After you join a computer to the domain, any domain user that logs into that system will be logging
in for the first time.
And when you log in for the first time, the user has no profile on that machine.
Now, typically what happens when you launch an application is that you'll get prompt to configure it.
Now, frequently they're harmless, like the metadata one, but something like automatic updates will
be something that we're going to want to go ahead and configure.
We want to control when users get the updates and not have the users decide when to get updates.
When you're in a large environment, you probably want everybody running on the same versions of the
software.
So how can we control this?
There's no set answer, but for most applications, it's pretty easy to figure out.
So if we go to Volsky preferences, there are a lot of items to choose from.
But what we want to do is try to eliminate those two pop ups as we start looking through these options.
We can see down here that we have automatically check for updates.
So let's go ahead and turn this off and hit say.
Now, application preferences are frequently stored in the user's library preferences folder.
Now, if we go to the go menu and we hold down the option key, you'll see that this library folder
will pop up as we hold down the option key.
So that takes us to the users library folder.
Now, if we go to users library and then preferences.
And we sort we get into this column.
We can sort by date and we can see that the Velzy preferences are at the top.
Now, typically what happens is when you close out an application, it rewrites the preference files
with with saves from closing.
So, as you can see, these things rose to the top.
So one thing that you can do is you can open up a preference file with a program called press editor.
And so what this will do is this will show in a graphical interface some of the preferences that were
written to the list.
So let's see if we can see anything about the automatic updates.
Now, as we start scrolling down, we can see this enable automatic checks.
Now, that sounds like it could be it.
And then we also have a last check time, which could be the last time it check for automatic updates.
And first run probably just tells that that Velshi ran for the first time.
So let's go ahead and launch Velzy again.
And you can see we're not getting any any problems.
Let's go back to preferences and let's turn update checks back on.
And let's go ahead and quick.
We'll see again.
And you can see now automatic update checks is been turned on.
All right.
So we're in the right place, so let's go ahead.
And none of this looks like it is too meaningful.
Let's go ahead and race that.
Let's turn off automatic updates and then let's go ahead and delete the first run in the first check.
And let's go ahead and launch Velshi again.
And we're getting asked for this metadata, so we need to be concerned with that, but it didn't ask
us for for updates this time.
So let's go ahead and.
Let's go ahead and click this on and let's turn the first run off and let's go ahead and delete everything
else again, so now we have.
So now we should think that it's never been launched and that automatic updates are turned on.
So I think when we launch it this time, it should ask us for to check for automatic updates.
OK, and it does all right, so we still haven't figured out about the metadata, but let's go ahead
and, you know, let's turn this off and now let's click the metadata and let's hit save.
And let's quit.
And there's still nothing about it.
So what we're going to do is we're going to look in this folder because when we when we make changes,
some stuff is written to this folder as well.
So in this folder, you can see that we have a a text file.
So let's just go ahead and open it and let's go ahead and do a search.
And that preference was it mentioned metadata.
So let's do a search for metadata and we can see that we see things in here about metadata.
But so far I'm not seeing anything about downloading metadata and.
All right, so over here we have allow metadata to be downloaded and it's set to one.
Now, I forgot where we left it set at.
So let's go ahead and look.
And it's set and it's checked, so let's go ahead and quit, because I know that one normally means
something is is set to true or it's clicked.
So let's go ahead and change that to zero and hit save.
And now let's go ahead and launch Velzy again.
And let's go to preferences, and it's it's on check, so I think we figured it out.
So what we want to do is save this file.
OK, so so we save this file and we're going to want to go ahead and we know how we want this.
We want.
We want to get rid of everything we want to not.
Well, actually, we wanted to think it was run.
And then we want automatic checks turned off.
OK, so I think we're I think we're good here, so I think if we copy, I think these are basically
the preferences that we're going to want to to work with.
So they're in the condition that we want them.
And so we're going to go ahead and take them on the desktop so we can use them on other computers.
And so now that we've captured the preferences that we want to deliver to other machines, we're going
to go ahead and deliver them.
And the next video.