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1 NETBOOT, JAMF, & MAC IMAGING Bryce Carlson Mac Administrator University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

2 About me and our environment Mac Management since ~2005 Started on DeployStudio and Workgroup Manager UW Green Bay has ~300 Mac OS X workstations on campus and ~400 campus owned iOS devices on campus We are a JAMF and NetSUS shop Last year about this time we decommissioned our Mac OS X Server Xserves

3 Topics to cover State of Imaging Building a NetBoot set Building configurations in Casper Admin Best practice for building configurations Vanilla OS DMGs PKG Installers How to handle Adobe Suite and other special software Self-service policy Questions and Discussion

4 State of Imaging Thin is in… Or at least it will be by 2015 Profiles Thunder Bolt to push 3 rd party packages Devices Activating with Apple DEP VPP Apple Engineering is on a very serious conversion We are looking at yearly summer OS releases 10.10 or 11.0 by August “Great” for education customers Value of JSS and Self Service Developer and Beta Programs

5 Building a NetBoot set Overview Newest Mac Fresh copy of the OS (AppStore) All Updates Run Clean Out Unneeded Apps Note: NetBoot only loads what is needed. The space saving is for server side storage. Auto login as root and launch Casper Imaging Target copy to DMG System Image Utility Slightly Broken in 10.9.2 (Needs Ktext fix)

6 Making a never booted OS image AutoDMG Casper Admin Best to use for multiple product lines Makes the image process almost Windows like Allows for more modular configurations

7 Walkthrough: Creating Never Booted OS Image

8 AutoDMG Video Demo (Link to YouTube to keep pptx size low): http://youtu.be/7UF57Vd9CWA

9 Walkthrough: Creating a Configuration

10 Casper Admin Video Demo Goes Here: http://youtu.be/37iwxsl6MDc

11 Post Image and Beyond… Policy for Casper Self Service Like Software Catalog on SCCM Runs block copy installs, PKG installs, and shell scripts Can be scoped to computers or groups We are pushing users to install their own software via Self Service

12 Self Service cont. Rollout 2014 Will be the first time that most users are seeing the App In person training KB Documentation has been and will be sent out to them on how to use the tool Coming soon… OS Updates Via Self Service agreement policy VPP Coded Apps By User not Mac Revocable from their Apple ID

13 Walkthrough: Creating JSS Policy

14 Casper JSS WebApp Video Demo (Link to YouTube to keep pptx size low): http://youtu.be/W3y9f-SYLoU

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16 Conclusion Thin is in Self Service for all non standard software Profiles and Apple Push Notifications Vanilla OS DMGs and Package Modularity Yearly OS upgrades becoming mainstream

17 Questions / Discussion


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