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Photoshop CS4 Installer fails

Hey All- I'm trying to create Adobe CS4 installers per Casper and can't seem to get them to work. They fail fairly quickly from Remote or after imaging and the end of the log reads "Could not get the list of supported languages." Has anyone else seen...  View more

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Reminder: Minneapolis Casper User Group

Just a quick reminder to everyone that the Casper User Group will be this Thursday from Noon to 3pm. Please be sure to visit the website and RSVP if you can make it so we can get accurate counts. http://www.hopkinsschools.org/casper-user-group Thanks...  View more

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Interact Quizdom?

Has anyone had to deploy the software, Quizdom? It is software that goesalong with clickers for students to key in answers to tests, etc. Let me know, because I am having issues getting a package to work. Thanks!- lauren -LAUREN NICHOLASUser Support ...  View more

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Problem with Casper 7 and Location info

Hi, Since upgrading to Casper 7 I'm having problems with the Location info in the computer records - the info simply dissapears. I can reenter the info for the computers but after a while it's gone again, but only for some and not for others. I haven...  View more

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McAfee VirusScan EPO server

Is anyone out there using McAfee VirusScan with and EPO server? I've made a few installers ­ one as two parts (EPO pieces and then the app)and one combined. I still get the wondrous results below: 7/6/09 7:43:51 AM com.apple.launchd[1](com.mcafee.vir...  View more

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Casper NetInstall Creator 3

HI All Has anyone used this yet? Ive tried to use it so that when you quit Casper Imaging it then launches the Casper NetInstall LaunchPad with various options such as Open the JSS and open Disk utility Ive created two netinstall images and both of t...  View more

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Block copy won't work

Hi, When I try and install an OS from a Netboot image, it will not install with block copy. It says block copy, but then says, clean up and then goes onto the rest of the apps. If I don't erase the hard disk it will install the OS, but it is doing it...  View more

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Enabling Root

Hi- We're looking at getting Random Password Manager working on OS X (already have it for our windows machines). RPM will spin the root account. Does anyone know how to script the enablement of the root account? Ideally, we'd enable it through Casper...  View more

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v7 - Upload MCX Setting

Has anyone been able to successfully upload a Managed Preferences SettingTemplate?I keep getting: "File upload failed" Thanks--Brad RellingerTechnology SpecialistAnthony Wayne Local Schools K-12aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org  View more

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Active Directory/Self Service question

I'm using Self Service for software installs via AD Group policy. I have an OU called Casper Policies. I have a Security Group in this OU called Adobe Master Collection. I can add individual AD Users to the Adobe Master Collection Security Group and ...  View more

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Icon file to use in Self Service app?

Where can I find the icon resource to copy into the Self Service app so that I get a nice, big, clear icon of the app I am making a self service install for? Right now I am using Grab to make a screen shot of the icon - but it is pixelated. Do you ha...  View more

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MCX settings and time machine menu extra

I am trying to remove the time machine menu extra from the menu as we arenot using time machine. I tried to manually add the setting to the menuextras part of MCX but did not have any luck getting it to work. Any ideas? Rich DagelSenior Technology Sp...  View more

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Minneapolis Casper Users Group - July 9, 2009

Hello Everyone, We will be holding the second Casper users Group meeting hosted by the community on July 9 at the Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, MN. Please check the website for more details. While this event is being held at the school, we welco...  View more

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Adding LDAP server to JSS

I'm adding my ODM to the LDAP servers in the JSS, using the default settings in the JSS, but when I save and test a user lookup of a user I know is in there, I get the following error: The following error was generated performing the LDAP Lookup: Err...  View more

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font title & PO date ???

In the JSS, can anyone tell me where I can have teh "Font Title" and "PODate" not show in the Inventory options? I cannot find it and bothfields have "???" for every entry. thanks, - lauren -LAUREN NICHOLASUser Support Analyst - Hurd Campus Center fo...  View more

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All of Caspers files?

I'm having a ton of problems with our new deployment of Casper 6 to about 15 servers. Things are not replicating, Adobe installs don't get listed in Casper Admin, Self Service is super flakey, reimaging is skipping the main disk image, etc. I have a ...  View more

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Evaluate Password Strength

Hello All-We are preparing for a security audit of sorts and I was wondering if anyoneknew of a way in which Casper might be utilized to evaluate the passwordstrength of passwords on users workstations. ThxJon -- Jonathan H. Smith | Sr. Systems Engin...  View more

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Error deploying software package

I was wondering if you can provide any information on the followingerror when we are trying to deploy a package to a managed client. We have tried to deploy the CasperSuite 7.0 as a package. Installation failed. The installer reported: installer: Err...  View more

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FW: Error deploying software package

I was wondering if you can provide any information on the followingerror when we are trying to deploy a package to a managed client. We have tried to deploy the CasperSuite 7.0 as a package. Installation failed. The installer reported: installer: Err...  View more

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script to remove item from startup items?

Hello all- I just got my script working for PaperCut (finally) via a login policy.It works great. However, I deployed a bunch of machines before I couldfix it to faculty members-simply adding the PCClient.app to their loginitems. Now, if I make the s...  View more

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JSS ver 6 or ver 7

Folks, I'm running JSS v6 on a 10.5.7 Server unlimited clients ... Due to cost saving and economic crack downs .. My boss want to pull myunlimited license in lieu of a 10 User OS X Server 10.5 ..I think he wants to play with it more than the 10 seat ...  View more

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Script to change name on macs

Dear All, I want to reinstall 15 iMacs every 2 weeks. Do anybody have a script to use the "jamf setComputerName " using a text file with Mac address-- Name relation? many thanks Carmelo Lopez Portilla ITS EMBL HeidelbergTel. +49 (0) 6221 387 8444Fax ...  View more

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New Adobe Install Setup - on server but not in Casper Admin

I've been having some odd problems adding software to our JSS server and want to see if there is a quick fix as it is usually a day or two process to get things replicated across our servers from our master server since the replicas are scattered acr...  View more

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v7 Questions - MCX, OS X Disk, & AD Bind

I just upgraded our JSS yesterday to v7 and have been having a few issueswith v7. I'm almost certain it's user error so I figured I'd ask theexperts. Managed Preferences: I went through and made some quick managed preferencesettings just to test this...  View more

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Self Service Blankness - solved

OK - got it solved. We were not entering the fully qualified domain name to the master distribution server in Casper Imaging when we (and by WE I mean ME) launched Imaging. That means it wrote the server name to /private/etc/jamf.conf as an unqualifi...  View more

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External hard drive

There was a thread on here a while back about putting Casper on an external hard drive, but I can't seem to find it. Can someone point me to this, or explain what they're doing? Jeffrey A. StraussDepartment of Educational TechnologySystems Administra...  View more

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Monitor size reporting

Does anyone have a way to report on the monitor size in Casper, whether thatbe the built-in monitor or an attached (or both). Resolution from SystemProfiler only tells me the current set resolution, not max resolution. Atleast with max, you can guess...  View more

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Scheduled Task

Hi- I'm going to be pushing software updates once a month, two weeks after patch Tuesday. Ideally, people would have that two week period to apply software updates themselves (from our internal SUS) but then after that 2 week period, I want to force ...  View more

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Compiled Configurations Casper 7

Dear all, Once you compile a Configuration using Casper Admin 7 , this is placed under CompiledConfigurations Folder on the JSS Server, but I cannot see it under JSS-->Management-->Policies when I want to create a policy to deploy this compiled syste...  View more

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HTTP on by default in Casper 7

Hi all, I thought I'd drop this out there quickly just as a note to anyone updating to Casper 7 this week. It seems that JAMF have (possibly mistakenly) set HTTP downloads to be turned on by default in this release whether you had it switched on befo...  View more

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