If Self Service app can leverage cached credentials, it would help greatly in our larger environments, where creatives/production folks need the fewest number of steps possible. OPTION-launching Self Service app would be a good way to allow remote su... View more
My casper server is at 10.5.8 My casper remote client pushing out the software is at 10.5.8 My client machine receiving software is at 10.6.2 When I push software out to this machine everything looks good UNTIL I restart the client machine. Then I ge... View more
There was a question on the list back in January about how to locate theFlash plug-in version, which is something I've wanted to do. The idea gotme thinking about not just Flash but also Silverlight, and really this couldapply to any plug-ins. So I e... View more
Hi- We've got clients on 10.6.2, bound to AD, AD user who logs in is an Admin.If the user tries to set up SMB file sharing, they're always greeted with'incorrect password' when setting up the account to share via SMB. Localaccounts or sharing only ac... View more
Back in January we had a discussion here about finding the uptime of amachine and displaying a message to users to reboot their machines. I justwanted to follow up on that and hand out what I've done here to implementthat. First of all, the reason I ... View more
Hi- Has anyone seen issues with AD-based accounts losing their admin rights on abox? Working with cached accounts on 10.6 specifically. Thanks j---Jared F. NicholsDesktop Engineer, Client ServicesInformation Services DepartmentMIT Lincoln Laboratory2... View more
Anyone been able to remove multiple machines at once from the inventory ?I have over 100 machines all named the same. I want to remove them and re-add them once they have all been renamed. Thoughts ? Andrew Jezard(MacBook Program Administrator) Sacre... View more
Hi All, I have restricted Firefox across the board for all Mac's in the buildingin order to make a config change to Firefox. Now, the problem that I'mhaving is when I go back into the JSS and exempt certain machines frombeing restricted, I still am u... View more
I'm pretty new to Casper, and just starting to explore policies, so I may be making a newbie mistake, here. We're pushing out LanDesk Client in order to have a single point for inventory and the like. Using Casper Remote the police (Casper's original... View more
I know this is a known issue with Mac Servers within a Windows environment, but about every 15-20 days our lone Mac Server is losing its DNS. There are multiple fixes all over google but I'm not sure which one is going to solve this issue. Our DNS te... View more
Is there a way in casper to setup a list of applications that are allowed to run for non-administrators or a list of blocked applications? Michael BondProfessional TechnologistWVU LibrariesOffice.: 304-293-0340Cell....: 304-282-0640Email.: Michael.Bo... View more
Hello, A new requirement at work requires us to have a backout and verification plan for any change to production systems. This requirement also affects software update patching for servers (and probably desktops). We have to patch servers quarterly.... View more
Hello Everyone,I’m wanting to display a message using a script set to ‘before’ to tell people updates are running behind the scenes. Using some of the scripts posted here previously, I made the following applescript: display dialog "Your Computer is ... View more
Hi Everyone, I know I am a little behind here, but I am trying to figure out how to roll out a basic or full install of 10.6 or higher. I have a new iMac with the latest OS installer and I thought if I made a .dmg of that install disk, that I could C... View more
ha! My preferred method is to see who owns the console. The currentlylogged in user in OS X always owns the console no matter what. So justset a variable like this CurrentUser=ls -l /dev/console | awk '{ print $3 }' Then call the variable in your com... View more
For reasons unknown, I am getting many (36 so far) error messages from myJSS/Casper server, all with this subject line: "Policy Error Executing Maintenance on (comp name)" I rarely see messages like these so getting so many has me searching forcauses... View more
Do you have OD as well as AD? If you, you can create a share point in OD and map it that way. I also believe you can map the home folders with the AD plug in on the AD side as well, but I don't have AD to test this with. As for the scripts, just modi... View more
We're using the move to Snow Leopard as our excuse to finally bind our Macs into Active Directory and have our end users sign in with their network IDs. A spinoff of that is, I'm using the new managed preferences to push the network home folder to a ... View more
Are all the error messages identical, other than individual machineidentifiers of course? It would seem odd that you'd suddenly have aslew of machines all need their hard drive repaired at the same time. If they were not all identical messages, at wh... View more
Has anyone else experienced an issue where when you have a policy add an item to the dock that the dock will revert to the default, with that one dock item added? I'm trying to push out a Self Service dock item to all our staff members, but when I di... View more
networksetup throws that error when running without root privs. but dscl localhost -read /Active Directory/All Domains/Computers/`scutil —getComputerName` dn works too. View more
Hi, I need to create a Single Click Install for Mac OS X. One of our enterprise clients require it immediately. Please suggest as soon as possible. Just user need to double click the package, it should install in the background silently and after ins... View more
Is there a way to get the Mac's AD container information? I am anticipating that this will come up when auditing so it would be great to have this be a part of the inventory system. I currently have our McAfee virus defs version and date do the same ... View more
Thought I'd throw it out there and see if I'm doing this right, or even on the right mindset. So it's up to users to install the actual firmware patch to their machines right?If I force their machines to download apple patches every week, the updates... View more
I was just wondering how some of you may handle the inventory of unmanagedcomputers. I am mainly looking at keeping track of software licensing, andwant some of my unmanaged clients to still update their inventory once aweek automatically. Is this po... View more
Hi everyone, My clients are getting a message that is asking where is the Finder isnearly every time I netboot a client to my Casper nbi. Does anyone knowhow to fix this? Normally, I just have my techs hit cancel but I'm hopingto have clients re-imag... View more
Hi- Has anyone had any issues/pointers in packaging Office 2008 12.2.3 andEntourage EWS? I had them as two separate packages (12.2.3 as priority 10,EWS as priority 11) and on Imaging I end up with Setup Assistant crashing.The 12.2.3 package all on it... View more
We are trying to deploy some apps via iTunes. It was suggested to us touse Casper to monitor the file system for changes and build a packagethat way. So I launch Composer, build a new package with monitoring file system,open iTunes, copy our provisio... View more
All, I need to install Leopard, on some newer iMac’s, that have Snow Leopard shipped on them. Does anyone know if I create an install image from Disk with InstaDMG, or with Casper, if the information that checks the hardware is stripped out, or ignor... View more
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