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Users & Groups Settings Not Available

Hello! About a month ago, we started receiving messages from a few of our users that when they try to go to "Users & Groups" in System Preferences to change their password, they see a message saying "Users & Groups" settings are not available. These ...

jkarpenske · 08-22-2024

We are having issues where Secure Token is not being assigned to the first user who logs in. (I THINK this started in mid-July, but am no 100% sure) In fact, according to an extension attribute we use to see who has Secure Token, no one has Secure To...

jkarpenske · 09-05-2023

We have a Mac Studio running macOS Ventura. it's connected to a Studio Display via Thunderbolt, and to a Crestron system via HDMI, which feeds two large displays at the front of the classroom. The problem is that on power-on, the login screen default...

Unreal Engine in multi user environment · 09-01-2023

We're having issues trying to install Unreal Engine in our lab of 25 Macs. I've been searching for a solution but have come up empty handed. I found an unanswered question from someone with the same problem in the Epic Games Launcher community, and I...

jkarpenske · 12-15-2022

We had a really weird hiccup the other night - On the evening of the 13th I sent a command to our lab Macs to update to macOS 12.6.2. I did this as I've always done in the past - by going to their smart group, viewing it, clicking "Action," selecting...

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I'll give that a try as soon as I can get my hands on one of the misbehaving Macs. Thanks!

jkarpenske · 09-03-2024

We're currently testing a few changes to our workflow to see if it makes a difference - so far, it seems to be successful. Here's what we changed:1. In the config profile that enables FileVault, we've set it to activate at logout instead of at login....

jkarpenske · 08-22-2024

Also, if I run "sysadminctl -secureTokenStatus (primary user's username)" on a Mac that has no users with secure token (according to our extension attribute,) I get the message "Secure token is DISABLED for user (username)."

jkarpenske · 01-18-2024

Unfortunately, no, we never found a solution to make the settings stick. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer.

jkarpenske · 10-20-2023

Thank you for sharing your work! I'll give this a try next year - for this semester we just put a shortcut to the Unreal Engine app on the Users' desktops, and I don't want to make any further changes now that the semester is well underway.

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