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<blockquote data-quote="MacTech1" data-source="post: 815864" data-attributes="member: 90487"><p>Thanks for your advice guys, I appreciate your help.</p><p></p><p>After reading both of your responses, I think it looks as though parental controls are my only option. The only problem that I have found with this is that some programs (Garageband, Microsoft Office apps and Adobe products, to list a few) seem to rely on other files, which are not listed within the parental control section, to be able to function correctly.</p><p></p><p>eg. When I open Microsoft Word within a local account with parental controls enabled (and Word put onto the allow list), a message appears stating that the application 'fontcache' is not on the list of allowed applications.</p><p></p><p>We do have an option to add this to our list of allowed applications so that this message will not appear again, but what I don't want is to upload an image of my mac, drop it onto 30+ machines only to find that a program is not working due to an issue with a blocked application that I may have missed during testing, or that needs to be accessed when a specific function is launched.</p><p></p><p>As for your question Mr Macintosh, sorry I can't help you I'm afraid. Our school really only uses network accounts. It is only recently that we have looked into using local accounts for one of our departments as it seems that there are some major functionality issues with the network accounts and one of the applications that we use. If you do manage to find a program that does this though I'd be interested in knowing what it is for future reference.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacTech1, post: 815864, member: 90487"] Thanks for your advice guys, I appreciate your help. After reading both of your responses, I think it looks as though parental controls are my only option. The only problem that I have found with this is that some programs (Garageband, Microsoft Office apps and Adobe products, to list a few) seem to rely on other files, which are not listed within the parental control section, to be able to function correctly. eg. When I open Microsoft Word within a local account with parental controls enabled (and Word put onto the allow list), a message appears stating that the application 'fontcache' is not on the list of allowed applications. We do have an option to add this to our list of allowed applications so that this message will not appear again, but what I don't want is to upload an image of my mac, drop it onto 30+ machines only to find that a program is not working due to an issue with a blocked application that I may have missed during testing, or that needs to be accessed when a specific function is launched. As for your question Mr Macintosh, sorry I can't help you I'm afraid. Our school really only uses network accounts. It is only recently that we have looked into using local accounts for one of our departments as it seems that there are some major functionality issues with the network accounts and one of the applications that we use. If you do manage to find a program that does this though I'd be interested in knowing what it is for future reference. Thanks again. [/QUOTE]
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