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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J...  View more

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OT: Mid-2012 MacBook Air OS Build Number?

Okay so Apple's article here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159says I should be seeing 11E2520 on our brand new 13" MacBook Air (Mid-20120) but it looks like I've actually got 11E2702. Can anyone else confirm this? Thanks  View more

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[OT] Storage Arrays

We are acquiring a MacPro for some video editing / streaming. The users are asking for an 8TB Raid Storage for "video streaming". The mentioned the promise pegasus 8TB RAID storage, but the MacPro doesn't come with thunderbolt and I haven't come acro...  View more

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read access for everyone to Distribution Points

the Casper Administration Guide recommends that sharing permissions on Distribution Points be set for 'everyone' to 'read only'. Some of our more 'industrious' users appear to be mounting the distribution point and downloading DMGs to try and find se...  View more

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inconsistent search results

this could just be the db i'm working with here, but i've noticed if i do an advanced inventory search like this: operating system LIKE 10.4 i get ALL the hosts in inventory. using 10.4. or 10.4.x yields the same results. smart groups are not similar...  View more

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Managed Dock and placement of icons

We're new to JSS and all it's wonderfulness, so if I'm missing something, I hope it's nothing obvious. We're moving from Apples WorkGroup Server to JSS to manage preferences. I added the Dock items for some of our most commonly managed apps into Admi...  View more

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JAMFhelper Script Output

I currently have a trigger which is called by a self service policy to unjoin from AD, rename the machine and rejoin it on our domain. I would like for our techs to receive some type of status update while the script is running. So far, I have tried ...  View more

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Create an extension attribute with an osascript

Hi everyone, Running into a slight snag here collecting some information from an application as an extension attribute. This is the script I am using to populate the EA: #!/bin/sh ## Only run this script if the computer has CEDPro on it if [ -e "/App...  View more

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Remote Schedule bug

I tried to set up a scheduled package install today at 12:00 pm. At 11:20 am it said Time Remaining 12 hours 40. If I scheduled it for 1:00 pm it said 1 hour 40 minutes.  View more

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iPad Support and Management Best Practices

Hi All, My first post on JAMF Nation...yeah! I'm in a K-12 school district and we just started using Casper in April to manage our 6500+ Mac desktops and laptops around the district. We are planning to start adding some iOS devices this fall and I am...  View more

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Papercut authentication via AD

Does anyone have experience distributing papercut printers (running on a Windows print server) via Casper to Macs? The problem I am having is with authentication on our AD domain. On the Windows computers, a user logs in using AD credentials, and is ...  View more

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Upgrade FF keep Bookmarks

What's the best way to upgrade FF and keep the bookmarks and stuff? In going through the other threads, there was suggestions to maintain the default folder, but we have such a variety of machines and potentially an unlimited number of defaults folde...  View more

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Packaging Finale 2012

Anyone have experience packaging this monster? I'm running into funny font management issues that are not getting applied to the user level correctly. Note - this is not "Notepad", this is the full version.  View more

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Setting Screen Sharing

Hi guys Im trying to get a VPN solution working for our home users to connect in and vnc to their workstations. Problem Is the ARD directory access is not going to work for the mobile accounts because I don't run OD and have a setup using ADmitMac. C...  View more

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Adobe Flash Player packaging - Updater mechanism

So, more of an FYI, but I found that if you drag the pkg out of the Adobe Flash Player installer and use that as your install package for Flash Player, you're going to be missing a component of the self-updater system. To some folks, this may be fine...  View more

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Your web server certificate expires in 19 days.

When I log into the JSS I am greeted with this message Your web server certificate expires in 19 days. I thought I could go to Settings -> Global Management Framework Settings -> Public Key Infrastructure and renew it. I'm not seeing the option there...  View more

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Smart Group question

I've only just recently begun playing with smart groups, and I'm stuck trying to figure them out. What I'd like to do is create a smart group based on having a specific package (CS6) installed from Casper, so it can install an update to that particul...  View more

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Boot Camp Imaging Woes

I am using a WincClone based image using the latest version of it and the Casper Suite with no luck. I am trying multiple combinations: Creating a Configuration that does not have Mac image. Instead just adding an NTFS partition with the Boot Camp im...  View more

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QuickTime Pro and Lion

All, I know this has probably been hashed over several times. We did some research and yet couldn't find a definitive answer. So I thought I would post a discussion to see how others are addressing this, if at all. We got several hundred new Macs in ...  View more

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Limited amount of NetBoot Clients

We've been experiencing some difficulty with NetBooting. At one site, booting with N or option key and selecting the Netboot image would result in attempting to boot the the image but then default to the internal HD. This started happening with the n...  View more

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Shell Scripting: Detect Wi-Fi interface

So I hit a snag with a shell script that power cycled the Wi-Fi so that a preferred network setting would take effect. What I found was that I needed to figure out what the Wi-Fi interface was internally (en0, en1 etc) so I could call it correctly de...  View more

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Unknown AD traffic

I just started with a new company and they have been moving from 10.6 to 10.7. Machines are bound to AD but not utilizing "the golden triangle" with the JSS. For some reason the machines that are running 10.7.x are hammering the ACtive Directory DC's...  View more

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Registration for Barcode Maker

We have been looking for a replacement for Barcode Pro for a while. The software was expensive, is old and hasn't been updated for quite a while, and now the company is gone. I did some testing with various products and landed on Barcode Maker from i...  View more

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