Custom Settings in Configuration Profiles...

[Rosko]

Okay, this is the first time creating a custom configuration profile so I want to be sure this is correct.

I am trying to push a setting to disable the preview column in columns view. Here is what I have for a plist to upload.

<?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>StandardViewOptions</key>
    <dict>
        <key>ColumnViewOptions</key>
        <dict>
            <key>ColumnShowIcons</key>
            <false/>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Can anyone confirm or deny if this is correct? I only want to push out the "ColumnShowIcons" key.

Thanks,
Josh

[Rosko · Accepted solution]

Okay, well I sent it off to a test machine and it did exactly what I wanted. The only thing I noticed is you have to relaunch Finder for it to take effect...anybody got any simple ideas on accomplishing this?

Thanks,
Josh

[hkabik]

Modern Mac OSs have pretty aggressive preference locking...

I often have to push a:

killall cfprefsd

For preferences changes to take effect, give that a shot?

[RobertHammen]

^locking^caching^ but otherwise, you are correct. For performance reasons, starting in OS X Mavericks 10.9, prefs are cached. This makes troubleshooting... interesting.

[Rosko]

So I tried that command and it still remains until Finder is relaunched...but how are/would you pass that command? There isn't a way to trigger a Smart Group based on Configuration Profiles that I can find...

[Rosko]

Okay...so I made a extension attribute to see if the configuration profile is applied, then made a smart group to see what computers have the configuration profile applied, then finally made a policy scoped to that smart group to send a "sudo killall Finder" command.

Done. lol