What's the best way to update all of my lab iMacs to 10.0.1?

[jgwatson]

Haven't had to do this before. Can I just scope out the DMG update from apple.com?

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1779 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6572

[htse]

OS X updates are bit more complex, than can be facilitated by a Disk Image. Inside the Disk Image is a pkg package, and that's the effective payload that you'll need to upload, policy and scope to the appropriate systems.

[jchurch]

actually when you add the os installer you downloaded from the app store to Casper Admin it automatically recognizes what it is and pulls out the installesd file. you can then create a policy with that and scope it however you need. just have the reboot options in your policy set to reboot immediately even if someone is logged in. then it restarts into the os installer.

just make sure everything is backed up.... just in case....

[htse]

I could be mistaken on the circumstances, the method @jchurch is describing would be perform an upgrade from a previous version of OS X, instead of just performing a system update on a point release.

[Cook]

This worked for me:
- Dload the update dmg
- Open casper admin
- drag the dmgs pkg file into casper admin configure and save - now log into the casper web admin console - create a smart group to scope your labs and osx version of 10.10.0
- now go ahead and create and configure policy which updates those scoped devices

so far ive been using logout hooks which doesn't impact the users.

Thanks,