Disable icloud 1st boot

[tkimpton]

Use mxc and disallow access to the prefpane its there for a reason, so admins can administer! Best not move it because you don't know what you may screw up

[nessts]

the problem with that is then any extras that you want to have in the
system preferences have to be explicitly allowed which gets to be such a
nightmare.

-- Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
HP Enterprise Services

[tkimpton]

Oh yes, I've had to do that a few times in the past, but once done, that's it and the users aren't admin to install software so now worries.

[jarednichols]

All-

Got the iCloud disable working through MCX. See attached screenshots

j

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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436


[noah_swanson]

Hmm...Wonder if it has anything to do with the setting not liking User Level Enforced....

Did you try this with the Trackpad one as well? Or are you not suppressing that?


[jarednichols]

I wasn't going to suppress that one as it's a significant UI change I'd like users to be aware of.

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[noah_swanson]

Yep. Worked for the Gesture Movie as well:

Call me a non-conformist if you will, but 95% of the users we have are all as old skool as possible and would change the scrolling direction in a heartbeat (already asked a few). So for those of you looking to deliver the true "natural" scrolling...this worked for me.

Thanks for the help J.


[Matt]

Very nice I like!

[noah_swanson]

Having issues with this and the Trackpad "how to scroll" stuff. Right now I've got 2 prefs set to manage both of these but still get this for new users. Currently I've got 2 custom prefs setup: - com.Apple.SetupAssistant - DidSeeCloudSetup - Boolean - True - GestureMovieSeen - String - I've tried "none" and "Trackpad" still prompts

Both are set to User Level Enforced and scoped to the correct System.

Any better way to prevent these from happening?

Thanks,
Noah

[nessts]

I just have the did see cloud setup in the user template and it does not
prompt anymore for new accounts that get created.
I have not tried to disable the unnatural scrolling video since its so
unnatural that it might be helpful.

-- Todd Ness
Technology Consultant/Non-Windows Services
Americas Regional Delivery Engineering
HP Enterprise Services

[jarednichols]

I'm also seeing the iCloud one not work.
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[noah_swanson]

Yeah...through MCX I'm going to help the users by setting scrolling to what it has been since the scroll wheel was invented. ;-) Therefore, the "helper" is more of an annoyance.

[noah_swanson]

I just captured the plist and deployed filling all user templates and that resolved it. Still not sure why MCX wouldn't accept it.

[#14]

Is it possible to disable the iCloud preference pane via MCX? I have the MCX
for the initial prompt on first boot, but I want to disable it completely.

Thanks,

Kristen Dietiker
Client Services Manager
UW Department of Surgery

[mcrispin]

Kristen -

It's on the user level in com.apple.setupassistant.plist ; it's not a preference pane at all, just a regular ol' flat XML plist. You can suppress the iCloud thing on 10.7.2 with it as well. There are a number of ways to conquer this particular beast. Ask if you would like more specific direction.

Michael Crispin
Duke University

[mcrispin]

Apologies - I should have read more carefully - you are not trying to suppress the iCloud from first user startup, you are trying to kill the entire iCloud pane.

Have you tried putting no access restrictive permissions on System/Library/CoreServices/PreferencePanes/iCloud.prefPane ?

There are of course a number of other methods that may more or less lead to systems instability, but starting from here I should think would be a good first step.

The dependancies on iCloud are all over the place and I would be careful here as this is something of a unknown venture. My advice is to think long and hard about your security environment and make sure you are not over thinking things.

Michael Crispin
Duke University

[#17]

Michael, thanks. I didn't realize that would effectively remove the pane
from the system preferences, which is what I wanted to do.

Kristen Dietiker
Client Services Manager
UW Department of Surgery