Technical Tip: MacOS Reveal Agent-initiated profiles are not installed

Background:

The Reveal Agent has a command line option to attempt to automatically install macOS system profiles to manage browser extension installation. Starting with macOS Ventura, the mechanism used has been removed by Apple.

Symptom:

When attempting to use the macOS Terminal application to install the included Reveal Browser extension profiles, an error will be produced.

sudo /Library/Application\ Support/Ava/Reveal/agent/agent browser install <----- Generic.

Or:

sudo profiles -I /Users/user/Downloads/systemExtensions.mobileconfig <----- Generic.

profiles tool no longer supports installs.  Use System Settings Profiles to add configuration  profiles.

Cause:

MacOS Ventura has restricted the profiles command from being able to install profiles automatically.

Workaround:

Use an MDM platform to push .mobileconfig files to macOS devices for browser extensions.