Remote Imaging - How do you do it?

[sanaumann]

We are looking to image machines that will be our initial JDSs that are on the other side of the world. I was wondering how other users who have done this went about it.

Notes:
We do have a Windows infrastructure there.
They are acquiring the machines there.
We do not use NetBoot (in case that matters).
We have zero Casper infrastructure outside of the U.S. at this time.

Thank you. :)

[djwojo]

We were lucky at a past company to have a local office tech. We shipped out a bootable drive and had them run Casper imaging that was pointing locally. If you have no tech presence there, you would need to automate, or train someone to use the option boot, imaging, etc...

Here is a very informative link discussed in the past about a Mobile Distribution Point

Hope this helps!

[nessts]

Have you heard about and or signed up for DEP yet?

[sanaumann]

Heard about, yes. But our JAMF rep said that was more for mobile devices, not for servers. Should we look into it?

[nessts]

well it will get your Mac talking to your JSS and make it so you can install and configure the machine how you want to configure it so that its available to work on remotely. its not a server out of the box you have to do work on it. its just an idea. Smart hands or at least pliable ones might be a better way to go from an expediency point of view.

[davidacland]

Unless you specifically need to replace the OS, I would go for deploying a quickadd.pkg to them. If DEP isn't in place, someone at the local site will need to perform that first step.

Once you've got remote access you can install Server.app and go from there.

[bentoms]

@sanaumann Will these Macs be on the WAN?