Disable iTunes sharing

We would like to disable the sharing feature in iTunes for our 400 high school students.
Has anyone had any experience with doing this?
The clients are all managed by MCX (we are managing the allowed Applications from the Workgroup Manager) so a MCX solution is preferable but we can also incorporate a solution into our image if necessary.

I haven't tried this myself, but if you go to the Details pane in the Workgroup Manager preferences, you can import the iTunes preferences (add iTunes through the Add button) and change the settings if necessary (the Edit button), including the setting to disable sharing, the iTunes Music Store, etc. They'll import into the "Often" area, but you can copy them to the "Always" area (copy and paste each appropriate key) which should then push these settings out through Workgroup Manager to your workstations and prevent them from being overridden.
Hope this helps.

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