How to blow away MCX using casper?

[donmontalvo]

The jamf binary can be used to add mcx, curious if there's a way to remove mcx?

The reason I ask, sometimes there are hidden functions that don't show when pulling up the jamf binary help pages.

$ jamf -help mcx

Usage:   jamf mcx

Usage:   jamf mcx -username <username>

     -username       The username of the account that Managed Preferences are being applied to.

Notes:   When run without the -username flag, Managed Preferences are applied for the Computer Level.

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TIA
Don

[hkim · Accepted solution]

what's wrong with https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5171 ?

[hkim · Accepted solution]

what's wrong with https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5171 ?

[donmontalvo]

Thanks @hkim, we wanted a response from JAMF on whether the binary offers that function, in case it's one of the hidden ones.

[ToriAnneke · Accepted solution]

For every MCX preference I make, I create one called "REVOKE - blah blah blah" and I have it to "Make This Preference Unmanaged"

Then I have an MCX Revoker Managed Preference Profile where I manually Scope it to the machine I want to revoke MCX's from.

Reboot and usually works.

If not, then I do the deep cleaning method in Terminal.

[donmontalvo]

@pvader Interesting, we'll have a look at this.