Layering and Multiple Profiles Considerations
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 408.
In previous versions of OS X management, you could create different behaviors by layering management techniques reflecting users, groups of users, devices, and groups of devices. Although Profile Manager also shows those same four management levels, you need to be careful when building profiles.
The general rule is to avoid layering profiles that manage the same preferences, but this is not a strict rule. Some profiles can be additive, and others can collide, so you need to be aware of which are which.
Multiple profiles that contain different settings for the same preferences result in undefined results. There is no order of preference applied to the multiple profiles, so you will not have a predictable outcome.
Payloads that should remain exclusive include the following:
▶ AD Certificate
▶ APN
▶ Directory
▶ General
▶ Global HTTP Proxy
▶ Identification
▶ Restrictions
▶ Security & Privacy
▶ Single App Mode
▶ Single Sign-On
▶ Xsan Payloads that can be combined include the following:
▶ Accessibility
▶ AirPlay
▶ AirPrint
▶ Calendar
▶ Certificate
▶ Contacts
▶ Content Filter
▶ Custom Settings
▶ Dock
▶ Domains
▶ Energy Saver
▶ Finder
▶ Fonts
▶ Exchange
▶ LDAP
▶ Login items
▶ LoginWindow
▶ Messages
▶ Mobility
▶ Network
▶ Passcode
▶ Parental Controls
▶ Printing
▶ SCEP
▶ Software Update
▶ Subscribed Calendars
▶ Time Machine
▶ VPN
▶ Web Clips
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