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Modify your 10.5 Software Update Server to serve 10.6 Clients

A colleague of mine at another office pointed me to this discussion on theApple boards which contains instructions for modifying a Mac OS X Server10.5.x Software Update Server to host 10.6.x updates. The best part is thatif you are using Casper 7.2 I...  View more

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weird casper ssh oddity

I have a client machine that has been imaged, has the jamf binary present and updated to 7.2 but it does not show in the JSS inventory. I then ssh into this machine using the same account Casper uses to verify I can ssh, and it works. When I run reco...  View more

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Casper iPad Support

I'm assuming there will be a 7.2.x update with iPad support? Anyone know any details? Noah SwansonMacintosh Development/SupportEnterprise Desktop ServicesPhone: 309-765-3153SwansonNoah at johndeere.com  View more

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2 JSS records, 1 serial number

What can cause a computer to show up in the JSS with 2 different records? I was under the impression that all JSS records were keyed off of serialnumbers first, but I have 2 different records both referencing the samecomputer, same serial number, sam...  View more

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Managed Preferences

I need some help with creating a managed preference to make DirectoryUtility inaccessible to my end-users. JIM ORING, JR. IT WORKFLOW MANAGER G7 PROFESSIONAL SCHAWK! T 323.258.4111 D 323.551.6517 M 909.904.2839 F 323.259.0428 jim.oringjr at schawk.co...  View more

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MCX settings question

What is the difference between com.apple.(iChat|mail).managed andcom.apple.(iChat|mail)when setting MCX? Ryan M. ManlyGlenbrook High Schools? ACSP ? ACMT  View more

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10.6 Imaging

I've been testing out Casper for quite some time now and just started tinkering with the Imaging process. So I copied up a disc image of 10.6 and told CA that it was an installer file and put that as the base image. I made a smart config and put the ...  View more

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Errors with Adobe updates

Hi- Trying to update some CS4 products and have run into one error on one particular machine for a number of updates (Photoshop, Fireworks, Extension Manager) Event log from the policy: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 6.01 Executing Policy Adobe Photoshop ...  View more

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auto log out if idle policy

So, Do any of you enforce client machines to log out if idle for x amount of time? If so, could you give me some details on how exactly you implement this? Thanks in advance, Tom  View more

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Feature Requests

Hello everyone- First of all, thanks to everyone for the feature requests, both on this list and in person over the last 7 years. Almost every feature that we have comes from requests from our community. Thank you all for helping us make our products...  View more

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Font Management

Hello, Fonts as you are probably aware have been a thorn in admins' (and creativeusers') sides for a long time. Using the font management whitepapers fromExtensis, it is still not clear what I need to do (In 10.6) to clean/movethe default fonts to re...  View more

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Managing Printers

Just curious how many of you manage printers ? We have tried a number of things. Managing from Casper has sometimes been hit and miss. I think one of the problems is that we have so many different versions of the Mac OS ranging from 10.3.9 right up t...  View more

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yet another feature request

I would like a nice interface in the JSS like WGM for modify plist files for MCX. Where I could import a Plist file and then tell it, this string bool true this string bool false. It would make MCX management easier. I of course, use OD for most of m...  View more

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disable text to speech via MCX

What plist controls this? We disabled it, but students can still hit the finder/app menu and go to services and run it. Where are the services listed in what Plist and how do I disable? Thoughts? Thanks Tom  View more

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Casper Feature Request (scripts & man pages)

Hi, On 30 Mar 2010, at 19:24, Thomas Larkin wrote: While we are doing feature requests, and I love the script Idea. In fact, if I could just copy/pasta a working and tested script in say a dialog box in the JSS and say, this is a script in X (perl, a...  View more

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Entourage

Anyone having problems with Entourage 2004/2008 mass of users getting message 'The folder Inbox cannot be synchronized with the server' You must empty the cache for the folder before it can be synchronized again. Message comes up on all Inbox, calend...  View more

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Feature Request: Nested Smart Configurations

Support guys, devs, and fellow admins: In my Casper environment: a multi-office, multi-department, creative enterprise, I have need of the the ability to build Configurations, Smart Configurations, and Sub-Configurations underneath; nested smart conf...  View more

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Users permissions

All, I have copied user data to a new computer using these commands. 1. Login as an admin, open Terminal and use the following to push the userfolder to the external drive: rsync -aEv /Users/ /Volumes/ExternalHD 2. Then use Casper to wipe the drive a...  View more

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Upgrading your JSS to Mac OS X Server 10.6.3

Hey everyone, We've recently discovered that the Mac OS X Server 10.6.3 update includes an update to Tomcat 6.0.24. Unfortunately, this update also means that the server.xml file that is installed at /Library/Tomcat/conf/server.xml is replaced, which...  View more

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10.6.3 and JAMF command not working

We are finally in the process of using 10.6, due to several issues and testing with apple we think we may have a working system with 10.6.3. So I am testing my image and when i run the command line to force a policy or install a policy no matter whic...  View more

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Adobe Reader 9 deployment - Deleting the Older Versions

Hi, We need to deploy Adobe Reader 9 to all our machines. Requirement is "Policyshould delete older versions of the Adobe Reader before installing the newversion".We are packaging Adobe Reader 9 using Composer. There are multipleversions of Adobe Rea...  View more

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10.4.x + Admitmac v3.x + Printers deployed via Casper

We are doing a printer deployment and we came across a group of 10.4machines using admitmac v3. When the printers are deployed throughCasper (7.1) they get an error about NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED, or SAMBAaccess denied when they try to print. When I s...  View more

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Custom extension attributes?

It's great so far. It's helped me determine who has PGP installed, and what VMs are out there. Scouring the admin guide, it's not really clear how to specify a custom attribute. What data am I looking for to report back? Good example would be to know...  View more

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iPhone app

Anyone using the iPhone apps? I see a Recon for iPhone app to gather info... an a JSS Mobile app for getting info from the jss Is there a Casper Remote app? I suppose if it is possible to create policies in the JSS Mobile app you could create individ...  View more

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Memory utilization monitoring

So Apple has their own implementation of the sar command and I was wondering if anyone here has had the chance to figure out or somehow collect data on memory utilization in their Mac env. Specifically we're looking for machines that top out over a h...  View more

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SSH Ports

Hi All - I don't think this can be done yet, so I suppose this is a feature request. I want to be able to change the default port used by SSH with Casper. Port 22 just seems so...obvious. If I just missed this setting, could someone please let me kno...  View more

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