Can we copy a Dock setup to another Mac?

I manage a number of Macs in a lab.  They are all running Yosemite and have the same apps installed.  I've created a Dock setup on one of them and would like to copy that setup to all of them.
I tried copying ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist to one of the other systems and then issued "killall -HUP Dock" on the other machine.  This didn't update the Dock on the second machine.  In fact, it seems to have reset it to the install defaults.
Is there a way to do this?  Is there a cache tree somewhere that I need to clobber before copying the plist over to the new systems?

Yes you can, but make sure you don't have customs icons.
Go to this folder: ~/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
Copy that file to a usb stick or something, and place that file in the folder '' ~/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist '' on your macbook. But make sure you have a bakcup of your old plist file of your macbook. Just drag and drop the new plist file on your macbook and your good to go

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