Making Shared Configuration Profiles Unique

Several people in the community have, from time to time, shared Configuration Profiles via Dropbox links, forum posts, or github. Nick McSpadden has graciously shared a fairly large collection.

There are a few problems one is faced with after copying so many profiles from someone else this way.

1. The top-level PayloadIdentifier is not ours
2. The PayloadUUIDs are no longer unique

The first problem is easily solved with existing tools.

sed -i '' 's/org\.sacredsf/org\.glenbrook225/' ./*.mobileconfig

The second problem…not so much.

I wrote a little something to create new UUIDs for the configs.

It works but it needs two things that I can think of.

1. the nested PayloadIdentifiers should update. I'm thinking something like Apple does but without the text. Maybe formatted like so: "new-top-UUID.new-payload-UUID"
2. sometimes the outer-level moves from the top of the file to the bottom. I don't know if this is because dictionaries in python have no order or some other reason but it makes them less human-readable.