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April 21, 2008 at 6:40 pm #372350
josh.humphrey
ParticipantWhile at MacWorld this past January, I saw someone drag a single folder or file (can’t remember) into the Details area of Workgroup Manager. This put all the preferences for the system in WGM and allowed for managing these preferences on a very granular level. I lost the paper that I wrote this on. Does anyone know where this folder is? If not, what is the best way to manage a lot of the preferences without having to manually add each program.
Thank you in advance.
April 22, 2008 at 7:46 pm #372373Eden.Nelson
ParticipantI did not see the presentation you are referring to but, basically you can drag any plist into the details tab and manage them with mcx.
So if you wanted to mange say iMovie 08:
Open Workgroup Manager, selected the object (User,Group, or ComputerList) you want to effect.
Select Preferences, then the details tab, then click the Add… button.
Navigate to your Library/Preferences
Select com.apple.iMovie7.plist, and click the Add button.At this point the preferences you set for yourself will be enforces on the object.
Notice I say the preferences you set for yourself, because we just added [i]your[/i] iMovie plist.
When you import plists this way they are enforced “Often” by default. This means that users can change the settings.Maybe you just want to make sure the users default export location for iMovie 08 is the users Movies folder, and you want it to always be enforced.
Then select com.apple.iMovie7 from the list of managed preferences in the details tab.
Under “Often” in the plist I see lots of different settings but I just want to manged one key, “exportFolder” with a value of “~/Movies”.
Delete all the keys from the Often section, and add a new key to Always section, name it “exportFolder”, set the type to “string”, and give it the value of “~/Movies”.
Now whenever a user goes to export a iMovie 08 project it defaults to the users Movies folder.April 22, 2008 at 8:50 pm #372377josh.humphrey
ParticipantThanks for your response, that did help.
Is there a way to manage which serial number a program is using? Example, I push out iWork package through Apple Remote Desktop. Is there a way to put the iWork serial number in to Work Group manager for a specific group of computers so to prevent from touching each computer? If this can not be done through workgroup manager, is there another way to get this done?April 23, 2008 at 6:01 pm #372396Eden.Nelson
Participant[QUOTE][u]Quote by: josh.humphrey[/u][p]Thanks for your response, that did help.
Is there a way to manage which serial number a program is using? Example, I push out iWork package through Apple Remote Desktop. Is there a way to put the iWork serial number in to Work Group manager for a specific group of computers so to prevent from touching each computer? If this can not be done through workgroup manager, is there another way to get this done?[/p][/QUOTE]I would suggest using packaging to get this done.
See Zack Smiths Article on Packaging. [url]https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20070820193811465&query=pkggen[/url]
Also check out my packaging page on del.icio.us [url]http://del.icio.us/eden.nelson/Packaging[/url]May 7, 2008 at 1:33 pm #372613ZipZap
ParticipantI think what you are referring to is /System/Library/Core Services/ManagedClient.app
If you add that to the details tab you will get a boatload of preferences that you can manage, including serial numbers for both iWork & QuickTime Pro. If you add a new key to the manifests that come from ManagedClient.app you will get a popup of keys that you can add and a second popup for the values that those keys can take for Once, Often or Always. The keys that you can use are not exhaustive as others will be filled in when you manage the prefs through the Workgroup Manager GUI but they are a good starting point.
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