![]() ![]() ![]() I also like to be very orderly, choosing to step through the Workgroup Manager list in order, moving each option I have selected in Workgroup Manager over to Profile Manager. This allows me to quickly and easily cut-copy-paste between the two. To get started, I usually like to open a screen with Profile Manager and another with Workgroup Manager, lining them up side by side. Here, I’m just going to look at Workgroup Manager and manually move each preference from Workgroup Manager into Profile Manager. Using Profile Manager and migrating the actual managed preferences from existing tools into Profile Manager I saved for last (after all, you need your infrastructure in place to do this). ![]() Not all of these will be applicable to every deployment, but the tasks covered are worth knowing how to do. Moving your managed preferences from Workgroup Manager to Profile Manage (This article, Part 3):.Get comfortable with building profiles, including the use of Payload Variables:.Make sure to back up the database and if there are a lot of devices, consider automating indexing:.Get comfortable with the database under the hood:.Script enrollment for existing systems (get comfortable with the profiles command, which in a way becomes your eventual replacement for MCX):.Enroll test devices into the new setup, automating enrollment using your imaging solution:.Then integrate Profile Manager with your internal directory service (in this example, Active Directory, Part 2 of this series):.Start off with getting Profile Manager installed (Part 1):.If needed, upgrade any existing Open Directory deployments to Lion:.To put the articles into a bit more order, let’s look at the order that you’d likely use them to actually do an integration: ![]() If you’ve been following my postings for the past few weeks you may have noticed that I’m putting the pieces together for a strategy to transition existing managed preferences in environments to profiles, most notably those managed using Lion Server’s Profile Manager as more than just a mobile device management tool, but also as a computer management tool. ![]()
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