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The art of the “dummy receipt”

Recently I was working with a K-12 school on a large imaging and deployment project. One of the challenges we ran into was finding an easy way to determine which configuration machines had been imaged...

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A few notes on the JDS and certificates

With the release of the Casper Suite 9.0, JAMF also released a new tool called the JDS (JAMF Distribution Server). The JDS is no-fuss software that runs on either OS X Server or Linux that acts as an...

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How to make Active Directory users local admins

One of the problems facing many Mac administrators in Active Directory environments is how to give their users admin rights on their machines. When configuring Active Directory, it's easy to specify...

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Imaging is dead (or at least it should be)

I help a lot of organizations integrate Macs into their one to one environments, and I've noticed a trend that just doesn't make sense to me. Almost every admin I work with wants to do the same thing;...

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Automatically Re-issue Individual FileVault 2 Recovery Keys After Single Use...

One of the most requested features for the Casper Suite's FileVault 2 implementation is the ability to automatically re-issue individual recovery keys after a single use. The idea here is that once the...

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Configuring Pound to use as a load balancer for the JSS

As a Mac deployment grows, eventually the JSS might become too overloaded for a single server to handle. When that happens, installing the JSS on multiple servers and load balancing between them...

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Security & Privacy Configuration Profile bug in Casper 9.82

Having recently updated my JSS to 9.82, I quickly noticed that my "Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins" setting was no longer being enforced. After some investigation, it...

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DEP fails in Casper when using a publicly trusted SSL certificate

If you're using a publicly trusted certificate with your JSS, you might have trouble with DEP enrollments failing with the ever so helpful error "Failed to contact Mobile Device Management server." But...

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Setting up the JSS behind an Elastic Load Balancer in Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancers can offer a great combination of security, availability, and performance to your JSS deployment. Elastic Load Balancers aren't terribly difficult to set up,...

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Video – Build Your Own Cloud, How to Host the JSS in AWS

The folks at AUC have posted my talk from XWorld 2016 about hosting the JSS in AWS.

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