Adding Keychain Menu to the Mac Menu Bar with Profile Manager

Now that support has all but been dropped for MCX and Workgroup Manager, it is time to start pushing out our settings and customizations with Profile Manager.  I will be making a series of posts on using Profile Manager to apply settings to the menu bar in OS X.

I am using user groups with nested AD users to apply the settings, your environment may be different.

• Login to Profile Manager
• Click on Groups and select the group you want to apply settings to.
• Clic Settings
• Scroll all the way to the bottom and click on Custom Settings.
• In the preference domain type com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
• Under Property list values, type the following in the key field:  /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app/Contents/Resources/Keychain.menu
• Select String for the type.
• Click OK.
• Be sure to click Save to apply the settings.

The clients should have the Keychain menu icon the next time they login.

Add Users to VPP in Meraki

When using Meraki Systems Manager, free apps will push out just fine without being assigned a license.  The users will simply be prompted for their Apple ID and password.  To use managed distribution and deploy paid apps the users have to be invited to VPP.

To invite users to participate in VPP:

1.  Login to Meraki Systems Manager

2.  Go to MDM > VPP

3.  Click the User Management tab

4.  Click +Add User

5.  Enter the name and email of the user.

6.  Check Send invitations automatically and click Save

From the user's iOS device:

1.  Access the user's email account.

2.  Open the invitation email from Meraki.

3.  Click the invitation link.

4.  After being redirected to the App Store, agree to the terms and conditions.

5.  Click Ok after the VPP assignment has been confirmed.

Now app licenses should be able to be assigned to individual users for paid apps.