Mac Update Script

Is that for installing software updates?

I just run a script that runs "softwareupdate -i –a" and a script that prompts the user to restart now or at whenever they can.

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Well, I guess that's what I want, a script that runs SU's then if one is
found to require a reboot, it will prompt the user...

I would <prefer> a script that allows the user to delay installing for X
days then force, but just reboot later is good enough for now..

Do you have your machines automatically shutdown each night and start up?

For all of our non broadcast machines I simply push the –I –a script and than let the computer handle the rest when they shutdown at 12:00AM everynight and restart at 7:00AM. More than one way to skin a cat in this instance. What works best for you?

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Matt Lee
FNG Sr. IT Analyst / Desktop Architecture Team / Apple S.M.E / JAMF Casper Administrator
Fox Networks Group
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We're a corporation with mostly laptops that users take home...no real way
to schedule them that way.

check out munki to manage stuff like this. it may duplicate some of what you use casper to do now, but it's more powerful, in my opinion.

http://code.google.com/p/munki/