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Casper Suite Administrator's Guide v8.7 - JAMF Software

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The following table shows how Managed Preferences (in OS X v10.6 and later) affect MCX settings from<br />

third-party providers.<br />

Open Directory Active Directory Likewise ADmitMac Centrify<br />

Local Home Works together Works together Works together Works Works together<br />

together<br />

Network<br />

Home<br />

Mobile Home<br />

Works together Works together N/A Works<br />

together<br />

Nothing applied<br />

from JSS<br />

Works together<br />

Nothing<br />

applied from<br />

JSS<br />

Nothing<br />

applied<br />

from JSS<br />

N/A<br />

Nothing<br />

applied from<br />

JSS<br />

Understanding Domains, Keys, and Values<br />

Most applications written for Mac OS X store preferences in a property list or PLIST file. Each PLIST file<br />

represents a domain that contains multiple keys and values.<br />

For example, each user has a PLIST file that determines the appearance of their Dock. This file is located in<br />

the user home directory in:<br />

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist<br />

In this example, the domain for the file is:<br />

com.apple.dock<br />

The key that determines if the Automatically hide and show the Dock feature is enabled is:<br />

autohide<br />

There is a command-line utility called Defaults that allows you to read and write PLIST files. Apple’s<br />

Developer Tools also contain an application called Property List Editor that allows you to view and edit<br />

PLIST files.<br />

Using the information from the previous example, the preferences settings on your account can be<br />

displayed by executing the following command from Terminal:<br />

defaults read com.apple.dock autohide<br />

This command returns the value of the autohide key for the com.apple.dock domain.<br />

If the command returns a “0”, the feature is not enabled. If the command returns a “1”, the feature is<br />

enabled.<br />

To enable Managed Preferences:<br />

1. Log in to the JSS with a web browser.<br />

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