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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Mark,<BR>
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A great deployment management solution for Mac that I am trialing at the moment is Casper Suite (<a href="http://www.jamfsoftware.com">http://www.jamfsoftware.com</a>) 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 doesn’t do the imaging side of things. <BR>
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Our guys here are using SMS/OSD to deploy our PC’s and manage the inventory in SMS.<BR>
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Chris<BR>
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On 13/08/08 11:10 PM, "Allan Gadsby" <<a href="a.gadsby@cqu.edu.au">a.gadsby@cqu.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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We have been using Altiris for our Windows PC’s 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. I’d be interested in hearing how you get on with your Mac Altiris endeavours. This site has some useful tips-:<BR>
<a href="http://juice.altiris.com/topics/macintosh">http://juice.altiris.com/topics/macintosh</a><BR>
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Cheers<BR>
Al<BR>
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Senior Technical Support Officer.<BR>
CQUniversity<BR>
Information Technology Division<BR>
Rockhampton, QLD, 4702.<BR>
Ph. (61) 07 4930 6888.<BR>
<a href="a.gadsby@cqu.edu.au">a.gadsby@cqu.edu.au</a><BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> Mark Dorset [<a href="mailto:mdorset@trinity.unimelb.edu.au">mailto:mdorset@trinity.unimelb.edu.au</a>] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 12 August 2008 2:29 PM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> [UniMacTech] deployment/management software solutions<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>If anyone has done any research or has experience using a good deployment/management software solution for their environment that works well for <B>both</B> 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.<BR>
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