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    gavin0001
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    Hi,

    I wasn’t entirely sure where to post this, but it relates to MCX Policies, so the Active Directory forum seemed like a good place 🙂
    I’m currently building images for a school using InstaDMG, and managing the clients post-deployment using MCX, all of which is working very well. What I’ve done with bluetooth in the past is to just simply disable it using MCX, which also works quite well. However our recent purchase of several iMacs (which ship with bluetooth keyboard and mice) has required bluetooth to be enabled. The problem I have at the moment is that standard users can essentially do whatever they want with bluetooth (i.e. pair new keyboards and mice, connect to other machines, etc), which becomes a problem in a school, as the kids like to re-assign the bluetooth keyboards and mice to different machines. What I’d like to be able to do if possible is to remove the ability for users to modify the bluetooth settings. What I’ve tried is disabling the Bluetooth Menu Extra, but this doesn’t seem to work 100% of the time (and if you’re quick enough, you can get to it before the MCX is applied at logon anyway), so if anyone has any suggestions that would be great. (But not replace the keyboards/mice – I’ve already tried that 🙂 )

    TIA,
    Gavin

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