MacPolicy Group Agenda
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
1:30 to 2:30 — Room B16-B Hillsborough Bld.
1) Announcements – 5 min
- OIT will support only version 10.5.8 or newer of Mac OS X after Dec 31, 2011
- OIT will support only version 10.6.8 or newer of Mac OS X after Dec 31, 2012
- OS X versions that shipped with Intel Hardware: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159
- Vintage and Obsolete Apple Products: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1752?viewlocale=en_US
- Apple Education Support Line 800-800-2775 use this number only. Always verify Apple Care Coverage with purchase info.
- OIT does not have a support policy for Boot Camp. & OIT does not support Classic mode at all.
- Mac Collection Licenses and Media info at www.ncsu.edu/software/available-software/product.php?software=106
- Trend Micro Office Scan for Macintosh – www.ncsu.edu/it/antivirus. Managed antivirus for campus.
- OIT Macintosh Support Web Site go.ncsu.edu/mac for updates.
- NC Casper User’s Group – go.ncsu.edu/nccug
- Unity Macintosh Kit uses /Users/$uid$ in the Active Directory configuration to create a local home on each machine at login
- Modified Unity Macintosh Installs are supported by the unit which has made the modifications.
- OIT supports only Apple, Intel (i386) hardware for Mac OS and software. Only unmodified iOS is supported.
- Please remember to check prices at www.apple.com/education/pricelists/ to verify best price with NC State Marketplace
- Anyone wanting to get access to training and tools for Apple Certified Technician should register at gsx2.apple.com Email Everette_Allen@ncsu.edu for Sold-to Account number and approval.
- UNC Combined Pricing Initiative (CPI)
- Casper Suite Enterprise service https://swm.oit.ncsu.edu:8443/ (Admin
2) UNC GA Apple Bulk Purchases Followup – 10 min.
Discussion of Spring GA Bulk Purchase. Issues?
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- Casper Suite Enterprise Deployment Update – 15 min
The update to enterprise service is complete. Now have 2 VM-based, load balanced servers in 2 physically different data centers. The database is on the clustered mysql2 service like all other enterprise mysql based services. There are 2 load balanced Distribution servers and 3 netboot servers. Other distribution and netboot servers can be added via simple configuration. JAMFSoftware has just released a netboot/distribution/ASU server as a VM Appliance based on Ubuntu (https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProduct.html?id=180) we are testing at this to see if we can add more redundant netboot and distribution servers. The test VMware machine has been setup and we are moving to test. Discussion.
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5) Casper to SCCM Bridge Update – 10 min.
Everette worked with Michael Underwood on the SCCM team to setup a test of the JAMF Casper to SCCM bridge. We ran into an issue where everything works but the SCCM plug-in can not write the data from Casper into SCCM. In working with JAMF Support we were told that the plug-in does not yet support Active Directory deployments that are all Native Mode (many Active Directory deployments have been in Mixed Mode). A fix is being worked on by the vendor for a future release. We agreed to wait on for that fix.
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6) Software Needs Summer 2012 and Fall 2012- 10 min.
Feed back on software needed for Summer or Fall semesters?
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7) Q&A – 5 min.
You ask we try to answer.
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Next meeting – Tue. May. 8, 2012 in Room B16-B Hillsborough from 1:30-2:30 pm.
MacTech – 2nd Tuesday each month: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
MacPolicy – 2nd Tuesday of every other month: Jan Mar, May, Aug, Sep, Nov.
Neither MacPolicy or MacTech will meet in July.
All meetings will be held in B16-B Hillsborough Bld unless otherwise announced.
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