Newsletter Archive

Each month we’ll challenge you to solve a problem using a product from JAMF Software. Please include:
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We’ll review all responses and post the winners on our site. Each winner will receive a $10 Gift Card for Apple iTunes.

JAMF Software Challenge Archive contains the answers to the previous two months’ JAMF Software Challenge. Take a look—you might learn something!

WWDC is coming right up and we’ll be there! Plan to join us for a Casper User Group (CUG) on Tuesday, June 10 at the Serrano Hotel from 6-9 pm. If you’d like to come early, we will host an open lab to give you some hands-on time with laptops and JAMF Systems Engineers from 5-6 pm. Then, starting at 6 pm, we will move into the Casper User Group with a short presentation of the new features found in Version 6 of the Casper Suite, which will be released to the public in July.
 
We hope you can stop by for a drink and a bite, hang out, find out what’s new at JAMF Software, and tell us how you’re doing! Space is limited, so please register for this event by dropping an email to Nell Hurley at nell@jamfsoftware.com.
 
For those of you who are not yet using the Casper Suite, we’d like to invite you to a Casper Suite “Lunch and Learn” session in San Francisco during WWDC from 12-2 pm on Tuesday, June 10 at the Serrano Hotel. Join us for lunch and learn how the Casper Suite can simplify your life with one tool to inventory, image, update, and maintain your Macintosh network. Space is limited, so please register for this event by dropping an email to Nell Hurley at nell@jamfsoftware.com.

Check out our latest case study to find out how Siddartha Chadda of OLSON used the Casper Suite to roll out Adobe's CS3.

Click here to view other JAMF Software's case studies.

If you work in education, then your summer “To Do” list may look something like this:
1.   Upgrade 20 Xserves to 10.5
2.   Image and deploy 1,200 new iMacs
3.   Reimage 5,800 Macbooks
4.   Organize the garage
Well, worry not! The Casper Suite makes it easy to image machines and manage updates, allowing your district or university to grow its Mac population without growing your IT budget. (And you might even finally get that garage project done). Click here for more information about the Casper Suite and Education.

Networks Segments are defined in the JSS and can be used to automatically assign a workstation's closest File Server, Software Update Server or NetBoot Server. If your network is setup so that a specific building or department is within a network range, you can also configure this information to be set dynamically. Whenever a managed workstation connects to the JSS, a check is done to see if the computer 's IP address is in any defined Network Segments, and updates inventory and server information accordingly.

You can view any Network Segments you may already have setup in your JSS or add new ones by navigating to the 'Admin' tab in your JSS and clicking the link for 'Network Segments'. For a more detailed description of configuring Network Segments for your environment, check out the Casper Suite 5.1 Documentation available at from our website or lulu.com.

By the way, did you know you can purchase a printed and bound copy of the Casper Suite manual from lulu.com for $14.99 plus shipping and handling?

Join our Support Mailing List! The lists often contain discussions regarding problems encountered by other Casper administrators and their resolutions. This free service is available to customers and non-customers via subscription and includes both the Casper Suite and Composer mailing lists.