[Technical] Mac auto-updating

[S Sukohondono]

Hi Jason & everyone else,

 

We just purchased 25 iMacs for our VisComm class using Mr Rudd's money.

 

With no experience in administering Macs, I was wondering what software
do you use in re-imaging the Macs.

 

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers,

Suko

Siena College

 

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From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Jason Clarke
Sent: Friday, 3 July 2009 9:55 AM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Technical] Mac auto-updating

 

Hi Paul,

 

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.

 

Cheers,

 

Jason

 

From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Paul Williamson
Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 6:19 PM
To: tech at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Technical] Mac auto-updating

 

Hi,

 

Just wondering if anyone knows how to get Mac's to automatically run
their software updates, or if it is even possible?

 

Currently we need to login as an administrator user and then we can open
software update and install updates.

 

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.

 

Are there any settings on the xserve perhaps that will help push out the
updates?

 

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 :-). 

 

Best regards,

 

Paul Williamson

ICT Manager

Huntingtower School

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