[Casper] Menubar Items

[Criss Myers]

Hi Thomas 

I just emailed him a copy of my mcx file to edit as he pleased and then suggested he put it in /Library/Managed Preferences/ 

in case he didnt have WGM, 

would that work? 

Criss


Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at  2:21 PM, in message <49913901.7141.0039.0 at kckps.org>, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

Ron 


I went through the same thing last year.  What I do is create a nested group of all my groups that I need to manage the menu bar for in WGM.  Then, select your nested group and select preferences.  Once the preferences pane opens, you need to click on the details tab.  Add the following application by hitting the plus sign, /System/Library/CoreServices/Managedclient/.app.  Once you add that you can manage the menu items.  For example I got rid of TimeMachine on every mac in our network because i did not want to support it.  So, I used this method.  You should create a new key, and say always, then choose your menu item of choice you wish to manage, choose boolean for the type and choose false for the value.  Linked is what it should look like once you add in the proper settings. 


http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o189/tlarkin80/Picture1-3.png 


Then MCX will push this out to every machine on your network and you can then manage menu items.  I already put in a request to Apple to actually just make a menu items menu in WGM instead of doing it this way. 


I also submitted this as a hint on OS X Hints website found here: 


http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080801104313882 ( http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080801104313882 ) 


This should do what you want. 





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>>> Ron Prue <ron.prue at mynoahs.com> 02/09/09 9:06 PM >>>
Hello, 



I have deployed an image for 11 iMacs but have had a tough time getting rid of menubar items.  They are removed when I am booted from an external drive containing the partition I image, but after that image is deployed to all the iMacs I get Time Machine, Airport and other unwanted menubar items again. 



I have searched for a script to run after imaging to solve this with no success.  Do any of you have a script you use or another solution to remove unwanted menubar items? 



Thanks in advance. 



Ron Prue 

Technical Services 

Noah Corporation 

435.214.2928 

ron.prue at mynoahs.com 








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