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alanmcseveney · 02-13-2015

Has anyone else seen this issue? I created a DMG in Composer containing one file, and pushed that out to 30 machines. The checksum of the file inside the DMG matches the checksum of the original file. However, The resulting file installed on the hard...

alanmcseveney · 06-05-2014

I would like to set a computer record's name in the JSS and on the computer to it's DNS name. Doing the computer itself is easy, using scutil or jamfhelper. Getting the change up to the JSS is harder. I can run jamf recon, but that takes forever. Ide...

alanmcseveney · 04-03-2013

I just installed Office with our Volume license installer on a clean OS X 10.8.3, then 14.1.0, then 14.3.2. The last update blew away the license, leaving me at the serialization wizard on first launch. It were as though no license had ever been pres...

alanmcseveney · 11-14-2017

You could use a W-fi captive portal or 802.1x authentication that prompts for AD credentials, either of which should be able to to put a device into a group. You cannot login to an iPad "console" as an AD user.

Re: Forcing Users to Log Out · 01-25-2017

Which apps are you updating on logout? Have you looked at Auto Update Magic? If you really need to logout all users, you can always do: /usr/bin/killall WindowServer || /usr/bin/killall -9 WindowServer Not pretty, but should work. Equivalent to hitti...

alanmcseveney · 07-06-2016

I just ran this from Self Service, and here is the Log output: Executing Policy Wacom Driver... Caching package WacomTablet_6.3.15-3.dmg... Downloading http://myserver/casper/Packages/WacomTablet_6.3.15-3.dmg... Verifying DMG... Running script instal...

alanmcseveney · 07-06-2016

I still stand by my method, and use it on many other packages, not just Wacom. Create a new script, called InstallPKGfromDMG.sh Here is the script, which is a slightly tweaked version of Nick Amundsen's script. Paste it into the Script tab: #!/bin/sh...

alanmcseveney · 12-11-2015

I had a bunch of slow queries until we did a healthcheck, and I seemed to have some cleaned up after the healthcheck and some new slowdowns afterwards. I couldn't list a prestage imaging log at all until healthcheck. After healthcheck my Change manag...

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