[Goldberg]

I’m doing something wrong. I followed andyboutte directions from 2/4. InstaDMG installs the iLife’11 package on the root of the drive instead of installing the programs. If I double click on the iLife’11 package on the root it does fully install).

I think my Distribution file is wrong. I posted it here: http://pastebin.com/1VFxgNmY

Thanks for all your help

Goldberg

[Goldberg]

Dead2sin, I’m not sure how you got it to work. I installed iLife11 with all the updates opened Composer but I didn’t see it in pre-installed software. I updated the diff files but it didn’t show iLife11.

I confirmed with JAMF support that the diffs for iLife ’11 haven’t been released for Composer 8.

Andyboutte or anyone, any idea why your solution posted on 2/4 works with instaup2date but not regular instadmg?

Goldberg

[Goldberg]

Yes, I know the InstaDMG_package.log exists and sometimes use it to troubleshoot. The downside is it’s not easily readable or searchable as a using ARD text fields.

[Goldberg]

I don’t know about preboot script. I run them as part of my firstboot script

[Goldberg]

I do the same thing Nate does. Works great and of course is readable via ARD.

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop Text1 -string ‘Version 5.6’
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteDesktop Text2 -string ‘December 2010’

[Goldberg]

Try to run it as part of a first boot script

[Goldberg]

Thanks sgittlitz. I have the Provisioning Tool working for everything but turning off updates.

[Goldberg]

To answer my own question, a review of the error log found at /tmp/amt3.log showed an error related to the cache PCD file.

Upon further review, it appears that the Adobe PCD folder (with a cache folder and pcd.db inside it) is missing from /Library/Application Support/Adobe. Instadmg didn’t install it or for some reason.

As a workaround, I installed Adobe Acrobat X Pro on a test machine and made a package of the Adobe PCD folder. Seems to work perfectly for me. Adobe KB: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83481.html was a big help.

Goldberg

[Goldberg]

That worked! Thanks Nate!

[Goldberg]

I’ve seen Sophos Anti-Virus cause a pop-up windows asking for System Events. That windows had a browse button that I can point to /System/Library/Core Services/

Similar to http://groups.google.com/group/macenterprise/browse_thread/thread/c4f520ef3d99eefc/eade295034c714a9?lnk=gst&q=system+events#eade295034c714a9

Hope that helps

[Goldberg]

System Events is located in /System/Library/Core Services/

[Goldberg]

That’s an idea. So you have 24 folders just for iLife ’11? That’s crazy but I’ll try it.

Thanks!

[Goldberg]

Interesting. larkost, how did you replace that file with a softlink to get things working with InstaDMG?

Thank you

[Goldberg]

No manifest:

http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/admin/item/dcde7e17-fee5-4cba-9316-f4ec71d9f53f?category=1dbf952e-1f61-47f6-85fa-196a22eaf824

[Goldberg]

We set the default mail app in Apple Mail and then used Composer to make a snapshot of the plist files. We had have the package install the plist files in the default user template so all users will get them. The files are:

/System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
/System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

Hope that help.

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