completely remove an asset from the JSS
I am trying out some things and I want to start from a totally clean state. What is the best way to remove an asset from the JSS and remove all traces of Casper from that asset. Thanks loads. View more
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Building FlashPlayer Policy and AutoPKGr
Hey everyone, How do you package Flash Player to include both NPAPI and PPAPI? Any pkg that I find from AutoPKGr only includes NPAPI. I usually just build a DMG manually using composer to include both NPAPI and PPAPI together. Today, this is giving m... View more
SSO/Shared Drives/AD Binding Best Practices
Hello, I am looking for advice regarding best practices when dealing with the above technologies. Currently, we have an environment where we are bound to AD but the only thing remaining we need it for is shared drives. We currently have apple scripts... View more
Linux JDS enrolment error
Hi guys, I'm tying to install the JDS-Linux-Installer-9.82.run on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server in our vCenter, but I'm getting an error after providing the installer with the details it requests. The error displayed in the terminal is:error: (35) ... View more
OFFICE 2016 excluding outlook
Using Capser how can i install office 2016 during the imaging process to install office but leave out Outlook? View more
Server has a weak, ephemeral Diffie-Hellman public key mac server Chrome error connecting JSS
Hi, I'm trying to access the JSS weblogin and getting the following error. Not being a Mac guru as such, can anyone advise to how i can resolve this? I can use IE fine to access JSS. View more
Allow Mac App Store or not?
Hey there, i was looking for some best practice and references around the Mac App Store. Are you allowing the Mac App Store to be used by your employees or not? cheersjomo View more
JDS Issue with 0000_any_443_.conf
Hey nation! I'm trying to configure a bunch of JDS's on OS X with Server 5 but I'm running into some issues. I've successfully configured the root server, verified it working by replicating packages and downloading policies from Self Service. When tr... View more
reflector 2
i'm trying to build reflector 2 .dmg but every time i build dmg this error message will show but i'm able to build pkg. View more
Composer won't finish under root user
I have to use some software from Xerox that enables a pop up print approval window when students try to print while logged on to the Mac. I composed a package while logged on as an administrator and was able to add it to a workflow and install it suc... View more
EA to determine if user has Firefox vs Firefox ESR installed?
Looking for an EA that can distinguish between Firefox (mainline) and Firefox ESR. Google Chrome provides a key that tells you if user has Google Chrome installed or Google Chrome For Work installed. Located in /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Content... View more
Push Proxy Certificate is not renewing
Hello, I am new to CasperSuite and JAMF world so any help is appreciated. We recently migrated our JSS server from one Linux box to another. New instance was working but now I am seeing that our push proxy certificate is expired. I understand this sh... View more
Quickadd doesn't work on El Capitan client
A user came to me with a new MacBook Air running El Capitan. My quickadd package created in recon 9.65 fails with the error below."The Installation failed. The installer could not install the software. The installer could not install the software bec... View more
Prevent unauthorized systems from enrolling
Hello,First time caller, long time listener. We are using Casper to manage our Mac Devices. From a data security, and legal liability perspective, we want to only allow systems purchased by the company to be enrolled. We push access Certificates, and... View more
iOS App Layout options
Has anyone ever managed the App layouts on their iOS devices? When we were using configurator we had a Master image that had all the stock apps moved, but now that we're moving to DEP enrollment and configuration profiles when we upgrade our fleet (i... View more
Pushing out configured Canon Printers
Our Canon folks are putting out new printers. I’ve worked with them to create a process whereby they have a copy of Casper Admin on a system in their office so I can grab the printer (and the drivers) they create and push it to the users where that p... View more
Self Service Yosemite/El Capitan
I already have Self Service policies setup for Yosemite/El Capitan. now that these are up to 10.10.5 & 10.11.1 if I download the current installer.app for each will each .app be up to date with each OS's updates ? or will they be the base install wit... View more
Determine Sophos Anti-virus version
Even though the version is 9.2.8, Casper of course reports 9.2.4 since that's what the app says in its 'info.plist'. How are others getting the actual version of Sophos Anti-virus? View more
OS X Yosemite installer
We are trying to deploy OS X Yosemite to several computers however finding the installation file is proving to be difficult. Does anyone know where we can can download a copy of Yosemite from Apple or another trusted source? View more
Smart Group - "Cached Packages <not empty>?
Trying to test out a new approach to software pushes and cache packages. Ideally, I'd like to then have a policy that runs weekly and simply installs all cached, but since I'm putting up warnings to users, I obviously don't want to bother the user if... View more
Limiting SSH & port 22 - how is everyone doing it?
Hello JAMF Nation, Wondering how everyone here is limiting access to port 22 in their environment. We'd like to restrict it down the subnets where the management hosts and endpoints live, so I figured I would see how others are doing this (if at all)... View more
How do we block VPN at a school
In supervised mode, blocking new profiles from being installed is not working. The VPNs are now setting up under VPN instead of profiles as they formally were. What else can we do. THis is a huge problem and one of the main reason of purchasing the J... View more
Best way to transfer user data between one supervised iPad to another?
HI, I'm fairly new to iPad management so apologies in advance if this is a easy question/scenario. I've got 3 teachers who had gotten supervised 16 GB iPad Mini 2 devices in a pilot rollout we made using Casper this past Fall. They are using them lik... View more
Extension Attribute needed please help!
I am looking to add an extension attribute for Secondary MAC address so i may perform fast and accurate searches for our environment owned devices (mainly computers) that are using WIFI. View more
Office 2016 hanging on casper imaging
Anyone notice that office 2016 takes a long time to image through casper imaging? As in 5-10 minutes when a 7 gig OS installs in under 60 seconds. I built out office 2016 through composer and packaged it as a dmg I am using 2 SSD mac computers and ta... View more
Opening Sharepoint files with Office 2016 apps
Add this to the pile of weird changes since Office 2011: I discovered that if you install Office 2016 on a Mac that has never had ANY version of Office on it before, the Sharepoint browser and webkit plugins are not installed in /Library/Internet Plu... View more
Supervision of existing iPads
We are new to JAMF and thinking that someone somewhere has had this scenario and came up with an answer. We have a bunch of existing iPads already given out to teachers and staff. We are going to send them the enrollment invitation so we can manage t... View more
Extension Attributes Question
I have a group of computers in a remote office that I need to pull the DNS info from. However, the admin at that location renamed the default interface from "Ethernet" to "LAN." This is due to having also a Metadata interface as well so each is disti... View more
Composer under 10.11.x
Has anyone had issues running Composer under flavours of El Cap? I am completely unable to launch Composer. It fires up briefly, requests admin creds to 'make changes' and then when supplied quits. Same for any user on the system. I've killed everyth... View more
Help: How to enable SSH and VNC?
I found a knowledgebase article for enabling SSH but it's from 2012 and the setting must have been moved. How do I enable SSH through Casper on managed clients? Also, how do I enable VNC and configure the password? View more
