to creating portable homes. We copied the mcx info straight fromsnow leopard to casper and eve...  View more

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Using mac Hardware for Windows

Please help me squelch this one... We have some concerns with our current Windows Ultraportable-Laptop. Someone proposed to use a MacBook Air to boot Windows 7. I need to find out what support issues we'd run into between Apple and Microsoft. I found...  View more

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Custom Reporting Extension Attributes

I wondering if anyone has every been successful at creating a custom report to pull information from the Extension Attributes. Jamf have zero official documentation on this and what few pieces of information they have managed to locate hasn't provide...  View more

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Dallas CCA (Aug 1-4)

I will be attending the CCA course in Dallas. If anybody on this list is also going, give me a holler! Sean~~~~~~~~~Sean AlexanderDesktop AnalystMacintosh Services DeliveryLockheed Martin - Enterprise Business Services~~~~~~~~~  View more

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Replacing plists

Is there any way to leverage Casper to replace *part* of a plist? I need tochange a file association but don't want to affect all associations in theFinder. I know which key to change but I can't think of a way to do this. Otherwise, how do you gener...  View more

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USB controls?

Does anyone restrict USB connectivity in their environment? If so how? I've looked into pulling out the usb kernel extensions, but that seems a bit…extreme. Regards,Matt Bentley  View more

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10.6.8 and Broken Printers

Anyone heard of 10.6.8 breaking printers? --Matt Lee, CCAFNG Sr. IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper AdministratorFox Networks Groupmatthew.lee at fox.com Need Help? Call the Help Desk at (310) 969-HELP (ext 24357) or o...  View more

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Mysterious script errors

Has anyone seen –10810 errors when executing scripts from either Casper Remote or JSS policies? I'm trying to send an AppleScript to users informing them that they have updates available for their 3rd Party apps. They have the option of ignoring for ...  View more

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Change email address of existing entourage account

Hi All, I am not best scripter and was hoping someone out there could help me out.Basically need to change everyones email address in entourage from*.co.ukto *.com I have been trying to amend the entourageSetup.scpt that comes with theresource kit to...  View more

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Best technique for installing a java applet

Hi, What's the best way to install a java applet, such as Final Cut Server,during imaging or with Remote? The applet is downloaded from the serveritself, executed and saved to the users Home directory. Thanks!Dave -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --Dave Si...  View more

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script to change visibility of idisk in finder sidebar?

Hi all, Is there a way to hide idisk in the finder sidebar via script? Our secure configuration guidelines recommend this being hidden. There is a plist file /Users///Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist where you can see the various item...  View more

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CCA first week of November

Hey Everyone, We will be hosting a CCA course first week of November. I honestly don't know the details, but if any of you come down I know all the good taco joints and cheap beer places :-) -Tom  View more

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Restore Partition Users

Can I get some best practices or overall advice/experience from Restore Partition Users please :) --Matt LeeFNG Sr. IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper AdministratorFox Networks Groupmatthew.lee at fox.com Need Help? Ca...  View more

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Casper NeBoot Image creator - with ARD

Anyone ever manage to create an image with the Casper NetBoot Image creator and have ARD available on it as it boots? Nick Caro Senior Desktop Support Administrator Phone +1 212-239-5741 Fax 212-946-4010 nick.caro at rga.com R/GA 350 West 39th Street...  View more

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Sophos

Does anyone use Sophos as their AV solution and if so how are you configuring it to install? Thomas GuidryClient/Server AdministratorTexas Christian University  View more

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