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steventhemacman · 03-27-2015

Hello I am being asked to schedule a reboot for our student machines at a specific time, say 11:30 - 11:45 am. I know I can set a policy to start and end at a specific time, but not sure how to actually get the laptops to reboot during a specific tim...

steventhemacman · 03-26-2015

Hello, We are using Chrome more and more and I have been asked to block extensions. Also, to remove certain ones that have been installed (google hangouts in particular to be removed). Just looking for some expert opinions. Thanks!

steventhemacman · 09-05-2014

Hi For some reason this year, when we go to remote a client machine, it asks the client for permission for us to control the screen. I have verified that the setting is set " Under Accounts >> Edit Account >> "Screen Share with Remote Computers Witho...

steventhemacman · 08-29-2014

Hi Not sure what the deal is, I was just doing some testing of policies in Self Service, and noticed that the never seem to finish. You can see the progress bar download the dmg or pkg. then it changes to "Running Policy "example"' and there is sits....

steventhemacman · 06-26-2014

Hi Everyone, We do target disk imaging for our Macbook Air and a few Macbook Pros. For some reason when we do this the startup disk does not seem to be "set". The computers will boot fine, however I can tell they are searching at startup for 10-15 se...

steventhemacman · 03-27-2015

Thanks @stevewood and @mm2270 and @pblake. I will do some testing and I think I will be successful with the help given here, I appreciate it. I like to have different approaches to the issue. As for pmset I could always just do a shutdown, I would ho...

steventhemacman · 03-27-2015

I kind of wish there was a way to not have it ask for the OK. But just tell them it's going to restart in 5 minutes. It seems you can do restart immediately, or they have to click OK. I'm sure the students who know were trying to lock something down ...

steventhemacman · 03-26-2015

Hi @Burrows I did have it run at login. Still wasn't working. I think something got messed up on my end with copy and paste. So I retyped and retested and it is working great now. (permission checked out). Thanks!

steventhemacman · 03-26-2015

Hi @Burrows I tried your script, but for some reason it does not work. Extensions are still installed and working and I am able to add more. Not sure what to think of it. Have yet to try @zanb approach yet. Still chugging away...

steventhemacman · 01-29-2015

@Johnny.Kim][/url][/url I did run it as a login trigger, and got this outcome: However, it did seem to work, I see the name is changed now...so we do have a solution, although it would be cool if I could do it to the current logged in user without a ...

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