Looks like Sal et al posted a suite of Automator Actions to link the Casper Suite to Apple Configurator at https://configautomation.com/jamf-actions.html. In my limited tests so far they work pretty darn well! Some pretty cool things here, like having the JSS rename a mobile device when managed through Apple Configurator, having Apple Configurator instruct the JSS to remove a device from a group, clear passcodes, update inventory, and other common tasks involved in workflows when leveraging Apple Configurator for en masse device management. Good stuff!
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Powershell Goodies From Vexasoft
There are a number of features that make mass deployment of Mac OS X pretty easy. Some of these would be great to have in Windows. These range from systemconfiguration to networksetup and the ability to look at packages that have been installed and review their bills of material. Well, the good people at Vexasoft have built a number of Powershell libraries that, while they aren’t named as such, do a number of the features that these commands do, just for Windows clients via Powershell. And the best part is, a number of them are free. Let’s look at what some of these commands do: First, there are the cmdlets…
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Xsan: Ghost SymLink Killah
An Xsan issue that had disappeared for awhile but that I’ve seen a few times recently. Symptom is that you have one client that won’t mount your Xsan volume. Other clients can mount but not that one. In the logs you see errors similar to the following: (Error) Store: {channel:0x202b18fa0 localPath:’/Volumes/36Chambers’} bring up failed — will retry If all of these things are true then you likely, even without having the volume mounted will have a file in the /Volumes/ folder with the name of the SAN. If that’s the case then you have a pretty quick and easy resolution. Rename the file and see if fsm mounts the volume.…