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Where Are These MCX Managed Preferences In JSS?

  • June 21, 2013
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We're trying to migrate our Workgroup Manager preferences to JSS and we're not finding managed preference templates for a lot of our WGM settings. Here are a few of the keys I've found in our WGM configuration that I can't find equivalents for in JSS. Can anyone help me find these?

*com.apple.finder
- ComputerViewOptions_Arrangement
- ComputerViewOptions_IconSize
- ComputerViewOptions_ListIconSize
- ComputerViewOptions_ShowRelativeDates
- DesktopViewOptions_Arrangement
- DesktopViewOptions_IconSize
- IconViewOptions_Arrangement
- IconViewOptions_IconSize
- ListViewOptions_IconSize
- ListViewOptions_ShowRelativeDates

*com.apple.LaunchServices
- LSHandlers
- LSHandlerContentType
- LSHandlerRoleAll

*com.apple.mcxprinting
- AllowLocalPrinters
- DefaultPrinter
- RequireAdminToAddPrinters
- RequireAdminToPrintLocally
- ShowOnlyManagedPrinters
- UserPrinterList-Raw
- FooterFontName
- FooterFontSize
- PrintFooter
- PrintMACAddress
- RequireAdminToAddPrinters
- RequireAdminToPrintLocally
- ShowOnlyManagedPrinters
- UserPrinterList-Raw

*com.apple.DisRecording
- BurnSupport

*com.apple.Dock
- AppItems-Raw

*MCXDockSpecialFolders-Raw
- AddDockMCXDocumentsFolder

Best answer by gachowski

Eric,

If you can I would skip "managed preferences" and move to configuration profiles. It's more work but there is a good chance it will be worth it.

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    talkingmoose
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    • talkingmoose
    • Community Manager
    • June 22, 2013

    The JSS has a lot of templates but when they are lacking you can manually create these MCX settings yourself. I haven't verified whether some or all of these are available but some of them I recognize having been discussed in other threads. You might try searching for specific keys such as "BurnSupport" or "LSHandlers" to help narrow the results.

    If you're not familiar with manually creating your own then have a look at some you've already got. For the most part each MCX preference has something like these requirements (in bold):

    Domain: com.apple.DiscRecording
    Apply To: System Level Enforced
    Key Name: BurnSupport
    Type: string
    Value: authenticate

    If you're stuck creating something or translating it from Workgroup Manager to MCX just reach out.

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    • gachowski
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    • June 24, 2013

    Eric,

    If you can I would skip "managed preferences" and move to configuration profiles. It's more work but there is a good chance it will be worth it.

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