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We are jealous of our PC colleagues. They carry a bootable DVD that they use to image PC's. They boot from a CD and image from their nearest Distribution Point.

On the Mac side we can only provide USB drives (whether replicated or not)...a nightmare to manage, especially if you're replicating to it.

We need a way to provide Casper Imaging bootable ISO's to our Mac techs so they can stop complaining about how good the PC guys have it.

How about it...anyone have the secret? Is there a not-so-well-known-but-possibly-somewhat-supported-by-JAMF process? :)

Thanks,
don

Hey Patrick,

Have you explored the option of target mode imaging? That may be more efficient than imaging via local USB disks. Another option would be to look at thing imaging solutions.

Would either of those two options be possible for your environment?

Thanks,
Tom

What stevewood outlined is very close to our environment....except that making infrastructure changes takes closer to 3 months, not 3 weeks. And setting up local servers makes no sense in offices where there are 4 Macs or 7 Macs (two real-life cases for us.) A DVD is too small to hold our current image and of course Airs and now Retinas have no optical drive anyway. So USB is really our only option.

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