Dock Customization

[shafferj]

I want to be able to push the dock items with a Configuration Profile BUT, I want the users to be able to decide if they want their Dock on the screen. What would be the best way to do this?

[kbingham]

I have installed Dockutil on all my users machines. Then at the end of the policy I would put in "dockutil --add /Applications/Firefox.app --after 'Safari'" in the Execute Command field. This one adds Firefox to the dock immediately after Safari but before anything else. You can also specify a numbered location.

Get Dockutil here https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil

[kerouak]

The way I've done it is by setting the distribution method as 'make available in self service'

Users can then decide to set the dock items or not.

[kerouak]

Hopefully, that is what you meant.. A bit vague really..

[Look]

I think most people end up where @kbingham is at.
If you want to allow your users to alter the dock after you set it dockutil really does look like the best solution, it takes a bit of working out to get it going, but the results are nice and reliable once you have sorted it.
Config profiles work, but they lock the dock so for staff users they are not that useful.

[bentoms]

This might help you get started with dockutil