El Capitan upgrades using "Mac App Store Apps" tab

bbot
Contributor

I tried the method below to upgrade a Yosemite machine to El Capitan and it wiped the entire machine. http://resources.jamfsoftware.com/documents/technical-papers/Deploying-OS-X-v10.7-or-Later-with-the-Casper-Suite.pdf

I uploaded the Install El Capitan.app into Casper Admin, created a policy to cache the package, then another Self Service policy that installs cached.

The installer ran for about 30 minutes, rebooted, showed a screen that looked like Recovery Mode and gave me a few options.(I didn't get a screenshot) I chose to try and reinstall El Capitan. After a quick reboot, it brought me to the login screen and had my AD user account available, but once I logged in, all the documents and applications were wiped. This makes me a bit nervous to roll this out to an entire company.

Is there a way to bypass the admin password and allow non-admin users to download/install it from the App Store?

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gskibum
Contributor III

Make sure your Restart Options are set correctly:

Startup Disk: = OS X Installer
No User Logged In Action: = Restart Immediately
User Logged In Action: = Restart

bbot
Contributor

Restart options are fine. Thanks. Just re-ran on another machine and it went through successfully. Going to test a few more times.