[Casper] Menubar Items

Thu Feb 12 06:53:50 PST 2009

Criss 

Well, if you are referring to exporting and importing MCX settings, then yes that is from what it looks like, totally possible.  I have just never tried to apply MCX to a machine that wasn't bound to an Apple server.  I wonder how well it works with mismatched OS versions and all other factors as well.  I am also curious how often it updates.  If I push out a MCX update via the dscl command, does it update instantly, or does it still require a log in/out for the full update? 

Well, I will definitely be playing with this towards summer time as we like to keep a highly managed local account on every machine just in case the network goes down or they don't have a mobile account yet, or for whatever the reason may be we like to keep a local account so the machine can always be used.  We like to keep that local account very highly managed so users are more inclined to use their actual account. 

Have you played with configuring the MCX file by dscl?  What were your experiences? 

Thanks

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>>> "Criss  Myers" <CMyers at uclan.ac.uk> 02/12/09 1:58 AM >>>

is that not the same as the WGM preferences you can set whilst in the local node, think i emailed you that earlier? 

The same things you can do with WGM for a ldap account you can do for the local node 

Criss

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>>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at  2:06 AM, in message <49932FB902000039000090DE at gwoes4.kckps.org>, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

While stumbling around in the dscl command line today doing something unrelated to this subject I noticed that there is a whole MCX subset of commands.

I would maybe look into that to see about scripting out certain things.  It looks like it can do local management as well.  If you type dscl, then once in interactive mode type -mcxhelp you will get a very long laundry list of items.

I actually had no idea that 10.5 version of dscl had that.....guess you learn something new every day huh?

Also, it seems that there is an option to import MCX from a server.  So maybe there is no longer a need for log in/out to force an update to MCX, you can maybe now do it via script or command from casper policies!

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>>> Ron Prue <ron.prue at mynoahs.com> 02/11/09 3:28 PM >>>
Sorry for the slow reply.  I was distracted with another project for a 
bit.

I am using Leopard Server and WGM, but not currently to manage mobile 
accounts or computers.  It handles file serving, mail, ftp and VPN.

The machines I want to maintain are at another facility 60 miles 
away.  They are public machines that I am trying to lock down and I 
image them occasionally but can't seem to repress the menu items.  
They are already managed by JSS and I would really like to try and 
accomplish this task using a policy/script if possible.  If not, I can 
look into getting them managed by my server.

BRW, thanks for the replies.  You guys are great.

Ron Prue
Technical Services
Noah Corporation
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ron.prue at mynoahs.com

On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

> I will just add, if you aren't using OS X Server and MCX to manage 
> your clients you may want to seriously consider doing so.  It will 
> save you so much time and effort and if you miss something in your 
> image you can always fix it with nested group preferences.  It is 
> worth every penny of what it costs to set it up.
>
> Now, I will get off my soap box and go back to work
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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> >>> Maura Fennelly <mfennelly at mitty.com> 02/10/09 9:53 AM >>>
> The menu bar items are all stored in ~/Library/Preferences/
> com.apple.systemuiserver.plist.
>
> You do have to use PlistBuddy to script them, because they are 
> nested one level below the top. But PlistBuddy is included in 10.5 (/
> usr/libexec/PlistBuddy)
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Ron Prue wrote:
>
>> 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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