Continuing the tech ramble about how to keep the App Store from your users…<\/p>\n
So, I figured out the two ways the App Store icon is added to the dock:<\/p>\n
1. Existing<\/strong> users on an upgraded system are affected by this file: \/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.dockfixup<\/strong><\/p>\n Looking at the add-app key inside contains the answer:<\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n We can rid ourselves of \u00a0this behavior with defaults:<\/p>\n However, if you try to use a loginhook to remove the icon, it will not take effect unitl the second login, sine the loginhook runs before<\/em> Apple’s dockfixup is applied.<\/p>\n The solution to a user never seeing it (and avoiding calls about it) is to use a daemon that runs at system startup and deletes the entry in the plist before it is ever used.<\/p>\n Save as \/Library\/LaunchDaemon\/com.brunerd.dockfixer.plist (or whatever you wish):<\/p>\n <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <\/code><\/p>\n You could call another script, check for add-app’s presence, but having this run everytime, insures that despite OS updates and reversions of files your user will never have App Store added to their Docks.<\/p>\n 2. Suppressing App Store in new user accounts is affected by Dock.app’s default.plist: But just deleting this and not com.apple.fixup.plist will not do what you want since fixup will still run, you must delete both<\/strong>. Altering that is the perfect job for removeitemfromdock<\/a>… if only it worked with a supplied path… now it does! So after installing and downloading<\/a> you can run this command to alter the default dock:<\/p>\n You could make this another Daemon or just have the daemon call an external script, your choice, I can’t do all<\/em> the work for you :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing the tech ramble about how to keep the App Store from your users… So, I figured out the two ways the App Store icon is added to the dock: 1. Existing users on an upgraded system are affected by this file: \/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.dockfixup Looking at the add-app key inside contains the answer: <key>add-app<\/key> <array> <dict> […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-os-x","category-scripting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brunerd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/code><\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n<\/p>\ndefaults delete \/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.dockfixup add-app<\/code><\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC \"-\/\/Apple\/\/DTD PLIST 1.0\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/DTDs\/PropertyList-1.0.dtd\">
\n<plist version=\"1.0\">
\n<dict>
\n <\/span><key>Label<\/key>
\n <\/span><string>com.sts.dockfixup<\/string>
\n <\/span><key>ProgramArguments<\/key>
\n <\/span><array>
\n <\/span><string>defaults<\/string>
\n <\/span><string>delete<\/string>
\n <\/span><string>\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.dockfixup<\/string>
\n <\/span><string>add-app<\/string>
\n <\/span><\/array>
\n <\/span><key>RunAtLoad<\/key>
\n <\/span><true\/>
\n<\/dict>
\n<\/plist><\/p>\n
\n\/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/Dock.app\/Contents\/Resources\/English.lproj\/default.plist<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\nsudo \/sbin\/removeitemfromdock\u00a0-f \/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/Dock.app\/Contents\/Resources\/English.lproj\/default.plist \/Applications\/App\\ Store.app\/<\/code><\/p>\n