[MacTUG] Disabling Siri (and other screens at first login)

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Greetings
I am trying to limit the “splash screens” when a new user logs in to my managed Macs. Note that most of my managed macs are new enough to be part of Apple School Manager and I can control the login experience for them from ASM via the Enrolment Settings in my MDM (the lowly Apple Server App). The issue is the some macs I have that cannot join ASM. These oldies are currently running Catalina.

I have found some mobileconfigprofiles by Rtrouton that generally seem to do the trick for most of the screens but the siri one is not working
https://github.com/rtrouton/profiles/tree/main/SkipSiriSetup

I would consider this a “trivial” issue but it bugs me! If anyone has any suggestions that is most welcome. (And JAMF folks saying “get a proper MDM and stop using Profile Manager” is only appropriate if you will buy it for me 😉 )

Thanks
don
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Donald Duff-McCracken (he/him)
Director | Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment | University of Waterloo
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