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Dock Items

  • December 7, 2010
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golbiga
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I'm putting together an Office 2011 installer that includes a postflight script that removes Office 2008 and installs Office 2011 silently. I'm trying to clean up the dock after install (Using Dock Items in JSS) - remove 2008 dock items and place the 2011 dock items in their place. What I'm seeing is that JSS does not put the removal/add in proper order so what I'm ending up with is an incomplete dock install. I just tested this with Remote and I'm getting the same outcome. Is there a better way of doing this?

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Allen

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    • Anonymous
    • December 7, 2010

    For situations where I couldn't get the order I wanted, I've broken out into two policies chained together. Set the first policy to include the command "jamf policy –trigger <manual trigger>" (this will run at the end after the payload) which will then trigger the second policy off that manual trigger. They'll then run back-to-back. I imagine you'll want to remove the Office 2008 icons in the first policy and then add in the Office 2011 icons in the second.

    HTH,
    -Charlie

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    MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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    golbiga
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    • golbiga
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    • December 7, 2010

    I ended up just putting /usr/sbin/jamf modifyDock –id <ID> -remove with the cleanup script beforehand. This way it removes those items before the JSS adds them as part of the Self Service/Remote Policy.

    Thanks
    Allen

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