Installing Casper in a 10-20 client environment using a Server 2008 R2 VM

[deftoner]

Any one have any experience or issues with installing Casper in a small Mac environment using a Server 2008 R2 VM?

Thanks for any information or advice that you can share.

[mm2270]

I don't have direct experience with your situation, but I can't see any reason you would have an issue with that kind of setup. Use whatever you feel most comfortable with. With such a small amount of Macs, you could probably run your JSS on just about anything - a small VM, a Mac mini server, a Linux box, whatever. The server will likely not even break a sweat with only 10 - 20 Macs reporting in. Even if that grew to 50 or so you'd be fine.

[tanderson]

We have just over 1800 Macs in our JSS that's running on Windows Server. So far so good and we're a year into it. I think you'll be fine.

[Lhsachs]

How are you imaging with 1800 macs and JSS on Windows Server? Are you using hard drives to boot from pointing toward the JSS so you can image them?
I assume all your packages are .dmg files. Are you having any issues with package deployment?

[Matt]

We used the JSS on a Windows Server for about 6 months and ended up moving back to OSX.

[tanderson]

@Lhsachs -- We use Casper Imaging with NetBoot (from an Xserve). We have two distribution points - one on SMB and one on AFP. The SMB DP is the master.

As for packages, we use a mix of .pkg and .dmg depending on what we're installing. No real issues to report other than some flaky Office updates.