I have successfully made my VMWare packages and I can blast them out; however, when I open VMWare for the first time on a machine it still asks for the VMWare volume license even though I followed the guide and put the 'license.txt' file where it sho... View more
I am planning on doing an in-place upgrade of my current 10.5.8 XServe running JSS 7.1. Has anyone had any issues in doing this or is it easier/better to format and clean install the OS and then reload the JSS? Please advise on best practices, and an... View more
Has anyone had a problem with Snow Leopard clients going against their own Software Update Server and OS updates not being visible? I ran into this where I had a 10.6 client pointed at my 10.6 server with the CatalogURL in /Library/Preferences/com.ap... View more
So, I am trying to package up firefox with some add ons, particularly with public fox. Public fox allows me to lock down firefox preferences so I can manage it. The problem is, the extensions by default install into the home directory, and the user w... View more
I have a CS4 premium (2 Disc) installer that I have combined into asingle DMG by following the Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs onJAMF's knowledge base. The problem that I run into is when I add thisDMG to Casper Admin and check the box in the... View more
Hi All, I've been working with the JAMF support folks in regards to this, butfigured I'd post something here. I am having an issue with CasperVNCon machines that have VMWare Fusion and Parallels installed. Themachines are all running 10.5, usually 10... View more
Hello, Sorry, not really Casper related... Running Leopard 10.5.8 bound to AD. I have seen issues where AD users are recieving messages when they try to copy a file to a windows smb share stating that they may need to be an administrator to copy the ... View more
At my company, we allow employees to use Entourage or Mail.app. Ideally, down the road we want to target installs to users of Mail.app or Entourage. A good example is installing Symantec E-Vault Entourage client on Entourage users only. I know you ca... View more
Does anyone have experience with setting up self healing packages? Iseem to be doing something wrong here. The JSS Policy log shows: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 7.1 Executing Policy Self Heal Packages... Gathering Self Healing information from https://... View more
Does anyone have an easy way to create a computer group for only desktop andonly laptops? Currently, I can use smart groups and specify individual models to definethe desktop family (same for laptop), but I will have to manually update themodels when... View more
Hello, I tried creating an mcx setting that adds a login item to ~/Library/ loginwindow.plist This did not turn out so well and I was wondering if anyone has had to find a solution for this before: I need to mount a windows server share (smb) at user... View more
Hi- Has anyone figured out what changed in Microsoft's Office 12.2.3 updater? In the past, the updaters were looking for package receipts in /Library/Receipts and if receipts weren't there (but the right versions of the applications the updater will ... View more
I hope this comes across nicely, I certainly don't want to ruffle any feathers. When folks reply to a thread, is it really necessary to quote the hundreds of lines, including disclaimers, signatures, and in some cases the entire digest? It makes it m... View more
Is anyone using Casper Suite with a 1 to 1 program for student laptops? What are you controlling? How smoothly does it work? Thanks, Nelson MillerIT ManagerComanche School Dist I-002(580) 439-2913 View more
So I got a compiled 10.5.8 installation and on some of my machine after imaging them, they don't have the volume renamed "Macintosh HD" they have them renamed boot.efi, and they boot to a flashing question mark. However, sometimes they image properly... View more
Recently I've been tasked with looking at updating our naming convention for the computers we support. Currently in our student computer labs we use a short and simple name (WEM01 for example). WE is short for our building name and M is Macintosh sta... View more
this isnt a casper question but i was curious if anyone out there new how to change the default location for home folders. i'm looking to use the accounts pane in system prefs to create users but automatically have the home folder made in a non stand... View more
Is anyone experiencing any issues when trying to run Recon on a SnowLeopard (10.6.2) machine? I have one Snow Leopard machine in thebuilding and Recon has been running for over 20 minutes. Any suggestionsout there? Thanks, JIM ORING, JR. IT WORKFLOW ... View more
Hello, I'm having issues pushing some user-level managed prefs. For instance~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.digihub.plist which controls the Discinsertion action. First, I am unable to upload the setting in ManagedPreferences even after converting to... View more
I have to push out a periodic table widget to a bunch of users, will be self service most likely. How do you all push out widgets? -Tom View more
I hvae done a extraction of the jamf.exe from recon.exe via the recon.exe /x command, and when i try to start a script with this syntax c:windows empjamf.exe -overrideJSS https://casper.xxx.no:8443 -username setup -password xxxxxx I get an error stat... View more
Hiya all, I found the verb to install a package using the command linejamf install package xyz.pkg... but I get an error 'The package (xyz.pkg) cannot be found.'I see in the jamf man pages that a path can/must be supplied to the binary,since I didn... View more
To satisfuy, I need to deploy a firewall solution at least to all mobile computers within the enterprise. I have written a script that loads an ipfw ruleset at startup depending on the domain listed in /etc/resolv.conf. This hasn't been deployed yet ... View more
Hi- I had major major problems getting McAfee Security for Mac (aka MSM aka VirusScan 9) installed through Casper Imaging. But, I've got it. So, if you're running into the same problem, here's how you do it (and it's actually really easy) Using Caspe... View more
Hello I was trying to figure out how I can grant permissions to make a persona local admin with a policy , I was provided this from JAMF Support'sudo dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership username' but theysaid for me to reach out and see if a... View more
Has anyone run in the issue in OSX 10.6 where an application what Admin user/password to be launched. When clicking on details it says Rights system.privilege.admin. This is happen when a non Admin network user is logged in the Mac.The applications t... View more
I am trying to run a series of reports in Casper Inventory that sort the laptops in my deployment by last check in date, and anything that has not checked in to the JSS in over 4 weeks. The report works fine, but it fails to add in the user's short n... View more
I start up my computer into Netboot to when I change a configuration Ireceive an error: An exception of class NilObectException was not handled.The application must shut down. Any suggestions on how to fix this? -- Jon Yung View more
I followed the directions athttp://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=059 to create a hidden adminaccount for use with the JSS. It worked great, but I also want to be ableto set that account as the only account with access to Remote Login andRemo... View more
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