Chapter 1. Deployment Planning

Chapter Files

Deployment Planning Template.pdf, available at http://www.peachpit.com/acsa.deployment

Time

This chapter takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Goals

Learn the main deployment concepts you will use to formulate a complete deployment solution

 

Start using the Deployment Planning Template to help create a deployment plan

 

Establish a plan for deploying and securing computer hardware

 

Define usage policies and explore policy-enforcement techniques

Planning is the most important step in your Mac deployment process. Judicious planning always pays off later, especially in the case of system deployment, where any errors in your implementation will likely end up on all your deployed computers. The primary goal of system ...

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