[UniMacTech] deployment/management software solutions

[Chris Lang]

Hi Mark,

A great deployment management solution for Mac that I am trialing at the
moment is Casper Suite (http://www.jamfsoftware.com) which does inventory,
policy management, managed AD binding, packaged apps, imaging and self
service deploy of packages for clients.  The inventory works for PC but it
doesn¹t do the imaging side of things.

Our guys here are using SMS/OSD to deploy our PC¹s and manage the inventory
in SMS.

Cheers,

Chris


On 13/08/08 11:10 PM, "Allan Gadsby" <a.gadsby at cqu.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Mark
> We have been using Altiris for our Windows PC¹s for years and found it quite
> good. We have just started using Netboot for some of our Mac images, since OS
> X server 10.5,  but the latest Altiris version now supports Mac too, so we are
> trying to find time to explore this avenue also. I¹d be interested in hearing
> how you get on with your Mac Altiris endeavours. This site has some useful
> tips-:
> http://juice.altiris.com/topics/macintosh
>  
> Cheers
> Al
>  
> Allan Gadsby
> Senior Technical Support Officer.
> CQUniversity
> Information Technology Division
> Rockhampton, QLD, 4702.
> Ph. (61) 07 4930 6888.
> a.gadsby at cqu.edu.au
>  
>  
>  
> 
> From: Mark Dorset [mailto:mdorset at trinity.unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 2:29 PM
> To: University Macintosh Technical Mailing List
> Subject: [UniMacTech] deployment/management software solutions
>  
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> If anyone has done any research or has experience using a good
> deployment/management software solution for their environment that works well
> for both Macs and Windows, could you please let me know? Current potentials we
> are considering include Altiris and LanRev. If you're using any of those and
> have comments, I'd very much appreciate it. Obviously our needs may differ
> from other orgs, but an overall thumbs up/thumbs down would be a great start.
> 
>  
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
>  
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