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Smart Computer Groups

I'm using Smart Computer Groups based on Departments. I find when I change a mac to a new department in the JSS, my Smart Computer Group updates immediately. When we run Recon from a mac and change the departments, the JSS reflects the change but the...  View more

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modifying scripts

Hello all, I have many building level scripts that I am writing and making changesto them as need be. If I modify an existing script in the casper masterserver, does anyone know if it will sync all changes down to each sharepoint? Thanks, Thomas Lark...  View more

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Request for feature

I would like email notification for smart groups based on date e.g. Lastcontact time more than X days. Currently computers based on dates cannotsend email notifications. John BrennerMerrill CorporationIOG IT651-632-4072  View more

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netboot image holding authentication

Hey there, I updated the netboot images today with the new casper suite.One problem, my PPC one works great, however the Intel one for somereason is not asking us to authenticate anymore, its just loading intocasper. I tried replacing the folder agai...  View more

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10.5.2 and Composer 5.11

Has anyone else had issues with 10.5.2 and Composer 5.11? Every time I tryto create a .pkg file from a DMG image (through the conversion process) Iget a 'Exception of class NilObjectException that was not handled' error andthen composer quits. This o...  View more

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Casper and Netrestore

Are there anybody who has an idea of which frameworks casper uses?I would like to add the casper app to the tools menu in Netrestore, butCasper will not start on the startupimage from netrestore, i know thats itis becource some frameworks in the syst...  View more

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Imaging from Restore Partition

Hello all, Wondering if anyone on the list utilizes a restore partition for imagingtheir machines. If so, dose Casper prompt you that you are running out ofdisk space during imaging? If so, is there a way to prevent getting thismessage? If not, any w...  View more

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Application packages for Leopard

Curious to see who in this list has deployed Leopard and whether you areusing packages created in Tiger or have you re-packaged them in Leopard. Anyother thoughts are more than welcome regarding this. Thanx,Cyrus  View more

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Imaging Issues with new Intel Mac Books

Just wondering if anyone else out there has been having troubles withimaging the new Intel Mac Books with Leopard 10.5.2 using Casper?? Computer Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4, with the X3100 graphics card (NewestMac Book) The issue we are having with t...  View more

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inventory and helpdesk ticket system suggestions

OK Our current inventory is kind of a mess and to be honest I don't havetime to really keep up with inventory like I should. However, Casperhas a nice built in inventory system which I would like to takeadvantage of. However, I am not quite sure how ...  View more

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disable Dashboard on lab computers

Hello - Is there a way to use one of the Casper tools to disable Dashboard on labmachines (all Macs running 10.4.11)? I've tried doing this via ARD (3.2) using these commands: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES;killall Dock ...  View more

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8 core MacPro

Anyone having issues running 10.4.11 on the new 8 core 3.2 Mac Pro's TIA_matt --------------------------------------------------------  View more

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hdiutil error

Hi, I am getting a hdiutil error until 10.5.2. I can make a dmg from disk utility. I have rebuilt the permissions and reinstalled the 10.5.2 combo updater. Any ideas as to what causes this? Best wishes Michael  View more

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Linotype Font Explorer

Hi, We are thinking of moving to Linotype Font Explorer and using Casper to roll out new database files when we add new fonts. Has anyone any experience in using Font Explorer and Casper in this way? Cheers Michael  View more

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Add to keychain file

Hello,Does anyone know how to build a package or script that will edit allusers keychain file. We are starting to use a wireless network whichconsists of WPA and a RADIUS server. I need to add a certificate anduser authentication to everyone's key ch...  View more

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Regret spam but looking for freelancer in NYC

Do you know of a desk side Mac only freelancer in NYC looking for work.Casper plus.. Regret spam this list but need someone for Tuesday if possible. This may endup being long term freelance position for person.Thank you-- Enrique "Ricky" SilbergIT Di...  View more

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jamf binary question

Is it possible to see what Jamf binary is doing with the under the hoodUnix? Like for example if i write a script using the Jamf binary toaccomplish a task, is there a way to see exactly what unix commands itis using to do so? I would like to see how...  View more

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yet another feature request....haha sorry

OK, So, now I am looking to update our Tiger image. We have newtechnologies and settings in place which require a freshly imagedmachine to run like 10 updates to bring it up to par. So, I am lookingat creating a new master image but have run into a s...  View more

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Very weird download from the JSS server

So, today I was trying to log into the JSS server to view some policylogs, and when I typed in the manual URL for our JSS server it asked ifI wanted to download a file. Anyone ever seen this? I will attach thefile to this email and it is an .exe file...  View more

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synchronizing share points

It seems every time I want to sync a share point to make sure it has anew package I create it wants to sync everything again. How do I make it only sync certain or new packages? I have a policyerroring out at one building now over and over again beca...  View more

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security feature request...

This may seem to be a bit of an odd request, but I would love it if there was an option to disable input to the computer while applying the image. We have made our netrestore image look as clinical as possible but it still seems that users are intere...  View more

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Office 2008 enterprise package

We just received our enterprise version of office 2008. Has anyone made apackage yet? Any tips or tricks on making the package? Also any way toimport existing accounts or dose this need to be done by hand. Rich Dagel | Senior Technology Specialist | ...  View more

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Casper Policies and Failure

Does anyone know what the default behaviour of a policy that is set to run every 15 minutes once per computer is when: You have multiple updates in a single policy and one of the updates fails Will the policy continue to attempt to run until it distr...  View more

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One more feature request

Here's a simple one: When viewing the members of a Smart Group (or a Static Group), the group name doesn't appear anywhere on the page. You wouldn't think this would be a big issue, but with my short attention span I can't tell you how many times I'v...  View more

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[Feature request] Turn list items into links

Since we're having fun with feature requests... ;-) I'd like to see more list items turned into clickable links. For example: Using JSS 5.11 search for a group of machines under the Inventory tab andyou'll receive a list of machines. Our default list...  View more

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Another feature request

I also would like to add one more feature request to the web front endof JSS. I think this is a reasonable and easy thing to add. Whenviewing policy logs I would like the advance search feature of viewingjust the ones that had an error occur. For exa...  View more

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using casper to upgrade to leopard

how do we leverage casper to upgrade to leopard? without loosing user profiles? Siddhartha ChaddaChief Technology OfficerOLSONT:612.215.3533C:612.986.9310E:schadda at oco.com  View more

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New user question

We've recently started using Casper at our location and I have a question I hope has a simple answer. We currently use Bombich software with a NetBoot/NetRestore process to reload our computers in our technology labs. I've created a few updates with ...  View more

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