Macintosh Imaging

By far the most important websites for enabling remote imaging services for OS X are:

http://www.bombich.com edited by Mike Bombich Apple systems engineer for academic deployment and

http://macenterprise.org/webcasts/2005-08-16_download.mov which is a webcast describing small, medium, and large deployments.

Remote imaging is available via muticast access and NetBoot from the workstation.

Outstanding issues

  • Workstation Renaming is not automated yet so workstations will need to be touched post-imaging
  • Imaging which Targets certain partitions instead of the entire HD space is relatively un-tested
  • The process is literally "too easy", as in dangerously easy so an artificial barrier to imaging must be constructed to protect users from themselves. 

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