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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. DeployStudio or LanREV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have had great success out of both DeployStudio (http://deploystudio.com/) and LanREV (http://www.lanrev.com) in K-12 schools with 200+ machines.

  2. Suggested reading: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Check out the following:

    http://www.macenterprise.org/
    http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html
    http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

  3. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by thatkid_2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong! Novell Zenworks is on Linux too - so why can't you have a heterogeneous large scale Linux and Windows rollout? There is Zenworks for Mac but none of our customers (though there is quite a few Macs) use it. If you are going to roll out Novell stuff you may as well do Novell Groupwise while you are at it.

    Novell solutions pwn Microsoft, sorry to say.

  4. Re:Large scale Apple managed LAN? by firstnevyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    With puppet of course.