[Casper] Migration

Mon Apr 14 08:12:00 PDT 2008

If I understand correctly, your environment requires you to have a local
account for the assigned user, and a local user for freelancers.

Does your organization make IT or the end user responsible for user data?
Do you know who is assigned to each computer?

If the end users are responsible for their own data, and you know the users¹
names, then you can image the machine (after giving warning and an
opportunity to back up), and add the necessary user accounts through autorun
data.

On 4/12/08 3:44 PM, "Michael Curtis" <michael at bazmac.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Miles,
> 
> They are all local accounts. One for the full time user and one for
> freelancers. I just need that netboot to match the accounts from the old Tiger
> machine and make them again in the new Leopard. Are you saying I can image the
> Leopard and then get a policy to get the old accounts and make them
> afterwards?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 12 Apr 2008, at 19:33, Leacy, Miles (US) wrote:
>> Where are your accounts?  Local netinfo, OD, AD, something else?
>> 
>> If your user accounts are in a nonlocal directory service, you can leave the
>> /Users directory intact, bind to your directory service, and all will be
>> well.
>> 
>> If they're local users, you can add account creation to autorun data or a
>> policy.
>> 
>> 
>> Miles Leacy
>> Senior Macintosh Technician
>> Polo Ralph Lauren
>> 212-318-7603
>> miles.leacy at poloralphlauren.com
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Michael Curtis <michael at bazmac.co.uk>
>> To: Leacy, Miles (US)
>> Sent: Sat Apr 12 13:00:38 2008
>> Subject: Re: [Casper] Migration
>> 
>> Hi Miles,
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply. I can Recon all my machines with the single admin
>> account I have. What I need is all the accounts that are on each machine and
>> for the Netboot to realise that I need them remade when I put Leopard on. The
>> JSS will remember this if I do it manually, if I need to rebuild that machine
>> the 2nd time. I just want to pre fill this information.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> On 12 Apr 2008, at 15:37, Leacy, Miles (US) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>         If your client machines all have an admin account in common, you can
>> enter that account's credentials into Recon when you do the network scan.
>> 
>>         If there are several possible admin accounts, you can enter all of
>> them in the Recon scan.
>> 
>>         You only need one valid admin user's credentials per machine to
>> manage it.
>> 
>>         If your machines are already managed, you can add a new admin account
>> via Casper remote or a policy.
>> 
>> 
>>         Miles Leacy
>>         Senior Macintosh Technician
>>         Polo Ralph Lauren
>>         212-318-7603
>>         miles.leacy at poloralphlauren.com
>> 
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>>         From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com
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>>         To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
>>         Sent: Sat Apr 12 07:06:41 2008
>>         Subject: [Casper] Migration
>> 
>>         Hi,
>> 
>>         We are about to roll out Leopard to all our machines. We have been
>> doing testing and no issues. What is time consuming is the fact that after we
>> netboot we will have to manually add the new accounts into Casper for the
>> install. Is their anyway I can ask Casper to Recon the machines and get all
>> users from the machines at present? The machines will have the same name as
>> they do now. The JSS already know this.
>> 
>>         If not, can I somehow add users to the database as if I had done it
>> in Casper and asked it to remember the setting in the JSS. Casper will
>> remember the second time, but I want to speed up the first time.
>> 
>>         Any help would be much appreciated.
>> 
>>         Best wishes
>> 
>>         Michael
>> 
>> 
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>>         "Windows NT is like mushrooms. As soon as one Windows server appears
>>         on your network, more start sprouting up, one after the other until
>>         they almost outnumber your client machines."
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>>         Chuck Goolsbee
>> 
>>         Michael Curtis
>> 
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>> "Windows NT is like mushrooms. As soon as one Windows server appears
>> on your network, more start sprouting up, one after the other until
>> they almost outnumber your client machines."
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>> Chuck Goolsbee
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>> Michael Curtis
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>> Home Page: http://www.bazmac.co.uk/
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>> Reed Cricket Club Home Page http://www.reedcc.co.uk
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>> Polo Ralph Lauren
>> 212-318-7603
>> miles.leacy at poloralphlauren.com
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