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|http://www.bombich.com/mactips/netboot.html] 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.
[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|http://www.bombich.com/mactips/netboot.html] 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.