[Casper] Splash screen notification for user when updates are applied

[Ernst, Craig S.]

Also, I’m not sure if jamf would want you to modify their work, but the older jamfHelper app looks like it would be easy enough to modify the text and what not if you have access to Xcode tools for development.

Craig E

On 9/17/09 1:56 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote:

You don’t want to use the new jamfHelper from version 7 for anything other than what it was intended for, which is FirstRun Adobe CS installs. It creates a user account, logs in as it, etc...

You could use portions of the technology they use in the new jamfHelper, which is the LockScreen app built into the OS, but this will totally lock out their screen until you kill it or reboot. But you can easily customize what it displays by modifying the Lock.jpg it uses. You can actually copy that app and place a new copy of it and the jpg you want it to use in a totally different location so you could package it and deploy it. I do this for my Adobe patching and I’m finally getting around to how I do that for CS4 which would explain how this works.

It would be possible to modify the previous version of the jamfHelper in 6.x that didn’t take over the whole screen somewhat, but I’m not sure how practical that is. The images it uses are easily replaced, but not sure about the text it has displayed.

If you want to cheat and just pop up a message to the end user create a script that runs Before the rest of the policy that calls the jamf binary:

jamf displayMessage –message <message>

That’s the only method that’s simple.

Otherwise you’re creating your own app or something along those lines. Maybe there is something else you could do, but...got me. =)

Craig E

On 9/17/09 1:43 PM, "erd" <erd at ksbe.edu> wrote:

Hello all,
Pretty new to the Casper Suite and am needing to push software updates to the computers on our campus. I would like the users to know that something is being downloaded and installed to prevent them from thinking the computer is frozen and forcing a shut down. Has anyone incorporated something like this?
I have seen an old posting for the Adobe Installer but was unclear how to incorporate that jamfhelper into this situation.

Thank you,
Debra Tsutomi
-----------------------------------------------------------
Educational Resource Designs, Inc (ERD)

Kamehameha Schools ITD - Teacher Resource Center
Honolulu, HI



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090917/8153c940/attachment.htm>