![]() The above preferences can be enabled in a System level configuration profile and it will apply to all users on the computer. This preference controls how FUS is displayed in the Menu Bar and is only needed if you want to force the Full Name or Account Name options. This key is an integer with the following values that correspond to the dropdown menu in the Login Options area of the Users & Groups preference pane: Setting either of the three show options has the effect of enabling Fast User Switching. This preference is what now controls whether FUS is enabled or not. This key is an integer with the following values that correspond to the Fast User Switching checkboxes in the Dock & Menu Bar preference pane: There are two additional undocumented keys that need to be set to enable and configure Fast User Switching: UserSwitcher in Leaving it behind does not seem to have any ill effect, but it could lead to confusion later. This value is not cleared when the configuration profile is removed. NOTE: macOS will write this key to disk when FUS is enabled via GUI or config profile. In my testing it was not required to include this key at all when using a configuration profile to manage the two new keys I outline below, but I am including it in my. The exact opposite of how an admin would expect it to work. GlobalPreferencesĪs Strauss documented, when set alone, not only does this original key no longer work to enable FUS, but setting it to “true” with a configuration profile actually blocks the ability for users to enable the feature in the GUI. Configuration Profile MultipleSessionEnabled in. I’ll post a separate article on that soon. Unbeknownst to me I had actually cracked the code a couple weeks ago when I went down the rabbit hole of documenting the configuration options for all the icons in the Menu Bar and Control Center. However thanks to a push in the right direction from colleagues on the MacAdmins Slack, I now have control of FUS reliably working via configuration profile or defaults commands. ![]() I didn’t notice until last week but Nathaniel Strauss reported this problem over a year ago in his article “ Managing Fast User Switching Broken in Big Sur.” He also recently confirmed that he has had no luck in getting Apple to restore the functionality via that key. Unfortunately as of Big Sur the documentation is no longer complete. For many years I have managed Fast User Switching (FUS) on macOS in the maner documented by Apple with the MultipleSessionEnabled key in the. ![]()
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