With long running policies (such as downloading and installing all updates ;), it would be nice to know if a computer is currently engaged in the task. I suspect that one could ssh to the computer, and run 'top' or 'ps' and find out, but is there any... View more
Greetings. How do you handle software updates on laptop labs? We have carts of laptops in our schools, and, if they are not being used by a student, they are charging in the cart. That doesn't provide for a nice way to update them after hours without... View more
Has anyone had an issue where a package wouldn't index on Casper Admin? I've suddenly got two packages that install just fine but will not index. John McLaughlinTechnical Support SpecialistNewton Public Schools View more
I am dealing with a rash of outdated keychains that have become disassociated with the user's passwords. This is most frequently seen when a user launches Safari and it looks to unlock the "login" keychain. I have been fixing these one off by opening... View more
Want to pick the brains of people that use restore partition and see howthey go about upgrading Casper. I've setup restore partition to loginautomatically and Casper is a login item. I'm wondering how easy it would beto upgrade Casper from 5.13 to Ca... View more
Hey All- I am trying to figure out how much music and video files users have takingup space on on their hard drives throughout the enterprise. Has anyone comeup with a slick way of doing this with Casper? ThxJon -- Jonathan H. Smith | Sr. Systems Eng... View more
This was a hot topic last summer and it seems that this guy on the forums I frequent figured it out. I have no test it out yet but I have gone through his rather extensive script. Looks very promising. http://bigmaconcampus.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/w... View more
I want to send out a simple one line command to every client machine, but I want it to modify a file in the home directory. defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES So, how do I wild card it or loop it to hit every ho... View more
Hey All- We have all of our syslogs sent to a central server and I've recently been trolling them to diagnose a wonky machine and I noticed that my syslogs are being flooded with MS Office errors like so: Mar 30 00:49:15 110lrc-09 Microsoft PowerPoin... View more
I'd like to allow users to install GarageBand's Additional Instruments andLoops '08. I can't seem to create a Self Service policy forGarageBandExtraContent.pkg for users without resorting to utilizing SUS. There appears to be preflight and postflight... View more
Thought folks here would appreciate this. I posted a comment on Adobe'sInstaller blog and received this response: William Smith writes: I'd like to hear something from Adobe about plans for Acrobat and their installer. On the Mac side, Acrobat seems ... View more
To those who have done a windows deployment with Casper When you guys created your NTFS image what size partition did you create it on ? When you deployed the image what size partition did you deploy it on ? Did any of you create the partition on a l... View more
What is the difference between yours and mine, which is: tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password@x.x.x.x/sharepoint" end tell I mean isn't it essentially the same thing? View more
Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According theman pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is notworking. If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If Imount it via apple script it work... View more
Which version of the JSS do you have? (EDITED on 03-29-2013: removed extra words that were needed from my original post.) View more
Hi, Does anyone know how to find the SetHidden file on a Leopard install disk or does anyone have a copy for leopard The instructions to go to the OSIntall.mpkg on the install disk dont work as the OSInstall.mpkg is not a directory with contents, at ... View more
Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a whilejava seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS willstop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restartsand everything is good to go, but it's kin... View more
This is not a tech question, but since some of you work at schools and universities I'll give it a shot: Does anyone know, at their university or K-12, if they teach a technology ethics or responsible uses of technology course? If so, can you point m... View more
Hello, Is it possible to have the JSS email me when a certain user logs in? It would be a network user with a network home directory. My first thought was to create a Smart Group - but I don't see the option to populate it with a specific logged in u... View more
As part of the imaging process, are there any scripts that can be added tothe JSS to bind a machine to LDAP so that when it reboots it is bound to thelocal LDAP? -- Jim FryeDistrict Technology CoordinatorUpper Sandusky E.V. SchoolsUpper Sandusky, OH ... View more
We have a CS3 Master Suite site license and normally only install parts ofthat license (like Design Premium items). There are instances when I needto go back and either add the rest of the Master Suite, or install just oneor two apps (like Dreamweave... View more
Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I'd like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. Thanks for your continued help, everyone! Jeffrey A. StraussDepa... View more
Has anyone had any luck creating an 802.1x login profile package? I'dlike to be able to automate the process of creating all plist files andother necessary settings to allow a machine bound to AD to log on and beautomatically connected to our WLAN. A... View more
I realize that it the installer issues are Adobes. They suck for installers on both platforms. The Windows guys bitch more about it than I do. I am sorry for trying to put the blame on Jamf. That was not my intention I was just venting and hoping Jam... View more
I hate to keep bringing this up. I recently created a package for CS4 Web Premium using directions on Jamf site. It all starts to work and then stops with following error... Adobe Installation Error from Adobe CS4 Web Premium.dmg: Unable to complete ... View more
I am trying to scope a policy to an AD LPAP user groups for the first time.I have tested users, groups and group memberships in the LDAP testing areaof the JSS and all is working as expected. My policy is a self servicepolicy that was working already... View more
I know someone already mentioned how to do this, but I cannot find that note for some reason...how do you keep users from seeing "Shared" servers or computers...can you perform a whitelist function, or a blacklist function? I'm not sure how it can be... View more
I'm using the CS4 workaround (disk image manipulation, modifying the install.xml files, etc) - which does work successfully, but the installer is not suppressed, even though it is checked properly in casper admin. Anyone else hit this? Thanks,j View more
Good news! I renamed the files in the deployment folder to install.xml and uninstall.xml from whatever their file names were previously, uploaded to JSS using Casper Admin and going about the usual CS3 creation process. Then, installed Photoshop CS4 ... View more
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