? With this book, you will get the following: An example-driven guide to Mac OS X Managed Preferences / Recipes Client technology for common use case studies and patterns of the targeted approach is suitable for any system administrator who manages the Mac in OS X or Windows environment This is the only book that focuses on the aspect of OS X exclusively. Even better, the two writers who are very involved in the Mac community? Greg Neagle is part of the steering committee MacEnterprise, and Ed is the Executive Editor and a writer for MacTech magazine and a member of the Apple Consultants Network. What you will learn? Managed Preferences System and how to manage it all about Local Directory Services Directory Services How to work with property list files How to send files using the Open Directory, ActiveDirectory, local scripts, third-party utilities, Puppet, LANRev, Casper, and more How to work with compositing preferences , including the hierarchy of preferences How to write a Plist for the management, use Workgroup Manager and the Dock Example of How and when to enforce the Managed Preferences How to understand the manifest what recipe to use and when the when, how, and where to use mcxquery, System Profiler, and MCX Cache flushing Who this book is to This book is for system administrators who use the Mac client.