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WinClone "Make EFI Bootable"

Hey everyone (or even the WinClone folks).We have a few machines that when you boot into WinPE the EFI partition is not visible either when you try and mount it with mountvol S: /S or when you look for it with diskpart.I noticed however that when you...  View more

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AutoCasperNBI v1.3 "Error: Generating Kernel cache"

@bentoms and other AutoCasperNBI users... I am having trouble figuring out how to solve this. Issue is when when applying a 10.11.1 image (15B42 created with autoDMG..no addl pkgs) and utilizing v1.3.0 of AutoCasperNBI. The process seems to kick off ...  View more

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Display computer name in menu bar?

Anyone know of a way to show the Computer Name from Sys Prefs > Sharing in the menu bar? We have a lot of edit suites and this would be handy when assisting users.  View more

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tweaking part of a script

I have in my first boot script a section that looks at the machine and determines if it's a laptop or desktop. if it's a laptop, it runs a trigger to install the VPN. I was just provided another version of the VPN, but it's for a specific region. I w...  View more

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Build Issues After Printer Change for Base Image

In our setup, we have a base configuration, and then Smart Configs after. The base build contains the Yosemite 10.10.5 OS and the applications needed by everyone, the smart configs handle the domain bind and a few site specific applications. The base...  View more

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Categories Best Practices

Thinking of revamping my current Categories in the JSS. Grouping my policies and packages is becoming tougher. Can someone share some best practices and or what works well for you?  View more

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User account status

Is there a way, in JSS, to get a list of how many local user accounts there are for a computer. I know that this is collected in inventory. I can look at each computer separately, but would like a summary list of all student computers. FY!, our stude...  View more

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Frustrating VPP assignments

Anyone know if there is a specific reason why you can't target certain fields on a Smart User group? For example - Room and/or other Smart Device groups? Or a work around? I have elementary iPads tagged to a room, and setup in a smart group. But now ...  View more

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Lost Server

Hey I've recently come into a school running Casper with very little experience with it.I have full access to the JSS web client, but I am unable to find what server Casper is installed on. Is there any way of seeing where it's installed from within ...  View more

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manually running periodic policies

Is there a way to manually trigger policies set to run at a specific execution frequency? Something like jamf policy -event monthly Why would I want to do this? I have spare Macs on a shelf that I plug in and power up from time to time to make sure t...  View more

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Machines not checking in?

I was curious to see if anyone else has been getting this issue. We have 114 machines out of our 600 that have just stopped checking in. All on random dates with seemingly no reason. They are on and connected to the network. You can run sudo jamf rec...  View more

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Client computer name

We make a policies that will change client computer name to sync what computer name on our jss. but for some reason its not syncing when we tried to Sudo jamf recon or sudo jamf manage the computer, the computer name from client computer will be sync...  View more

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Recon Having issues after 9.81 upgrade

Hi All, We have recently upgraded our environment from 9.73 - 9.81.Before the upgrade I was using Recon's Network Scanner quite effectively too, every time I ran the scan I would enrol 2 - 20 computers at a time and it would finish the scan reasonabl...  View more

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Branches?

I don't understand the concept of "branches." The "Netboot-SUS-LP" PDF doesn't really explain what they are and how they are of any use.  View more

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Time Machine - why won't it automatically mount?

So we've been hitting our heads against the wall the past few weeks while we work to get Time Machine working in JAMF. We're using a network share (NAS) to back up all of our endpoints (which currently is only around 25, but will be upwards of 100 on...  View more

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NetSUSLP 4.0.0 and CentOS

We're running NetSUS 3.0.2 on CentOS 6.7 just for software updates. To support 10.11 I tested out updating it to NetSUSLP 4.0.0. The update went without issue, but after the first sync several current updates, like 10.9.5 and 10.10.5, were marked as ...  View more

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Script guidance

This isn't directly JAMF related but may be useful to someone once it's working..? I have a script that installs a certificate then echo's whether it's installed or not after, i'd like to add a check to the beginning to stop the script if a non Activ...  View more

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Distribution servers

What is the hardware everyone is using for distribution servers? Is there min specs for distro servers anywhere as I couldn't find any information for suggested hardware.  View more

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Licensed Software - Adding in Computer name field

Hi AllI've started to use the Licensed Software area in JSS to good effect, particularly for knowing how many clients we are running with ELA licenses. However for Individual software licenses it would be nice to have a field to enter the Machine nam...  View more

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