Particulars is useful for displaying system information on different Macs and for helping to distinguish them. Particulars can be broadly deployed and configured with macOS Managed Preferences or other deployment tools.
There are two components to a mass deployment of Particulars.
Particulars is highly customizable, and all of its preferences can be managed by an MDM using configuration profiles and managed preferences.
Configuration profiles can be built manually or with tools such as iMazing Profile Editor, or by loading a schema into Jamf Pro.
Certain default behaviors of Particulars, including the first run welcome, do not make sense when mass deploying it. In a mass deployment of Particulars, most administrators enable labMode.
To install Particulars and run it at login for each user on each Mac in a mass deployment, download and install the Particulars package. The package includes a Launch Agent that launches Particulars at login. Mass installation of this package can be accomplished with an MDM or other deployment tool.
On macOS Ventura and later, the installation of the Launch Agent will cause a Login items added notification. See Login item notification for information on how to suppress this notification.
When launched by this Launch Agent, Particulars will not show the first run welcome and will hide the dock icon. Additionally, all Quit menu items are removed.
Prior to October 2024, Particulars was exclusively available in the Mac App Store. It could be licensed in the Apps and Books section of Apple Business Manager/Apple School Manager, and then distributed with an MDM. To replace an installation of Particulars from the Mac App Store, install the current package, then remove the assignment of Particulars to the computer in an MDM.