Chapter 2. Deploying Individual Items and Containers

Chapter Files

Deployment Planning Template.pdf, available at http://www.peachpit.com/acsa.deployment

Time

This chapter takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Learn why you need to deploy items inside containers

 

Create compressed archives to deploy files and folders

 

Use Apple Remote Desktop to deploy items

 

Create disk images to deploy files and folders

 

Use advanced disk image deployment features

The most common and simplest form of software deployment is the deployment of individual items, such as files. However, as you likely know from your own experience downloading applications and drivers from websites, these items aren’t usually made available in their original usable formats but instead ...

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