Can we set the default webpage for all users?

[Zoatibix]

Hello,

 

A colleague and I are trying to work out how to set our Macs to take each user to our College's homepage.

 

Despite a fair amount of head scratching we can't work out how to do this.

 

At the moment we have Parallels (so we're using a mix of Profiles and scripts pushed to machines via AD groups.)

 

However, we're migrating to Intune / Apple School Manager...we assumed the latter would have some settings for this kind of thing...

 

If somebody can point us in the right direction we'd be most grateful.

 

Thank you.

[DavR]

For that sort of control on macOS, you'd be looking at some form of MDM (mobile device management) solution. Using this, you can create profiles, which are files containing settings that get enforced on machines / users.

 

If you have an Apple server on site, you can get the Server app for about £20-30, which contains Profile Manager to do that. Otherwise you'd be looking at something like Meraki or JAMF for a cloud based solution.

 

I think Intune has some Apple profile capabilities, but I've not used it myself. School Manager doesn't, I don't think, it's more about Device Enrollment and licensing.

[Brimstone]

Hello,

 

A colleague and I are trying to work out how to set our Macs to take each user to our College's homepage.

 

Despite a fair amount of head scratching we can't work out how to do this.

 

At the moment we have Parallels (so we're using a mix of Profiles and scripts pushed to machines via AD groups.)

 

However, we're migrating to Intune / Apple School Manager...we assumed the latter would have some settings for this kind of thing...

 

If somebody can point us in the right direction we'd be most grateful.

 

Thank you.

 

Using Intune with macOS...? Good luck with that.

[Mrpower]

Hi

You will need something to create a mobileconfig file or be able to edit and save as mobileconfig file. The GitHub page below has the mobile config you are after, it's called

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[TD=class: content, bgcolor: #F6F8FA]Apple Safari.mobileconfig just change the <string>https://www.yourorg.comstring> to your internet page or website.

https://github.com/neilmartin83/configuration_profiles

 

I am using a Munki server to push out this profile. there is also a similar profile for google chrome to set that's homepage to a custom page.

 

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