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Amsys Blog

Casper: Launch Apps Only For Certain AD Users

This is another of those, ‘a customer asked for a solution and a I wrote a script that I want to share’ posts. This customer runs a ‘Pcounter’ pull printing solution. This requires that their local application be launched at

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Other Technical

Using Firefox, CCK2 and AutoPKG

Are you using Firefox and CCK2 in your environment? Are you fed up with manually repackaging your CCK2 tweaks each time Firefox is updated prior to deployment? Are you fed up of not being able to use AutoPKG to do

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Mac OS X

Mac OS X: Connecting to a file server

This is the first blog in our drive mounting series. We’ll start off by covering a few basics including manual connections to file servers with the OS X Finder, some troubleshooting points, and generally describing the behavioural characteristics when Macs

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Other Technical

Adobe CS6: Hide Undesired Items

This is another of those, ‘a customer asked for a solution and a I wrote a script that I want to share’ posts. One of our customers wanted Adobe CS6 Master Collection deployed out, but didn’t like all the ‘gubbins’

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Amsys Blog

Setting Users to Non Admin

For years, I’ve been running Mac deployment projects for companies and schools.  In a lot of cases, we’re asked to set the users to be non-admins.  Lots of people have said to me that setting users to be non-admins can

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Amsys Blog

Setting Users to Non Admin

For years, I’ve been running Mac deployment projects for companies and schools.  In a lot of cases, we’re asked to set the users to be non-admins.  Lots of people have said to me that setting users to be non-admins can

The dreaded D word – Documentation (Part 2)

I’m back with part 2 of my thoughts and experiences on technical Documentation. This time, I’ll be looking the types of documentation, and a few tips I’ve picked up. Types The first point you will likely find is that there

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iBeacons for IT and Device Management

I’ve been testing out iBeacons to add new IT capability since JAMF Software added support in Casper 9.5.  After a bumpy start, now we’re up to 9.7+ things are working well.  This blog describes the setup I’m using and some

Creating Config Profiles instead of a First Boot Script

Download your free guide to Mac OS X Deployment Techniques   As a follow up to my first boot script blog, I wanted to spend a bit more time with configuration profiles to see if they could be used to