Batch Comamand to Change "Show When Being Observed" on clients to OFF?

I administer roughly 70 machines via ARD3 and have a question:
Is it possible to turn "Show When Being Observed" off on all machines without having to crawl thru each one one-by-one?
I am also using Workgroup Manager to admin all the machines via Open Directory but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do this.

OK, I can't find the appropriate .plist file for the life of me.
It is not the com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist one as that is for the Admin Application only. As far as I can see, when I make channges to the setting manually, the com.apple.SystemPreferences file changes, but I don't think the setting is there and I think the Finder shows it simply because I am in the System Prefs and unlocking it, etc.
So in short, I can't figure out what .plist nor what string to add. Any help?

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All machines are OS 10.8.5, Remote desktop on clients and master machine is 3.7.1
Although "show when being observed" is selected in the remote management settings on the client, the menu icon that should show up on observation doesn't show.
If I try to trigger it manually by double-clicking Macintosh HD/System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu still no icon is displayed. However no entry indicating a problem is listed in the system log in console.
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The manual for kickstart is available by simply typing:
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Possibly the topology and/or physical health of your network? Assuming a stock OS install, a healthy drive and with nothing 3rd-Party added it should j'ust work'. By 3rd-Party I don't mean applications such as Adobe CS etc. I mean Little Snitch, Onyx etc and a whole host of other 'system' or 'utility' programs that on the surface appear to 'help' but in fact may be mudying the waters?
HTH?
Tony

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