Enterprise MAC managed preferences

Cover13;

Table of Contents13;

About the Authors

About the Technical Reviewer

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1 Why Manage?

Predictability Means Less Work over Time

Maintaining Company Policy

Removing Unused Functions

Keeping Your Sanity

Preference Delivery

Client Management Alternatives

Scripting

Managing Everything Else

Summary

Chapter 2 What Is the Managed Preferences System?

How Did We Get Here?

Where Are We Now?

The Heart of Managed Preferences

What Can You Manage?

What You Will Need

Summary

Chapter 3 Understanding Directory Services

What Are Directory Services?

Directory Services and Managed Preferences

Directory Services Supported by Mac OS X

Open Directory

Active Directory

LDAPv3

NIS

Local Directory Services

Directory Service Configurations

Local Only

Network Directory Service

Multiple Network Directory Services

Summary

Chapter 4 Property List Files

What Are Property List Files?

Property List Example

Digging Deeper ...

Working with Property List Files

Property List Editor.app

Creating a Property List from Scratch with Property List Editor

Command-Line Utilities

Cocoa for Scripters

Altering .plist Files in Memory

Summary

Resources

Chapter 5 Writing a Property List for Management

Where Do Managed Preferences Reside?

Preferred Tools for Creating, Testing, and Deploying Managed Preferences

Using Workgroup Manager

The dscl Command

The defaults Command Refresher

Summary

Chapter 6 Delivering Managed Preferences

Directory Choices

Delivery with Open Directory

Binding Mac OS X Clients to Open Directory

Accessing the Directory

Delivery with Active Directory

Binding Mac OS X Clients to Active Directory

Extending the Active Directory Schema

Importing the LDIF File

Managing Preferences in Active Directory

Delivery with OpenLDAP

Add the Apple Schema to OpenLDAP

Consider Indexing

Bind Mac OS X to OpenLDAP

Further OpenLDAP Considerations

Delivery Without a Centralized Directory

Help! I Can't Use MCX at All

Summary

Additional Resources

Chapter 7 Local MCX

Delivery Without a Centralized Directory

Introducing Local MCX

Getting Started

Creating a Computer Group

Adding Managed Preferences

Extending the Managed Preferences to Other Machines

Local MCX Checklist

Advanced Local MCX

Dynamic Group Membership (or 8220;Smart Groups8221;)

Local MCX Issues

MCX in Alternate Directory Nodes

More Local DS Node Tricks

Summary

Chapter 8 Compositing Preferences

Managed Preference Interactions

Preferences Precedence

Preferences and Group Hierarchy

MCXCompositor

Viewing Composited MCX Data with mcxquery

Viewing Composited MCX Data with System Profiler

Summary

Chapter 9 Enforcing Managed Preferences

Management Frequency

Choosing a Management Frequency

Enforcing the Managed Preferences Configuration

Protecting Your Managed Preference Configuration

Summary

Chapter 10 Preference Manifests and 8220;Raw8221; Preferences

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