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smithdr · 03-09-2017

Hi All, I'm working on a script to remove content from the documents, downloads, desktop, and trash from a specific user. We have training laptops that we would like to refresh periodically. The first draft of my script is well intentioned, but it do...

smithdr · 01-05-2017

Hi All, My company does not currently have an LDAP solution in place, but in the meantime I would like to implement a way for the user's full name from the local account to be automatically populated into the JSS Full Name or Real Name section of the...

smithdr · 12-08-2016

Hello all, I'm new to scripting, trying to learn as I go. One project that I need to complete is to create a script that changes the computer name to a specified naming convention. the name would include serialnumber and the site that the computer is...

smithdr · 07-14-2015

I know this is somewhat of an obscure issue for this forum, but I'm hoping some of you have run into a similar issue within your environment. I have a user that is having a "Assertion failure" while using Adobe CC Indesign and Illustrator. Here's a c...

smithdr · 05-05-2015

I'm trying to brainstorm a workflow to navigate around some crazy security protocols we have at my company and I'm exploring the idea of creating a script to change the Network Locations based on the SSID available. This seems strange, but basically ...

smithdr · 03-09-2017

@mm2270 Thanks for the homeDir script. I can run that and it works when I manually type in the user folder name, but I'm receiving a "dsRecTypeStandard:Users" response when I attached it with a $lastUser variable. Updated script test looks like this:...

smithdr · 03-09-2017

@canopimp you're a hero. I'm going to give that a shot and see how it works. @michael-brodt I was thinking about doing that initially, but I didnt want to have to reload the bookmarks preferences and dock item locations every time. I'm sure I could u...

smithdr · 01-06-2017

Steve, Thank you! This almost get's me there. If I run this script off my user it works correctly, however being run through the JSS it responds with the full name being "System". I assume it's because the script is being run as root. I attempted to ...

smithdr · 12-12-2016

Hi @dlondon , I agree that the naming method is a bit long. We currently don't use AD in this organization. I just joined this company a little over a month ago and Jamf was purchased a little over a week ago, so one thing my management wants is for ...

smithdr · 12-09-2016

@TJ.Edgerly , The script is working correctly except for the last ComputerName command. I receive an "Invalid argument" error. I get the same error if I run that command independently. Any thoughts? EDIT: Disregard this. I actually combined the two s...

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