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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Sounds like a job for dummy packages?</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Write small simple scripts that check for management, groups, or packages and then manually trigger a dummy package based on the results?</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Just an idea</font> </p>
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<font face="Lucida Grande" size="3">Tom</font><br><br>>>> "Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu> 06/02/09 2:54 PM >>><br> </p>
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Hi-<br><br>I’d like to make some sort of small change to client machines to indicate that their computers are managed, and possibly, to what level (e.g. Patches only or patches and software management).  I thought of making a Dashboard widget, but I’d want to make it persistent.  Perhaps a self healing package so that if they removed the widget or removed it from their dashboard, it would show back up.  But, from running Composer, it looks like the widget being active in the Dashboard is in a plist and I’m not sure how to append that to their current Dashboard plist instead of re-distributing the entire thing (and thus bouncing out any Dashboard widgets that they had put in).<br><br>Any ideas?  Maybe a widget is the wrong way to go about it?<br>---<br>Jared F. Nichols<br>Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations<br>Information Services Department<br>MIT Lincoln Laboratory<br>244 Wood Street<br>Lexington, Massachusetts 02420<br>781.981.5436<br><br>
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