macOS Ventura Preferences Blocked by Profile

[cwallace]

I have had a a configuration profile that sets some basic System Preference restrictions. Since upgrading to macOS Ventura the computers that are assigned that configuration profile cannot access some the the System Preference categories even though they are enabled in the configuration profile.

IE: Desktop & Screen Saver preferences are enabled, however, when selecting it on the computer it say it is controlled by a profile.

Computers running Big Sur or Monterey allow are working as expected.

[jtrant]

macOS Ventura has its own System Settings restrictions: DisabledSystemSettings

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/systempreferences

You're probably going to need to un-scope the old restrictions from Monterey Macs, and scope a new profile.

Here's an example:
Preference domain: com.apple.systempreferences

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>DisabledSystemSettings</key>
    <array>
        <string>com.apple.Sharing-Settings.extension</string>
        <string>com.apple.Transfer-Reset-Settings.extension</string>
        <string>com.apple.Startup-Disk-Settings.extension</string>
        <string>com.apple.Users-Groups-Settings.extension</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

For what it's worth, these preference keys will apparently not apply to macOS 14 as they are already deprecated.