Application Deployment

[#1]

Hello
I am currently planning to a staged rollout of 65 new macbooks, imacs and macbook pros.I have a NetBoot server in place, which will run a Netinstall set and partition the disk 2 ways. 1 partition holds the OS, and the other will take the user's home folder.
I have the NetBoot running at a nice pace now, and am happy with this stage of the process. The Casper suite is preinstalled on the Netinstall image I am using.Where I am having an issue, is with finding the best way to to get the rest of the applications added.
Would it be possible to use Casper Imaging for this, or should I try something else?(CS3/CS4, After Effects, Office 2008, Final Cut Xpress, iLife and other applications as required, to be installed on first boot.)If I were to use the Casper Admin application to create a configuration, what would be the best way of getting this set of apps out to the new machines? (Bearing in mind that I will need this deployment to be carried out by people with less Mac knowledge than I would like, meaning I need this to be completed with as little end interaction as possible).

Peter JonesMac Systems AdministratorLoretto

[tlarkin]

Peter,

I would create packages with composer for those apps and upload them into Casper admin. Then create a work flow in the JSS for the auto run data for those client machines. Then when you image them, they will get all those applications. This way it is all automated and no one has to do anything at all.

Unless you are trying to roll them out to machines that are already deployed, then just send them out via Casper Remote or a policy in the JSS.

-Tom

---

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351
chown -R us /.base