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. The package does not bootstrap the Launch Agent. Particulars will run on the next login.
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.
Mass installation of this package can be accomplished with an MDM or other deployment tool. The Particulars package is available in Alectrona Patch, App Catalog, AutoPkg, Installomator, and Munki.
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. This approach to deploying Particulars is now unsupported. In recent versions of macOS, apps distributed this way are only updated when they are not running. As Particulars is designed to run constantly, there is no window to update it.
In some MDMs (including Jamf Pro), it is safe to replace an installation of Particulars from the Mac App Store by installing the current package, and then removing the assignment of MAS Particulars from the computer. In other MDMs, removing the MAS assignment causes the organizational package to be uninstalled. Test with your MDM and develop a plan for migrating to the package. It may be necessary to uninstall the MAS application first.