Uninstall Pre-Loaded iLife '11 and Install Packaged iLife Install From DVD

[Michael_Meyers]

I have quite a few new Mountain Lion Macs coming in and haven't had a chance to create an image for them yet. I setup a Thin Install that bound the Macs to AD, installs iWork, and installs Office 2011. The issue I see is that the installed version of iLife Apps wants to update through the App Store and requires an Apple ID. I have a secure Apple ID that I use for downloading Apps for my school district (plus we have the Mac Software Combo agreement giving us the latest OS, iLife, and iWorks for all Macs). I DO NOT want to give this account out to all of my techs and staff to be able to use the Apps. I've been using an install of iLife '11 that I created from the DVD, plus I wanted to include iDVD...which the App Store does not. Does anybody have a solution they are using for this issue? I have quite a few of the Macs in place, so reimaging at this time is not an option.

Thanks!

Mike

[stevewood]

I have a section in my post install script that deletes the three iLife apps from /Applications and then calls an iLife install policy from the JSS.

##########################################
#  Delete iLife folders
##########################################
/bin/echo "Deleting iLife Apps"
/bin/date
rm -rf /Applications/GarageBand.app
rm -rf /Applications/iMovie.app
rm -rf /Applications/iPhoto.app

##########################################
#  Install iLife via Policy
##########################################
/bin/echo "Installing iLife via Policy"
/bin/date
/usr/sbin/jamf policy -id 1419

[donmontalvo]

Might want to killall the apps before removing them.

[Michael_Meyers]

Steve, are you doing this on new Mountain Lion Macs out of the box? What is your iLife install like? Is it from Mac App Store downloads or from the DVD?

[stevewood]

Yes, that is on brand new machines fresh out of the box from Apple. The iLife install is from the DVD. I had to re-package the DVD due to the signature issue from a year ago, or whenever it was. I believe I used Greg's fix for the signatures (http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/fixing-packages-with-expired-signatures/).

The policy that installs iLife also has the updates in it, so once iLife is installed, the policy then installs the current (until yesterday) updates so that I don't have to run software update multiple times.

[Michael_Meyers]

Thanks for the info, Steve!

[johnnasset]

Will this work to eliminate the prompts for an Apple ID to update these apps through the App Store and grab updates from our local NetSUS instead?