Disable Parental Controls

[#1]

Ok, so I have a site that decided to somehow manage to turn on Parental
Controls for all of it's AD users.. My problem is finding out a way to
disable or turn off the Parental Controls from all accounts. (Of course
by enabling this feature, people are now having issues doing the easiest
of things such as printing!)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?? I've tried
running Composer to see if I can find any system plists that I could
replace, but no luck there..

Jason Weber
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
Independent School District 196
jason.weber at district196.org
(651)-423-7974

[#2]

Are these accounts managed through WGM. If so maybe that is where they enabled the preference and in that case deleting a file would not resolve this.

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[dustydorey]

I thought I'd reply for Jason since he's neglecting his post :)
We do not use WGM here. It seems as though that particular building tech clerk sent something out with ARD that caused the change. We don't think it's likely that they went around to each machine and turned it on by hand. And they don't have access to casper other than local imaging, and inventory in the JSS.

Thanks! Keep the tips and ideas coming!
-Dusty-

Dustin Dorey
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
Independant School District 196
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools
dustin.dorey at district196.org
651|423|7971

[#4]

Even without WGM you can still manage local MCX preferences. Are these 10.4 or 10.5 clients. The preference file could have been created and distributed via ARD. This file could have been sent out that way.

It's interesting that the "building tech clerk" doesn't know if or what they sent out?

Adam Shepard
Web Developer / System Administrator
Creighton School District
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