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I just started testing my first deployment of Lion today and ran into and
resolved the iCloud login and JRE issues.



After spending time figuring those things out I decided I should go back
through all the Lion posts that I have been ignoring for the past few months
;) and I haven't seen anyone mention the following.



Where the heck is the Launchpad icon in the Dock coming from?



I removed com.apple.dockfixup.plist out of habit without looking at what was
in it before capturing the base image and it is still gone. I am also
pushing a new com.apple.dock.plist at login and doing a killall Finder and
the Launchpad icon is still reappearing.



After I get this taken care of I just need to figure out 8021x device
profile and then I am set. It was remarkably easy, 3 minor problems and a
new thing to learn.



The 10.7.2 AD fixes make me happy.



Ryan M. Manly
Glenbrook High Schools

I am having the same issue with the dock, only with Mission Control, Face Time and App Store.



In my environment we manage the dock through a script, and these 3 icon tiles are ruining it.



Haven't found a resolution yet.

I just tackled the same problems this week as we're deploying our first lab of Lion machines.



For Mission Control, FaceTime, and the App Store, I am running a script at reboot (after imaging) that removes com.apple.dockfixup.



But, like Ryan noted, that doesn't prevent Launchpad from showing up. So I am using MCX to take care of that. I don't have it in front of me right now, but there is a key in com.apple.dock with "launchpad" in its name and, when this is set to true, it removes the Launchpad icon from users' docks. If you import com.apple.dock.plist (without Launchpad) into the JSS, you'll see what I'm talking about.

you can edit docfixup and make things you want appear and things you dont want go away...

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