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MCX settings and time machine menu extra

rdagel
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Posted on ‎07-01-2009 12:13 AM

I am trying to remove the time machine menu extra from the menu as we are
not using time machine. I tried to manually add the setting to the menu
extras part of MCX but did not have any luck getting it to work. Any ideas?

Rich Dagel
Senior Technology Specialist

Landor Associates
1001 Front Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
United States
415 365 3933
http://www.landor.com
Rich.Dagel at landor.com

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tlarkin
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Posted on ‎07-01-2009 12:19 AM

you are using OS X Server right? I posted this on the hints site a while ago and it works:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story080801104313882

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Posted on ‎07-01-2009 02:19 PM

Rich,

Check out - http://www.apple.com/education/it-professionals/online-tutorials.htm and specifically, the whitepaper at the bottom of the page.

JohnD
-- John DeTroye Email: johnd at apple.com
Sr. Consulting Engineer Systems Management Specialist
Apple - Education iChat: johnd at mac.com
Systems Management Guide - http://www.apple.com/education/go/sysmgmt/
Client Management Offerings - http://www.apple.com/education/it-professionals/online-tutorials.html

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John_moore4
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Posted on ‎07-01-2009 05:09 PM

Specifically the Client Management doc at:
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/it/Apple-ClientManagementWhitePaper.p
df Page 55 near the bottom shows an example of the MCX file and setting the
time machine menubar item set to false. That's how we removed the menu bar
item for our image. The dock item for Time Machine can be removed from the
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dockfixup.plist.

John Moore | System Engineer ­ End User Computing | Cerner Corporation |
816.201.1564 | 816.651.7599 | john.l.moore at cerner.com |
http://www.cerner.com

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Posted on ‎07-08-2009 08:47 PM

I used John DeTroye's guide for MCX settings with Casper 7's new MCX
settings to remove TimeMachine from menu bar and stop the prompt for
TimeMachine backup to new external drives. One more way to accomplish the
task.
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpqxnzm_32v82j32cc A little crude
documentation but clear enough.
-Nathaniel

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