Lesson 6. Maintenance

Time

This lesson takes about 1 hour to complete.

Goals

Deploy and update Mac OS X in an organization

 

Gather system and software information from Mac OS X systems using Apple Remote Desktop

 

Update Mac OS X using Apple Remote Desktop

 

Use Radmind to keep Mac OS X systems updated

 

Manage the download and distribution of Apple-provided software updates

For system administrators, it would be ideal to simply deploy Mac OS X to the variety of computers you support and expect that everything will work every ti, all the time, forever. Because this is not the case, you need to consider the lifecycle of your deployment.

The lifecycle begins with planning, where you envision what your finished deployment will ...

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