OT Wipe and Restore Airs for BYOD

[Sandy]

Hi All,
This is not really Casper Suite related but:

We are redeploying some 2011 Airs for BYOD students. We may have them enrolled in our jss for very minimal checkins. I want them to be wiped, restored and Setup Assistant opens at startup. I am on the fence regarding Recovery Partition.

We're not planning to use Self Service as we want them to look like the student owned devices...I know this would be one way for students to update apps, but not optimum.
Due to 2 GB ram, I think they need to stay at Mavericks. (Any thoughts on this?) They have 64 GB SSDs
They did not come with restore disks, they shipped with 10.7.2

I am trying to find a way to put iLife apps back on which would allow students to update them on their own, w/ no Apple ID attached....iMovie is offered in the App Store prior to logging in with Apple ID, but not iPhoto or GarageBand, despite these coming on the new devices. iPhoto cannot be searched in the App Store now that Photos is here, even on a 10.9 computer.
These are apps that shipped with the devices

I think this may not be possible, as removing the MAS receipt seems to be foiled, and I cannot grab apps from a new computer as those will be Yosemite versions....
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=8729

Has anyone worked on this recently that might have any new methods?
I have DVDs for iLife 11 and iWork 09, so will look at that next....

[davidacland]

Given the original OS and the age of them, I would probably go down the traditional route and make a Casper Imaging configuration with 10.7 or 10.8 (AutoDMG so you get the restore partition), the iLife 2011 mpkg and target mode imaging to get them setup.

They came with Thunderbolt so should pretty quick.

Unless you are talking about huge numbers?

[Sandy]

Thanks @davidacland that is sound advice!
I am going to set up a clean 10.8 and clean 10.9 and compare what I end up with :)