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    • WrCombsW
      WrCombs @travisdh1
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      @travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

      @WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

      @bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

      I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself 😞

      sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
      And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.

      LOL

      Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!

      I dislike Apple With a burning passion...

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @WrCombs
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        @WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

        @travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

        @WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

        @bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

        I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself 😞

        sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
        And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.

        LOL

        Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!

        I dislike Apple With a burning passion...

        I dislike them as well, but only because their products are generally way to expensive. The past couple of years, they've actually been making reasonably prices tablets.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @bnrstnr
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          @bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

          I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself 😞

          Not many people with Mac experience, and those that have it mostly use it very lightly. Mac + Power User is a rare combination, even though their convoluted, overly complex system is designed exclusively for power users who have time to tweak it and learn all the little quirks.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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            @travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

            I dislike them as well, but only because their products are generally way to expensive.

            I don't mind the price, it's the low quality that gets me. The hardware is okay quality wise, but not great, just good. But the software is always so bad - slow, poorly designed, unintuitive.

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            • black3dynamiteB
              black3dynamite @WrCombs
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              @WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

              @travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

              @WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

              @bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

              I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself 😞

              sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
              And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.

              LOL

              Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!

              I dislike Apple With a burning passion...

              It's some of the end users that I deal with that makes me dislike Apple.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
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                So the loginhook didn't do what I wanted, at least not for the second user. . . maybe back to my original idea of just copying the script to a folder added to / and then running it when the user logins in. . .

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                • larsen161L
                  larsen161 @travisdh1
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                  @travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                  Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!

                  I have not been in an org (anywhere from 40 - 1500 users) in the last 10 years that has had more Windows machines and Mac, ChromeOS, LInux. Mac has usually made up the majority in most orgs. ChromeOS was the lead in one, 60% total.

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                  • larsen161L
                    larsen161 @DustinB3403
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                    @DustinB3403 Head on over to macadmins slack and perhaps check out #macos. Lots of people there supporting mac's and it's not just mac focused. https://macadmins.herokuapp.com/

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                    • SmithErickS
                      SmithErick
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                      Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @SmithErick
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                        @SmithErick said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                        Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?

                        Yeah, to do things like clean up the dock, add specific items to the dock, set the finder preferences etc.

                        Manually running it once the user is logged in, isn't an issue, just a nuisance.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @larsen161
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                          @larsen161 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                          @DustinB3403 Head on over to macadmins slack and perhaps check out #macos. Lots of people there supporting mac's and it's not just mac focused. https://macadmins.herokuapp.com/

                          I'll consider it, jumping into another community for this may not be something I really want to do. Most of this I can figure out on my own and without much hassle.

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                          • larsen161L
                            larsen161 @DustinB3403
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                            @DustinB3403 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                            @SmithErick said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                            Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?

                            Yeah, to do things like clean up the dock, add specific items to the dock, set the finder preferences etc.

                            Manually running it once the user is logged in, isn't an issue, just a nuisance.

                            For this use docutil

                            Also, look at outset which will let you run scripts at login, logout, etc.

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                            • SmithErickS
                              SmithErick
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                              MacOS has a locale directory template somewhere for new users, need to find that that could make something work right?

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403 @larsen161
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                                @larsen161 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                                @DustinB3403 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                                @SmithErick said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                                Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?

                                Yeah, to do things like clean up the dock, add specific items to the dock, set the finder preferences etc.

                                Manually running it once the user is logged in, isn't an issue, just a nuisance.

                                For this use docutil

                                Also, look at outset which will let you run scripts at login, logout, etc.

                                Already am using dockutil, I'll check out outset. Thanks

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                                • larsen161L
                                  larsen161
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                                  Also, are you using anything like DEP with jamf, munki, fleetsmith etc to help manage the endpoints?

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403 @larsen161
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                                    @larsen161 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                                    Also, are you using anything like DEP with jamf, munki, fleetsmith etc to help manage the endpoints?

                                    No, nothing like that, solutions like jamf are also DoA as far as apple is concerned. They're forcing everyone to MDMs. Which only work in extreme cases.

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                                    • SmithErickS
                                      SmithErick
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                                      https://www.amsys.co.uk/modifying-os-x-user-template/
                                      I know its old, but may help.

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                                      • wrx7mW
                                        wrx7m @DustinB3403
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                                        @DustinB3403 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                                        @larsen161 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:

                                        Also, are you using anything like DEP with jamf, munki, fleetsmith etc to help manage the endpoints?

                                        No, nothing like that, solutions like jamf are also DoA as far as apple is concerned. They're forcing everyone to MDMs. Which only work in extreme cases.

                                        Interesting. Did not know that.

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                                        • larsen161L
                                          larsen161
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                                          Another good resource that lists a bunch of useful tools for macOS management.
                                          https://github.com/smashism/awesome-macadmin-tools

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403
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                                            I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from / called scripts and that does what I need.

                                            No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.

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