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Fusion Drive No-Entry sign

Been happily imaging machines using 9.8 until we got a couple of 2015 Fusion-drive iMacs. Same setup that's worked previously and on boot, all you get is "No Entry" icon (sometimes referred to as 'prohibited') and it goes no further. (pic attached fo...  View more

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Need help: Imaging Process- Target Mode Imaging

Hi All, New to the Casper suite so sorry for the long post :). I have been testing deployment methods with some test machines over the past few weeks and have been trying to nail down a deployment solution. To give you an idea of what we need to depl...  View more

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EDU / Ipad IOS Slack Channel in Mac Admin

Good afternoon everyone, Not to pull away from these wonderful forums, but for quick follow up and easy access I have made a channel inside of the Mac Admin Slack.Treating as a quick place to ask questions such as "Any of you seeing this today?..." K...  View more

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_mbsetupuser and Giving local admin rights

All - using the following script we are giving the user local admin rights. It is set for Login, once per user per computer. #!/bin/bash loggedInUser=$(stat -f '%Su' /dev/console) evaluate=$( /usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o checkmember -m $loggedInUser admi...  View more

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Help with AutoDMG and Recovery HD

Hi everyone. Today was my first attempt to create an image with AutoDMG, but it never created a Recovery HD. Here is what I did and perhaps I missed a step as I am not completely clear what the workflow should be: I downloaded the latest El Capitan i...  View more

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Retrospect EA - Last Backup Completed

Hi,Anyone managing Mac clients being backed up by Retrospect? I need a Extension Attribute to report the last date a client was backed up. I found a logfile /private/var/log/retroclient.log with the backup date and time. Here is an example of the log...  View more

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"Restart Options" Policy Payload

All Is there any reason the "Restart Options" payload is always automatically configured and added by default to newly-created JSS Policies? Is there any harm in removing it if it isnt required? I'm OCD about this kind of stuff - Can I remove "Restar...  View more

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NetSus log for netboot

So we've been using a Netsus for a ltitle time and it's working great. But I'm trying to collect some data to report on it's usage. Since it's a virtual appliance I can grab some data from Sphere..but need help finding some other data. Are there log ...  View more

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recurring check-in not reliably working

Hello everybody, I'm on JSS 9.81 and have recently noticed that about half of my machines are not checking in at the recurring check-in interval. I noticed this first because they were not getting some updated policies and EAs didn't return the value...  View more

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new updates are not reflecting in location SUS

hi, we have 8 location casper servers, in that two of the servers are not displaying the latest updates from apple site. where in other 6 servers are getting the updates from the master distribution server(configured in apple site). can any one tel m...  View more

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Casper Imaging - the script could not be found

Hi all I am having an issue when imaging my macs, if I try a include a postflight script to call on other settings and software updates I get an error in my jamf.log saying The script could not be found. All other packages work fine and these scripts...  View more

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iOS 9.2, content blockers, and your JSS

I just got my iPad pro and have gone all iOS at work. Today was my first day of attempting to work only on iOS and I was unable to edit any static groups or add any devices (we are iOS only) to any config profile group in Safari which is my browser o...  View more

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HTTPS downloads failing on all client machines

Last week all of our https downloads have been failing. Switching to force over smb/afp works correctly. When it downloads the policy, we receive the error "NSURLConnection/CFURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9813)The network ...  View more

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system.login.screensaver

The command we are using to prevent users other than the logged in user to unlock their screen is: security authorizationdb write system.login.screensaver authenticate-session-user My question is does anyone know what file is being changed so that we...  View more

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AirPlay Destinations

Hello Everyone, Is anyone else using Configuration Profiles for limiting AirPlay destinations on iPads? We currently have over 100 Apple TVs in our school district and we used to be able restrict them by building with Configuration Profiles but notic...  View more

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Site_Objects - object_type

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the "object_type" values are for the site_objects table? I assume each type number represents the object such as a computer, smart group, etc etc. I'd like a list of the object_types if possible.  View more

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Browser Metrics

Had anyone used JAMF to determine usage metrics on Mac web browsers? I deploy Safari, Chrome and Firefox to all Macs. Powers-that-be are interested in (eventaully) gathering usage metrics to determine what browsers are being used the most for each pl...  View more

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Can't Load data from Apple Software Server - OS X Server.app

Hello JAMF Nation, My ASUS is now throwing a hissy fit and refuses to load SUS data. Everything worked just fine last Friday and no updates occurred over the weekend. We have our clients pointed our SUS using either a config profile or command line. ...  View more

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Office 2016 15.17 weirdness

Ever since we updated to 15.17, Outlook will not retain the preferences for the reading pane. In fact in some cases it seems to randomly assign preferences for some folders. Setting & re-setting it and quitting & relaunching doesn't make it stick. Is...  View more

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