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computer usage logs

Does anyone know of a way to export the data from the computer usage logs, particularly specific computers or dates?? Eric GrahamSenior Systems AdministratorBFA PhotographySchool of VISUAL ARTS214 East 21st Street, 5th floorMailing: 209 East 23 Stree...  View more

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1 to 1 program with two Mac OS Partitions.

Hi, Is there any school using 1 to 1 program Laptops with 2 Mac OS partitions onit? A suggestion has come up from students to have two partions, one forschool 1 to 1 applications (with no admin privileges to students ) and theother partition with Adm...  View more

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mcx preference

Good afternoon Would anybody happen to know which mcx preference controls the "Set dateand time automatically" tick box below? Cheers Joe + 60 Kingly Street, London, W1B 5DS* helpdesk at bbh.co.uk( +44 207 453 49834 www.bartleboglehegarty.com This tr...  View more

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Limiting Simultaneous Logins

Greetings, I work in a lab environment where we have 200+ Macs bound to Active Directory where students use their own AD accounts to log into the machines. In order to prevent unauthorized users from using our machines (i.e. students giving out their...  View more

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Wwdc 2011 ticket ??

Does anyone has a spare ticket I could buy?.Thanks in advance Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL HeidelbergTel. +49 (0) 6221 387 8444Fax +49 (0) 6221 387 8517email: lopez at embl.de  View more

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Anyone able to grab tickets to WWDC 2011

We were lucky enough to purchase a couple tickets to WWDC before selling out, has anyone heard if Jamf will be hosting a user group during that week in San Francisco. Hasaan HerringtonTechnical Support IIAnchorage School District  View more

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Screensaver managed pref question

Hi All Hope everyone is doing well :) I have set the screensaver Idle Time in caspers managed prefs to 15 mins and this works great. All machines screensavers set to come on at 15 mins. My only question.. Is there a way to make sure the user can't ch...  View more

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Offline Policies

Has anyone ever tried creating policies intended to only run"off-line". We have lots of laptops that leave our network withusers (teachers and students) that I don't want to stay gone toolong...(overnight or over the weekend eg.) and other laptopstha...  View more

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Off Topic: Need help with Open Directory

Hey All- This is a bit off topic, but I've found this list has some of the most helpful Mac IT people I know of. I'm working on setting up Open Directory in my company for the first time. My goal is to have everyone able to log into their laptops, us...  View more

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MDM and APN

We are just starting to roll out iOS devices and I am hitting a roadblock. I followed the instructions in the QuickStart guide, but when trying to enroll my test device, I get an error when trying to install the MDM profile. The error is that the cer...  View more

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OS X Updates Opt in?

We have Casper set to install updates as it finds missing ones on the boxes.The problem is that some updates need to reboot the machine which caninterrupt work. They also load w/o users knowledge. So in the interest of communicating more with the use...  View more

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Applications folder restrictions

I have a weird question. Most of our users (faculty, staff) are local admins of their machines. I use MCX for most things, but cannot figure this logic out. I have a number of users who, for some reason, like to create sub-folders within /Application...  View more

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Casper Server Maintenance

Just wondered how do you maintain your Casper Server (main Server runningMySQL & TomCat)? I am experiencing permission issues every couple of months. JSS respondslows down. Fix is Disk Utility to fix permissions (usually a lot ofTomcat permissions fi...  View more

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JSS Backups

Hi I noticed that the HD on my Xserve is fast running out of space, it seemsthere is a backup running that is doing nightly backups to the followinglocation /private/var/backups/jss does anyone know how i can stop this? or change the frequency of bac...  View more

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PackageKit: *** Missing bundle identifier

From time to time I will get a policy errors from Self Service installations that list a whole bunch of PackageKit Missing bundle identifiers. The only thing that I can tell from it is there are receipt files in /Library/Receipts which shouldn't be i...  View more

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Software Updates on logout?

Is anyone running their software updates on logout? I have a policy thatruns all available updates on logout, but it seems to get stuck and neverfinish. When I watch the tmp log that jamf creates in /private/tmp/ it willalways stall at writing files,...  View more

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Adobe Acrobat Disable Auto Update Message

Does anyone have a script I can send out so Adobe products specificallyAcrobat doesn't prompt the users that a update is available? Patrick BachuwaDesktop Engineering Applications Sears Holdings CorporationMichigan Campus3000 W. 14 Mile RoadRoyal Oak...  View more

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Updating your jss server to 10.6.7

just as a note i have seen this twice now at different sites where they wanted to update the jss server to 10.6.7. after the update has been installed and the server restarts tomcat does not come back up. easy fix based on a casper knowledge base is ...  View more

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Backing up Macs

What do you use to back up multiple Macs (80 or more) to the network, ChronoSync and ChronoAgent? I know Time Machine isn't a good option for this many Macs. Just curious. Thanks Neal  View more

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Active Directory Behavior

When binding to a new Ad objects, is it necessary to unbind from the original object first? If you change the computer name and have a new corresponding object in AD to bind to, can you just use Casper to bind to the new object or is the Macintosh st...  View more

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Way to time imaging process?

Is there a way to time the amount of time it takes to image a Mac (via NetBoot and Casper Imaging)? If so, is there a way further still, to also time the "install at root volume" stuff like CS5 that installs after the reboot? Thanks,Don  View more

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NBI InstallerChoices for 10.6.x?

Does anybody have an installer choices file for creating the NbI files?I'm having trouble outputting the choices, and was wondering if anybodyhad one pre-made for 10.6.x? John Wojda Lead System Engineer, DEI 3333 Beverly Rd. B2-338B Hoffman Estates, ...  View more

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Feature Request: Graceful service shutdown

Hi- It would be nice that if that we were performing JSS maintenance to throw a flag to "disallow new connections." This would let in-progress policies and connections finish before bringing the server down. Not sure if it's possible, but would be a ...  View more

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