topic Re: Custom Profiles & Settings Help in Endpoint Security

Custom Profiles & Settings Help

akuma_xxx — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 17:00:14 GMT

I have inherited a Meraki set up at my new job. There are many profiles (all seem custom made somehow) that are built with what seems to be custom .plist files etc. For example, a disable guest profile is enabled to disable all guest accounts. It has custom mcx settings on there. My question would be how can I build profiles on Meraki with custom profiles like these?

I have read about the managed app settings which do something similar, but these seem to be only for iOS or Android and not Mac OS X. Any suggestions?

Re: Custom Profiles & Settings Help

jared_f — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:27:47 GMT

@akuma_xxx

Your predecessor probably used a tool called mcxToProfile and uploaded the custom configuration profile to Meraki and scoped it out to the proper devices.

Here is the tool:

https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile

I do stress this to you - Apple has started to move away from MCX and is highly encouraging (and eventually is going to force you) to stick with profiles. This is what I have been doing when I have been overhauling Mac OSX profiles:

Get a copy of Mac OSX Server and set up a local version of profile manager. You can create way more profiles in profile manager than Meraki offers (and I guarantee that are 100% supported by Apple as it is there framework and software).

Please let me know if you have any questions or need clarification,

Jared Flitt

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Re: Custom Profiles & Settings Help

akuma_xxx — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:17:34 GMT

@jared_f

Just checked. Profile manager does in fact have an option to create these custom settings. Exactly what I was looking for. I will keep the tool you mentioned as well just in case down the line I need a second option.

Thanks for the help!