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Set Safari Homepage

Description

This profile changes the Safari Homepage for the currently logged in user.

This recipe was tested on 10.13.2 with Safari 11.0.2

Ingredients

    FW Admin

    Directions

      Create a New Desktop Fileset and select the Profile option Name the profile in the General payload and fill out the Custom Settings payload with the following information where the value can be whatever site you wish:

      Preference Domain : com.apple.safari 
      Key: HomePage
      Type: String 
      Value: https://www.filewave.com

      RecipeSafairHomePage-CustomSettings.png

          3. Close the Profile Editor 

          4. Double click on the newly created profile → select the settings tab → uncheck the box for "Users" under installation and check the box for "System" under installation. 

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          5. Then deploy the profile out to your selected macOS devices.

      Notes

      Some additional options that may require consideration:

      Additional keys
      Key: LastSafariVersionWithWelcomePage-v2
      Type: String
      Value: 9.0
      (Description: Show Safari Welcome Page to new users.  String set as last version of Safari welcome page was shown; may require changing with newer versions of Safari)
       
      Key: NewWindowBehavior
      Type: Number
      Value: 0
      (Description: Policy for new window contents. 0 = show homepage\, 1 = show empty page\, 2 = show same page as current window/tab\, 3 = show bookmarks)
       
       
      Key: NewTabBehavior
      Type: Number
      Value: 0
      (Description: Policy for new tab contents. 0 = show homepage\, 1 = show empty page\, 2 = show same page as current window/tab\, 3 = show bookmarks)

       

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