Hello Everyone,
While I have been using Macs for better than 25 years, I have not needed, at least I didn't think I did, needed to manage preferences for our workgroups. Today I am on a new mission to begin deploying our Mac apps, OS X, and workgroup settings for our Mac computers and the groups using them.
My question is, do any of you know of a good reference place for learning about the various workgroup manager settings? For instance, if I wanted to have default settings for all users of Mac computers, how and what would I do versus creating a template in the user template folder? I have seen plenty of discussion on the use of a default user profile within the user template folder, but I have seen many more talking about the use of managing these preferences through workgroup manager settings on our servers. I suspect they are managed through the plists, but really don't know what settings they would be or how their behavior would be modified by changing them.
A simple idea would be, how can I make sure everyone starts with the same desktop picture and screen saver settings?
Anyhow, I am just asking if there is a good resource either web based or in a book/manual.
Thanks again for your feedback….
I am still learning and taking this all in. I am also working on deploying Windows 7 through SCCM as part of our new desktop engineering team, so needless to say, I have a lot on my plate this summer.
Mick
