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Wish I could make it!

I've been hoping someone with the organizational skills to start up a user group around Columbus would do so. I won't be able to make it on the 27th, but hopefully soon!  View more

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ebook distribution

How can I make an ebook available in self service without requiring our students to provide an Apple ID? The default method just provides a url for the app store item so then the student has to provide an Apple ID to download it. Is there a method th...  View more

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Enrollment Script not running/corrupted

So in reimaging a lab yesterday (2012 MacBook Pro 13") I found that the enrollment script was either never created, or that it was complete jargon and not written to the drive correctly. My first guess is that I should have deleted them from the JSS ...  View more

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Generate hardware model inventory report

Hi, We'd like to generate a report of all our current hardware configurations currently managed by Casper. (not a list of all computers but only the different models) So the list would be something like a list of models with there various different c...  View more

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Printing Questions

Hi, What is the best way to add printers into Casper? I have my policies and smart groups scoped out correctly.. Can the same PPD file be used on multiple printers? If so, which PPD file is to be used? What is the PPD folder on the Casper server used...  View more

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Safari SSL

I am trying to run a secure browser for state testing on three labs in the school. When I open the browser I get an unknown error message: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made."The NWEA support team had me 1....  View more

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DEP Macs w/ nuke/pave distribution

We're looking to get DEP rolling for the sake that sometimes machines seem to wander off, but we also use the wipe and reload method for deploying machines. so, any issues with using DEP and the wipe and reload method? anything we should watch out fo...  View more

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Replacing a file with a folder

We discovered a small problem where instead of a ColorSync folder inside of the user template and therefore, inside of student’s home folders, we are seeing a text document called, ColorSync. There MUST be a way to remove this single document and rep...  View more

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Local Printers Duplicating

We are managing our MacBooks for the school district with Casper. What we have noticed is that the local printers that are not managed but plugged directly into the computer, are duplicating (sometimes in the hundreds). The question is, have any of y...  View more

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Self Service Policy - Limit to only assigned user in JSS

This is a strange question... but can anyone think of a way to limit access to a Self Service Policy to only the assigned user of a machine in the JSS? So if User A is the assigned user of Machine A, and User B is the assigned user of Machine B. I wa...  View more

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Grab version number from website

Hi I'm creating an update script for the application Dropbox.app. Now I would like to grab the version number from https://www.dropbox.com/install. I tried with following shell command:. #!/bin/sh latestver=`/usr/bin/curl -s -A https://www.dropbox.co...  View more

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[OT] Request for AV Exceptions

we have a request for some AV exceptions from an internal developer. They want to exclude javascript, ruby, html, and other source code type files. I'm not super familiar with the security aspects of allowing those unchecked or what virus makers typi...  View more

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jamfbin files???

Hello. I have 19.2GB of jamfbin files in my MySQL folder. They are actually named jamfbin.00123 (the numbers change) and there are multiple files created per minute for no reason I can find. Each file is approximately 15MB and there is an index file....  View more

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User Accounts,VPP and LDAP

Hi: I'm trying to recreate some actions that we had in Apple' Profile Manager for iPad in JSS. We are a college and make use of VPP to push apps to student's personal iPads during the semester. After the semester, we withdraw the apps so that we can ...  View more

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How to block El Capitan?

We are currently on JSS v9.61 and use the Restricted Software function. Most of our machines are Mavs/Yosemite. We typically restrict using both with and without the .app on the end. Do you know if there will be a space between "El Capitan"? Install ...  View more

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Java & Flash vs El Capitan

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/system-integrity-protection-and-the-end-of-xprotect-management-for-browser-plug-ins/ This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end  View more

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Issue When enrolling my MAC

Hi All, I'm currently having an issue when enrolling my mac. I can successfully push software, policy's, AD binding e.t.c which i have created within JSS. But when it come down to logging in to my account on the MAC I'm having issues. It is saying no...  View more

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VPP apps not being removed from iOS devices

Hello! I'm in an elementary school w/ 1:1 for each grade level. Our workflow has users assigned to static groups, and VPP assignments for both free and purchased apps assigned to the groups. Within the static groups, we assign the users, who are adde...  View more

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Cyclists attending?

Hi everyone, first time attending JNUC. Any cyclists attendind that would like to ride? I've been looking at several organized group rides and I'm getting more and more tempted to join at least one!  View more

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Deploying LogMeIn via Casper

I found several sparse tidbits on deploying LogMeIn, so I figured I'd share. The script should be a simple drop-in to JSS 9.7 to deploy the LogMeIn software. It downloads the latest version of the client, rather than having you package a stale versio...  View more

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Self Service Not Loading Policies

I was having an issue with tomcat stopping every 5 minutes on my 2008r2 server, so I decided to upgrade to 9.73 from 9.63. Tomcat started working and stayed on when I upgraded, but now I'm having a problem with Self Service and my LDAP. It seems that...  View more

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