Chapter 6. Postimaging Deployment Considerations

Chapter Files

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

Time

This chapter takes approximately 3 hours to complete.

Goals

Learn which items must be configured after a Mac OS X system image has been deployed

Use Apple Remote Desktop and command-line tools to apply changes after a system has been deployed

Automate postimaging configuration tasks using scripts

Use the automatic server setup system to automate the initial configuration of Mac OS X Server computers

You have seen that creating a standard system image is the most effective way to deploy Mac OS X systems. Nearly all software and configuration settings can be stored in a single image, which in minutes ...

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