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Casper Design

I'm curious what this list has to say about my ideas... Any comments? Questions? Critiques?  View more

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Admin rights scripts for Casper Remote

Hello all, I know it is Administrators' nightmare to give admin rights toUsers....but here we are dealing with adults and we attend to give adminrights to people, if there is a business justification for it. One of the engineers sent this command to ...  View more

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How to Install SSL Certificate into the JSS?

Hello! Hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend :) I have searched around quite a bit online as well as through the manual but I cant seem to find any steps for installing a Valid SSL Cert into the JSS. I have acquired a valid SSL Certificate,...  View more

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Single User Mode with PGP

Is it possible to boot to single user mode on a Mac with PGP enabled? I'm being told it is possible, but I've never been able to accomplish this. Any one know of an answer? Noah SwansonImaging SpecialistEnterprise Desktop ServicesPhone: 309-765-3153S...  View more

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ASR encountered a problem (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIEDCaveats: NONE Allen, I saw that issue as well with our images. I was not able to resolve theproblem with the image we were using. I found the issue occurred whenwe were using monolithic images, as opposed to modular images...  View more

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ASR encountered a problem

From time to time I will get the error, Warning: ASR encountered a problem. See Jamf.log for details. Reverting to installation using ditto... What are things that typically cause this? I read the KB article on jamf's site, but when I did a scan in D...  View more

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Imaging servers with Casper

Just wanted to see how/if people are using the Casper Suite to handle the imaging of their servers. While you may not be "managing" them, I'd like to hear from anyone that is usingthe Suite to image and set them yup for initial use or DR purposes. Th...  View more

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FR: Copying Logs

Hello, Because I'm entirely lazy and dependent upon JAMF to do everything for me(thank you), I had an idea for troubleshooting. What is one of the first things you SHOULD do when troubleshooting aproblem or an install on a computer? Look at the logs ...  View more

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Extension attribute updates

Hello all. I could probably find this somewhere in the documentation, but figured I would ask here: What causes the extension attributes to be updated and how often does it happen? The reason I'm asking is that I created a policy scoped to a smart gr...  View more

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Create Smart Group from Report?

Hello all, Can anyone point me in the right direction to create/build a new smart group from a report? Example: We're running CS3 on our Macs and recently distributed CS5. Some departments manually installed CS4 during the interim. I can see the CS4 ...  View more

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XServe Replacement -- what are the hardware options?

We put in a call to ActiveStorage to ask if they plan to provide an alternative to NetBoot and Apple SUS. The sales rep told me he would bring it up in their next meeting. If it runs on Linux, and if what folks have been saying about NetBoot and Appl...  View more

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XServe Replacement

Task Server in ARD is pure failure. Queue up more than one task. If Task A fails or stalls, Task B never runs. I agree with Nate, having clients "check in" like Casper, Munky, Puppet, etc., is pure brilliance. Don  View more

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Blocking the App Store

We haven't seen this in our environment. We are also blocking the App Store in this manner. What is the string you entered for the Restricted Software? -- remo del bello | systems administrator | thedesignory | w 562.753.0783 | remo.delbello at desig...  View more

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Casper 8 issues

^^^ Please ignore this ^^^ All, I was wondering if we could compile a list of issues that we've seen introduced in Casper 8. Who wants to start the list off? Thanks.  View more

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How to uninstall a non .dmg or.pkg application

Hello, I would like to know how to uninstall a .app file. It is an old EFI Print Server Application called EFI Job Monitor XF.app. It is not a .DMG or .PKG that I created and I am not real familiar with scripting. Thanks! Neal C. Smith IV  View more

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ExtremeZ-IP and Casper MCX conflict?

Hello everyone! This is somewhat OT:We are in the testing phase of Active Directory (Win v.'08r2)implementation, also using ExtremeZ-IP (v. 7.1x14). In my test environment, I have managed preferences enabled globally, in myframework settings.Automoun...  View more

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Lom on bonded link

Hello, I know it is documented that you cannot run lom on a port that is part of abonded interface. I have two older Intel Xserves at a site that were setupthat way before I was around, and it's working. On my newer Xserves Icannot get this to work i...  View more

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17 " MacBook Pro

Hi, We've recently had a spate of batteries swell and break their casing on 17 inch MacBook Pros so I'm trying to make an advanced inventory search that will return all of our 17" MacBook Pros but I'm not having much luck. If I create a search with "...  View more

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Inventory Records Casper V8

Hello All Happy Friday I just wanted to tell you all that I experienced a very strange thingtoday when I manually entered warranty information when I edited thecomputer record under Purchasing. We don't have a GSX account. As soonas I did this I rece...  View more

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AppleCare versus Spares inventory

A little off topic, but worth asking! What is everyones take on purchasing AppleCare for every device versus purchasing a handful of spares to lower costs, and still provide excellent service? What is the chance you will have 1:1 failure of all devic...  View more

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Migrating large amounts of data

Hello, I wanted to know what you suggest using, or what you have used in the pastto migrate production data from one storage array to another while beingcertain to keep file integrity such as forked data, extended attributes,create/modify times, and ...  View more

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Re: EFI protection

Yes, Jared read my confusion exactly, though, after thinking about it, bothJared's and Tom's idea makes sense. Sean ~~~ Tom- I think the hangup may be that Sean thinks you've made a magical dummypackage that automatically detects admin users. Rather,...  View more

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Caching scripts

I apologize if this has been covered before... I know that when creating a policy, I can cache a package on the machine and trigger an install later... but can I cache a script to have it execute on a computer when the computer is not connected to th...  View more

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NTP update after imaging...

Hello All. Using casper 7.3.1 and imaging machines to 10.6.4. Today I ran into a batch of laptops that failed to bind to Active Directory during their post-imaging setup. I think I narrowed it down to a time difference, which has happened before. The...  View more

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FR: Policy System Requirements and System Assignments

Morning, So this one is somewhat of an odd duck, but I'll put it out there (yes,JAMF support is in my BCC field) just to see if anyone else is as weird. Problem Background: I often create two different policies for essentiallythe same software instal...  View more

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