+10Hi,
I have found 10.8+ computers easy to disable the warning about the available Yosemite update but I am looking for a way to do it on my old 10.6 computers. On the rest of my computers, I just have the Notification Center disabled. Let me know your thoughts! I know that I can go to each laptop and hide the update but I would like an easier way to push it out via a policy.
Thank you!
Best answer by hkabik
We've run terminal command:
softwareupdate --schedule off
to stop the notifications.
I've never looked into this. What's your method of disabling the Yosemite update notification for 10.7+?
+10On my 10.8+ computers, I totally disable Notification Center from loading at startup by deleting the file /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist. It hasn't caused any issues on the computers and most of my users wouldn't know how to deal with notifications anyways.
+24Notification Center made it debut on 10.8, not 10.7.
+10Thank you hkabik. I might do that on my 10.6 and 10.7 computers. They are already so outdated that updates do matter much anyways.
+16We manage our software update scheduling manually via Casper so it behooves us to have the internal schedule disabled even on modern OS machines. But it definitely seems like a safe option for legacy OS's that aren't likely to have much coming to them in the future.
+7If you type in terminal: man softwareupdate it'll give you the list of commands for software updates - one being --ignore.
Once you have the identifier for Yosemite (softwareupdate -l will give you the full list of available) you can:
softwareupdate --ignore *identifier*
+19jonnydford's method won't work because the Yosemite installer isn't being offered by software updates, it's being offered by the Mac App Store.
+10I realized that when trying it today. It is good for any other software updates but not new OS's.
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