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
Hi all, Yep it's time for my daily question. This one should be easy!! We rename all our startup disks X. So I've written a little script to do this. It's basically; sudo -u $AdminUser -p $AdminPassword diskutil rename $CurrentVolumeName $NewVolumeNa... View more
I created a policy similar to our Apple updating one and removed check for Apple updates and have instead make it install PGP Desktop which requires a reboot. So substitute one action for another but both require a reboot. Set to 600 minutes. The PGP... View more
Has anyone noticed that smart groups are not updating instantly after updating to 7.2 when a machine matches the criteria of the group? If I go in to edit the group, it updates, but not automatically. Paul AustinEnd User Computing Wells Fargo Corpora... View more
Hello, Has anyone ever successfully manually assigned an IP address to the airport of a Mac with Autorun settings when imaging with Casper 7? I am working on a 10.6 image to push out to several laptops, but I'd like to manually assign an IP to the ai... View more
Hello All, Hopefully Lance is watching again... So you see a theme here with my subject, granularity. I spent some time today troubleshooting why a system wasn't binding afterimaging. After looking through the logs it appears it never attempted tobin... View more
Thom, daniel.... The below may help. Thanks again miles! Regards, Ben. Begin forwarded message: View more
I've noticed an issue on both 10.5.8 and 10.6.2 systems. I have a policy that:- Forces a machine to check for Apple updates and install any if needed- If any of the updates require a reboot, users get a message notifying them of the update, and to re... View more
Yep another question from yours truly. I'm having some issues installing 10.6 using the custom OS install options in Casper admin. I've created 3 x OS dmg's, ( one from apple retail DVD, another from mac dev center & a third from a core i7 iMac DVD).... View more
Greetings all. I've got sixty white, unibody Macbooks that will be going out shortly and I've found myself stumped over slight... personality issues with them. Regardless of how I prep the image, the result is the same: the Macbook installs the base ... View more
Dear all,After updating to 7.2 (happened the same on 7.0 to 7.1) , when using Casper Imaging (7.2) it tells me the Distribution Point cannot be mounted So after restarting the server it worked. Has anyone had the same issue? Is there a more straight ... View more
So I'm looking to access the data directly in the jamfsoftware db to sidestep some of the clunkiness in the web GUI. A lot of you will probably ask why. I need to generate a report that basically includes the following specs: - search for a given app... View more
I tried that but it's still not working. Terminal reports that thepermissions are now: -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 csmedsrud staff 1160 Mar 15 13:28 setAirPortNetwork.sh Those look right to me.  View more
When I run the script as part of the imaging process (with the script setto after or at reboot) it does not work. If I push it using Casper Remote(with a user logged in) it doesn't work and I get the following result: Script Exit Code: 126Script Resu... View more
I just updated to version 7.2 and when i try to replicate my shares from the master to my distribution points, it will not allow me to select more than one any more. It will replicate the first one, and then error out saying it cannot mount the rest ... View more
We had seen this a few months ago, but it went away so I didn't worryanymore about it. However, after turning on a software update policy forsome of our users last week, we're getting lots of machines with HUGE tempfiles that keep growing until event... View more
Hey all, We've posted a new Resource Kit to: http://www.jamfsoftware.com/downloads/ResourceKit.dmg This Resource Kit release corresponds with our recent Casper Suite 7.2 release. The most significant change that took place in this release is that mos... View more
We just blasted this out via ARD, but I suppose some clever person coulddesign a script to run as a policy. networksetup setnetworkserviceenabled AirPort off That did the trick for us. Janice K. HillPC Support ManagerApple Certified Technical Coordi... View more
I would like to somehow automatically disable Airport when Ethernet is the active network connection. And potentially re-enable it when Ethernet is not in use.I already have all my Macs configure with Ethernet at the top of the network service order.... View more
As you can gather from my previous questions, we're about to deploy a few more machines. Basically, I'll be taking a retail DMG, combo updating & then using a combination of various scripts to set things such as time server, timezone, binding to od g... View more
Hi guys, I've got a Black Macbook & am trying to create a custom install in casper admin from a new iMac's OS DVD. But whenever I tick the box to tell casper admin I get the message: "The installer could not be run on this computer: Error - " I'm usi... View more
FYI, confirmed this with JAMF support and have a Defect-ID. When you "Show Plan" it just shows a couple lines, like "install " and "Run Recon" - doesn't show any details like policy trigger, scope, et. al. I use this all of the time just to confirm t... View more
Is it possible to direct a script based on hardware (laptop or desktop)? PGP is only required on our Laptops. In order to help out our Audit team, I'd like a script to first detect if the machine is a laptop; if it's not, it can simply return "PGP WD... View more
Has anyone experimented with using the 7.2 tools while your JSS server stays on 7.1?I imagine Composer is no problem, but I hesitate to experiment with Remote or specially Admin... Nick Caro Desktop Support TechnicianPhone 212-839-1587 Fax 212-946-40... View more
Just an FYI, I had a customer who decided to let the end-users upgrade their own systems to Snow Leopard via retail DVDs. I kept seeing systems not checking in, or systems that the end users claimed to have upgraded, but not being reflected in the JS... View more
I want to install iWork on 36 computers today at 3PM. I created a policy that has the trigger of "iwork" and set that to run"Once per Computer" and scoped it to the lab. I created a Scheduled Task for: On the hour3 PMEvery DayEvery Month1 Minute And ... View more
Trying to deploy the latest Office 2008 update as supplied from MS as an.mpkg fails with an error stating that it has no valid index.bom and thatconsequently it will be treated as a flat package, which it is not.Predictably this fails. /usr/sbin/jamf... View more
Our recent security scan detected a vulnerability with Tomcat and naturally, I'm being asked to update. Currently our Mac server has 6.0.18 and 6.0.26 is available. Has anyone updated Tomcat? Any words of caution before I do this? Noah SwansonImaging... View more
I want to publish some scripts for changing Entourage settings in SelfService. I have found though they do not work properly because they arebeing run as root rather than the logged in user. I have not pushedsomething before and had it run as the use... View more
Hi, I'm having an issue pusing a package via REMOTE.It installs fine locally or pushing out via ARD. Below is the error message: /usr/sbin/jamf is version 7.1Executing Policy 2010-03-11 at 5:04 PM | admin | 15 Computers...Downloading BOM for 044YE.pk... View more
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