Chapter 6. Postimaging Deployment Considerations

Chapter Files

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

Time

This chapter takes approximately 3 hours to complete.

Goals

Learn which items must be configured after a Mac OS X system image has been deployed

 

Use Apple Remote Desktop 3 and command-line tools to apply changes after a system has been deployed

 

Automate postimaging configuration tasks using scripts

 

Use the automatic server setup system to automate the initial configuration of Mac OS X Server computers

You have seen that creating a standard system image is the most effective way to deploy Mac OS X systems. Nearly all software and configuration settings can be stored in a single image, which in minutes ...

Get Apple Training Series Mac OS X Deployment v10.5 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.