MacDeployment 2016 'Managing the User Experience' slides and references

Here are some references from my “Managing the User Experience” session at the MacDeployment 2016 conference in Calgary, June 2016. Thanks to everyone who attended!

Slides can be downloaded here.

Third-party app preferences

• Sparkle documentation
• Google Chrome preferences using MCX
• Adobe Scripting Center

Apple-native Preferences

• Preferences domains
• Exhaustive domain search order from CoreFoundation
• defaults(1) manpage
• PrefsEditor

Configuration Profiles

• Preferences Management with Profiles - Greg Neagle, MacSysAdmin 2015
• Apple Profile Manager documentation
• mcxToProfile
• make-profile-pkg
• ProfileCreator - Erik Berglund
• Dock-Master - Michael Page

Older (but great) resources on Managed Preferences

• Enterprise Mac Managed Preferences - Ed Marczak, Greg Neagle
• OS X Server Essentials 10.6

Other items

• outset - Joe Chilcote
• LoginScriptPlugin - Per Olofsson
• FoundationPlist Pyton module - Greg Neagle
• plutil(1) manpage
• XY Problem