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# AccountSettings

The declaration to configure account settings.

```
object AccountSettings
```

## Discussion

Specify `com.apple.configuration.account.settings` as the declaration type.

### Configuration availability

|||
|--------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Allowed in supervised enrollment|macOS                                                                               |
|Allowed in device enrollment    |N/A                                                                                 |
|Allowed in user enrollment      |N/A                                                                                 |
|Allowed in local enrollment     |N/A                                                                                 |
|Allowed in system scope         |macOS                                                                               |
|Allowed in user scope           |macOS                                                                               |
|Apply                           |Multiple configurations are combined and applied as a single effective configuration|

### Configuration example

This configuration prevents alerts about the retirement of Exchange Web Services.

```json
{
    "Type": "com.apple.configuration.account.settings",
    "Identifier": "D699D1DB-28B3-4899-8554-1630D201EF55",
    "ServerToken": "62EA7624-7603-4C15-B747-7334476C1BDE",
    "Payload": {
        "Exchange": {
            "AllowEWSRetirementAlerts": false
        }
    }
}
```

## Topics

### Objects

[`object AccountSettingsExchangeObject`](/documentation/DeviceManagement/AccountSettingsExchangeObject)

If present, configures settings for Exchange accounts.


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