chmod +x slack_app_installer_homedir_macOS.sh At the time of this writing, the script was compatible with Big Sur (macOS 11) and Sierra (macOS 10.12). You'd need to list the available users on the system that need Slack app in their home directories. Those copies of Slack don't have the Squirrel Update prompts. Also, this script wouldn't run if the installed copy of Slack was originally sourced from the App Store or MDM managed by the IT organization. Not every user on the system would need Slack in their Dock. The only caveat is that you must provide a pre-determined list of users for the machine you attempt to run the script against. The new solution script below would help simplify the deployment by installing the Slack app in the users' ~/Applications directory and add the shortcut to Dock. From an administrative prospective, one would have to be extremely mindful to also query the apps installed in users' home directories as several management tools rarely take ~/Applications directory in consideration. This would also requires multiple copies of Slack apps on the same machine for multiple non-admin users to access.

By default the directory doesn't exist and has to be created. Optionally, we can deploy Slack app to each user's ~/Applications directory. Solutionįortunately for us, Slack developed a knowledge-base article on enterprise deployment best practices.

The only upside of this solution is that all users on the same machine would be using the same copy of the latest Slack version, which simplifies the deployment. The script would notify all users actively using Slack that the app would restart itself in several seconds.Īdmittedly, the above solution wasn't organic and understandably it can be a grave security concern for some. Initially as a fun side-project to satisfy my curiosity, I came up with a solution to mitigate this by having the Slack app, which was already installed in the main /Applications directory, automatically update itself as soon as the Launch Daemon script fetches a new update from. Thus, they aren't able to dismiss the Squirrel Update prompts on their own, which was a productivity hindrance. I manage several macOS remotely, and one of the biggest pains is that our users aren't administrators on those machines. This work was inspired by the challenges I encountered in the workplace. Install Slack app in User's Applications Directory - macOS Background

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