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Collect usernames or email addresses from Entourage

Is there a way to collect usernames or email addresses from Entourage with Casper or other way? Anyone done this before? We have some Macs and they are not bound to AD yet, so I can't get the correct usernames….maybe Extension Attributes?Cem  View more

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Office 2011 - pkg

I followed the directions from the offieformachelp.com site on deploying Office 2011 via casper and I've hit a snag. I just looked over the slides again and I'm wondering if my changes to the deployment method are causing the issues I'm seeing. So I'...  View more

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Dock Items

I'm putting together an Office 2011 installer that includes a postflight script that removes Office 2008 and installs Office 2011 silently. I'm trying to clean up the dock after install (Using Dock Items in JSS) - remove 2008 dock items and place the...  View more

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Symantec Endpoint Protection

Does anybody have a list of the SEP unix commands for the updates? Our existing script (and the one from the October resource kit) both update the system, but the quiet and auto quit don't seem to work. -- John Wojda Lead System Engineer, DEI 3333 Be...  View more

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iLife '11: How To

Glenn Burns confirmed my methodology worked for him. Assumptions: 1) You're on 10.6.52) You've installed iLife '11 and run Software Update to ensure iPhoto, et. al. are all up-to-date Using Composer, instead of snapshotting the install, drag the foll...  View more

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Client can't log in to AD bound Macs

Perhaps this topic is not entirely Casper Related…. I have a user cannot login to AD bound Macs but can log in to AD bound WinPCs. I am trying to figure this out where to get logs for authentication on the Mac…perhaps that should give me some clue wh...  View more

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Repeat: Setting HP IP Printers to Duplex by Default

Hello, Subject says it all and I think this was asked in the past. How can you make everything everyone prints to a specific HP IP printerwith a duplex unit use the two sided layout settings by default? I swear that I even set the default setting on ...  View more

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XLS file import to JSS?

I have a list of all of our machines and their warranty expiration dates by serial number. Is it possible to import that into the JSS so that info can be populated? We currently don't have a GSX account, and probably won't have one in the foreseeable...  View more

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Per computer policy audit

Hi all Just wondering if anyone knows of any way to audit the policies that havebeen applied to a computer. I know that you can query the policy for themachines that it has been applied to (or ones that are waiting) but I wouldlike to do it the other...  View more

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Recon Command Line

Two quick questions here Does anyone know the terminal command to force recon to run? And Is their a document that has a list of CLI Commands for Recon? Thanks-- "USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 7...  View more

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Casper Server loosing DNS connection after a while!!!

I have repeated message in the system.log like below. It appears couple of hours after reboot my Casper Server and it stops server to communicate with domain controller!! This results I can not login to JSS using my AD credentials.. mDNSResponder[35]...  View more

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JSS on a mini

Hi List, Any thoughts on how many clients a Mac mini can easily handle? We have about 300 here and don't deploy to much more than 10 at a time. Thanks,-- jmca John McAdamsProfessional Services Engineer917-496-0106  View more

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Casper Remote hanging up on Recon

I'm running Recon on a few of my Mac Pros that still run OS X 10.4 andCasper Remote just hangs on Locating Receipts. Has anyone elseexperienced this or have any ideas on what could be the issue. Thanks, JIM ORING, JR. I.T. SYSTEMS SUPPORT SCHAWK! T 3...  View more

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updating IP addresses in the JSS

Hello Everyone, Due to the size of our environment we only update inventory once daily, and it is randomized. So, a machine may not update it's IP address information on the spot. This causes issues with using Casper remote. I want the client to upda...  View more

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Casper 8...

Those of you that acquired Casper 8... Any chance they put in a way to delegate what builds are available to certain accounts? For instance - If I want technician_1 to have access to builds A,B,C but not D,E,F... And technician_2 to have D,E,F and so...  View more

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OT - Windows Event Log Monitoring/Analysis

This is totally not a Casper related question, but I trust there are a fewWindows admins out there in hiding. I am needing to audit file create/delete/access/write for my Macintoshusers. We've recently installed Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP to host theW...  View more

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Casper Suite 8.0 Release This Week

Hello everyone, and thanks for the great segue for this announcement! Casper Suite 8.0 will be shipping this week! Everybody should be getting an email with information by the end of the day on Friday. If you don't receive an email by then, or have p...  View more

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rename hard disk on casper Netinstall

Dear all, Is there a way to do so? Or I have to do it after the machine is deployed?thanksbest 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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Composer and scripts

Stéphane Sudre's site is the Mike Bombich of the packaging world. Scroll down to the Packagemaker how-to for a great overview of the pkg/mpkg formats. This should enlighten on how scripts can be used in packaging. http://s.sudre.free.fr/Packaging.htm...  View more

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Modifying Software Update

We're looking to modify the frequency of update checking within Software Update. I have an Extension looking for what the user has their computer set to. We would like to find the plist and modify it so that it checks daily, downloads, and installs t...  View more

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Block Copy intermittently fails

Hi!I have three intel imacs all netbooted to same Netboot image, usingCasper Imaging v. 7.3.1, installing same OS package from the samedistribution point.One of these, a 32-bit, will more often than not but not EVERY timezip through "block Copy", THE...  View more

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Script failing from Self Service

I have a one line script; defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile";}' && killall Dock …which puts a stack on the Dock that houses Recent Applications. This runs fin...  View more

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Running Recon Network Scanner still shows Unmanaged.

Hi All, I am trying to add some of the Macs which are not been contacted to the JSS for 30 or mare days. In order to put them in JSS I am running Recon network scanner using IP Subnet and after running this it shows as result that it is been successf...  View more

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Xserve 10.6.4 Suddenly Running Out of Space on System HD

Thanks to all for their helpful responses. Yes, Patrik, it appears to be avirtual memory issue and is related to the mds (and mdworker) processes,which are Spotlight. There is quite a bit of information online about thisissue, but mostly just people ...  View more

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Xserve 10.6.4 Suddenly Running Out of Space on System Volume

We have been running four Xserves (first-generation Intel) on 10.6.4 sinceAugust with no (critical) issues. Just this past Wednesday, I got thismessage: The volume ServerHD on [Xserve name] is running out of free space.It has only 7.46 GB (9.82%) fre...  View more

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Parental Control management

Hi All Has anyone had any success managing Parental Controls through casper. I can see it generates the MCX files in /Lib/Manages Pres/ + complete.plist and I convert them and upload them to the JSS and enable them. Issue is the prefs do not get appl...  View more

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Problem importing plist manifest to JSS

I have raised this with Jamf already but anyone had a problem importing plist manifest files in to JSS?Yes I have ran plutil ...and Jamf guys managed to import my plist to their JSS without any problem. I have tried different browsers and Macs. Even ...  View more

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