Admin account managed, Profile Manager, Parental controls

Hello all,


I am getting ready to pull a little of my grey hair out. My question crosses so many lines, I just decided to place it here as it seems the most relevant. I apologize if its in the incorrect place


I have Mt Lion Server setup and working nicely on a Mac mini. I am also using profile manager to issuse things like wifi updates to clients and manage vpns etc etc etc.


I have 2 MacBooks with issues, both incidentally are running the special version of 10.8.2 for retina Macs. Both user's are also admin accounts on each machine and they show as managed w/ Parental contorl's. I am going to go out on a limb here and say thats because the server is managing them etc. It seems the most logical explination.


I can live with that they are managed. I mean why else use profile manager. Where the rub lies is that the Parental controls are enabled. I have created a new admin account and logged in and disabled the Parental controls but they always get re - enabled.


Honestly the only issue with Parental Controls is it disables dicatation. Is there a place in Profile manager I may be overlooking to fix this. I have looked and for the life of me cannot find a place for it. I have all groups setup properly and I have no parental contorls enabled on any profiles the affected user's are a member of. Has anyone seen this before ? I am tired of searching forums, and the 11 page thread here in the forums about controls being broken in 10.8.2 is a rather long read.

Also the thread about Profile Manager being broken in 2.2 is a little depressing. I Had that issue and had to preform a clean reinstall to overcome that issue. I hope this is also not related.


Any advice thoughts suggestions or what ever would be greatly appreciated. As I said the only real issue is that the dictaiton option is disabed for the users.


Cheers,


Tom

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 30, 2012 9:21 PM

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Dec 31, 2012 10:14 PM in response to FromOZ

A post in the link FromOZ provided held the answer.


Currently there seems to be an issue with Profile Manager and Admin account etc. According to the other thread so long as you use, user profiles the problem exists. One user in the other thread put forth that they stoped using user profiles and were using device profiles. Which seemed to fix the issue. I can confim removing all user profiles and only using device profile solves the issue.


What I did was create a group just for each user place all there devices into that group and never touch the individual user profile again.


Maybe this will help someone I dont know but maybe. Its a bit of a pain in the rear but now I have dictation fixed. Heres hoping the next verison of Server fixes this.


ps.. This was a perliminary test of just a few things like VPN, WIFI, and a few settings. I dont expect it to change once, I get more indepth.


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