For quite some time, I was able to login to my Profile Manager and set certain apps on my user's dock. I found it strange that, one day, suddenly some of my apps were no longer appearing in my list of apps available (even though they were physically on my computer). Very puzzling. My workaround was to use the feature in Apple Remote Desktop to "Open an Application" on my client's computers (mainly in my computer lab). Not exactly the solution I was looking for but it was my workaround nonetheless until I could find a true solution.
Here is some background on my issue:
My computer WAS the server for quite a while until I migrated everything over to my Macmini server. Everything still worked as before. I was still able to login to my Profile Manager (still from my client computer) and set apps to be on my user's dock. As I said before, everything stopped one day. As most of us in IT work "in-the-moment", I had an issue with Profile Manager one day. Although I didn't have to rebuild everything, I did have to re-enroll all my client computers to profile manger. After that, my clients were able to receive their managed settings. Little did I know that this would disable the apps that I'm available to configure on my users' docks. Since I forgot the fact that I had to re-enroll my client computers again, it didn't dawn on me that this would affect that part of my ability to configure this from MY computer. After I logged into my server and saw that none of these specific apps were installed, I installed the apps. Once that was done, I was able to login to Profile manager from MY computer and VOILÀ...my "missing" apps were listed again. Who knew??
I'm now able to do what I need to do with my apps....as long as they are also on my server.
