Disabling the App Store Using Workgroup Manager

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Disabling the App Store Using Workgroup Manager

Tentatively installing 10.6.6 on one of the stations in my network.

Was looking at workgroup manager on the server and I can't seem to find an option to disable the app store. I'm probably being blind because it's a Friday - help?

Mac Mini, iMac, G5, macbook, XServe, iPhone 4,, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Running Network

Posted on Jan 14, 2011 1:58 AM

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Rhys Andrews

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Jan 17, 2011 2:53 PM in response to JenTech

Hi mate,
There doesn't seem to be one. I was concerned too when updating our main image to 10.6.6.

What I did was place the App Store app into its own folder in Applications, then set the permissions on that folder to prevent the necessary user groups from accessing it. Hopefully that is sufficient for you.

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Jan 17, 2011 2:55 PM in response to Rhys Andrews

Btw, this doesn't seem to break the "App Store" item in the apple menu for any user that can access the folder that the App store is contained in. But for any user that cannot access the folder, the "App Store" item disappears from the list and the older "Mac OS X Software..." option returns.

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