Hey nation,
We've been creating an image from the base OS installer on the App Store using AutoDMG and using it to wipe Macs via Disk Utility to an out of box state when dealing with malware or device owner changes. Super simple, fast, clean and modular since we push all config profiles and the latest App packages and policies down after the device goes through the Pre-Stage enrollment and hits the desktop for the first time.
With APFS and High Sierra, we can no longer use Disk Utility to accomplish this. Maybe I'm wrong, but from reading JAMF's white paper on the subject, it looks like the suggestion for performing a full wipe is to re-download and install the OS using the recovery partition. I hope there is a better way, because this takes a long time (38 minutes and counting on the test machine in front of me instead of <2 minutes for imaging via thunderbolt cable) and is kind of harsh on our Wi-Fi.
I just wanted to get the nation's perspective on imaging as we move forward. I've never used NetBoot and I know essentially nothing about it. Can we use it to pull down a base OS image like we did with disk utility, perhaps even image from machine to machine via Thunderbolt's networking capability? Does NetBoot work over Wi-Fi?
