In this section, we're going to learn how to deploy captured preferences as a mobile convict profile.
Now in our Active Directory section, we use profile manager to create a configuration profile and we
learned how to install it on our target machines.
So this time we're going to create our own using a program called MSCs to profile.
So with VLCC, we know that we were trying to push out two separate preferences to our users.
One was we didn't want them to get prompted for metadata and we wanted that turned off and we also wanted
automatic updates off.
Now the automatic updates was in the list file and so that's the update we're going to try to force
on our users.
So to accomplish this, we're going to turn our Pellis file into a mobile config profile.
And to do that, we're going to run a program called MSCs to profile.
And we're going to use this switch list and we're going to give it the path to our list file.
And then we're going to use the identifiers switch to give our mobile config profile a name.
OK, so here we have our mobile config profile before we import it.
Let's go ahead and launch Felicie and let's take a look at my preferences.
And right now, I've got my automatic updates checked on.
Now, let's go ahead and say this and then quick VLCC and relaunch it.
And you can see that my updates are off, so let's go ahead and turn them back on.
And we know that the Arpit list was set to turn it off and we just set it on, so let's go ahead and
let us import.
The mobile config profile.
All right, so we've now loaded our mobile profile.
Now let's go ahead and launch Velzy.
And you can see that our preference is now turned off, so let's go ahead and hit, save and let's quit
VLCC and launch Velzy again.
And we can see that it's off again, so by having a mobile config profile on our system with this preference
tied to it, it's forcing the settings.
Now, let's go ahead and unload the profile.
And now let's go ahead and launch VLCC and take a look at our preferences, and you can see that automatic
updates are now on again, because that's where they were when before the profile was applied.
So it went back to the old saying, so let's go ahead and hit save and quit the LC and launch Velshi
again.
And they're off, so it's remembering my setting.
So when we use a mobile config profile, we can force a setting.
So there are some settings that you may want to force, like you don't want to give people an option.
And for me, automatic updates would be a great choice.
But some of the other options in this interface, you may not care what people want.
Now, normally when I install applications, I try to come up with defaults that basically make it so
somebody can watch the program and then not get prompted with configuration choices or have questions
asked to them that the app just launches without prompting the user.
And then after that, I usually don't care.
However, like I said, if there's something important like automatic updates, then I will do whatever
I can to enforce it.