With a new blog in the top 10 new SP1 features series coming up in the next couple of days, I want to share a little really cool feature that comes also with Service Pack 1. While diving in the Mac OS X support in Configuration Manager for our session at the TechDays in The Netherlands I played a little bit with the Compliance Settings support for Mac OS X. Works really cool!
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Read this blog for more information if using 10.6 and higher… /2014/06/13/set-user-preferences-mac-os-x-10-x-configmgr-2012-r2/
With Service Pack 1 you are able to configure and remediate certain settings (preferences) in Mac OS X version 10.6 and version 10.7. What you need to do is the following, as a test I wanted to be sure that all of my Mac OS X devices will receive the same default homepage and it must be remediated when the setting is not compliant. How cool would that be?
When going to the Assets and Compliance workspace we need to expand the Compliance Settings > Configuration Items node to be able to create a Configuration Item. After selecting Mac OS X in the first step of the Configuration Item Wizard we are able configure the supported platforms like shown below in the figure.
Next you need to configure the setting that you want to monitor and remediate if necessary. In this example I want to set the Default HomePage preference. Searching on the Internet taught me that it is possible to change a setting called HomePage in the file com.apple.Safari.plist. ( I am a Mac OS X noob
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