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Okay, this is the first time creating a custom configuration profile so I want to be sure this is correct.



I am trying to push a setting to disable the preview column in columns view. Here is what I have for a plist to upload.



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

    <key>StandardViewOptions</key>

    <dict>

        <key>ColumnViewOptions</key>

        <dict>

            <key>ColumnShowIcons</key>

            <false/>

        </dict>

    </dict>

</dict>

</plist>


Can anyone confirm or deny if this is correct? I only want to push out the "ColumnShowIcons" key.



Thanks,
Josh

Okay, well I sent it off to a test machine and it did exactly what I wanted. The only thing I noticed is you have to relaunch Finder for it to take effect...anybody got any simple ideas on accomplishing this?



Thanks,
Josh

Modern Mac OSs have pretty aggressive preference locking...



I often have to push a:



killall cfprefsd


For preferences changes to take effect, give that a shot?

^locking^caching^ but otherwise, you are correct. For performance reasons, starting in OS X Mavericks 10.9, prefs are cached. This makes troubleshooting... interesting.

So I tried that command and it still remains until Finder is relaunched...but how are/would you pass that command? There isn't a way to trigger a Smart Group based on Configuration Profiles that I can find...

Okay...so I made a extension attribute to see if the configuration profile is applied, then made a smart group to see what computers have the configuration profile applied, then finally made a policy scoped to that smart group to send a "sudo killall Finder" command.



Done. lol

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