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Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta is now available!

Hello Jamf Nation! The Jamf Pro 11.8.0 Beta Release features a number of exciting improvements and enhancements for managing your Apple devices. Starting with 11.8.0, Jamf Pro admins will be able to set a minimum OS for MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads t...  View more

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Purging from the Waiting Room

Folks, I there a setting/command to purge the Waiting Room folder that houses allOInstall Cache' deployments?Stuff that has built up over time, due to my n00bieness of Casper, wouldlove to to kill it completely Thanks and happy Monday!:P -- Pasquale ...  View more

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Cached packages

Is it possible to cache software updates directly from an internal SUS, or do I have to download each Apple update package manually and cache it? Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School of Los Ang...  View more

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Desperate Help Needed in pushing out Docks

I know this is probably simple but I can't figure it out. I have acom.apple.dock.plist file that I want all of my teachers to use when theylogin. How do I do this? Managed preferences? Policies? Thanks for the help! Nelson  View more

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Prompt to open image

I was trying to push out Adobe CS4 Design Premium.The first time that I tried, Casper Remote's status said 'Are you sure youwant to open this disk image? (Y/N)' (screen shot attached) and juststopped.I rebooted the computer and tried again, and the p...  View more

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Has anyone seen this?

I have noticed that some of my users are not getting things pushed to themvia policy. When I check some of the logs I see a lot of instances wherethe "Enforce Framework Management" policy hasn't run in weeks, and the lastline in the last entry from w...  View more

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Imaging corrupting Macintosh HD

HI all, Casper noob here, but I'm having an issue with imaging. Full disclosure, I haven't *fully* researched my problem yet, but I'm having an issue where during imaging Macintosh HD is somehow being rendered unreadable. I can fix the problem by ope...  View more

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Run a script as the User

I need to be able to have a script run as a user as part of a login policy. The script that I am using is an Applescript. How would I get Casper to call the script at login as the user? Thanks Paul Austin Wachovia/Wells Fargo Desktop Services704 427-...  View more

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[BULK] Re: Casper Imaging Errors

It is a very simple one liner... #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/diskutil eraseDisk "HFS+ Journaled" "Macintosh HD" disk0 exit 0 That runs as preflight so it wipes out the whole partition and names it Macintosh HD. You could get fancy and create multiple parti...  View more

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First Attempt at Boot Camp

This is our first attempt at imaging with a Boot Camp/Win XP partition. Does the winclone image get categorized as an OS with a priority of one or as something else? When building the configuration, does the winclone image get added as a package or i...  View more

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CCA Class in Iowa?

We’d love to host a 4 day CCA session at the U of Iowa during winter break. Anyone else outside of the 7 we have at the U of I, in the surrounding area, interested in coming here for a CCA session?Just taking a survey...... Thanks, Scott  View more

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CS4 deployment when it comes on 2 DVDs

So, the CS4 suite I have is two DVDs and some apps are on the second DVD. Do I have to make separate images and separate installers for these DVDs, or should I combine them into one image? help? Capturing preinsalled from composer 7 keeps spitting ou...  View more

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Moving from open wireless to protected wireless network

During the past school year, we used an open wireless network throughout our school district. When creating our original base OS image, the Mac Book we used to create the image connected to this network, and so all Mac Books imaged with this base OS ...  View more

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LP Admin Group

If you don't use OD in your environment.. is there a way to put people in the lpadmin group via the client level?Has anyone tried managed preferences, parental controls for printers? Everything the list has sent me on this doesn't work when I test it...  View more

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Imaging weirdness

We imaged several hundred computers over the past few weeks and are findingsome strange anomalies. A machine may be missing Office or perhaps anotheris missing Adobe Reader. There doesn't seem to be a pattern, rhyme orreason. The machines are identic...  View more

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FUT and FEU when the user account isn't in /Users

I am pondering something right now....I have a policy that enables clear text passwords in AFP for a legacy network connection at my work. So, I edited the plist, captured it with composer and set it as a start up policy and duped it as a log in hook...  View more

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iMovie (previous version) folder

Dear all- I'm scriptally challenged... this has got to be the most basic elementary script, but I haven'tventured into scripting yet, so if someone could help, I'd appreciateit! I'm looking to write a simple post-image script to remove the/Applicatio...  View more

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New OD Master

We will be changing our OD Master before the school year begins, and have already re-imaged most of our Mac Books with a configuration that has them look to the old OD Master for authentication. Is there an easy way to replace the old OD Master info ...  View more

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sym link weirdness

Hello everyone, Happy back to school for those that work in schools, and I mean that sarcastically :( I have this kind of weird intermittent issue. I am noticing a client every now and then will be showing the symbolic link directories in the finder....  View more

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FYI on how to deploy MAP test from NWEA

Since I have pounded my head against the wall dealing with NWEA, I went ahead and documented how I deployed it. So if you are going to deploy 6.4 to intel based macs you may want to give this a read. I used Composer and Self service to pretty much bu...  View more

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Hardware issues after Office install

Was wondering if anyone has suffered hardware issues after pushing an Office2008 image? 3 black MacBooks all suffered the same hardware issue afterEntourage finished transferring data from Office 2004. All computers harddrives failed. I'm a little co...  View more

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Block Copy size limit

After moving to 10.5.8 my image is now just over 8 gigs compressed. Unfortunately, it looks like its now too big to block copy onto a 40gighard drive (eMac). The image itself, once laid down, only uses about16gigs. Whats the limitation here? Why does...  View more

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laid

After moving to 10.5.8 my image is now just over 8 gigs compressed. Unfortunately, it looks like its now too big to block copy onto a 40gighard drive (eMac). The image itself, once laid down, only uses about16gigs. Whats the limitation here? Why does...  View more

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Running apps from only the Applications folder

I remember a while back seeing someone on this list mentioning that theyonly allow apps to be run from the Applications folder. I am currentlylooking at implementing a similar setup. Is this done using ManagedPreferences or some other way? Any advice...  View more

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bug in Casper Admin v 7.01 with synchronizing

I just noticed that when I want to synchronize my casper shares it now says replicate. However, in the older versions I used to be able to select several shares on the left hand nav bar and right click and say sync. Now, it seems that when I try to r...  View more

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ADmitMac built-in binding

Has anyone tried the ADmitMac built-in binding in casper 7.01? I havefilled in all of my information but am unsure as to how this is supposedto take place. I'm assuming I still need my admitmac.pkg but I'm notsure of the order in which to have casper...  View more

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Deploying Final Cut Studio

Hello Everyone,We just started using Casper here at Parkland College and I was wondering how everyone else was deploying Apple's Final Cut Studio 2 (or 3)? Are you just snapshotting the full installation with Composer or is there a way to create a cu...  View more

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Mac OS X 10.5.x retail DVD later than 10.5.6?

Anyone know if Apple has issues a retail 10.5.x install DVD version beyond 10.5.6? I know they did 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.4, and 10.5.6 (which is the last one I have). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5 Would sure make life easier if I didn't ha...  View more

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Large file upload

Anyone experiencing any problems uploading large DMGs into Casper Admin? I'm talking 20+ gigs. The images are made fine, but Admin seems to not like them... Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems AdministratorLoyola High School...  View more

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Reboot Dialog Warning Box

I am trying to figure out a way to get a dialog box to notify users of the the fact that software updates have been installed and they need to reboot their machine. All of the scripts etc I have tried error out with a time out message or an AppleEven...  View more

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