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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>David,<BR>
Can an institution have more than one Casper server running, with different management roles. Our central IT has purchased Casper and have told us that only one Casper Server can run within the University. Therefore Central IT will not allow us to setup another. Can the Casper client be set to look at a particular Casper Server.<BR>
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On 25/08/08 1:29 PM, "David Whiteley" <<a href="david.whiteley@deakin.edu.au">david.whiteley@deakin.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Casper is definitely beyond what ARD can do, as it encompasses everything from imaging to SOE deployment, patching, compliance, auditing, inventory and maintenance, with Windows machines also participating in the auditing/inventorying part. We have been very impressed by the suite. From a small Casper 5.1.3 test playground, I discovered some things about our network and managed SOE of which I was not previously aware.<BR>
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The imaging portion extends our layering approach (base image with updates, mods, etc applied + SOE app layer + non-SOE app layer) to make the base image itself layered, reducing image build time.<BR>
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Have so far not experienced any issues with Composer that were not operator error; we have been building software packages manually for years so any templates would be considered gravy rather than SOP. We were particularly impressed by the Adobe CS3 support (both installers and updaters), which allows CS3 apps to be deployed silently, pre-configured and serialized in about 3 clicks, instead of writing install scripts and configuring application.xml.override.<BR>
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</U></FONT>Cheers,<BR>
David.<BR>
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On 22/08/08 1:01 PM, "Mark Szota" <<a href="mark.szota@infotech.monash.edu.au">mark.szota@infotech.monash.edu.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Hi<BR>
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I've tried to use Casper Composer for package creation in our student<BR>
environment but I'm not a huge fan of it. Seemed buggy under Leopard and<BR>
their pre-made 'templates' for packages don't seem to be kept up to date<BR>
by themselves or the community of users. Maybe there are newer versions<BR>
as I haven't used it for over 6 months.<BR>
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Haven't used the rest of the suite though so I can't comment on that. I<BR>
would think most would suggest using Apple Remote Desktop over Casper,<BR>
unless there's some extra bits in Casper that ARD doesn't have.<BR>
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Cheers<BR>
Mark<BR>
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Carrie Osborne wrote:<BR>
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> Hi everyone<BR>
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> Apparently there are a few Australian uni's using JAMF's Casper Suite<BR>
> to manage their macs. If anyone on this list is using Casper (for<BR>
> staff and or student environments) - what are your opinions and<BR>
> experiences with the product, support, integration, etc?<BR>
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> Kind regards,<BR>
> Carrie<BR>
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