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Posted on 02-19-2015 05:55 PM
Anyone out there a service provider that has any experience updating AST through Jamf? Were you able to get it to work? Any suggestions?
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Posted on 02-20-2015 11:16 AM
Well we pushed it out to all of them, and it worked like a champ. I added the policy to reboot after the install, and every one of them is working great.
Obviously this wouldn't work when you need to install new OS's, but when they just update the AST app itself, seems like it works great.
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Posted on 02-19-2015 06:44 PM
Never really thought about using the JSS to upgrade AST. Do you have multiple AST servers?
I can't really see it being much different from any other application, it's just a .pkg is it not?
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Posted on 02-20-2015 12:21 AM
It is a package, yes. But anyone who knows AST knows that it's super finicky. I'll be trying it out, I just wanted to see if anyone had tried it yet.
We currently have 60 stores that have full service shops all running AST, in 27 different states. So it would save us a significant amount of time to update through jamf, but as it is pretty critical to us, it just makes me nervous. I will definitely be heavily testing it before I mass deploy.
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Posted on 02-20-2015 01:15 AM
We haven't got as many locations so just do it manually. Would be interesting to hear how you get on though!
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Posted on 02-20-2015 01:17 AM
I am pushing to about 5 test servers right now that are non critical. If that works I'll push it out company wide tomorrow. I will result discuss the results here.
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Posted on 02-20-2015 11:16 AM
Well we pushed it out to all of them, and it worked like a champ. I added the policy to reboot after the install, and every one of them is working great.
Obviously this wouldn't work when you need to install new OS's, but when they just update the AST app itself, seems like it works great.
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Posted on 05-13-2015 01:18 PM
Bet'cha AST 2.0 will be easier to "patch". :) Got a chance to use it today, very awesome. If you have a non-proxy connection to the internet.
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Posted on 05-13-2015 01:58 PM
AST 2.0 is presenting some other challenges that we are having to solve, but it does seem like we're making progress. AST seems super sensitive to settings changes though. As much as I try, it doesn't seem that deploying any part of it is a very good idea as part of Jamf. It is best to download it and install it per server, unfortunately.
