It's been noted that we shouldn't use the Often key in custom profiles. If we need to manage a third party plist where the "always" option is incompatible, and we need to ensure the setting is persistent, any ideas what should be used instead?
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"Often" setting in config profiles
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+28This is where I avoid profiles, and use a LaunchDaemon or LaunchAgent and script combo. My script can do a defaults read and change the setting if need be.
+18I've been trying to push profiles a bit more recently. I get a feeling things are moving further in that direction. I worry that we end up with MDM being the only management method for OS X and iOS in a few years!
When I find myself working on more complex plists using plistbuddy and others, trying to kill cfprefsd, it seems profiles are a better fit.
It's just the "Once / Often / Always" thing that's bugging me.
+12Overall I've been having good luck with Profile Management files for basic and some more advanced OS X settings, but I can't imagine an environment where PM was the only control we have for our Macs...hope that's not happening!
+18Just out of interest, is the Once setting ok to use? From memory I think it still used the often setting but just wondered what other people's thoughts were.
+13Thinking out loud, with the once setting, I believe you need to specify a date and that date (at least from memory) is always in the past.
What if you were to build a 'Once' profile but with the date set way into the future?
Darren
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