[William Participant 20 May 2022 William Participant]

There is an option under VPN profile in the network tab. Uncheck this option to remove the disable the icon. And as a shortcut you can just click and drag the icon out while pressing on the cmd button.

[Abel Participant 20 May 2022 Abel Participant]

These all options work. But im looking for something that is similar to a script or configuration file. We have around 71 devices, so unchecking the option independently on each device is out of the question. These are already deployed devices.

[Johan Hexnode 20 May 2022 Johan Moderator]

Hey @abel,
Welcome to the Hexnode community.

You can disable the VPN icon from the menu bar on macOS devices by executing a custom script through Hexnode UEM. A Bash script to remove the VPN icon from the menu bar is provided below.

Remove VPN icon from menu bar on Mac

#!/bin/sh currentUser=$( echo "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | scutil | awk '/Name :/ { print $3 }' ) runAsUser() { currentUserID=$(id -u "$currentUser") if [ "$currentUser" != "loginwindow" ]; then /bin/launchctl asuser "$currentUserID" sudo -u "$currentUser" "$@" fi } runAsUser /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'delete menuExtras: "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/VPN.menu"' /Users/$currentUser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist runAsUser /usr/bin/killall cfprefsd runAsUser /usr/bin/killall SystemUIServer exit 0

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#!/bin/sh   currentUser=$( echo "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | scutil | awk '/Name :/ { print $3 }' )   runAsUser() {   currentUserID=$(id -u "$currentUser")   if [ "$currentUser" != "loginwindow" ]; then   /bin/launchctl asuser "$currentUserID" sudo -u "$currentUser" "$@"   fi   }   runAsUser /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'delete menuExtras: "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/VPN.menu"' /Users/$currentUser/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist   runAsUser /usr/bin/killall cfprefsd   runAsUser /usr/bin/killall SystemUIServer   exit 0

The above script is adapted from a third-party Open-Source site. Hexnode will not be responsible for any damage/loss to the system on the behavior of the script. As a safety measure, manually validate the script execution on a system before executing the action in bulk.

Hope this helps with your query.
Cheers!
Johan Blake
Hexnode UEM