Profile manager - removing computer settings

I've searched for an answer to this, but haven't found anything.
What happens when you remove profile manager settings for a computer? For example, I created settings for the dock that were pushed out. After that, I removed the settings in PM, but the settings still are in effect on the computer.

That is the problem I'm having. I remove the settings in PM, but they still remain in effect on the computer.

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Profile Manager Error Reading Settings code:-1

Hello,
I receive this error when I am going into Profile Manager tab on server. Any ideas?
Profile Manager Error Reading Settings code:-1

Did you ever find a resolution? If not then this might help Server: An error with code -1 occurred while setting up Device Management

Profile Manager - Remove icons in ipad and disable home button

Hello,
First of all sorry for my bad english.
Im working on a project, installed LION Server with Profile Manager configured, also Enrolled my iPad, i can also push the settings in to the ipad.
But now what i realy want, what the meaning of the project is; remove all of the icons and place only one icon (WEBCLIP) and what even will be beter is, when i boot my iPad the webclip popups by default. Is this possible guys?
Thank you!

It's impossible to develop an iPad app that can't be closed until some actions are done. The iPad programmer cannot override what happens when the user presses the 'Home' button. The 'Home' button will always tell the front application to go to the background, and if that application doesn't cooperate within a reasonable time it will be terminated.
Bear in mind that an iPad is an overgrown iPhone. It's always possible that someone will phone you up when you're running an app, and the app must release control and let you answer that phonecall.
I suggest you discuss the design philosophy with whoever wants the application, remembering that computers are meant to help us do what we want to do, not boss us about.

Yosemite profile manager shortening computer names and serials

If I prepare a placeholder in Yosemite profile manager, it shortens computer names and serials.
I've added and removed the placeholder and the names and serials are getting smaller, to a point they are only one letter long now.
Somehow, it suspect may be linked to the form fill feature but even if I try to type all, the placeholder names and serials shorten every time.
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François.

I cleared Safari Form Filling in Safari > Preferences > Auto Fill > Other Forms, selected example.com, clear button and closed preferences.
I went back to profile Manager, create the place holder again and all is good now.
François

Lion Server Profile Management error reading settings

After starting up Lion Server the profile management pane showed an error. It is also not possible to login via de browser to the profile manager. How can I fix this? Using the default httpd.conf file did not help.
This is one of the many problems I have with Lion server that does not work as expected. So if someone has a solution to remove all profile settings from my client MBP than I can try to revert back to Lion on my server also.
I hope this question is also read by someone of apple as this is not the quality I expected from apple. It lacks decent documentation and the setup of Portable Home Users is not possible. I thought apple product were self explaining and intuitive. This reminds me of the old Windows days: sitting days to figure it out and use a lot of terminal commands.

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Profile Manager "Error Reading Settings"

If you get the above error in the PM you may check the profilemanager.log for the entry "ServermgrDevicemgr: Exception caught No such file or directory - file_store/......". If so, it seems that the "Everyone Profile" is corrupt. In my case it was cause by a certificate. After I removed the certificate the PM seetings could be read again. I placed the certificate into another profile (device group) where it caused no trouble.
The certificate itself is valide and works well. I am not sure if this behaviour is a common bug in the PM or only related to my certifiacte.

I think what happened was that I tried to restart the Profile Manager from Server.app to see if that would clear up the error but it wouldn't start up again. However It turns out that I could start it from the command line with:
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OS X Server 4.0.3 Profile Manager Settings for Mobile Users problems

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We are using Profile Manager to control Settings for Mobile Users, and give homeSync to the users. Our problem is that the exclude / Skip items (Items matching any of the following will not sync" This setting is not working an example. I have put this folder to Skip Items ~/Downloads but the home Sync still Syncing items in the Downloads folder.
I have this problem on all the 3 users/machines on that server. Every client is using os x 10.10.1 og 10.10.2 I have check that the profile from the server is on the client.
Has any a solution to that?
Regards
Brian

I have no solution but have experienced failing sync settings (quite often) in both 10.6 Server and 10.9 + Server 3 (upgraded from 10.6 Server) in the same way as you described, it syncs too much. We have given up on synched home folders and will cut them and use other backup methods since we’re not so dependant on switching between different devices. Our users usually have one computer, one iPhone, one iPad and stay with those until it’s time to exchange them.

Use Profile to Delete Existing Settings

Is there any way that Profile Manager can be used to delete or remove existing settings on an iOS device?
For example, we will be migrating to a new mail server soon. I would like to use Profile Manager to send out a profile to all user iOS devices to add the new mail account AND remove the previous mail account.
I would also like to remove previous Calendar accounts and subscriptions as well as remove a Contacts account.
I cannot find anywhere in Profile Manager that it seems to allow for the removal, deletion or replacement of any existing settings. Is this just not possible with Profile Manager?
If this is not possible, what have others done in this situation to get the devices 'cleaned up'?
I understand that I am coming into a situation where the iOS devices were manually configured initially and now will have a profile installed. If I were to start fresh with iOS devices that were based on an initial profile install, would what I'm looking for be possible then? In other words, if the Mail/Calendard/Contact accounts were initially created/added via a profile, would modifying that initial profile (ie. removing the initial accounts) result in those accounts being removed on the iOS devices?
Thanks for any help as I get oriented to Profile Manager.
Specs: Profile Manager 2 from Mac OS X Server 2.11 running on Mountain Lion 10.8.2.

You can't remove or edit any settings that you haven't pushed a profile out for
If you've manually configured mail cal etc PM can't edit or delete it
It will add another mail account cal account etc alongside the existing manual ones controlled by PM
If you want rid of the old manual mail, cal settings your going to have to touch each device and delete them
Your going to have to touch each device anyhow to get the devices enrolled in PM if you have not already done so
If the devices were manually configured you won't have any profiles installed on the devices
Profiles appear in general, profiles xx number of profiles installed
Deleting these profiles will remove the settings
Yes with PM you can remove edit or add settings and push these out to devices, lock wipe etc
You'll need to open the appropriate ports and forwarding if your going to push settings out to devices that maybe outside your LAN
What I do is use apple Configurator to do a basic configuration with a profile to get the devices on my enrolment wifi
Install server certs and auto enrol the devices in PM to speed things up
PM is configured with user and device profiles for mail wifi VPN etc
Using apple Configurator speeds up the process, less time spent tapping away
If you use the default "settings for everyone" group in PM it's a user opt in download it's not pushed

Profile Manager hint for restart

After applying (yesterday) the 2.2.2 Server-Update to my 10.8 server, I got stuck with "Profile Manager cannot read settings... error"... Hmm, everyhting seems to work fine, just profile manger would not accept switch on or off, tried anything to get it startet, but I found an easy way.
In this order I switched every service I had running off. (I did not switch all off at once, just the first, then waited, til it was done and Server.app not writing anything, than the second and so on...
1. Caching
2. Sharing
3. Calendar
4. Contacts
5. Softwareupdate
6. Time Machine
7. VPN
8. Wiki
9. Websites
10. Open Directory
11. DHCP
12. DNS
After switching off the services in this 1-10 order, I made a restart and switched all the services on again in reverse order (starting with DNS). I also waited til DNS was started, Server.app did not write anything, and went on to DHCP, again wating this service to the finish.
And voalà, after this procedure, Profile Manager switched on (after Open Directory) and it works again like it did before the update.
Maybe that helps someone here. ;-)

WOW! Nice find Rob Rocket. I just went in to use profile manager and was hit with the error. Followed your directions and back to normal.

Remove previous Profile Manager settings

Hi All!
I have a Lion OS X Server running at home for my couple of Macs. Despite many issues i am still trying to get it going.
One of the issues I have right now is with Profile Manager. When I initially started using it I thought it was a good idea to setup a printer for all users. I added the printer to a profile and it showed up on all the systems eventually.
Trouble is somehow it installed the printer in the system but no drivers so all I get is junk on the printer if somebody tries to print. To much hassle to solve so I removed the printer from the Profile Manager settings and manually installed the printer on each Mac.
Now here comes the trouble: Even though the printer is removed from the profiles in Profile Manager it keeps on reappearing on the Macs!!!!
I have tried everything I can think of but I no change. I think deleting a setting on the Profile Manager does not remove this setting from the client Macs. I have the supsicion the client Macs store somewhere the intial profile and reload it.
Anybody any ideas how to solve? Or does anybody know where the client Macs store the Profile Manager configuration profiles?

Mac's Profiles are stored in System Preferences > Profiles AFAIK.
I've not played too much with Profile Manager on Macs.. but have a look there?

Profile manager won't clear previous settings

While messing around with profile manager it do a couple basic things. Start FaceTime at login and map some network drives. This worked fine but when i went back in later to turn those off they continue to go through. When I log on to a different computer the settings are correct, however. Is there someone I can do a clean refresh of the machine to wipe it of all previous profile manager settings. I've even tried deleting and re adding the machine to Profile manager but this still doesn't work.

You'll need to cleanup DNS on the domain controller not client systems.
Give me some information on how this server is integrated into your environment.
Is it bound to Active Directory? If so, what happens when you launch terminal? Does the hostname match the name under Sharing in sys prefs on your server? If not, you've probably got some stale DNS screwing things up.
To see if this is the case, log in to your primary DC (or whichever server hosts DNS records in your environment) and check your forward and reverse lookup zones. In my case, I saw more records than we have machines! Problem with Macs is those records stick around even after you remove a machine. Macs aren't always automagical unfortunately.
Another way to see if you have DNS problems is simply take a freshly imaged server (BEFORE it's bound to AD) and fire up profile manager. If it launches easy breezy (aka not getting DNS from the potentially messy server) then it's safe to assume you'll need to scavenge out those records. But that another story for a Win 2008 R2 board.

Set advanced IMAP settings with profile manager?

I've finally gotten profile manager working successfully so that my employees can enroll their iOS devices and laptops for easy setup of our company services. However, there are two advanced IMAP settings we need to manage that are not available in the Profile Manager controls.
Is there a way to crack open a profile source and add in the keys for advanced IMAP settings? Specifically, i need to set "Remove Deleted Messages" to "Never" and assign an alternate mailbox for "Deleted Mailbox" under "Mailbox Behaviors"
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While I was not at the time trying to do it via Profile Manager I did previously look at trying to enable Location Services via a script. Unfortunately I found it too hard or more accurately I failed to do this. I ended up 'cheating' by logging in on a test Mac, manually setting up Locations Services the way I wanted including most importantly setting the Security & Privacy settings to allow a specific application to use Location Services. I then saved a copy of the relevant configuration file which is -
/private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist
I then as part of my DeployStudio workflow to image fresh computers included a step to copy this to the correct location on the fresh computer, thereby 'restoring' the settings.
So the short answer is that /private/var/db/locationd/clients.plist is the file but the structure is such that a simple defaults write is not possible.
Let me know if you get anywhere with this.

How can you disassociate a user from a computer in Profile Manager?

Our elementary school manages around 250 Macs. This year, we upgraded all our Macs and Mac Servers to Mavericks. We're now embracing Profile Manager as a replacement for WorkGroup Manager. This has not been a smooth transition. I really like Profile Manager, or at least what Profile Manager purports to be. But, we're running in to really odd issues that we just can't seem to figure out. Specifically, the issue we're having now is that we've noticed that when a student logs in to a Mac, Profile Manager recognizes that student being associated with that Mac. We can push out profile changes to that student's account and, though not perfect, will usually provide the updated settings within moments. However, when the student logs in to a different Mac, Profile Manager now associates that Mac with the student also. So, the next time a payload is sent out, there are two Active Tasks attempting to update each of the Macs that the student has logged in to. This would make sense if the student if the student regularly used both Macs. But this issue persists even when that Student's user account has been removed from the Mac. The student only has one user account on one Mac out of all the Macs in the elementary school, but when we deploy profile changes, it wants to update the student's account on two, three or however many Macs that student has ever logged in to. This is a particular problem for some students accounts who we used for testing and troubleshooting.
I feel like there's something basic that I'm missing, but I just haven't been able to figure it out yet. Any help or advise with Profile Manager would be greatly appreciated!

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Is there a way in 10.8 Profile Manager to assign certain users the sole right of adding/removing users to user groups?

Hello,
I want to assign certain network users the ability to login via browser to the profile manager for 10.8.x server and add/remove other users from user groups. Think teachers managing their class rosters, if the class was a group and the users their students. I do not want any other admin funtionality beyond that for them.
Suggestions?

Well thank you for being so polite. Yes, on looking on my 10.8 server, I have the same thing. How annoying. I have no idea how to answer your question. If the management abilities are no longer in Workgroup Manager then there's a change that the server doesn't pay any attention to the settings, so manually changing settings in LDAP won't have any effect either.
At least I can verify that it's not just you who gets that result. I wonder what happened and how we're meant to do this now.

Messages Settings in Profile Manager 2.1 Mountain Lion

Just want to let anyone and everyone know about something that I've found in Profile Manager.
I have been messing about with Messages, trying to get it set up without any success but I have found something that could be useful to anyone else in the same situation.
When applying messages settings to a Profile it seems to spoil all other settings, or at least Dock settings.
I set up my Dock and other settings for a group and all was fine. I then added the messages settings to the group and all of the Dock settings were removed leaving just Finder and the Trash Can in the dock.
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