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deployment

  1. jscooper22

    Migration Assistant vs MDM

    Hi, I maintain a few dozen Macs, mostly MBPs. For years, I've used monolithic deployment: a base machine set up exactly how I want, use CCC to copy the drive to a new machine, spend about 10 minutes tweaking the settings and good to go. I've recently been urged (strongly) by Apple to drop this...
  2. S

    Image Problems in High Sierra

    I know I'm not alone with this frustration about Disk Utility imaging in High Sierra. With Apple trying to move away from Disk Utility as a supported way of disk imaging, many admins are left in limbo. For years I have been able to use disk utility (via Target disk or recovery mode) to take and...
  3. C

    Deployment tools for Macbook's

    Does any know or have used any kind of deployment tool (one that pushes and installs .pkg's/copies .app's, and/or automatically runs scripts) to Macbooks. I've been working in a test-bed with Server and Open Directory/Profile Manager to attempt to fill the void in my company's infrastructure but...