[Technical] Mac auto-updating

Tue Jul 7 17:19:23 EST 2009

Hi Roland,

Thank you so much for the valuable info.

You have given us much to chew on.

Regards,

Suko

________________________________

From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Sunday, 5 July 2009 4:15 PM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Technical] Mac auto-updating

G'day all,

we don't need to regularly reimage the OSX side of the Macs by using a
custom bash script that installs, configures any new Mac on the network.
Updates and patches are dead easy to deploy using Apple Remote Desktop
(ARD) that has a lot in common with Novell Zenworks that we use on the
Windows side of the network. There is another cool freeware tool called
DeployStudio that lets us remotely configure and manage multi-boot
setups for both sides and a tool called rEFIt that manages the bootup
and more .. 

Am running a workshop at Westall SC this term if anybody is interested
in learning how this is done or watching to get their head around the
tools. Contact me offlist. I can also put you in touch with somebody who
can advise, config and help set this up for your school. Even if you
only have a room of iMacs, this is better than wasting time walking
about reimaging, reimaging, reimaging .. until the cows come back home
for milking.

Regards Roland

2009/7/3 S Sukohondono <sukohond at siena.vic.edu.au>

Hi Jason & everyone else,

We just purchased 25 iMacs for our VisComm class using Mr Rudd's money.

With no experience in administering Macs, I was wondering what software
do you use in re-imaging the Macs.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Suko

Siena College

________________________________

From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Jason Clarke
Sent: Friday, 3 July 2009 9:55 AM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Technical] Mac auto-updating

Hi Paul,

We re-image the machines each holiday period and its at that point we
roll out the patches then. We do this because of the issue you've
outlined before, we've bricked a few installs and had to re-image again
anyway.

Cheers,

Jason

From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Paul Williamson
Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 6:19 PM
To: tech at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Technical] Mac auto-updating

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to get Mac's to automatically run
their software updates, or if it is even possible?

Currently we need to login as an administrator user and then we can open
software update and install updates.

We have an xserve which runs an Update Server, and using Workgroup
Manager I have configured our machines to get updates from our xserve,
which does work.

Are there any settings on the xserve perhaps that will help push out the
updates?

We have Remote Desktop so can remotely push install packages etc. or run
sh scripts... There was a command I tried to remotely run to get
softwareupdate to run and force install everything, but this caused an
imac to completely die and had to be reloaded, so I think I'll avoid
that one in future :-). 

Best regards,

Paul Williamson

ICT Manager

Huntingtower School

_______________________________________________ 
http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe 
Technical Mailing List kindly supported by 
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority and 
http://www.vitta.org.au - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
Teachers Association Inc

_______________________________________________ 
http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe 
Technical Mailing List kindly supported by 
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority and 
http://www.vitta.org.au - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
Teachers Association Inc

DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are
confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity
to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error,
please notify the sender immediately by reply email and delete the email
from your system. Please note that any views or opinions presented in
this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily
represent those of Siena College. Siena College does not guarantee that
this Email is virus or error free and accepts no liability for any
damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. 

QS Disclaimer Demo. Copyright (c) Pa-software.
Visit www.pa-software.com
<http://www.pa-software.com/products/#qsdisclaimer>  for more
information.
(This note is not shown in the full version)

_______________________________________________ 
http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe 
Technical Mailing List kindly supported by 
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority and 
http://www.vitta.org.au - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
Teachers Association Inc

-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
Mead
_______________________________________________ 
http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe 
Technical Mailing List kindly supported by 
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority and 
http://www.vitta.org.au - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
Teachers Association Inc

DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender
immediately by reply email and delete the email from your system. Please note
that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the
author and do not necessarily represent those of Siena College. Siena College
does not guarantee that this Email is virus or error free and accepts no
liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. 

QS Disclaimer Demo. Copyright (C) Pa-software.
Visit www.pa-software.com for more information.
(This note is not shown in the full version)

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090707/1540eb98/attachment-0001.html