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Desperate Help Needed in pushing out Docks

  • August 21, 2009
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  • Anonymous

I know this is probably simple but I can't figure it out. I have a
com.apple.dock.plist file that I want all of my teachers to use when they
login. How do I do this? Managed preferences? Policies?

Thanks for the help!

Nelson

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    • Anonymous
    • August 21, 2009

    Nelson,

    You can do this many ways.. I send mine out via Casper Remote and fill user templates and fill existing users. However, you can do this via policy or managed preference. How many docks are you trying to compile? We have about 10.


    Kathie Iorizzo
    Lower School Technician
    The Latin School of Chicago
    kiorizzo at latinschool.org
    312.582.6136

    talkingmoose
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    • talkingmoose
    • Community Manager
    • August 22, 2009

    Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:58:31 -0500

    Are you trying to push to user accounts managed by Active Directory or Open
    Directory? If so, this was changed beginning with Casper 6.0 and is no
    longer possible. According to JAMF Support, they are now using dscl to
    locate home directories, however, with network accounts the home directories
    don't exist except for those who are currently logged in. Something like
    that.

    You'll need to set a login policy that will push the Dock once per user. You
    can set this to push "Once" unless your users may log in to multiple
    machines. Then you'll have to create an "Ongoing" policy and it will run at
    every login (overwriting any changes the user may make).

    If this sounds like your issue then I urge you to request this to be changed
    back to the behavior we had with version 5.0 and earlier. This has been a
    big headache for our company.

    --

    bill

    William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
    MCS IT
    Merrill Communications, LLC
    (651) 632-1492

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