Help creating Search Domains to Append Policy

[jonathanla]

We have a few hundred Macs spread out over our offices around the country/world and sometimes the search domains get edited and important information is deleted. I'd like to set up an ongoing policy so that 3 search domains are added back to each adapter. I'd like this to append and not to overwrite whatever is there, but also not to add a duplicate. We have Macbooks, Macbook Pro's and Macbook Airs.

We do use DHCP servers but the Network Admins don't push out Search Domains that way, they use AD GPO's. I don't think we can use these without third party software.

Thanks.

[davidacland]

You can use networksetup -setsearchdomains <interface> <searchdomain> to set it.

Although it would be cleaner to check if its there and add it if needed, the -setsearchdomains option already handles this and only adds the entry if its missing.

A short for loop would work well for this.