Group Profiles not applying properly after OS X 10.11

Exactly how, why and when Profile Manager pushes profiles seems to be shrouded in mystery.

Try making a trivial edit to the group profile, such as adding a space to the general description, and then rebooting your re-imaged machines. Make sure the profile is 'push' not 'manual download'.

Is the profile listed in the System Preferences / Profiles panel? What happens if you login as your group-user, logout and then login again? My impression is that user profiles don't get pushed until the user logs in, which may be too late for some settings to apply to that first session.

These comments are only based on casual observations; if anybody has undertaken a more systematic investigation or has a pointer to an authoritative source I think a lot of people would be interested.

C.

So, I've been having the same problem with 2 of my testing 10.11 clients. I think I solved it today though.

I brought up console and poked around there for a bit. I kept seeing this message

mdmclient[610]: Error: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=5 "A IMAP account already exists. Only a single IMAP account is allowed to be saved."

At some point in the past, my work emails were manually added to one of my computers associated with my iCloud account. Those credentials synced through iCloud and became active when I updated to 10.11. I removed these accounts (and clicked "remove from all) and my group policies immediately started pushing.

It looks like 10.11 is a little more strict and does not handle iCloud and Profile Manager conflicts as gracefully as 10.10.

So, I don't think its group policies that actually have the problem. I just think they are what would most likely contain payloads that conflict with existing settings.

My suggestion to you would be to go through your policies and see if there are any that might conflict with existing settings elsewhere.

Hopefully this helps!

When a users logs in to a machine after a netrestore there is no user profile that was there prior to the net restore. I have to download it again.

How can I keep a user profile from dissapearing.

I know this is an outdated thread, but has anyone fixed this issue? I have been having this very same problem for the last several months.

Thanks,