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Block delete /Applicaitons & install specific /Applications

  • January 7, 2025
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How to Block Delete from /Applications in MAC? how to allow Install specific apps in /Applications in MAC?

Is there a common configuration for all versions of MAC, as we see its behaving different on every version of MAC.

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  • January 7, 2025

We have allowed this in our test environment for low flex users. Below is how we’ve accomplished allowing us to have user uninstall applications from /Applications folder. Bear in mind, this would allow for ANY application so if you security apps make sure they are protected from user deletion in other fashions.  Under File/Folder /Applications/*  Delete action match ‘Allow deletion from /Applications’. 

For allowing applications to install, are you saying you have different macOS versions that seem to behave differently?  Can you explain a bit more on that request.


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  • Trailblazer
  • January 12, 2025

What we see is your allowing it using authorize low flexibility. But we need to block users from using the delete to /applications folder.

 

however the customers are having different versions of Mac os and when we apply the policies they are behaving in differently.