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Large-Scale Mac Deployment?

Posted by kdawson on from the rolling-'em-out dept.

UncleRage writes "I've been asked to research and ultimately recommend a deployment procedure for Macs across a rather large network. I'm not a stranger to OS X; however, the last time I worked on deployment NetRestore was still king of the mountain. Considering the current options, what methodologies do admins adhere to? Given the current selection of tools available, what would you recommend when planning, prototyping, and rolling out a robust, modular deployment scenario? For the record, I'm not asking for a spoon-fed solution; I'm more interested in a discussion concerning the current tools and what may (or may not) have worked for you. There are a lot of options available for modular system deployment... what are your opinions?"

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  1. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And what does it provide ? The hack-fu bolt on permissions system that is group-policy is the only real "reason" and that is easily replicated using any number of tools (puppet, cfengine, SELinux policy etc etc) from the Unix world.

    Hell even crap like Zimbra is better than exchange.

  2. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows users love to accuse Mac and Linux users of fanaticism

    Almost as much as mac users love to claim that windows sucks and everyone should use a mac, while Linux users continue to claim that their workstation does everything a windows box does and more, for free.

  3. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by drsmithy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The hack-fu bolt on permissions system that is group-policy is the only real "reason" and that is easily replicated using any number of tools (puppet, cfengine, SELinux policy etc etc) from the Unix world.

    Whatever else they may be, those tools sure as hell don't qualify as "easy". Or, if they do, then Group Policy, etc qualify as "completely automated with complimentary blowjobs every day".

  4. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by Lars+T. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I see its already eating you from inside. BTW, look in the mirror re: smug.

    --

    Lars T.

    To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck

  5. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by blueskies · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's exactly what he said. 0-40 MPH is very easy -- even a MCSE admin could set it up to do that. But once you get to a complicated AD environment you will have a very hard time.

    But it can be easily summed up for all MS "technologies": microsoft doesn't scale.