Managed Preferences - MCX Settings keep appearing from old JSS server

Thanks! I was missing the last step to clean the user's MCX settings. Much appreciated!

Hi Golbiga,
is there a way to apply this to policy to remove it for all users on a machine?
sudo dcsl . -delete /Users/<username> dsAttrTypeStandard:MCXSettings only seems to work when you enter a specific userneme...
sorry i am not much of a command line person.

I added this to my firstboot script when upgrading a machine to Mountain Lion. This will re-apply MCX to the computer level and user level. Of course test this in your environment.

Allen

#!/bin/sh 
#Remove MCX Settings
/bin/rm -rf /Library/Managed Preferences/*

# Rebuild computer level MCX
/usr/bin/dscl . -delete /Computers
/usr/sbin/jamf mcx

# Rebuild user level MCX
userNames=`/usr/sbin/jamf listUsers | /usr/bin/grep <name> | /usr/bin/cut -d'<' -f 2 | /usr/bin/cut -d'>' -f 2`
for activeUserName in $userNames; do
    echo "Removing MCXFlags for user $activeUserName"
    /usr/bin/dscl . -delete "/Users/$activeUserName" MCXFlags

    echo "Removing MCXSettings for user $activeUserName"
    /usr/bin/dscl . -delete "/Users/$activeUserName" MCXSettings

    echo "Rebuilding MCX preferences for user $activeUserName"
    /usr/sbin/jamf mcx -username "$activeUserName"
done

Thanks Golbiga, The script Was pushed by remote policy & worked a treat at clearing old MCX caches which were stored locally.

We use JSS 9.22, the above script was used on a 10.7.5 machine (I presume it would work the same on a 10.8.5 machine too).

Thanks. This was exactly what I was looking for. I was already doing the first bit of the script but would occasionally have recurring issues.

Thanks for the script golbiga.

On a side note, it is disappointing of Apple and JAMF that this type of workaround is necessary to get MCX working reliably.

I would like to add that, for extra thorough cleaning, remove the "MCXFlags" attribute:

dscl . -delete /Users/username dsAttrTypeStandard:MCXFlags

Here's why:

MCXFlags:
 <?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>has_mcx_settings</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>