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Adobe Acrobat 8 Tip #1

Not sure if these types of things are super helpful. If they are cool, letme know. When creating a package that includes the new Adobe Acrobat 8 application,and you'd like it to act similarly, i.e. Settings and user preferences, onboth PPC and Intel ...  View more

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wiki, forums, lists

i want a wiki for "how to" of specific jamf products. or a public repository of cleaver scripts. like our cs2 cleanup or dual boot imaging script. best practices etc... i like this list for discussions. there is a archive and search. search dosn't wo...  View more

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Do We Need The JumpStart

Hello. I'm the computer instructor at the Manlius Pebble Hill School inDeWitt NY, just outside of Syracuse. This past fall a colleague at theHorace Mann School in NYC suggested that we look into Casper as a wayof configuring and administering our 100...  View more

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Santa Rosa Systems and 10.4.10 in general...

Hello All, This is more of a heads up than anything really. If you plan to update yourOS 10.4.X images to be compatible with the new Santa Rosa processor laptopsamd still want the displays on your old laptops to work I recommend NOTputting on the 2.2...  View more

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Writing to jamf log from scripts

Hi, Does anybody know if there is an explicit way of writing to the JAMF logfrom shell or Apple scripts? CheersDan-- Daniel FarnworthIT ManagerThe Creative Partnershipdaniel.farnworth at thecreativepartnership.co.uk http://www.thecreativepartnership....  View more

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BootCamp & Casper 5

Has anyone worked with computers with BootCamp partitions on them and Casper 5? Just wondering if there are any surprises before I give it a try. Also, what was your experience with using Casper 4 on computers with BootCamp partitions? Thanks for any...  View more

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QuickTime 7.1.6 Update

Has anyone applied QuickTime 7.1.6 update? If so, how did you go aboutapplying the QT Security 7.1.6 Patch? This would only apply to deploymentsthat QT 7.1.6 update was applied after Security patch was released. Wantedto see if you applied both at th...  View more

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Casper Suite 5.0

Has anyone other then me had a problem with Casper Admin saving your groups. I add my packages to a group, save, exit and when I log back into Casper Admin all my packages are under unknown. Thanks  View more

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Quicktime 7.1.6 Updater

Hi, Is anyone else having any problems with the QT 7.1.6 updater package fromApple? We have it as a part of our base config and our packaging config, butwhenever we image a machine using either config, SW Update pops upafterwards and asks to update Q...  View more

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Using Composer

This may be a silly question but before I spend any time trying... Can I make a Disk Image of an existing box that I can simply use to imageanother box and basically have a clone of the original existing box???Thanks in advance,Mike Michael J. Gramsm...  View more

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Casper 5??

Has anybody seen it? Is it great? Is it available? Where is the download? TIA,Matt CorippoLindamood-Bell Learning Processes  View more

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Package help

I have a SuitCase package I built and when pushed using Casper always asksme for the serial#But...If I go and do a manual install using the same package it does not?What am I doing wrong here???Thanks,Mike  View more

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Netboot imaging

Hi, We're imaging our machines whilst NetBooted, and keep getting the old'Startup Disk is almost full' message, which sometimes hangs up the imagingprocess. Having searched the archives I have followed the advice of othersand set our NetBoot images t...  View more

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Bare metal machines (Sort of...)

Hi, We've got 20 or so brand new machines arriving next week which we want toimage using Casper. I'm assuming they will be in the default new Mac stateof OS installed and booting to Setup Assistant. Can anybody offer any sage words of advice or tips ...  View more

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Problems installing iLife 06 & iWork 06 with Netboot

Hello all, As part of a restructuring exercise we are trying to use .pkg installers with Casper if the software is distributed in that format. This is a departure from making .dmg packages for each application no matter what format the software origi...  View more

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Subject lines

Hi, I'm not trying to play list mom or anything, but it would be very useful if people could enter an appropriate subject line when posting and re-title if they are replying to digest posts. Just helps a lot when trying to read multiple threads. Many...  View more

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Package for final cut

Has anyone been able to make one with out serialization info? Thanks Rich Rich Dagel | Senior Technology Specialist | Landor Associates |1001 Front St. | S.F., CA. 94111 | 415 365 3933 | www.landor.com  View more

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Missing package

In Casper Admin (4.1) I have two packages that are listed as Missing andred. I know they are in the share and the permissions are RW- forCasperadmin. I'm not sure why it won't see the .dmg package. I coulddelete it form the Repository, then re-copy i...  View more

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JSS - Feature Request

I've got another one.....Would be possible to add the Fill User Template, Fill Existing User Home Directories, and Update Autorun data options when scheduling a policy to install or uninstall apps. For example: I am uninstalling Suitecase X1 and inst...  View more

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Dock Items - Feature Request

Would it be possible to allow dock items to be associated with configurations in Casper Admin?? When we add a new app to a config it would be nice not to have to rebuild the dock pref for that config, it's just kind of a pain to have to do it as ofte...  View more

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Casper Remote Access for Mobile Laptops

I am in favor of increase remote access to both PC and Mac. I a currently using Remote Desktop to control both platforms. I am wondering if Casper can build similar VNC access for remote access for clients on the road and at home. We are going to be ...  View more

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Feature Request: Windows Remote Client

Hello, I had already sent this request to JAMF, but I wanted to get feedback fromother JSS users. I have asked for a Windows based Casper client mainly forothers within our support/help desk area which is typically a Windowsmajority. All I'm asking f...  View more

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Feature Request

Does anyone else think it'd be a good idea for Casper to have a checkbox toreset the printing system? I'm working on a script to do the same thing, butit'd be great to have the option of removing ALL the client's printersbefore pushing out a new set....  View more

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CCA Training Mpls and NYC

Hey everyone, We are going to be offering our CCA course in Minneapolis on April 17th-20thand New York on May 1st- 4th. We currently have 5 slots open forMinneapolis and 8 slots for NYC. The cost has been reduced to $1750 per student with both group ...  View more

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Casper VNC

I can only use CasperVNC one time, then if I try to get on anothercomputer it gets hung up when trying to launch CasperVNC? the status says"VNC Server is running. Launching CasperVNC..." I'vetried quitting and trying again, I've tried restarting my c...  View more

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Printers

Hello,I am using Casper Suite 3.2 and have run into some difficulties with duplicate printers. Overtime, I somehow uploaded printers with the same name twice into 2 different groups. In a cleanup measure, they were all moved to the same group and dup...  View more

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Casper 4.1 Local mode erases HD

We upgraded to Casper 4.1 a couple of months ago. Recently, we needed to install some new packages to computers in a lab environment which had initially been configured to netboot, run Casper to erase the HD and re-image the computers. When running C...  View more

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