As long as we've had JAMF, we've done standard imaging: reformat or partition the drive, install the base OS, software packages, settings, AD bind, etc. But ever since 10.8 came out and forked the OS, I've started to think that thin imaging might be the way to go and just overlay our settings, software, etc. on the target Mac right out of the box. No more reformatting, no more partitioning.
Has anyone else gone this route and wouldn't mind sharing their experiences? Thanks!
@rcastorani You could use a method like this... https://github.com/patchoo/patchoo/blob/master/0patchoo.sh#L1722t
That bootstrapHelper function is called by a launchagent at the loginwindow....
caffienates so the mac doesn't sleep
locks the loginwindow
waits until the network is up and the jss is reachable
then tails the jamf log, and changes the loginwindow message lock to the last entry.
The output looks something like this:
http://www.rehrehreh.com/files/pd_install_chrome.png
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