MSCObnoxiousMode key?

[bryan...@gmail.com]

Is there a new MSCObnoxiousMode key in Munki 7? I searched the wiki (https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Preferences) and couldn't find any reference to it.

[Gregory Neagle]

No. 

The update notifications are the same as in Munki 6. 

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On Oct 6, 2026, at 6:01 AM, bryan...@gmail.com <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a new MSCObnoxiousMode key in Munki 7? I searched the wiki (https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Preferences) and couldn't find any reference to it.

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[bryan...@gmail.com]

I think I figured it out.

"MSCObnoxiousMode" is an AI hallucinating  - one our of techs sent me info about that "key" and said we need set it to deal with a bug where a teacher was ignoring updates from Munki and when she would minimize MSC the entire screen would blur out and she couldn't do anything else other than hard reboot her laptop. I couldn't find any info about that "key" and was a bit confused. 

That said, I did some more digging into the teacher's issue, and we don't set AggressiveUpdateNotificationDays so I think it's defaulting to 14 days and the new blurring behavior is Munki 7 has this weird interaction.

I've pushed out a change to our settings to explicitly set AggressiveUpdateNotificationDays to 0 and I suspect that'll solve this issue for us.

[Gregory Neagle]

“The blurring behavior” is not new to Munki 7.

Is the bug report:

If Managed Software Center is launched, then minimized to the Dock, and later, Munki attempts to do an “aggressive/obnoxious” notification because one or more updates is older than the AggressiveUpdateNotificationDays, that the blurred background is displayed, but the main MSC window is not de-minimized, leaving no way for the user to respond to the notification?

-Greg

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[bryan...@gmail.com]

Yes from what I understand that is exactly what happened

We only have one teacher that has ever reported this and it was her Building Tech that asked me about it.

[Gregory Neagle]

I cannot reproduce this behavior. MSC becomes “unminimized”.

-Greg

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