[Casper] Windows Recon Rollout

[Tony S. Wu]

This is exactly what we ended up doing.

Tony S. Wu
tonyswu at mac.com




On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Chad Brewer wrote:

> What I did is extract jamf.exe from recon.exe.  You can do that by  
> running recon.exe /x.
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> Then I run jamf.exe in a .bat file as a startup script via group  
> policy.  My .bat files looks like this:
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> copy /v /y "\\server.domain.com\distribution$\Recon\jamf.exe" c: 
> \windows\temp
> c:\windows\temp\jamf.exe recon -overrideJSS https://casper.domain.com:8443 
>  -username imaging -password ******
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> "Bradford, Chad" <Chad_Bradford at sfo.yr.com> on September 30, 2009 at  
> 4:02 PM -0700 wrote:
> After digging around, I think what you are supposed to do now is use  
> Recon.exe on one of your workstations to create a QuickAdd.msi file.  
> You can then host the MSI file in a shared folder some place and use  
> Group Policy to install the MSI file (under Computer Configuration >  
> Policies > Software Settings > Sosftware Installation – doing this  
> will install it when the computer turns on, before login.) Just make  
> sure the Source path is a network path that Everyone has read access  
> to.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 
> ] On Behalf Of Tony S. Wu
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:49 PM
> To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com
> Subject: [Casper] Windows Recon Rollout
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> We are looking to roll out Recon on Windows using group policy.
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> I found this command through some googling:
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> PATH\Recon.exe -server DOMAIN.COM -username USER -password PASS
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> But all the command does is launch Recon. Did the command change for  
> Recon on Windows? Or is there another recommended way of doing this?  
> Thanks.
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> Tony S. Wu
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> tonyswu at mac.com
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