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steve_bills
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Posted on ‎08-31-2016 10:30 AM

Let me apologize in advance if this question has already been asked...Absolute JAMF newbie. First off, I am using MacOSX 10.11.5 and we will be upgrading to 10.11.6 shortly. I'm rolling this out to ten test users.

With that said, I created a policy for setting the Safari Homepage which isn't working correctly.

Here's the log output from one of the computers. Executing Policy Set Safari Homepage

Running command jamf setHomePage -homepage 'http://www.myworkplace.com' -feu -fut -skipFirefox -skipChrome... Result of the command is: Setting home page to 'http://www.myworkpalce.com' for Existing Users and User Templates However, this is still not updating the default homepage to www.myworkplace.com. When I open the browser it still hitting the www.apple.com homepage.

here's my policy information... Execute Command Command to execute on computers. This command is executed as the "root" user

sudo jamf setHomePage -homepage http://www.myworkpace.com -feu -fut -skipFirefox -skipChrome

My Trigger is "Login" and it's set for "once per user per computer" Scope is: All Computers and All Users No Exceptions

I worked with JAMF Support who commented: "After some digging I noticed that Apple got rid of the 'HomePage' key inside of there plist"

Is there another key to set the homepage to? As I mentioned, I'm a newbie so any help is appreciated.

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davidacland
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Posted on ‎08-31-2016 12:41 PM

There was a discussion on this recently with a few possible options https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=19668

We use a config profile to set this setting https://github.com/amsysuk/public_config_profiles/blob/master/SafariHomepage.mobileconfig

Config profiles will catch the setting if it's moved to a container, as long as the preference domain is correct.

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