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getting statistics from Computer Usage logs

Hello,I was wondering if anyone out there has ever gotten statistics out of the computer usage logs in Casper?I would like to be able to get number of unique logins in a day or in a period of a day, or even to compile charts of numbers for each weekd...  View more

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Trick to unlock folders via policy or self service?

We have Casper 6 and are installing CS4 to systems. The Photoshop and Illustrator swatches and plug-ins folders are locked during this process. Now the artists can't add their swatches or plug ins unless we manually go unlock the folders for them. Ca...  View more

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locking docks

What is the best way to lock the dock so that no one can make changes to it. In the past we have used parental controls but this takes forever on 100 machines. I tried just doing it on one machine and sending the plist out.. same thing. Any ideas? Th...  View more

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DMG building problems

Has anyone else seen a problem when building DMG's on Leopard and installing them on Tiger? I just built a dmg for Firefox 3.0.13 on Leopard and I noticed that I lost javascript functionality (toggling it on/off didn't help). I then built the dmg on ...  View more

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NetInstall Maker

How long should I be waiting on the NetInstall maker to make the NetInstall set? It's been sitting on 'Adding Startup Scripts...' for about 3.5 hours now. The processors are busy, though not pegged and Activity monitor doesn't think it's hung. Just c...  View more

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CS4 Update deployment

We have packaged up all CS4 updates using casper admin with no issuesand we can deploy these updates to a client fine but the CS4 productthat has multiple updates such as flash and Illustrator which have twodifferent version: Illustrator 1301 and 130...  View more

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Re-route Home Directories

I know there is a way to re-route the home directories (in a local homedirectory environment) to a partition, but I am not sure what all thatentails. Is anyone doing this, and if so, could you let me know how youare going about this? thanks! - lauren...  View more

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JAMF 7 > admin users becoming non-admins

Folks, Anyone have/know the command line for ODowngrading an Admin account toStandard User'. We want to kick down existing Admin users on local machines to Apple'sStandard User.I know it's a tick button per computer in the System Preference and log i...  View more

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Best way to re-sync service account passwords

Hi- I use a hidden ssh account for all of my admin functions on my clients. No use of a >500 UID account. I have the JSS spinning the passwords on the account to a random 16 character password due to high security environment. Some of the machines, t...  View more

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Casper remote window

We have created two packages Office 2008 package and the 12.2.0 office2008 update package. The issue is when we deploy office 2008 it worksfine but when we deploy the update package on top of it, it breaks theoffice install. None of the office icons ...  View more

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Editing the Self Service Splash

I wanna add some text to the login screen for Self Service, just telling users what account to use to login to Self Service. Does anyone know where I can edit this screen (at least I think its editable)? Thanks.  View more

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Version 7 > Smart Groups ... Compound Searching?

Hiya.. Anyway of searching Smart Groups?I have Smart Groups based on Dept / Laptop or Desktop / RAM / Certain Apps /HW configs, etc ... The list goes on as creative as you wish.Love to be able to search inside and poll two or more SmartGroups ..Somet...  View more

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question about policies with cached pkgs

So, if I want to cache a certain package out to all my clients, and then install from cache, but at the same time I want pre and post shell scripts to run, how exactly does this work? I haven't used package caching too much and from what I gather is ...  View more

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"du: : No such file or directory" in backup emails

We have setup the backup schedule in the JSS Setup Utility to send emails when the backups are complete. We also have it set to save x amount of days of backups. But, when the emails come out, under the section with the previous backups we see these ...  View more

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Casper Imaging Errors

I am seeing a some errors with Casper Imaging v7, that have just croppedup in the last few hours, and I am at a loss on how to resolve them... When netbooting a machine with a Casper NetInstall image, Casper Imagingopens and one of two things happens...  View more

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lpadmin script

Hello, Can someone help me figure this script out? I am trying to setup rights for my network mobile users and they don't have rights to add printers.But I found some help from apple that would let local and network users to add printers without bein...  View more

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CS4 install with base image

We have created CS4 package using vendor dmg and we can push the package via Casper remote to a client without any issues, but when we deploy it with the base image to a macbook pro it installs fine and then after the reboots it shows a big padlock i...  View more

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printers not adding, not binding to domain with script

I am getting spotty results with printers not being added and machines not being joined to the domain when those options are specifically set in Casper Imaging. We are using Centrify for joining AD, not the magic triangle. So we are running a script ...  View more

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Pro apps

HiWe'll be introducing a couple of Pro apps courses in our Apple lab in October and I was wondering what methods those of you already running such courses were using for user management, and if there are any Casper 'gotchas' I should be aware of. To ...  View more

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casper 7 netboot image kernal panic if image is quit

Before I go and re-do my netboot image.... has anyone seen where you get a kernel panic of you try to quit our of Casper imaging 7 while net booted? I used to quit out of imaging 6 all the time to access other apps via the terminal (which should come...  View more

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CS4 deployment error

When we push the CS4 package from our distribution server I get thiserror "Download package could not be verified" I can push other softwarefrom that same distribution server to same client machine without anyissue... I can also push the package from...  View more

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Binding Settings

Hello, We bind our macs to active directory, and they are all 10.4. We have binding settings in Casper that does the following: Directory Access to 'Create mobile account at login', 'Force local home directory on startup disk', and 'Use UNC path from...  View more

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Web based Self Service

Is anybody using the web version of Self Service? The client I get to work perfectly. I was looking into using the web based one for computers not yet in database and have the quick add package in there to add them. The web one always says no authori...  View more

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Distribution point error

After netboot a system to casper imaging, we fill out the info and thenwe select one of our distribution server to image a machine from butthen we get an error that "The distribution Point could not bemounted....... This server was working fine when ...  View more

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Office 2008 update package

We have downloaded the MS office 2008 12.2.0 udate and dragged the mpkg fileinto Casper admin for deployment; however, when deploying it we get anerror as follows: anybody has any idea what we doing wrong here? /usr/sbin/jamf is version 7.0Executing ...  View more

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How to package MS Office 2008 update

We have downloaded the MS Office 2008 update 12.2.0 from MS site anddragged the mpkg file to Casper Admin for deployment, but when we deploythe update on to a test machine it errors out: The install failed (Theinstaller could not install the software...  View more

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Seattle?

Anyone going to training in Seattle next week? -LAUREN NICHOLASUser Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & musicph. 610 861 1633lpnicholas at moravian.edu  View more

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