G'day all,<br><br>we don't need to regularly reimage the OSX side of the Macs by using a custom bash script that installs, configures any new Mac on the network. Updates and patches are dead easy to deploy using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) that has a lot in common with Novell Zenworks that we use on the Windows side of the network. There is another cool freeware tool called DeployStudio that lets us remotely configure and manage multi-boot setups for both sides and a tool called rEFIt that manages the bootup and more .. <br>
<br>Am running a workshop at Westall SC this term if anybody is interested in learning how this is done or watching to get their head around the tools. Contact me offlist. I can also put you in touch with somebody who can advise, config and help set this up for your school. Even if you only have a room of iMacs, this is better than wasting time walking about reimaging, reimaging, reimaging .. until the cows come back home for milking.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/3 S Sukohondono <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sukohond@siena.vic.edu.au">sukohond@siena.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi Jason & everyone else,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">We just purchased 25 iMacs for our VisComm
class using Mr Rudd’s money.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">With no experience in administering Macs, I
was wondering what software do you use in re-imaging the Macs.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Any info would be greatly appreciated.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Cheers,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Suko</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Siena College</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jason Clarke<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 3 July 2009 9:55 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Technical Discussion in
Schools Mailing List<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Technical] Mac
auto-updating</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Paul,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">We re-image the machines each holiday
period and its at that point we roll out the patches then. We do this because
of the issue you’ve outlined before, we’ve bricked a few installs
and had to re-image again anyway.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Cheers,</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Jason</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Paul Williamson<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 2 July 2009 6:19
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:tech@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Technical] Mac
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Hi,</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Just wondering if anyone knows how to get Mac’s to automatically
run their software updates, or if it is even possible?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Currently we need to login as an administrator user and then we can
open software update and install updates.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">We have an xserve which runs an Update Server, and using Workgroup
Manager I have configured our machines to get updates from our xserve, which
does work.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Are there any settings on the xserve perhaps that will help push out
the updates?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">We have Remote Desktop so can remotely push install packages etc. or
run sh scripts… There was a command I tried to remotely run to get
softwareupdate to run and force install everything, but this caused an imac to
completely die and had to be reloaded, so I think I’ll avoid that one in
future :-). </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Paul Williamson</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-US">Huntingtower</span></font><span lang="EN-US"> School</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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