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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You have given us much to chew on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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tech-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 5 July 2009 4:15 PM<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><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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>
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Regards Roland<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2009/7/3 <st1:place w:st="on">S Sukohondono</st1:place> <<a
href="mailto:sukohond@siena.vic.edu.au">sukohond@siena.vic.edu.au</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Hi Jason & everyone else,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>We just purchased 25 iMacs for our VisComm class using Mr
Rudd’s money.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Any info would be greatly appreciated.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Cheers,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Suko</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a
href="mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
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<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Hi Paul,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Cheers,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Jason</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <a
href="mailto:tech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">tech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
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<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
PM<br>
<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
auto-updating</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Hi,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Just wondering if anyone knows how to get Mac’s to
automatically run their software updates, or if it is even possible?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Currently we need to login as an administrator user and
then we can open software update and install updates.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Are there any settings on the xserve perhaps that will
help push out the updates?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Best regards,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Paul Williamson</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
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