Restore Partition Users

[Matt]

Can I get some best practices or overall advice/experience from Restore Partition Users please :)

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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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[dhowell · Accepted solution]

Since we don't allow netboot, we use it and have 2 configurations we use per OS. We have one that does the partitioning first. 2 Partitions one for OS and one for Restore Partition. The first one just lays down the restore Partition only. That way the Techs only use Firewire/USB drive for a few minutes, than it reboots to the Restore partition and then we let them finish the image from there. Eventually every machine will have the restore partition. We also have a Launch daemons that runs the Jamf hide restore partition /usr/sbin/jamf hideRestore I don't use the This is a Restore Partition option because it automatically logs it into a Root Account, if you don't care about that if you check it, it will hide it automatically

D. Trey Howell ACMT, ACHDS, CCA
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