AutoDMG 0.6 released (formerly InstallESDtoDMG)

Will this be necessary when 9.2 is released?

Necessary? Nothing is necessary!

Point taken, I'll be in purgatory.

9.2? Can you share more?

Doesn't Filewave Lightning do the same thing and is also free?

Has it been updated to support 10.9?

I think Filewave Lightning got kicked to the curb.

Re: 9.2, don't know if that's the official version number, but we're all expecting new releases of Casper Suite (both the 8.x and 9.x series) to bring compatibility for Mavericks. Now that the latter was announced, I expect we'll hear something from JAMF within the next day or so. Maybe even today, but they need to test it I'm guessing.

We just got off a 20+ person conf call with JAMF...point was made of release cycle of 5 or so days after Apple's release.

@mm2270 & @hkim. A self service OS upgrade workflow was announced @JNUC2013 as part of a future 9.2 update.

@donmontalvo, yes, that's the official SLA they stick to. Could be 5 days, but I've seen it be less. I think with Mountain Lion it was the day of, or next day. JAMF's own website has a section for Mavericks saying "same day release" but no-one is holding them to that of course. Either way, a week isn't long to wait.

@bentoms - thanks. Wasn't aware of the 9.2 mention since I wasn't there of course. Good to know!

@mm2270 we know. @donmontalvo & I missed you on stage!

sniff sniff* No one misses me. Never. *sniff sniff

Dang! Had I known ahead of time, I would have shipped over a full sized dummy of me to put up on stage. Or maybe I could have used this to be "virtually" there- http://www.doublerobotics.com :) :)

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@hkim lol. Watch the Keynote video when/if it's released.

@mm2270 we were mailed in the morning asking to be near the front. </OT>

Am I the only one using CasperAdmin to compile InstallESD as a neverbooted OS DMG with the admin account baked in?

yes lol

@tkimpton: so what's the method of the day to make a 10.9 image then (on 9.2)?

drop the whole install mavericks.app in and use that as the base OS?

@bentoms

We use InstallESD method for years now.

FR for official support;
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=606

@Kumarasinghe so I use the InstallESD in a config in CasperAdmin which contains just it & the admin account.

Compile that & you have a clean never booted DMG (with recovery) for deployment.

Worked so far with 10.7 - 10.8.

@bentoms
We also use the compiled InstallESD since 10.7.
We don't use any admin user with the Casper Admin configuration which we compile.

Basically we follow these steps;
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3841#responseChild18050

I don't use Casper Admin because I do it off the network at home where I'm not going to get distracted (sad I know)

I'm up for the quickest and easiest and I must say that I am very very impressed with AutoDMG :)

@Kumarasinghe glad to hear i'm not the only crazy one :)

I just created a standard 10.9 image with this tool and attempted to deploy it. It broke the iMac.

Your mileage will vary but while this tool is very promising, I can't recommend it's use at this time.

Interesting. I just used the recovery partition to install "over the top". It's now booting as intended ...

I tried it and just kept spinning at the login window. Also tried the compiling method on a MacBook and doesn't even boot to the OS but insted then NetBoots again!