This is an oldie but a goodie..
I’ve found in various environments that if you’ve got AD Mobile Accounts setup on a mac that has an Airport Card as is not connected to the Office LAN logins can take upto 10 minutes.
In all of these environments, the AD Domain was not resolvable outside the LAN.
There are three solutions for this:
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This post advises why you may need to update the Adobe Unit Types.osax file & how to do so using Casper.
The Adobe Unit Types.osax file that shipped with Photoshop CS4 and CS3 is a 32-bit component. Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) requires some 64-bit scripting environments.
This file is placed in /Library/ScriptingAdditions/ & can cause Applescripts to fail to run.
Both Adobe & JAMF have posted help docs on how to fix this & this post is to advise how I’ve deployed to corrected osax file to affected machines.
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To set start screen saver to a hot corner, run the following as a policy in Casper.
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The below Extension Attribute checks if Microsofts Silverlight Plugin is installed, if it’s not it returns the message not installed, if it is installed it returns the version number.
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We need to have different configurations etc based on the major european languages.
We were orignally looking at setting the OS Language via the custom os install options, but have been advised by JAMF that this does not work.
So we needed a work around to achieve the same.
I’ve got this working by narrowing it down to 4 plists… I’m then editing these for each language needed & making Composer dmg’s of each plist to distribute.
The upside of using this method is that we can use a single config per OS version with smart configs based on it that change the language as required.
Basically, make the changes & copy the below files:
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We’re using Universal Type Server (UTS) for our Font Management, UTS is set to authenticate against our AD with security groups giving access to various Font Workgroups.
As we’ve such a large AD, we’re using an MS SQL Database to host all of our user records.
This is all working well, except the default user settings are as per the above, the below advises what we wished to change the default setting to and how this was accomplished.
Throughout my career as a Mac Admin i’ve often been asked to enforce a screen saver. One environment required a screen saver to always be set, but to allow people to change the desktop background. Another required a screen saver to be set to the corporate standard at each login. This script has been used in both environments to great affect.
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The below will untick the option System Preferences > Security > “Require Password To Unlock Each Secure Preference” & allow all users to unlock these preferences.
Continue readingUPDATE: For Safari 5.1.+ see https://macmule.com/2012/07/31/disabling-safari-5-1-xs-6-xs-pop-up-blocker-from-terminal-2/
To disable Safari’s Pop-Up blocker for the currently logged in user, run the following:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically -bool true
Via MCX:
Display Name: Safari 5.0.x Disable Pop-Up Blocker
Application Domain: com.apple.Safari
Key Name: WebKitJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically
Key Type: boolean
Key Value: true