Mountain Lion and the battle of the iCLoud/AppleID prompt

[acdesigntech]

Hey all,

So I'm experimenting with MCX on ML and trying to get Casper 8.6 to apply an MCX to suppress the iCloud prompt at login. These are the settings i have, but can't seem to get them to aply to the ML iMac sitting next to me.

DidSeeCloudSetup User Level At Every Login DidSeeCloudSetup boolean true
LastSeenCloudProductVersion User Level At Every Login LastSeenCloudProductVersion string 10.8

I captured the com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist from a user's preferences on the ML computer.

What might I be missing?

[gregneagle]

http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/mountain-lion-suppress-apple-id-icloud-prompt/

This is outside of whatever wrapper Casper is putting around MCX.

[jhbush]

Greg, for some reason I can't this to work. I tried MCX and a defaults write.

[gregneagle]

I and several others have had success.

MCX must be managed "once" -- "always" won't work.

What are your exact "defaults write" commands?

-Greg

[jhbush]

sudo defaults write /System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant LastSeenCloudProductVersion 10.8

[tkimpton]

just rename the MiniLauncher

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3860

[bplant]

This is working for us to kill the iCloud prompt.

sudo defaults write /System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool TRUE

sudo defaults write /System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant LastSeenCloudProductVersion -string ’10.8.3?