Managed Preferences not Applying

Hi Paul

Have you tried creating a Computer List for the new hardware and applying managed preferences that way?

Hope this helps – Tony

Try logging on as a local admin on one of the iMacs and running the following:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd -f


This should force the managed prefs to apply - check the system log and see if anythign jumps out.

Cheers,
PJ
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Hey guys, I'm getting a very very similar problem.

Just taken over from our mac guy at the college where I work, i'm up on pretty much everything else except for managed prefs - i made changes to the login window which took effect after running the above bash command, but none of the changes I make to the student's group take effect, at all!

is there a similar command that will force the user group's managed prefs to refresh?

i'm getting a bit scared now as students will need to use the machines in a week or so and I need a way to manage their docks and lock their access down tight!

hope someone out there can help me...

The above command should refresh all preferences rather than just the computer account ones.

How many groups is your user a member of and when you logon does it have a folder created inside the /Library/Manged\ Preferences directory with the username?

One thing I've done previously is to remove the user from all groups, logon to the machine, reboot, add the user back into the group and then try logging on again.

Just a thought...