Enterprise Mac Managed Preferences is the definitive guide to Apple’s Managed Client technology. With this book, you’ll get the following:

An example-driven guide to Mac OS X Managed Preferences/Client technology

Recipes for common use case studies and patterns

A targeted approach appropriate for any sys admin that manages Macs in an OS X or Windows environment

This is the only book that focuses on this facet of OS X exclusively. If you’re a sys admin, this book will take away much of the pain of working with OS X client systems. Even better, both of the authors are very involved in the Mac community—Greg Neagle is part of the MacEnterprise steering committee, and Ed is the Executive Editor and an author for MacTech magazine and a member of the Apple Consultants Network.

What you’ll learn

The Managed Preferences system and how to manage it

All about Directory Services Local Directory Services

How to work with property list files

How to deliver files with Open Directory, ActiveDirectory, local scripts, third-party utilities, Puppet, LANRev, Casper, and more

How to work with compositing preferences, including the hierarchy of preferences

How to write a Plist for management, using Workgroup Manager and Dock Example

How and when to enforce Managed Preferences

How to understand manifests

What recipes to use and when

When, how, and where to use mcxquery, System Profiler, and MCX Cache flushing

Who this book is for

This book is for systems administrators using Mac clients.

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