Disabling Netowork/Wifi Options in the Menu Bar

[Gennaro]

I'm trying to mass deploy a change that will disable the Wifi/Network Settings in the top menu bar. I've been reading around, tried a few different plist setups, but haven't been successful getting it to happen.

I've got a config profile that was able to disable going into the network settings via system preferences but hasn't found anything beyond that.

Does anyone have any solutions out there that are currently working?

[mm2270]

Can you tell us what specific settings in the menu you'd like to disable? Because I have a feeling what you're looking to do can't be done in a config profile but can be done with shell commands.

We just need to know more specifically what you're goal is.

[jmahlman]

You can use a config profile to disable the airport (we do this). It won't hide the icon, but it makes it so the wireless cannot be re-enabled.

This is similar to the one I used.

[Gennaro]

@jmahlman Unfortunately our end goal is to not disable the wifi (as they're not connected via ethernet), we just want to disable the user from being able to change wifi networks at any time while using the machine.

@mm2270 I think I've explained it a bit more in my above reply to jmahlman, let me know if you need anymore details.

Also we're trying to do this on Sierra, not High Sierra.

[mm2270]

@Gennaro You may want to take a look at this thread. There are others that discuss this same method as well if you do some searches.

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/5528/enable-admin-authorization-to-change-wireless-netw...

This will only work if your users do not have local admin rights though.