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Large-Scale Mac Deployment?
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?"
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".